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Show "In My Opinion . . (Editor's Note: Lee W. Dalebout is a man long associated with Sugar House business, civic and social activity. Member of the local Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Dalebout has owned and managed the Sugar House Bakery for 15 years. He returned last year from the India-Burma theater of operations where he served during the war as an army chaplain. At home to greet him when he arrived was his wife, Blanche, and daughter, daugh-ter, Bonnie Gaye, age 4 years. Shortly after his arrival the title and office of Bishop of Le Grand Ward was given to him.) . THE CHALLENGE OF THE CENTENNIAL By Lee W. Dalebouf Wre have yesterday to look back upon with pride. We have tomorrow to look forward to with hope. We have today to act upon with confidence and vision so that yesterday shall continue a treasured tradition and tomorrow a Dream realized. That is the challenge we face as we pay tribute to the men. and wtamen who made today possible for us. It is well that we have celebration, demonstration and a time of gay festival. The suggestion has been made that Sugar House establish ai festival unique and significant to its1 own locale and .cultural achievement. The suggestion is an excellent one and this, the-Centennial the-Centennial year is the time to carry it out. The inspiration for and character of a celebration are determined deter-mined by the people for whom the occasion is planned. Sugar House has a dramatic background of stirring events and courageous men and women. From them comes the inspiration, inspira-tion, but the character of the venture is up to us. 'Tis said that a man is best known by what he laughs about. So it is with a community a community is known by what pleases it. Hence we become important as individuals here because the spirit of any occasion we promote will be a reflection of the composite personality of Sugar House. Our enthusiasm, our ideals are blended blend-ed into the community cultural pattern. Countless communities throughout the United Slates enjoy rich physical advantages and yet are lost in the stream of shopping shop-ping centers across the country. But once in a while a place stands out because it irises above the filling of the commercial needs of its inhabitants. It does so because the people of that community give of themselves in a spirit of cooperation to make their town a Serving Center. This Sugar House shall be a Service Center serving a high-minded high-minded group of people unified in purpose and progress. We no longer must hew logs for our homes, but we must hew logs for our cultural foundations. We1 no longer must clear roads of sagebrush and boulders, but we must clear away any impediments impedi-ments of inertia and prejudice and self-satisfaction. We no longer hunt for food to fill our bodies but we must give our pressing search for the things to fill our cultural and spiritual capacities. We have taken stock of the Pioneers. They measured up. The Centennial will take stock of us This is our day. |