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Show CLUB DINNER AN AFFAIR LONG TO BE REMEMBERED Wesley King of Salt Lake Gave an Interesting and Instructive Talk on Problems of Community Life. Considering tho weather conditions nnd other events, the Commercial Club dinner given at tho Hotel Logan Cafe Wed. Feb. 2nd was woli attend, ed. Thoso who woro not there missed mis-sed n good treat In many ways. Wesley King, Vlco-Presldent of tho Salt Lako Commercial Club, the principal prin-cipal speaker, left many valuablo thoughts with thoso presont which will result In much good. In part Mr. King said: Organization and proper use of time aro tho important things. If wo prosper and succeed as a community, state or nation wo must bo organized. Because of no organization, mobs got nowhere, with organization, nrmlos got ovorywhoro. Ducks and geeeo fly In a body, thoy aro organized. Wo should bo us wiso as thoy. Thoy get somowhero. Onco a gentleman wont to visit an asylum and ho saw an ovorsecr with eight husky Inmates of tho Institution working in a garden. Tho ovorscor was unarmed. Tho visitor asked tho ovorseer how ho dared to 'work' with tho eight lnsano pcoplo without bolng armed. Tho ovorseer replied that tho eight men wcro crazy, could not get together, and were not organized and therefore could not harm him. If wo aro not organized wo aro crazy. If we aro orgonlzed there aro no probjoms too bis. Wo' havo an A, D, and 0, in ovory community. A represents a ,man In business who knocks and says bad things about his competitor. D Is the competitor who knocks nnd Bays bad things about A. C is tho would bo purchaser who has to stand and listen to A and B knock each othor. If A and B. would uso thls.tlrao In building up their own business Instead In-stead of. tearing down each other's business thoy would bo many dollars ahead and C would lose no time: Tho samo instances. Logan . Is A. and sorao of the towns) in the!; valley aro II. This should not exist hut tho Club should work for tho county as a wholo and not for Logan alono. Tho county and Logan should work as a unit. Thero should bo no A's and H's. Tho old adago, "mind your own business" Is not sulllclent ns wo should all hoVp to mind tho community's commun-ity's business. A citizen who Just minds his own business and does nothing olso should have a wall built around him as ho Is a clog in tho wheol of progress in tho town. Wo should havo good roads days, c'tonn-up days, and palnt-up days. Of nil tho states In the Union, Utah Is tho most lacking In having Its out-luillrllnpn out-luillrllnpn rmlntpil Pays to Advertise Ono of tho greatest mistakes wo are making In this county Is that we do not ndvertlso enough. Wo do not tell pcoplo in other states and countries coun-tries what wo havo. Many outsldo of tho county know moro what wo havo than wo do. Every dollar used for advertising and spent judiciously will como back many fold. Peoplo( In tho oast and mlddlo west do not know what wo havo. When thoy) como to Utah It Is to boo tho resources re-sources and real things that would causo them tho deslro to sottlo hero. God gives us tho wonderful resources but it Is' up1 to us to dovolop them. To do so ,wo must bavo pcoplo, to get tho peoplo horo wo must let them know what wo have. Wo need now blood and' now Ideas. j Thoso presont woro thrilled wlth the solos sang by Mr. B. B. Parkin-1 son. Den's voice has by no means lost any of its power and its doep resonance was beautiful, Tho musical musi-cal selections by Mr. William Potor-son Potor-son were enjoyed. Mr. J. ,E. Shepard very ably fill-' ed tho position or toastmaster. Tho dinner .wao'dellclouaunif well served, Tho noxt club dlnnor will beheld March 1. Tho commlttoo Is deter-mined deter-mined that at least ono hundred shall be' present. |