| Show IS UT III I 1 every bear ear we encourage tourists from every part of the wor world id to vis it the west to too see our wonderful scenery thousands travel through the state of utah each summer to get a glimpse of god gods s beauty nes tied among our majestic mountains most of these people are greatly im pressed by our rich possessions of natural beauty and hunger with the feeling of compensation for their I 1 travels we are justly proud of what it f grature has done to fo r us but what have we done to help nature and ourselves to impress these travelers we have built long stretches of hard surfaced roads to carry them smoothly y and safely a cross out state to points of inter est along these roads the tourist spends most of his time while trav eling to the unusual spots of beauty along these same roads he collects an initial and continuous impress ion of the inhabitants of our state he ile sees the homes the barns the fences and the surroundings that i reflect the industry and standard of living of utah people his impress ion is a lasting one collected as he speeds over our splendid highways seldom hoes he take the time to stop and speak to the people along the way but rather he forms ions and prejudices from the wheel of his car as he rolls along what sort of an opinion does he obtain a superficial and visual inspection 9 in the first place we impress him ery nery forcefully with our outstanding negligence that lines our highways from one end of the state to the oth er our rundown run down fences our ram shackle barns our filthy barn yards our unpainted houses and our junk strewn yards all strike the eye with equal displeasure those deeply im press him with our indifference to neatness thrift and progress our rural environment reflects gneco farm practices by the large heaps of valuable manure piled by the barn the farm animals wade about in the accumulation of sever el ye years ars while the land starves for lack of essential plant food the tourist enters our towns to view unsightly yards and fences in the residential districts in the business districts abandoned buildings plastered with worn and torn posters around broken win dows otter offer a dead cold irritating front to our eeling guest the va cant lots about the town are strewn with old tin cans cars ash piles weeds and other rubbish th the e back ck alleys are scattered with t the he mf miscellaneous s ce ila neo us disposals of ad joining residents barns are falling to pieces fences are broken down trees ire tre dead indifference neg and are reflect ed by our surroundings all about we in utah pride ourselves on our high morality culture and learning yet we live among the very depths of untidy indifferent ne gleet and do little or nothing about it we are either blissfully ignorant of our wretched state of affairs or else we are truly the carleese car leess people our environment indicates gainly people coming from states of more thrifty populace cannot but notice and ind be unpleasantly impress ed by the decapitated conditions sur founding rounding some of the inhabitants 0 of our state nature has been generous with her beauty in utah certainly the least we can do Is to initiate and carry on to thorough completion an intensive drive to clean up our home yards and barn yards to fix up the fences the buildings and to add a coat of new paint to give beauty to the surroundings committee clean up campaign milo non and his young est son left this week tor for levan where they will visit for some time while mr stephenson recovers from an illness mrs airs paul whicker and mrs floyd whicker from salt lake city visit ed in delta monday on the way back from attending the funeral services in Pan gitch of mrs paul ker a grandmother mr air and mrs jerome cook from Spring springville ville spent two days in del dei ta this past week visiting friends |
