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Show PROMOTERS GHARGED I WITH Hii BEEN I : EXPLOITERS 'At. the' special program for Wed- , neaday at tho Weber academy, Miss Mabel Clark sang "Good Night, Lit-tie Lit-tie Girl, Good Night" She was fol-lowed fol-lowed by Mrs. G. V. Zinn who sang "Waiting," by Millard. Both singers , -were In fine voice. Dr. E. G. Peterson of the Utah Agrl-fl Agrl-fl cultural college began his address on I co-operation by referring to the in- dustrial stnipglc of the United States during the last fifty years as the most momentous fact of political economy during the history of the world. , Narrowing his theme, he contrasted - th? motives actuating respectively the' people who settled the Pacific coast, and the pioneers of Utah. "Ease and love or wealth were the predominating motives leading to the settlement of California and Orc-gon; Orc-gon; purely religious motives, the desire to escape persecution and en-jov. en-jov. religious freedom led out fathers to remain In a valley so barren that r the first settlers expected a special miracle by the Lord, If they were to H i live over a single season." Hj The speaker, then pictured some of the early struggles of the pioneer. "When our forefathers turned out the waters of City Creek, on land I -where now stands the Auerbach building In Salt Lake City, they bc-gaa bc-gaa a movement which has profound-ly profound-ly modified the history of America." " Dr. Peterson is a native of the We-ber We-ber valley and choBe to mention a single Instance of pioneer co-opcra-1 tlon in Plain City as typical of all early community movements. The canal from the Weber river to that town is about eleven miles long and eighteen feet wide in the bottom The facts are, of course, not so very H; striking if we think of canal build ing, but when it ib remembered that this canal was dug at a time when the settlers were few in number, aud often had to live on roots and herbs and when the only tools of excava-Hj excava-Hj tlon were spades and shovels, the accomplishment rises to the rank of a marvel, and it was rendered pos-sible pos-sible only by the truest type of co-B co-B 1 operation. "All early community movements J were of this character, but, for some i unaccountable reason, the co-opera- tlon spirit dwindled and gave way to the spirit of individualism which is paralyzing all our industries all over M J the country today. To us belongs the H honor of having begun the co-opera- 1 tive idea in the west, but there is really small honor in it, for we have since passed through fifty years of H degeneration until today Utah is be- hind all her sister communities east, west and north and south in the mat-ter mat-ter of combining our interests so as to secure a standing in the markets ot-the world, and protect ourselves . at home against extortion." MM The speaker then detailed some re- cent instances or failure In co-opera-"H tion, notably a certain fruit growers' association, which last year not only lost all of a certain fruit crop but are still In debt $35,000 to the railroad for HF ! unpaid freight. When looked into, however, it was found that the pro-inoters pro-inoters were in reality exploiters un-der.a un-der.a new name, not real co-opera- I . .Dr; Peterson spoke at length of the HI t co.-operative idea as It has been work- "H f ed.. out in Denmark, which he maln- tained was the foremost agricultural state in the world today. H The speaker closed his address "Hl , with a glowing forecast of Utah's material and social advancement in the near future, saying: "Although our state has not yet produced world leaders recognized as such in any great movement, for the social betterment of mankind, it has HI done what is vastly better Tor our own . future well-being. It has pro-duced pro-duced a higher average of general in-telllgcnce, in-telllgcnce, a nobler and more virile 9 average of manhood and womanhood Hl than any other state in the Union. "And when we bear in mind that our schools have ceased producing the .educated snob, and are turning out men and women eager and enthu-siastlc, enthu-siastlc, for social ond economic sen-Hl sen-Hl ice, we may expect a transformation which shall soon place Utah In the rront ranks for material and Indus-trial Indus-trial achievement" |