Show A TYPICAL UTAH UTAI CITY Men who know the state statu from Kelton to St. St George say a that thai t Richfield is a tn typical city of Utah If H it Is then the state stale of Utah Ulah ma may be congratulated About a n hun hundred red members of the tho legislature went down there 1 February 1 16 G and the they let lei me m me go along along along-a a kindness for which I shall over thank them them and and the Rio Grando Grande Railroad company which provided all the he transportation transportation trans trans- and some of the pleasures No thou thoughtful man can ride that hun hundred rod and amI fifty miles through tune the valleys of or the state without picturing something of the future One Ono will look at nt that soil soli much of or It Immensely fertile much of or It under cultivation much of It proving the excellence of its quality and amI fancy what the Ute region will look like In half haIr a century when century when we who love lovo It Il in the promise will have passel passed away and those that see the realization will never bo he able to lo know the stages stages from which tho the country has advanced By the way what an excellent thing It would ho bo If one could coul live five centuries or so Probably none of or us would be an any more moro willing to make a final bow and signal for the curtain then than we are now but what a panorama would panorama would be bc unfolded before beCore the eyes ees of or tho tine thoman thoman man of or five hun hundred rc years And yet ct it is a a. question of accomplishment Life LICe in America has become so rapid a flight that he who lives JIves to lo three score years ears and ten and has hm kept hiis i is eyes open has hac seen far more than his elders In the worlds world's history could have witnessed if Ir they ha habe had be been n present at nt ever every stage stase from Crom Marston Moor Ioor to the fall faU of Mukden i. i Life Is measured In events Within the lifetime of or men who were on that Richfield train these valleys alleys have been teen won from the hostile Indians who ili did not summon the riches o of nature from the soil did not tal take e ea a advantage o of the re resources that surrounded them dl did not make an any better the earth than they found It And n 1 here within the lifetime of ot men l b bV no means I Iol ol old the he desert has lias blo blossomed som d. d The houses h have ho o already an appearance of that age which testifies to establish li ment The surrounding buildings proves that the farm has been profitable ble The school houses show that the children have not been en neglected And tho the churches demonstrate that here in tho the plains so lately won from savage strollers the people have looked from rom Nature up to lo Natures Nature's Oo God Quite recently there has been a n goo good deal said Inthe in hr inthe the public prints and in the hardly so 50 public platform lectures about the country countr on the he subject of or uplifting the American home At the stations along the line of tho the Rio Gran Grande e were gathered scores an and in some instances In Instances Instances In- In stances hundreds of or the people Mostly 1 the tine spectators were young people And I looked at them wondering where the uplifting of their homes hom s should begin There have never been eyed clearer young women girls women girls from sixteen t to tb twenty years years than than were assembled at American Ameri Ameri- can Fork at Mantl Manti at Salina an and the other stations They are aro dressed plainly perhaps but there was was' nothing even suggesting tho the compulsion o of discomfort or of poverty They rhey were ere above all alJ things In appearance happy happ and pure ure And those thosa boys looking with wide eyes oyes ly s at the men thc they had hall been hearing about the legis legis- of their state tate of whom their elders had spoken were were as clean of or life as fortunate in the homes as the girls Every Evel one of them is a tribute to the good that thatIs Is 13 in III Utah They aro are the best product of a n country that was Indian land half a century ago aso and they give the tho best assurance on earth of ot the advancement ad that willbe will willbe be made in the next fifty years the years the advance that has really only begun TAKE rAKE THE fIlE TRIP IN II 1957 1967 I expect to lo live lIvo about half halt of fa a half of ot a half century century cen cen- tury tun longer and I am going to ride down the Rio Hlo Grande Grando some day when it will bo be double tracked all alJ the way when every inch of or land between the tho mountain ranges will be he profitably farmed fanned when there will be barns like those of or Berks count county Penn when the houses will be handsome hands structures o of stone slone when the the highways will willbe willbe be all natural maca macadam am when the depots will be bo works of art and the throngs on tho the platforms will be these same same boys bos and girls I saw Saturday just grown older and and bigger and broa broader er an and as true In their love of ot the state stale and the nation as they are loyal in their innocent faith in the future to today a Richfield to a 0 man accustomed to the cities o of the farther East Is a good deal of ot a revelation That red soil soli would be regarded ed as discouraging In fn other sections of or the Union But Dut the man who took tool me about town In his comfortable buggy declares it Is fertile The yield of It which one can sec see in midwinter makes proof of or his assertion An And tho the orchards testify to the abundance of fruit which Richfield has has or or ma may have with the exercise by all of the thrift which Is evident by some There are good dwellings not dwellings not big but pretty with generous lawns about them for tor Richfield has not yet et felt Celt the pinch of or real estates estate's es e's fictitious values And there bE begins the testimony to the labors o of the wo women en There are flowers lowers everywhere with little home decorations visible e through tho the windows or displayed 1 on the comfortable comfortable com corn porches in the mild February weather which recalls the gentleness of oi a n. winter In Florida They gave ave us a banquet In a school house That school house would prove a model for many a a. middle middle- le- le Western city It is complete throughout and tind testifies to tho the high Ideals of or the Richfield men and women who have the tho doln doing of things thinG's for the public Flitting abo about t behind us u as wo we sat at tables were the girls more girls more of or the type w wo we had s seen en alo along alog g the tho line of or travel The They were so o oro I ro rosy y In th their lr health and 8 so 1 joyous I in their mariner manner ma so attentive so 80 moved b by a n. simple grace in to I of or the little HUlo needs recognize any to our wants so 80 prompt mouthful a II prayer for made each of the thc table that ono their happiness while thoy they live JIve and wished the day of their leaving what had hall been m so good for them may fall very far awa away RECOGNITION OF Til rIlE TIIE 13 ELDER VO WOMEN IEN There Thero was another consideration Back Bael of ot the tables heaped with substantial food rood and with fruit and fragrant who vito had spent with coffee was a battalion of or women entertainment entertainment enter enter- for the weariness preparing days das of increasing t of Richfield's guests guest One could see e evidences I of or faithful housewife work wort In III every moment of or the dinners dinner's dinners dinner's dinners dinner's din din- ners ner's progressing An And ono one could not but reflect when girls who waited on table admiring th the tho rosy checked that back hack there In In the farther rooms were the older ol er I women who had hall done ono the thc cooking who ha had done ono the mountain of or carving carving and and who would a l little later Inter have two or 01 three e mountains of dishes to tn wash I want to pay m my tribute to lo the el older elder er women omen those who were not nol so er very much in evidence e while the 1 festivities ties lies were werl In progress and whoso whose labors must havo have been to make mako the event the tho success It certainly was My t hat Is of off to thorn thom We c enjoyed the lido rIde all all of us Wo We 0 enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed en en- joyed the tho sense of or outing and release from work worl and care for a alIa day and a nl night ht Wo We e enjo enjoyed cd tho the successive sights o of the Iho youth and aHl beauty of tho ho valleys s 's through which the tho train Iraln pas passed c But nut wo we appreciated the fact that thai the work work the Iho heavy work wont worl-o of preparation and the greater work orl of tidying up when the guests were gono gone meant a good deal more mOle May Ia the sha shadows of those women never grow less It was a good trip In every wa way Utah people got gotbetter gotbetter better bellor acquainted Wo We 0 who are not so old in the state stale l learned something something- of or Utah that could bo be learned in no other wa way Chan ban mn travelling through the country countr And ever every one came back to the activities of life and duty with a feeling that Richfield type typo of or tho the towns in the state of or Utah dl did well wen her part and that an any state would be honored by mingling even for a n da day with men menso menso menso so staunch with women so good and In scones scenes which have ha marked so EO o great grant an advance an and given gl such splendid splendid did promise of or a grander and greater advance In the tine future L L. 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