Show OUR HUMAN RESOURCES log young utahna a prospect school N 4 4 rm qz W 4 71 ADDRESS OF PAUL H HUNT to associated civic clubs of southern utah APT stansbury in fit his report C CAPT to congress on a survey of 0 great salt lake in 1847 8 mentions a horrible practice 0 of the tha indians indiana in utah ot of selling their children to the navajos cavajos to become later slaves ot of the spaniards in mexico this practice Is unprecedented ce in biological history in the lowest fornis forms ot of vegetable anil and animal lite life parents sacrifice themselves that their young youn may survive plants give the last drop ot of juice from roots stalks and leaves to nourish the seeds fisli fish batter after themselves to pieces on the rocks in ascending rivers to spawn where the young may be tree free from their natural enemies in the sea the females of 0 certain scorpions in mexico lay their eggs on their backs and are consumed alive when the young scorpions hatch utah with an area ot of square miles 3 under cultivation has about population or slightly over 6 to the square mile coming to maturity each year are about young men and women surveys show that in order to earn a livelihood these young people are leaving the state at the rate ot of agoo a year a month or 10 each day we are in fact exporting our own flesh and blood that the remainder ot of us may survive we do this not like indians lor for profit but at huge losses to ourselves and the state there has been expended by maturity on the average boy or girl 1200 to 1500 for education tor for food clothing and housing and at least 1000 for church recreational and medical purposes a total of 0 to we are exporting this investment in our young people at the rate of 0 a day more than a month and a year but money la Is the least ot of our losses the blood losses we suffer cannot be replaced rep laceL we are sapping our future vigor initiative and vitality at an appalling appi illing rate it if continued we shall become a state ot of old men and women ornen and spinsters spin the southern states lost vigorous courageous men out ot of a population ot of less than in five years ot of warfare such raises have stunted the natural growth of the south to this day here in utah we are losing our best blood nt at the rate ot of 23 03 2 0 3 ot of 1170 1 a year and do not seem to realize the seriousness of the situation these young people earning their livings ju in california orDet or Detroit rolt are as much a loss to the future welfare ot of utah us its it if their bodies were fertilizing the slopes of 0 cemetery ridge at gettysburg in addition to the loss ot of two thirds of our young people we have between and unemployed this fundamental social and economic problem beside chich alch allour other difficulties are insignificant will tend to disappear when we are fi rowing g at a rate that will offer opportunities to our young people to earn a living while the industrialization of 0 utah has been going on for many years a great deal of 0 our economic thinking is based upon the outlook of 0 a pioneering agrarian state although the opportunities for or pioneering 1 in ag gil culture an and raising have long since ceased we fear ear industrialization because Tie cause we do not understand I 1 it and because ot of these prejudices we ire are hostile toward it although as I 1 see it it is our out only salvation let iet nie me polk point out sonic some of 0 the benefits we all receive front these great aggregations ot of capital we call corporations in 1327 1927 1 I bought a general motors car tor for anil and in 1933 35 turned it in tor for a small allo 1110 tance ance and ana bought a tar far better car tor for about 1100 the purchasing value ot of my automobile dollar in these 8 years had increased almost or I 1 had received the equivalent ot of nearly a 50 dividend in purchasing power a year I 1 did not receive this dividend as a stockholder ot of general motors had I 1 been a stockholder I 1 would have received about 5 a year but as aa a consumer I 1 got 50 a year this because stockholders were permitted to receive their aclo 5 dividend it if earned the reason people would invest their sayings savings in general motors stocks 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 to so tar far our laws and the judgment of 0 a majority of 0 our people have protected from confiscation fis ot of private property I 1 might clamor against general motors stockholders receiving aco B a year because I 1 am ain not a stockholder but in so doing I 1 would be upsetting our whole industrial system throwing hundreds 0 of f thousands of men out ot of employment and endangering my own indirect dividends of 0 50 a year let me cite you another example closer home in the second halt half of his address to be given in another issue mr hunt points out the relationship of nonferrous metal mining to the population and unemployment problems in utah |