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Show ten w vviiMa THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, KAHinJLrn, ton I DARE YOU OUR HUMAN RESOURCES two-fiste- Dan-fort- To Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah Utah as if their bodies were fertilizing the slopes of Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg. In addition to the loss of of our young people, we hare between 25,000 and 30,000 unemployed. This fundamental social and economic problem, beside which all our other difficulties are insignificant, will tend to disappear when we are growing at a rate that will oiler opportunities to our young people to earn a liv- - We sell the best lines to be found Stansbury In his report on a Survey' of Salt Lake in 1847-mentions a horrible practice of the Indians in Utah of selling their children to the Navajos to become later slaves of the Spaniards in Mexico. This practice is unprecedented in biological history. In the lowest forms of vegetable and animal life, parents sacrifice themselves that Their young may survive. Plants give the last drop of juice from roots, stalks and leaves to nourish the seeds; fish batter themselves to pieces on the rocks in ascending rivers to spawn where the young may be free from their natural enemies in the sea; the females of certain scorpions in Mexico lay their eggs on their backs and are consumed alive when the young scorpions hatch. Utah with an area of 82,000 under cultivasquare miles, 3 tion, has about 520,000 population, or slightly over 6 to the square mile. Coming to maturity each year are about 5,200 youfig men and women. ' Surveys show that in order to earn a livelihood, these young people are leaving the state at the rate of 3,600 a year, 300 a month, or 10 each day. We are in fact exporting our own flesh and blood that the remainder of us may survive. We do this, not like Indians, for profit, but at huge losses te ourselves and the state. There has been expended by maturity on the average boy or girl $1200 to $1500 for education, $5000 for food, clothing and housing and at least $1000 for church, recreational and medical purposes, a total of $7000 to $7500. We are exporting this investment in our young people at the rate of $70,000 a day, more than $2,000,000 a month and $25,000,000 a year. But money is the least of our losses. The blood losses we suffer cannot be replaced. We are sapping our future vigor, initiative and vitality at an appalling rate. If continued we shall become a state of old men and women and spinsters. The Southern States lost 500,000 vigorous, courageous men out of a population of less than 10,000,000 in five years of warfare. Such losses have stunted the natural growth of the South to this day. Here in Utah we are losing our best blood a year and of 1 at the rate of do not seem to realize the seriousness of the situation. These young people, earning their livings in California or Detroit, are as much a loss to the future welfare of CAPT. 8 2-- 3 We can sell most of these lines on Aus-ralia- s ing. While the industrialization of Utah has been going on for many years, a great deal of our economic thinking is based upon the outlook of a pioneering agrarian state, although the opportunities for piog neering in agriculture and have long since ceased. We fear industrialization because we do not understand it and, because of these prejudices, we are hostile toward it, although, as I see it, it is our only salvation. Let me point out some of the benefits we all receive from these great aggregations of capital we call corporations. In 1927 I bought a General Motors car for $4160 and in 1935 turned it in for a small allowance and bought a far better car for about $1100. The purchasing value of my automobile dollar in these 8 years had increased almost 400, or, I had received the diviequivalent of nearly a 50 dend in purchasing power a year. I did not receive this dividend as a stockholder of General Motoap. Had I been a stockholder I would a year, have received about 5 a but as a consumer I got 50 year; this because stockholders were permitted to receive their 5 dividend, if earned. The reason people would invest their sav-- . ings in General Motors stocl and bonds and thus finance facilities by which a better automobile could be manufactured each year at a profit and still at a smaller selling price, was because so far our laws and the judgment of a majority of our people have protected from confiscation of private property. I might clamor against General Moa tors stockholders receiving 5 year because I am not a stockholder, but in so doing I would be upsetting our whole industrial system, throwing hundreds of thousands of men out of employment and endangering my own ina year. direct dividends of 50 Let me cite you another example closer home. (In the second half of his address, to be given in another issue, Mr. Hunt points out the relationship of nonferro&s metal mining to the population and unemployment problems in Utah). stock-raisin- Gratitude is the music of ti.i leart, when its chords are swept by he breezes of kindness. William H. Danforth, founder of the Ralston Purina Company, and author of J. . f having a phone installed. Utah-Wyomi- Ind. Tel. Co. The Sea Scouts 33 3 OLD TO NEW WITH ANY SHOE EXPERT WORKMANSHIP BEST OF MATERIAL FROM i 3 3 air-slak- ed . o t Big Talker, Small Thinker Yous liable to find, said Uncle Eben, dat de man who talks de biggest thinks de smallest. and ng The Sea Scouts are an important part of the Boy Scout senior program for youths of fifteen or older. They are concerned with nautical and aquatic matters swimming, sailing, rowing, marine history, marlinspike seamanship, ground tackle, life aboard ship, rules of the road at sea, foreign commerce, navigation, signaling and cruising. 3 . J . 33 Z 33 SHOE REBUILDER H. L. Atkinson, Prop. 922 Main Street ' Evanston, Wyo. COMMUNITY t0OTe8S eJeluqgaS goo0. iuJl luck9 t0xA --v. v i a a 3 LEWIS LONGHURST Notary Public 1 ! frto at1 ,otad$w , LICENSED ABSTRACTOR Of Rich County, Utah ARTHUR DURNFORD Grade AA Conference Cetrificate A specialty Funeral Directors and Licensed Embahners for of making Deeds and Titles Standard, YVhitehouse Cafes ' te 25 and, Ambulance Trans Continental GARAGE A UTAH, and WYOMING Funeral Car Strictly up-to-da- Dare You." I as the challenger who dares young people to bring out the best that is within them. Ranks Among Best Sellers 1 Dare You, at first printed privately for circulation among associates and friends, has today found its way Into schools, churches, camps, and libraries all over the nation. So rapidly has the popularity of this little book grown that today it is ranked among fhe best sellers of the nation. William H. Danforth In explaining why he wrote I Dare You says that as a business man he agrees that he should stick to business, but that be had the urge to share his philosophy with the few who are headed somewhere. I Dare You will be passed up by those who are afraid," says the It will only bore the sophisauthor. ticated, and amuse the sceptic. It will antagonize some. Many will not even know what It is about. It is written only for those wbo believe they can be bigger and more important than they are. (Editors Note: A folder on 1 Dare You can be had for the asking by writing the I Dare You committee, SL Louis, Missouri, 835 S. Eighth St.) RAY DURNFORD . greatest saver of time for the ranch and in the home. It enables us to talk to our freinds and neighbors. It brings all parts of our country near together. Enjoy these benefits by Power of Lime o WE ARE EQUIPPED TO HAN- - 33 Theoretically, 100 pounds of finely ground limestone, 56 pounds o f o DIE ALL CLASSES OF HARNr 31 freshly burned lime, 74 pounds of 33 ESS & SADDLE REPAIR WORK IF IT IS MADE OF LEATHER, hydrated lime, and 90 pounds of WE REPAIR IT lime have equal acid neutral- o izing power. is our The telephone . -. terms extending from 6 to 18 months. We solicit your trade, your credit is good if paid in reasonable time. Spend your money at home, we pay taxes and build up our town. Our prices are reasonable. The Best Place to Trade ; o Not Fast Growing British tests show that certain kinds it trees attain a diameter of only 4 nches after 16 years of growth in Scotland or Canada; whereas in climate such trees reach 12 nches in nine years. any- Monarch Ranges, Read Harness where. and Saddles, Philco Radios, Chevrolet cars and trucks, McCormick Peering Separators, Farmall Tractors and Threshers, Moores paints and varnishes, Speedqueen Washers. two-thir- t - General Merchandise. h, t OF PAUL H. HUNT iw, wumi gwassy ORich Co. Furn. Co Not often does a hardhitting business man have the time or the Inclination to write from his experiences such an inspirational book as I Dare You. William H. author of this challenging volume, has drawn from the wealth of his own experiences in writing this daring message. . Nationally Known As founder of a large feed and cereal business, lecturer, church worker. author and world traveler, William H. Danforth, chairman of the board of Ralston Purina Company, has dared to do many big jobs. As an employer he challenges the physical and mental best of every one of his thousands of employees. But his influence extends outside his business organization. In the field of education, and in church circles. William H. Danforth is known ADDRESS u- weiKwmn - A Challenging Book By a Practical Business Man. 9 bbjii. - 30-3- 5c Dinners Evanston, Wyo. - First - Class Cooking Service Anywhere at any time Excellent Service Lady Attendant When Necessary Office 913 Main St., Evanston,Wyo. Day Phone 49 Night Phone 49 or 90 EVANSTON, WYO. Quality Goods XI Wing Wong, Prop. -- 8 |