| Show AMONG THE possibilities electricity has made transit rapid and easy in this city so that it makes little or no difference where a man mans I 1 s residence is providing that in other respects he and his can satisfy themselves with their surroundings to quite a few proximity to neighbors is little considered nor are places of amusement or recreation or indeed church or school most of a mans spare time is in such conditions spent at home and when the hours of sleep are deducted life becomes unvaried monotonous and probably stunted as well a love for isolation is engendered and d becomes chronic narrow and with out color it would appear as it if this condition has become intensified by what has been called hard times as every one familiar with social amenities and gatherings four or five years ago in contrast with the present will readily admit there has ahas come a dread of expenditure an indisposition to invite or see aee those whom at the time mentioned it was an enjoyment to entertain there is a pucker puckering irig up of soul the expense is counted and dreaded visiting is down to zero and once familiar friends are comparative strangers there is an increase of coldness even in family association which bodes and members of wards fall no good to greet each other kotlier with that warmth once super induced by active unrestrained strain d association in those days of comparative prosperity it was a sad bad blow to unity the association the entertainment to social enjoyment and even to religious sympathy and interest when the barometer of enjoyment was lowered first by apprehension and thin then by the actualities of enforced economy and the cro akings of a few who in all communities persist in looking on the dark side of circumstances instead of that where there is more or less leas sunshine under almost any condl pom whether hether in the palmy days entertaining degenerated into ostentation and revelry will be answered by the reader according to his mood but it possible that in the exuberance to Is quite ance of a generous hospitality persons and families did outdo then themselves selves and tried to outdo others this aspect deworth la worth considering for if so this was quite a flagrant if half justifiable offense and a little common sense reflection would have rectified a disposition to run into arito extremes in very many instances the picnic and even the surprise method was made to minister a good feeling and increase of acquaintance and friendship and the real ex ense dense for each participator was very 9 atle but t this his even is mainly among the memories of the past and contrasted with society movements which are so highly emblazoned blazoned em and colored these little primitive dot doings s at their very very best seem quite smon small ifandy and commonplace so perchance because of the insignificance of the methods of this past in contrast with the grand functions and the color schemes of eo clety 11 the spirit of genuine brotherhood an and d sisterhood of neigh neighborly bony interest and association has lome ome one of the lost arts for everything of the mn kind appears a to be now in statu quo I 1 nay 7 a together altogether as it should be unworthy worthy y of being chronicled in connection with the movements of the giddy multitude and the local court circular in the public press that this feature demands correction in some way must be evident and that separation and indifference rather than unity and interest is the outgrowth of conditions is surely true besides a cessation of family and friendly gatherings lessens the opportunities of the juniors of the people or impels them to seek for change and alid recreation quite apart alt from the association once enjoyed in catering to waiting upon and entertaining a large proportion of friends whose experience and sacrifices were brought home more vividly toy by the famil familiarity laxity of conversation in the social gatherings indi indicated dated As was said the facilities of transit should be made to conduce to an increase of unchangeable good fellowship for a block or two or more are of small account wherever the electric cars move to and fro particularly if the adoption of public control or regulation could reduce the rates to a less onerous charge than they are at present but these facilities can be benl enl enlarged arged in utah so that the public could be accommodated commo dated with less sacrifice than to is required by railroads the project to unite ogden and provo by the electric current and cars is capable of easy extension from southern idaho to st george the immediate settlements axe are all upon the streams which maidl mainly y issue from the eastern side of the sev several eral valleys water power is in excess and some system of creation could be easily devised by which not only electric pa transportation could coul d be realized but electrical lighting c could make a continuous line of light reaching at both ends beyond the limits of our glorious and ever growing state the localization of industries in overgrown centers would be in some measure prevented and each locality vi would soon quicken into new perhaps original life the providential resources peculiar to itself nor is this the dream of an enthusiast or a crank it will come to pass and the denizens of both extremes and intermediates will become as familiar and as much interested in each others plans work and success as the susceptible part of this central cites population has been and will again be when their eyes and eart eard and hearts are open to the folly of isolation and individuality as it appears on the opening of eighteen ninety eight good statesmanship aims to give life to the extremities of its control as well as to what might be designated its head or heart the pulsations of industry are as much mich needed needed in the i toes as in the fingers and this giant force of the universe electricity directed by sagacity and intelligence can be made a wondrous agent in harmonizing the claims of that great trinity of progress brain muscle and capital until all the controversies of today will be settled for ever and ever A visit to the new compact and almost noiseless grist mill lately erected by the peery bros in ogden with all modern improvements and appliances and running by electric force is a lesson for today combination can duplicate this where needed from the un utilized resources resource s of streams toil and enterprise and factories of all kinds under the same power would 1 make this state a veritable hive of production for both home use and exportation por tation the methods tor for this industrial revolution were graphically presented in the news the other day in the contrast made between building the temple and building the city and county palace by the mortgaging or hypothecating ting of the peoples possessions tor for a long series of years and the facts are that there is no limit to the application of this principle it if the people and their leaders only work together it was originally intended to found Z C M I 1 upon this principle but lack of education in an emergency compelled that compromise which has been almost barren of results compared with what it might have been had the first grand conception crystal laed in fact and action as was indicated of the spirit but there will yet come a consolidation of the business interests of thle this peculiar people an i amalgamation of sections a unity of action a combination of their energies and their resources such as shall dwarf all the past grand rand though that might have been and beneficent as designed the new year is full of promise pro great changes are possible and surer sure mans wisdom will not be ablerto able to cope with the complications and conditions condition already at the door only the genive of inspiration the voice of authority the power of god and his priesthood will be able to preserve in the general wreck the semblance of order unity and peace and this only through a prepared element a people united by br susceptibility to this inspiration and made willing in the day of me power there may and will be a period when the same people will have hare i to stand still and see the salvat salvation of 0 god that emergency has not biot yet arisen now to is the time of prepare preparation demanding effort activity persistence si bi unity consolidation that tb former promise may not come iu aw alares ares because the spirit of gent obedience is suffered to do its ito perfect work in all thing tor for the advent of the great day dav of the lord |
