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Show PRETTY GIRLS AND NATURAL BRIDGES mm We have In English a little word of four letters which is one Of the most important but least understood words in our language. It is spelled O-U-T-Y, and when we perform what that word implies we virtually follow a ritual which guides successively to opportunity, success, and happiness. If you are working for an organizationmaking organiza-tionmaking your bread and , butter put of it it is your duty ' to speak well of it whenever the occasion arises. If you are running a business in a community which supports you it Is your duty to lend all possible aid to that community's uplift. If you One day in May, 1915, I was returning return-ing from a 'visit to1 the World's Fair in San Francisco. On the train was a' former mayor of Sacramento. He was a native son. (You know' what that means: a "booster.) When we stepped from the train at Ogden he was Enthralled with the charm of the radiant Bpring day. Approaching "The Man in Gray" he Baid, "Well, brother, what else have you in this ; country besides sunshine and green trees?" -"Oh, we've got gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, coal, asphalt, cement, gypsum, gyp-sum, lime, mineral water, salt, fireclay, fire-clay, vanadium, peroleum, natural gas, oil shale, sheep, cattle, horses, sugar beets, hay, wheat, potatoes, apples peaches pears; apricots, almonds, walnuts, wal-nuts, pretty girls, and ' "Yes, I've noticed that, and" "And say, listen to me: we've got a little bupch of scenery here that . .. Say, you know that little old Tower of Jewels you guys blow so much about out at the Fair? . . . Well, we've got a natural bridge down south aways that you could hide that tower under! Get me?" ' "You don't say so?" . , "Yes, , and in .the same county there's a stone column fourteen hundred hun-dred feet high looks just . like an organ pipe! Oh, yes, we've " ; "Say, look here, Old Top, I believe every word you say. And I want to tell you something: If California had just one-fourth what Utah's got our legislature.' would pass a trill tomorrow tomor-row making it every citizen's sworn DUTY to get out and boost like hell! , Maybe you think that ain't so! Well, so long, natural bridges, peaches, pretty gir damn that conductor he's hollerin' to get aboard!" R. H. D. in The Arrow. |