Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 7 | Timely Topics

I S Timely Topics I ITHE S S 5 THE SMALL TOWN DESPISED A Ask Afek k fifty of the younger generation which they would prefer to end their days in mediocrity in the cities or achieve something in a small town and a a. around around round two-thirds two of them will give the obvious answer Who wants to be a big frog in a small pond is the common hut but classic comm comment nt S Our dislike of the small town and all aU that goes with it is bred in the bones It 11 stands for all aU that is to be minimized and reproached in our national and economic life Anything of off color has come to be small town stuff Let Lct a merchant lag behind his fellows and he heIs heIs heis Is a small town trader Let a banker be particularly conservative and he is a country banker afraid 0 ot oC l his s life Lct Let prejudices sway the populace and we sneer at their small town minds The small town is a a. good place to get out of said saida a young man mart the other day He was leaving his fathers father's clothing store and setting out for the city to take a Job I Ion on on a salary salar He was just echoing the sentiment of generations generations generations gen gen- of small town people S The young men more restless than the tho others leave the small town to cast their lot with the cities those who are content things stay in the town and peg along a. a as did their fathers Now and then one of them turns his town upside down shakes shakes' the kinks out of it but that is all too seldom 1 1 The small town presents a problem in our national life The essence of ot that problem lies in the fact that I busin business ss has been allowed to stagnate and die in the I Ismall small town the development and growth which rightfully right right- I fully belongs to it has been permitted to gravitate to the cities along with the ambitious young men Chesla Chesla C C. C 1 Sherlock in Leslie's