Show Differences That Count At last it looks something like fifteen years ago on the subject of baseball A good league is al already already already al- al ready In action arid raud nd Ui Uintah tah Basin Basin Basin Ba Ba- sin fans will see some good games and lively contests Good luck to the teams ever everyone one and may R the best one win the championship champion champion- ship next neat fall We who live in these scattered communities may get a a. baseball league into action showing leadership leadership leadership lead lead- and organization and fi financial financial fi- fi support But we dont don't do anything about these other affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs that require the same kind of sportsmanship and other Why may we have a good ball team taking a lot of time and considerable cash and yet have almost nothing done regarding regarding regarding regard regard- ing our big irrigation projects Evidently it is partly habit and partly the demand and the re re- These factors all play for immediate results and the results re results results re- re are immediate But on the larger deals where results ire are just as certain and far more important important important im im- im- im in dollars and cents because because because be be- cause the realization is a little further off we keep putting off the action that is essential Are we not derelict when we make no united protest against taking more of our mountain streams over into U Utah h Lake territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter robbing us of one great asset asset asset as as- set With more than one third of all Utah's land and water and other wealth to match it yet we have not had one dollar of reclamation rec rec- money that interest- interest free cash which has played the leading role in the arid west for forthe forthe forthe the last thirty years Plainly evid evident nt to us is the simple fact that we have a moral right to some of this money and that we I have waited too long for it This morn moral right plays a big part in life liCe It makes laws Ignores them and remakes them It is the will of the people when It becomes conscious action as it always does docs Here in this Uintah Basin we weare weare weare are apparently semi semiconscious semi conscious as asIt asit It were of our rights along this line We Ve all aft know ve we we have not been treated fairly by either state or nation yet jet we show no organized organized organized organ organ- complaint If we had as much energy and cash as the I baseball league involves arranged ed for present activity Blue Bench would soon oon be financed Pleasant Valley on the way and the the old New Hope acreage provided with water But because of habit fear lack of sportsmanship and absence of ot immediate returns the very qualities qualities qualities the baseball league secures I we just wait |