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Show The Great Revival i The first revived Uintah Basin Ba-sin Industrial Convention is now history, and judging from the enthusiasm demonstrated, one would not be optimistic in predicting that the U.B.I.C. will continue as a Basin institution for years to come. The crowds, tremendous throughout most of the convention, conven-tion, were climaxed Friday night at the talent show and dance, when approximately 1,-200-1,500 people were in attendance. at-tendance. A complete financial report on the convention will not be complete for a week or two, but advance indications are that the celebration was paid for by the sale of "booster" buttons but-tons and tickets for the livestock. live-stock. With the $150 contributed by H. L. Allred from the sale of the Hereford heifer he received, re-ceived, the U.B.I.C. committee may even make a small profit towards next year's show. Thus, the Uintah Basin has in this sense: Steps will continue to be taken, regardless of the time involved, in-volved, to bring our colleges under the same educational setup set-up as our high schools, One of these days all who so desire will be able to go to the college of his choice at a minimum of expense. The fact that a college education will eventually be free and perhaps compulsory is just as certain as the present free and compulsory high school system was twenty years ago. And if in the future one brands a free college education as socialistic, simply because the federal government plays a part in financing it, he must also condemn the present high school system as socialistic. Certainly, as the years go by, education will enter more and more into political discussion. But a more enlightened era for all will evolve when universal education is a part of life. What is absorbed nowadays at a good university serves not only to qualify a young man pr woman for a profession, but also gives him a well-rounded, objective education, when he or sho is taught to get facts from ail sides and reason things out carefully before reaching a decision. de-cision. This can be done when a student runs into all currents of modern thinking, and mingles min-gles with individuals of all nationalities, na-tionalities, races, religion, and philosophies of life. Assuredly universal education would encourage a solution to home of the explosive problems threatening the world today. One may ridicule the younger generation, but the blame for two world wars in the last 30 years and the danger of a third in the future- cannot be laid at their door. The peoples of the world have much to learn, and the most practical way to -impart knowledge is through an expanded ex-panded formal educational system. sys-tem. And as education becomes available to all, one can justly just-ly hope that as man begins to understand bis neighbor's opinions, opin-ions, religion, race, and philosophy phil-osophy of life, either across the street or across an ocean, permanent per-manent peace can be more than an idle dream of idealists. Education Edu-cation and corresponding tolerance toler-ance will certainly be two of the media through which a peaceful world must evolve. GWH staged a valuable two-day celebration cele-bration this year without business busi-ness houses and individuals hav-! hav-! to suffer to a great extent. In contrast to the disbanded Indian In-dian Days celebration, the U. B.I.C. was successfully staged without the necessity of resorting resort-ing to heavy assessments. And also, as said above, this year's U.B.I.C. was self - financing, while Indian Days usually cost the city a minimum amount of $500. This year the only aid the U.B.I.C. committee received from the city was $100 donation, dona-tion, and the material to build the stage in city park. The la-1 bor was donated. What really made this year's convention was the hard work i put into it by the Basin Young Farmers, with the assistance all along of Roosevelt city and surrounding sur-rounding comunities. The U.B.I.C. executive committee com-mittee Forrest Hancock, chairman; chair-man; Glen Allred and Elmer Yergensen, vice-presidents; Jack Nielson, secretary; and Josephine Jose-phine Yergensen, treasurer and the committee chairmen in charge of the various components compon-ents of the two-day show donated don-ated their time and effort readily, read-ily, Especially active, too, were the three Young Farmer advisers, advis-ers, Jimmy Lewis, Tal Wardle, and Ken Zirker. All played major ma-jor roles in a successful 1950 U.B.I.C. Their work may be typified by the case of Mr. Lewis, Lew-is, who was in on the A. Day and then U.B.I.C. movement from the very beginning', and who backboned the financing of the entire venture. All in all, many people throughout this section of the Basin can feel justly proud of their part in reviving a universal univers-al educational favorite, the U. B.I.C. The revival of the convention con-vention is a prime example of what can be done in the way of mutual progress, if the people will pitch in, unselfishly, to get a worthwhile job,,done. |