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Show I IBeautiful _ _ _ Beautiful , But Can You Yau Reach Them ? , The TImes Indepcndent independent that thatat at long last IS gratifIed to note 1 " . i Salt Lake reglstermg registering a CIty ne\\spaper ne spaper newspaper \ \ IS roads to the complamt complaint rcgardmg regarding the lack of southeasteln SOutheastein UnTlvalled unrivalled UnTlvalledscemc unrivalledscenic scemc scenic attractions of Utah For years ; ) > ears the prCS $ and the Salt Lake CIVIC Ital have remamed remained orgamzatlons organizations of the state cap the blIssfully unconcelJ1ed uneonceiped about CondItIon condjtioii of the Utah Utahin 111 in hIghways In tms tins part of spIte of the fact that It the most outstandmg Outstanding contams contains perhap perhaps $ Icntlre entire theentire west vest vestWe natural attractIons of th the . We Were pleased lowmg Lowing therefore to read the fol ' edItorIal 111 in Monday s Deselet Deseiet News un der the Them'l Theml Them : ' headmg heading Beautiful But Can 'lou lou ' .ou ou . Reach ument , , umen men Under Vafl1'016 Vafl1016 valley ' the captIon 10 Flammg Flaming " " "S S " Cliffs of Mon the October issue of the National Nationalrtn GeographIc artIcle ? rtn ? % pnhl ( : maga2me magazme magazine runs a most 1I1te.restmg 1I1terestmg interesting interestingfo . ' ' on the " 'i i n"15 n15 scemc scenic " 10 attractIons that ? are to be found foundat a at one sectIon of the Utah Anzona Arizona boun daIY lme line Wntten Written by Lt Jach .TacK TacK . Breed USNR the artIcle ' sets 3 forth orth m 111 in Slowing glowmg glowing terms the natural naturalthey beauties -'ntfoJ 'ntfoJ ntfoJ - to be seen there and Illustratmg illustrating It eIght areeIght full are fullcolored colored pIctures glvmg giving the scenes as illustrations they actually look The article and the Illustra tlO'1S tlO1S tions ' should make the heart of all loyal Utahns beat Utahnsbeat beatith \ vith \ Ith naturalwonders pride at the thought that such natural wonders stateSBut as these are a part of hi , " , own state stateS . . aboutthis But there is one disconcerting dlsconcertmg thing thmg about thatit thIs scenic sccmc wonderland and that is the fact that It is practically inaccessible from Utah There Thereare are thisstate no hard surfaced highways leading leadmg from thatj thIs j state to its lts beauties The author of the article mentioned mentloncd above tells of the route he followed m in mmakmg inmaking inmaking makmg making the trip and it was from the south and andnot not from horn Utah on the north And the state of Utah UtahIS ofUtah is losing losmg a lot of valuable advertising advertIsmg and a lot of tourist tounst money because bccause of that fact Only factOnly a few weeks ago we ran in m these col columns columns columns HTozier umns a comment on a criticism by Dr Charles H TozIer of Harvard University UmversIty of the roads lead leadmg leading leading National mg ing to Monument Valley and to the Arches Archcs Na tIonal Monument Monumcnt m in Southern Utah Now comes comesthis comestJvs comest1is tJvs t1is wonderful article advertising advertIsmg the beautiesof beautJes beauties beautJesof beautiesof of Monument Valley and Utah will derive lIttle lIttleor littleor littleor or no financial fmanclal benefit from it with the roads Andherein Andherem roadsleading roadsleadmg leadmg leading there in m the condition they are And herem herein should be a warning warnmg The highways lead leadmg leading leading mg ing shouldbe to the scenic scemc wonders of this state should be improved momentA at the earliest possible momentI momentA moment A survey recently completed by the Amer AmerIcan Amerlean Amerlean Ican lean Automobile Association discloses the fact factthat factthat factthat that most of the postwar traveling travelmg for the next nextfew nextfew nextfew few years is going gomg to be in m this country Those Thosestates Thosestates Thosestates states which will reap the greatest benefit benef1t from fromthIs fromthis fromthis i fromi thIs fact will be those having havmg places to see and andI androads androads I roads leading leadmg eading ] to those places Utah is the center centerof centerof of scenic scemc America Within Wlthm its boundaries are aresome aresome aresome some of the most outstanding outstandmg natural wonders wondersn wondersy\ wondersy wondersythe ) n \ the world Why should not the state beneflt benefit benefitfrom benefitfrom from that fact instead mstead of its being bemg necessary for fortourists fortourists tOUrIsts visiting them to go to other . spates s.tates states m in inorder inorder order to reach them7 them ' This is something for highwa- highwa highwaofficials hIgh highwa's wn wa's was : ' - officials of Utah to consider in any postwar postwarrod postwarroid postwarlroid ro\d ro d roid ' \ construction program they may be contem contempjatmg contemplating- contemplating pjafIng pjatmg . - |