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Show The Editor's Column Sriirri' please him. THINGS WE THINK Things Others Think, and What We Think of the Things Others Think- PRIDE Of STATE. i The protest of Japan against the proposed Alien 'aw in the state of California brings to1 mind the singular and splendid' position of the state in our na-1 tion. It appears that the National Na-tional government has nothing to say as to whether the law may be made. The state is of itself a souv erign body and has its peculiar rights that the central government govern-ment may not interfere with; and it is a big thing that each of the commonwealths of the Union may regulate its internal intern-al affairs. Utah is one of these and an important member of that group called "The Great Southwest." South-west." In the heart of the in-termountain in-termountain country it occupies an extent nearly as great as that covered by the six New England states and New Jersey or New York and Pennsylvania together. Midway between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast it is natural that everv thing should stop over in Utah. Her natural and built up wealth is large beyond the average in population. Crop failures in Utah are very rare and the yield per acre is unusually heavy. The range of variety is extreme, from citrous and semi-tropical semi-tropical fruits, cotton and silk in Utah's "Dixie," through the hardy grains and forest products pro-ducts of the colder reaches. The live stock industry is on a par with the other agricultural interests and manufacturing is becoming an important branch of the state's industry. Nearly every known mineral is found within the confines of its borders from the purest gem to the. most common or the most rare mineral. Utah has salt enough to supply the world for a thousand years, and iron enough for half of that. Its metal mines are among the biggest big-gest in the world and has the greatest smelting center in the country. In Utah the skies are softer and bluer than those of Italy; sunsets mc re gorgeous than the Golden Gate may show; the near 365 days of sunshine every year and the dry clear atmosphere mellowed by the most ungentl-ed ungentl-ed wind, make for a climate splendid beyond compare. These make the though; ful man loyal to his state, and the hospitable big hearted people, gathered from the four corners of the earth, make another reason rea-son why the people should be proud of their state, and make (every effort to add to the future fu-ture growth of a commonwealth rso blessed in every way to be one of the foremost" of the Iblessed country in which we live. |