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Show o St. George Fails To Support Civic Clubs There were more Hurricane people at the Southern Utah Civic Clubs banquet held here Saturday night than there were St. George people. It doesn't seem possible that such a thing could be true. Here we invite this important organization organ-ization to come to St. George to hold one of their regular monthly meetings here and some of these directors travel over 500 miles to meet with us and we don't think enough of the organization or its work to show them the courtesy of attending their meeting and banquet. Hurricane people are sold on this organization. They were outspoken in their belief that it is of vital importance to this county for all of the people to get behind it. They fail to understand why we take so little interest in the only organized group in this southern section formed for the purpose of Civic clubs. They pointed out that the Civic Clubs was the only organized group to keep a representative representa-tive in Salt Lake during the last legislature to watch out for the interest of Southern Utah. Are we expecting too much without making any effort ef-fort on our part? Of course, most of the businessmen pay membership dues and support it in that way, but is that enough? It is a well known fact that to get anything out of an organization individuals or communities must put in effort themselves. Certainly, all will agree that the theory back of the organization is right. There has been considerable criticism in the past by local people and organizations over the results obtained, and without a doubt a considerable amount of the criticism must have been justified. It has been said that the towns on Highway 89 are getting the best of the deal and perhaps per-haps they are, but you will notice that they are always well represented at these meetings and that they are active on all of the committees. We know that this subject has been thrashed out several sev-eral times and that organizations have gone on record against putting up the money necessary to send a representative. repre-sentative. There is no doubt that it is expensive. And perhaps per-haps that is still the opinion of St. George. But why is it that other sections think that it is worth the effort and continue to send their representatives? Do they see a hope for accomplishment that we fail to see or are all our wants tilled to where we don t need anything else? Or is it an actual fact that we get so little out of the organization that it doesn't pay us to take an active part? |