OCR Text |
Show Oilffliarai: fli tea ' By LE ANN ALLEN Are you an asset or a liability to your country? If you continually ask yourself the question, "what's in it for me? You could be contributing contribut-ing to a dangerous philosophy says Milt Weilenmann speaking to Bountiful Kiwanians. GROWTH IN the Wasatch Front area could cause its residents to face problems only faced in places such as New York City has faced in the past, he said. The Kaiparowits power project could cause a population increase in that area of over 100,000. "Even though it is in Kane County, it would still effect the metropolitan center or trade center of the state," he said. IN PENNSYLVANIA, 199 years ago, Benjamin Franklin told a story about a small fly that fell into a wine cask. Across the sea, 3000 miles and 200 years later, the cask was uncorked and the fly fell from it in a small drop of wine. There it dried its wings and rose miraculously into the blue sky. "i should like to have been buried in a cask," said Franklin, "to rise up and stand on this Pennsylvania land in 200 years." "WILL THE people then love liberty, being given it for nothing? Will they know that if you are not free you are lost and without hope? Will they be willing to strive to preserve their freedoms? and the question that must finally be asked, will they die for it? Mr. Weilenmann, Director for the Department of Development in Utah, asked Kiwanians to reflect and examine their loyalties. "IF YOU are a worker, is your loyalty to your labor union? If you are a doctor, is it to your medical association? associa-tion? If a lawyer, to your bar association? or a farmer to his farm organization?" "Or is your loyalty to this warm land in whose bosom your mother and father sleep? This land inhabited by great people and full of great edifices of worship, great centers of commerce?" "IF THERE has ever been a critical time, it is today. I sense that too few of us think any longer of the overwhelm- " ing welfare of all the people of the state or the community and think instead too much of what is in it for me." "This society of ours was built on the idea that we would sacrifice and be willing to sacrifice for our common welfare." HE TOLD of his immigrant mother who died in child birth. The community rallied to his father and family. They were sensitive to each others needs. They lived for each other. They knew each other. Being a neighbor was important. impor-tant. "I now live in a neighborhood, neigh-borhood, but know very few of the people," he said. "There is something wrong with a society where everyone goes into their little fortress and locks everyone out, where they feel their job is to fight for their own rights." "THERE WERE five volumes, two feet high, 2500 pages, written on the Kaiparowits power development develop-ment study. It took 10 years to prepare. "People don't look directly at its merits. They force a study that will cost millions of dollars and cause developers to become sick and tired of it in an attempt to destroy the project." THERE IS an extensive report on 26 different types of lizards living on the plateau and great detail on how those 26 lizards will or will not survive sur-vive under the transmission lines. "If growth is a problem let's debate the merits of growth. Not hide behind impact im-pact statements." "LET'S ASK ourselves-how ourselves-how do we live with growth? How do we keep that growth from destroying a free society? How do we keep our communities small enough and wholesome enough not to change our way of life? He gave statistics to show the growth taking place in Davis County. In 1974, 68 percent per-cent worked north of the Far-mington Far-mington crossroads and 32 percent worked south of the crossroads. IN 1968, 55 percent of the county's total employment or 21,996 was in the Clearfield-South Clearfield-South Weber area with Bountiful Boun-tiful the second largest, followed by Layton and North Salt Lake. By 1974 these trends had reversed. The growth is now occuring in South Davis County. Bountiful has the greatest number of work sites in the county. Fifty-eight per cent of the work sites in the county are in the south. TRADE, FINANCE and services account for the most employment in South Davis while government, manufacturing manufac-turing and transportation account ac-count for the m0st employment in North Davis County. "By 1985, we will have more people in the Wasatch Front than in the remaining area of the state. If industrial development doesn't occur in the remaining area of the state, we will find ourselves an island of people surrounded surround-ed by a great wasteland. WE WILL find ourselves supporting the few people who reside in the rest of the state," he said. "Energy development will perhaps change all that," he said. Kaiparowits has the potential po-tential of producing 36 million tons of coal annually, enough to serve 10 million people per year, it would provide miners." 1 'or ;,r. "UPT00W,. reWeS'i AIft0W. s,i'- turned off tLI '. Hfe' finished nrrrii y. ;-- A'ferenVS1- ''C:- J, "WHEN Alt ,h c"anges are ncr,;ntt:' ! prepare, ,, -volved." musl Ss H |