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Show Our American Way of Life By DeWilt Emery (Editor's Note: This article by De Witt Emery, president of the National Small Business Men's association, appeared originally in a symposium on "What is the American Am-erican Way of Life?" conducted by Readers Scope magazine. Readers of the maeazine were invited to vote for the article which came closest to their conception of the American Way of Life. Mr. Emery's Em-ery's article was second, i "Our American Way of Life is made up of many things bath tubs and automobiles; big cities and small towns; farms and victory gardens; mammoth steel mills and village machine shops; colossal educational ed-ucational institutions and the lit-j lit-j tie red school house beside the ! road; churches and hospitals; railroads rail-roads and air lines; chewing gum and ice cream; department stores and crossroad general stores; specialty spec-ialty shops and beauty parlors; pool rooms and race tracks; Hollywood, Hol-lywood, Broadway and. the High School play; laughter and sorrow; sor-row; eagerness and despair; and people millions of all kinds of 1 people gathered together from ! the four coiners of the earth, j drawn by the magnet of Freedom, : Opportunity and Justice, j "Our American Way of Life j provides each individual an opportunity op-portunity to go as far and climb j as high as his willingness to i work, his skill, ingenuity and in- tegrity will carry him. "Our American Way of Life ' recognizes that the individual has i the right to work when and where 1 he wishes, the right to worship as j he pleases, to speak his mind on , any subject, to meet with his fel-! fel-! low men for any peaceful purpose, ! to be secure in his possessions and to have his day in a free court. It recognizes that the individual is superior to the State, that our I public officials are servants of the i people and that they derive their just powers from the consent of j the people. "These things taken together created the atmosphere of freedom I and an economic climate which I made possible in the United States i the greatest production of wealth ; in the history of the world and the j establishment of a standard of ; living which is the envy of all i other nations in the world. "In short, the American Way of Life is the greatest blessing ever bestowed on mankind any place on the face of the earth." natural history and ward and stake chapels; strategic road improvements. Jaycee swimming I pool, machine shops, store, mar-;ket. mar-;ket. theater, hotel and laundry : improvements and expansion,. Pow-jer Pow-jer development on the Green and I Yampa rivers is scheduled and i the planned expenditure of sev-'eral sev-'eral millions of dollars by the j Barber Asphalt company for ex-i ex-i pansion is noted. The Utah Chemical and Oil company's re-i re-i cently completed plants for the ; manufacture of plastics and rubber rub-ber base materials is mentioned: the enlargement of sewer systems. ! additional paving, installation of curb and gutters, the building of hundreds of new homes and projects proj-ects too numerous to list are re-l re-l corded. . i In conclusion, editor Wallace , says: -There will be more opportunities op-portunities to better ourselves if ' we are alert." I If every community could catch some of editor Wallace's spirit, statewide postwar activity would soon be evident in every town in j the state. . |