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Show "Utah's cultural leaders since Erigham Young have vigorously carried car-ried out his policies and are standing stand-ing today squarely upon the shoulders shoul-ders of past experience, adapted bomewhat to the changing aspects of our national social life." Mr. Alter said. "For Utah's culture, like its transportation systems, Is Inextricably Inextric-ably interwoven with that of the nation. Utah is still the 'Beehive' state, still progressing as a hive of industry regretable though it is that so much more of the honey ' gathered in recent years has been 'planted' in convenient places by the hand of men in make-work projects Instead of all of it coming from individual in-dividual initiative, as if from the native flowers of the valley." "The individual, for his own sake, must learn by the fire of experience that only the culture acquired is the culture kept," the speaker added. "Only through his own industry does initiative emerge and develop unconfined; and only through flights of personal incentive can he penetrate the lofty heights of distinction dis-tinction and leadership. "Utah's culture has yielded many musicians, artists, actors, sculptors, educators, statesmen, and captains of industry who have gone forth to take their turns as recipients of world acclaim. These examples of Utah culture sprang not from the branches of a genealogical tree but from the springboards of incentive and initiative thich gave genius its wings. They are the proof that only the culture which grows up within the individual and which has been shaped, sculptured, and engraved in the image and likeness of his own character, has a right to, and will I endure." Speaker Shows Confidence In Utah's Culture "No commonwealth, founded on the original 'whole-milk of human kindness' as Utah is founded, can disintegrate into the various 'clabbers' 'clab-bers' of Communism, while overhead and round about the spirit of the hive remains in its leaders. It must continue to be a land of milk and honey," J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist with the United States weather bureau in Salt Lake City, told Utah rural leaders in their recent annual training school. Mr. Alter traced culture in Utah from early pioneer days when the philosophy of Brigham Young, first territorial governor, was reflected in the habits and practices of individuals. indi-viduals. He quoted the early "Mormon" "Mor-mon" leader to show his philosophy of culture and certain visitors to Utah during the state's early history to show the impression "Mormon" culture had on others. |