Show 1 0 I 11 II 1 I w ia garfield gar field countes Coun tys relief problem ily by vernon davies j IM mt 1 MM WM I 1 factors underlying tile lie need vor for tn ili county tile tho underprivileged d have con coll it 11 part of ever every population gi out known to history Home tinus they have bine been lit in the minority inore often they hav haic licen been lit in tile mist ilist majority occasionally they have ln been tile the objects of if sentil liell till pity and areti lunt ait ly 13 they have fleet been 1 mid re ic the increasing amnot of study and att attention antion holm devoted to voted to pop 1 ic Im oblenis of 1 arty billil IN ilc IMIl dency furnishes sonic hop flat 1 their lot will hl be improved hooks written ly by carlyle hugo and delau De liu to mention only it fw lino have been b con partle malarly helpful in ill nebout a public of tile of iliof eliose in I 1 ollile distress number of utopians and bon caal reformers leave come to bo be HOW that poverty call ultimately lc be while their writ writhing ind and celles have aroused consid conald mid eMble interest their linio not been too convincing tile the poor we 0 o always have with 1181 us Is a condition that many cont colit linio fulle to accept ns as quite inevitable tho clio traditional Am orlenn view of poverty lias has ft n cumbe numbe r of antecedents ced olits that late back to colonial tille H the ille philosophy of individualism was hound bound to take root in till nn unsettled country free from nil all class distinction native or for el elginer giter rich or poor learned or till mi the ohp race wits free for nil all if n mail failed to establish himself nt as a trades miln or landowner lie ho find himself to blame for opportunities wore were almost unlimited another of the factors factora that lina has dono done much to condition the bradt dional american viewpoint of poverty was the religion of the puritans to them every mail had a which lie ho must respect and diligently pur pursue A person should he be thrifty is 08 tile the spending of money for luxuries or ninus emonts was wicked it was ills his duty to invest ills his earnings the alon of wealth wasi a devine favor and nn an indication of in tile the pursuit of ones calling those who failed to amass money or property wore were divided into two claP conaw there wore were first gods p poor tho orph orphaned nned crippled and sickly second thoro there were tho the lazy poor if nn an able bodied annn was unemployed it W was as ills hla own fault not only that he be wits sinful in flint lie ho failed to utilize ills talents only gods poor were worthy of sympathy and help tills study 1 li 11 concerned with a group of people almost t all of whom are member s of n R church that has inherited much from the social philosophy of puritanism the teatter day saints were first organize od as a religious body in a state adjoining now new I ingland england and tile two leading founders of mor monlay JO joseph smith th and brig illin young were both born in vermont with puritan social backgrounds tho the student who has rend either mornion mormon theology or the annuls annals of tho the L D 8 church cannot fall to precelle prec elve elvo that the puritan ideals of thrift and dill gence in pursuing ones calling were a part of the creed of the pioneers who settled utah prior to tho the eventful migration of they had striven to establish a foothold in five different places enst cast of the mississippi river and each time they tacy wore were expelled from their homes by mobs the heroic crossing croming of the plains toward n R destination that was known to be try dry find forbidding and the manner in which they commenced to wrest a living from tho the frontier lands after they arrived have ly merited ine a great deal of praise they T icy were without surplus food having brought with them only ruffic sufficient bent tc meet their needs on tile alio journey they were practically without implements or machinery of any kind bind they enne came from the fertile lands of illinois all and ml mississippi ais sis sippi and with n agricultural g r I 1 C U it u r a I 1 knowledge which although well suited stilted to tile conditions CondItIon 4 of that country was entirely insulted to tile the dry lands of utah it Is not surprising therefore to learn of their enting eating roots and tile ment meat of cattle killed by wolves and even boiling tile the hides that had ad beer been used for roofing the cabins some were without clothing find were compelled to cover themselves with tho the salna of wild beasts when even such could bo be found 01 in time of course they were able to obtain better tools and material resources under tho the direction of the church authorities they begun to colonize tho the inter moun tain area finery section of land ovel enough for farming for which irrigation water could lu made fl i val callable lable wn ns H cleared mid and fl ed after years yearn of struggle alad 1 I hardship they established homes and farms fm ins wid nicil begun to ellroy 11 fill fulfillment fit Illi plit of lf kolloc of f their hell alil lit ill terms of present pie sint living tan dards they were ef not rich but it tin the of front frontier ler conditions they wein rd of to have made considerable progress poor pool the ho orphaned crippled and alel nickly were not allowed aland to tot the lizy lazy poor were left to ii from tile re nileta of their own OMI indolence 1 bior or with tho exercise sc idso of thrift tin aft annl rp re anny awe llo nian could land and livest mott most of the materials necessary ili the construction of log IOK houses required only the labor of going to tile tho hills cutting ti tiros ees tind drag klick tilvan to town chere were so caal problems to lo bo 10 sure ant tit un W nh 8 not lot 0 aiu 1 of ill 0 11 want was characteristic of utah uenh 11 in general ans largely tru arno 0 of county lit in particular tile people were not to conscious that changes were occurring those who bechina dissatisfied usually moved to greener those that remained endured tho the bad yours years along with tho the good with patience pat lence and not too much com coin N no 0 ono one realized that un ston seen forces were nt at work which would eventually bring lulng tho the county to a i condition of economic prostration tra tion the depression that commenced in 1030 1930 was almost uko like n bonah dropped lit in their midst the prices of ohp thing s they find to sell dropped far helow below the cost of production the only balak in ill tile tho county comity failed ancin unemployment ploy ment in tile tho industrial centers of tho the state caused many young people to return to their parents for support and tile people were ero reduced to url it a condition of despair that relief from almost allnott any ally source would haw have heen been welcome IV J henderson who lias has in ill tile the of public relief lief shift it wits way first distributed in ill tile fall of 1031 and who la is now chairman of tile the county welfare has ins stated as ills his jon oil that if outside aid had not of conic como evl etty ry store lit in tha county would have had to td close its doors the drastic full falls lit in prices the closi clOA liiK 1119 of the batik balik and tho the greatly increased unemployment were of course only symptoms of deeper underlying causes that had been operating oper athiR over oer a long period of ear eari i it will bo be the purpose of the remainder of tills this clin chapter pter to identify and describe these causes in ill tile light of the available information it if la is also hopel hoped in connection with this thir that tile answer ansbe r to n certain question will be bacomo come n little more inore apparent a query that was wai largely responsible for the original desire to make this 4 study was made in a previous paragraph of tile Imin immediate collate of the present residents of tile county and how they showed such sterling qualities of cour wid resource reef fullness ull ness in building communities 4 and bringing the laud land under cultivation no outside side help of a material nature was waa either expected or received in the light of this splendid heritage wily why Is it that so many of tile the children and the grandchildren of these hardy pioneers have so wll willingly gly applied for and relief to no be continued next week |