Show ca c A timely lc BY DR elmen 0 PETERSON president of the U V 8 A C at logan the uintah basin 1 looks forward to a great industrial future when its gigantic gantic store of resources Is U called upon more fully as inevitably will happen halten to support the manufacturing and corn com merce of the nation it is aa well to prepare for this de loument so that when hen it comes it may be harmonized with the agricultural wi cultural and home life of the region lack of harmonious development particularly without a supporting citizenship associated with established farms and homes has encouraged a large part PAT of the crime and social disorder which now characterizes important centers in america the great gnat health wealth 0 of the basin as of any region on earth is after all not in is 1 soil minerals timber or oil all valuable as these are the greatness of any area Is in its people so 60 back track behind farms factories railroads banks mines or any other tangible wealth Is the af r I 1 th of ideals or back of its mere resources is the poverty of a region if the people have surrendered their ideals or come from racial stocks which do not understand the treat great moral concepts of the more enlightened peoples of the earth woodrow wilson trav tra lan ling in ore iron on in 1910 as besieged with invitations to see the forests the salmon fisheries fisheri s the orchards chardi or and other her similar thugs thi ggs he ile said h ill was interested in all gal these things but infinitely more interested in whit ved under wider mr NV urene hat mr hir uren was a humble catl citizen cleanse en of oregon who had done much to cleanse the public life of the state and to institute important improvements in government and education bo so with the uintah basin what mothers teach their children the thoughts in the minds of the citizens as they PO fo to tte polls to ote sote hat uintah basin people think about crime and debt and needless waste the moral habits of the youth and the standard of personal virtue which Is considered requisite for good citizenship the kind of teachers there ere axe in tho chool and the personal habits of these teachers the industry and thrift of the people these and numerous numero cs ether mental and moral consideration considerations which when positively developed go to make up shat hat we ve call integrity are infinitely important as we build our civilization A superior people can build a great community no matter hat their disadvantages may be an inferior people with all the wealth in the world remain inferior germany jr ts Is a national example this great people occupied an inferior region from the standpoint of soll soil distance from markets and certain important resources reso urcer but the german people are highly intelligent hardy and rugged industrious and en dowed with indomitable faith out of their unfavorable environment they organized in the last half century pre ceding the great war the foremost nation of the world in education in manufacturing and barring a mall principality or two such as 83 denmark Den maric and belgium the greatest measure of or well being in europe fr their citizens it was a victory of people over adverse conditions and germany nov noy crushed in the war is arising 1 many observers believe to be the dominant people of europe aaen by virtue of the same great ties of mind and spirit wath which they were originally endowed the very wealth of the uintah basin will if its development la is unaccompanied by these qualities inaura rather than help its people I 1 know many homes in the uintah basin which are rich ta hi these attributes of the spirit such homes are our greatest wealth out of them come a constant stream of clean and noble yung men and women omen to purify and t lengthen the life of the nation the piea test need or of civilization now Is the cic determination termination on the part of people op e not to surrender to the deadly attack lac k in the form of indulgence ta in its ln Is numerous u in I 1 forms which Is I 1 destroy destroying trig great nations and leading civilization itself IL if to the very iery brink of disaster and d a rededication to the ancient faith of our race |