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Show LOCAL PATRIOTISM AND CIVIC PRIDE What Loyalty to Town, County and r State Means, and How It Do-vclops Do-vclops Communities. "If my town Is tho bcBt In the county, It must bo a good place to live." "If my county Is tho bost In Utah, It muBt bo abouCMhe beat county In which to maintain my home." "If I havo decided to maintain my home hore, I owe It to myself and my neighbors, to make my home one of which we all may well feel proud." If any render cannot subscribe to the aboye sentiments, wo are wasting valuable space, so far as he b con oerncd, and ho la also wasting hie time In reading this article. Many a laugh has been created by the "raoaa-back" who rejects all Improvements Improve-ments In the homo or on tho farm, with the remark that "Those things were good enough for my father and my grandfather, and they ought to bo good enough for me and my children." chil-dren." - Utah docs not need the kind of man who takes this 8tand regarding I Improvement:, that go to make life . oaBlcr .nd moro pleasant, but Utah does need tho man irno will say: "The state of Utah wnB good enough for my father, and Jt la good enough for mo and my children." Thcro Is room in tho stato of Utah for n million such men, and every good citizen that Is added to the population of Utah Increases the do-N do-N slrablllty of Utah as a placo to live, and Increases tho valuo of every home, and every farm nlready estnb-llshed estnb-llshed In this state. There may be room for differences of opinion as to the extent that competition la tho life, of trade In financial and general business circles. There. 1b, however, no room for argument on tho ques- .- tlon of whether or not competition In the matter of tho establishment .and Improvement of homes is the work y of Bush progression. Surely, If tho Utah as found by the , pioneers sixty-flvo years ago, was a i, 2. land of promise at that timo, the Utah of 1912 is a land of promise r fu filled. TIiIb Is a sentiment that tthould appeal to the patriotic Instinct of every citizen of the stato of Utah, and. moreover, It Is a sentiment that should be spread abroad as far as our facilities will permit. ' During tho next few yoaw, tho state of Utah will receive a vast f -'" amount of publicity through the work 'T jw ." "f tho Utah Development League' ami" He l"""7 - ufflllatod organizations. Especially " " - during 1915 wl 1 opportunities come , to lot tho world know that wo havo ' here a stato na fnlr as any In the I Union, and ono that Is capablo of producing grains, fruits, nnd min- 1 ' orals In quantities that will support I hundreds of thcu3andB of sottlcra I - und homesteaders. Through tho 1 medium of hundreds of thousands of I visitors, loyal citizens of Utah will I havo ample opportunity to correct , false Impressions which have been so I " wldc'y distributed throughout the J, United States regarding Utah and her I ' citizens. Utah has Kb capital city, of i". which all citizens of tho s'ate should fi '" bo proud, but of more Importance I , than any one locality Is tho general I prosperity of the cntlro state. ' The spirit of boosting which has ' J made so many of the states of tho Jr woat, and which is becoming moro I .,. noticeable In the state of Utah than IfT ever before, Ib a spirit that surely should begin at one'B own home and 1 ' from there extend to one's home 9 - town; to one's home county, and thus V circle tho entire state. I: t Many of the towns and cities ot I;.' the northwest havo discovered with I- Ju tho last few years that tho ex- 8 t pendlturo of one dollar to five dol- 1 ' lars for each Inhabitant every yoar ;- In publicity work is a profitable In- "v -voatment. I" 'Tills Is a lesson that Utah towns I r nd communities arc beginning to I " learn and, although we may not be prepared to expend a largo amount of money for favorable publicity, wo ran all expend a little careful thought . t and Intelligent personal effort to wards disseminating the Idea that pur home town is about the bost " little spot in tho best big stato of the Union. "Talk may bo cheap," but pood work for our own community is an Investment which unfailingly brings big returns In self-respect and tlso in dollars and cents. |