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Show H Tfie Boosting Spirit. H The growth of a town or community depends Hi' upon the attitude of the people who make up its H citizenship. If jealousy or other improper H motives impels any considerable number of the H people to discourage the influx of persons from H other communities, there can be but one result H the section affected will stand still and be looked H upon as a good place to let alone, its citizens' H will be considered lazy, nonprogressive and H having but one aim, that of self-betterment, re- H gardless of the rest of mankind. HJ r If the people of a community takes pride in Hi their personal appearance, the refining influences HI , of education, the enjqyment of good health and H; the elimination of personal hardships, they Hj should take the same attitude toward public HI affrirs, for the greater the good to tho whole Hi people the greater the good to the individual. H? t There arc some towns jn Utah which are forging H ' ahead at a pace that is surprising, but one wiij HI , not find in such places a spirit of selfishness that Hj frowns upon the man who wishes to cast his !H lot among the people and take his chances on earning a respectable, honest livelihood in com-petion com-petion with those already there. Instead, they H encourage him, knowing that every new addition H; in a business way tends to attract still others in H' other lines, and if the growth is maintained, ail I will be benefitted in the end. The growth of H Price, in Carbon county, within the last four H years has been without precedent in this state, B 1 i ppvhhhihp'Pi i in rr - -- ' ' ' i I i i i ii i it r i 1 i - - -- and the reasons therefor are to be found in an article in a recent issue of the Price Advocate, which says: "Cities are made by the push and enterprise of local residents. In the early dayti of Colorado. Golden had by far the best chances to be the metropolis of the intermountain country. But Denver had her Moffats and her Evanses, dynamos of energy enterprise, and as a result Denver became be-came the city and Golden is a villrge. "Along somewhat the same lines The Advocate Advo-cate wants to congratulate the people of Price. We believe this is the most liberal and enterprising enterpris-ing city of its size in the whole country. We have no wealthy men, and the taxes for schools and other local betterments are very burdensome, but met without complaint. And whenever any other proposition is broached that promises to be of benefit to the town the citizens come forward with a magnanimity and munificence than is surprising." sur-prising." It will be well for the people of Cedar City to read the above carefully and see if the conditions condi-tions mentioned there exist here and if not, why not. |