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Show THROW AWAY YOUR BLUE GLASSES. NOBLY and uncomplainingly have the people of Utah done their duty during the war. No matter how business suffered, no matter how scarce money, no matter how much individual suffering there was, the people of Utah accepted the situation as part of the self denial necessary to win the war and continued to do "their bit" by subscribing most liberally to every Liberty Loan and other appeals . for war money. Their sacrifices have been greater than those of other sections where millions of government money was being spent, for, it is true that practically none of the money sent from this commonwealth com-monwealth for war purposes has been returned by the avenue of government expenditures. These several conditions have at times had a depressing effect, but we now reach the period when it is time to throw away the blue glasses and look for the sun of prosperity ap-' peering on the horizon. No state in the union can have greater confidence in facing the future than that of Utah for within our borders there are those, elements ele-ments of natural prosperity that nothing can take away. When we consider that from our mountains every year we gather eighty or ninety million dollars of the precious metals ; and when we think that from the soil of this great state there are millions more wrested by the industrious farmer; going still further we have millions of tons of coal which are being shipped to other sections less fortunate than Utah, and so we can go on indefinitely realizing the foundation on which is built the prosperity of this great state until each one can realize that in the success of the past is the greatest guarantee for the, prosperity of the future. Think prosperity, talk prosperity, write prosperity, and you will soon bring it about. The development of Utah is only in its infancy, our mountains which have yielded billions can be made to yield billions more. Thousands of acres of our lands are available for cultivation, and if we would have them developed, we need more settlers. In the Uii)tah country there are billions of barrels of oil in our shales ; in the saturated oil sands of the San Rafael district there are billions of barrels more and expert geologists state that beneath the ground there is oil sufficient to make our state as great as that of Wyoming; it is only a few short years since it was thought impossible for Wyoming Wyo-ming to produce oil, and look at it today. We owe it to ourselves to encourage the development of this resource. There is room for many factories and the development of these undertakings should have attention if we are to afford employment to the wage earner, and so one can write almost indefinitely of the good things that are right within the border of our beloved state. Ponder over these conditions, take stock of the attitude of yourself your-self toward the state in which you live, and it is safe to say that now is the time to discard the blue glasses, see-conditions as they are, become be-come a booster for a greater Utah, and bring to yourself and your neighbors the prosperity which is justly their due and which will benefit the people that are here, as well as the people that come here. 4 Now that both Nevada and Wyoming seem to have entered the "dry,? column, what's going to become of the ex-deputy sheriffs and others who have been reaping such ric harvests as professional "bootleggers?" ' if. ' If the "flu" will now please take wings and, fly, all will be well and Dr. Beatty can take a well-earned rest. ' t |