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Show PTY V 1 if TIIE CHRISTMAS 12 V- ,,- f NEW 8, DECEMBER 15 1923 o No. 1 Entrance to Ogden Canyon. Through a narrow cleft Into a mountain fairyland. No. 2. View in Bryce's Canyon. A composite impression of a vast si ent city of spires and a wilderness of grottoes. No. 3 The Grand Canyon. The world's most stupendous scenic wonder: best Been from the north rim, accessible only through AJtah. No. 4. Zion National Park. Where puny man comprehends what a mighty thing is Nature. No. 5.- - In the Kaibab Forest. The worlds largest untouched area of pine timber. i In -- Virginia when we the BACK were halls of learning, wont to iue Ions ft end silently at the beauty of the Blue IUdg. or anon, loitered lastly through the brown In meadows of the Hhenamloah. jilme away from book we chased the long horn through tho Had re land of Montana and in later yenwe when tho wanderlust called of have paused upon the llarrene and the Far North, dumb before the majoetlo beauty aa Mt. eouthvrlnif the at McKinley snin suffused lie toy battlemente In the rose (flow of Arctic twilight. The years rolled on apace ami the quest of fortune brought us to strange lands and rumbling cities, to the solitudes of the brooding mountains or the shores of the restless sea. Ever the search hue been onward till we came to tho the rioting canpainted desert and It yons of Utah, here to tarry. would seem, as though rlohee had been found at the rainbow's end. At least there has come a certain peace of spirit living in the dreat Presence that hides in the mountains of a noble state. From it all there 1s a great les- won. told often enough in the books. It Is ,true, but fur more poignant in Us meaning when learned at the very fount Itself. And" the lesson is thlst There It an Individuality In mountains, plains and deserts as stamped upon Its unmistakably creatures ns the very markings of heredity. The denizen of the peaks la almost alien to his brother of the prairie: the dweller In He silencesIn at the desert is foreign and alone the grinding clash of the city. lie speaks a different tongue, whimsically tolerant of atrange antics mi purposeless scurrying. He has. lived In a world apart, companion at the solitudes, communicant with the spirit of the voiceless hills. To him has come the whispering of the night wind sighing softly through the sage, or moaning the ineffable melody of the pines. Small wonder that his soul Is strangely stirred and cruelly abashed In the presence of Jhp ntultlude. Pity the Man Who The man who elects to pass bis i . I7p-lo- - gs through all the jangle. Each hns claimed that tho route boosted by the other was hopeless and tmpas-sulwith the risult tlmt the public has eoine to believe thut no road Utah Is fit to be traveled through and .thousands have so routed the state enthemwihu as to avoid t. tirely. ( tall a I Hag I lint Ion- Hut how with tho authorisation of tho Wenilover route the claims of the Victory Highway wtll upon Its completion be appeased and tourists can go straight to the Gold-e- d llate If they so desire, if tho Lincoln Ulghwsy association completes Its line to Ely, all well and good, that will then be one more route, added to which there is now a good road to that point by way of Milford. Fjrthesmoro there Is a route leading south through i'rovo, Heaver, Cedar City and Ht. George to Los Angeles. Hut this Is inot nn aitlele on roads except Insofar ns It has to do with that awakening thought that has come to Utah which gives us serious pause and brings thq reillxatlon that through it all we have malrtained a false position and a highly Injurious one from tho standpoint of the benefit to bo derived from tourist 'trntlte This Is a matter so economically Important that It cannot be too greatly emphnsirad, since It will mean the oss or gain of many millions to this state In the future. In Colotado, tho energetic exploitation of their tourist attractions has meant In, the brief apace of six years a gain of 40.000 000 a year to Denver alone. And w here In Utah have come to the understanding of a great truth, a truth so and unmistakable that palpable wc are appalled at having so long ' neglected It Why should Utah he jnat a gasoline station on tho transcontinental Why should we, when highway fcissessud of some of thd most beautiful country Out of doors bn content to lot the tourist snv only "Howdy do and 'Goodbye'"' Have wo no pride of possession of the beauties of the Wasatch and tho Mt. Tlmpanogos, Lake Ulntas. Utah, Fish Lake, Duffers lake, Zion Cedar Bryce canyon, canyoni e, lop-sid- awe-ntrlck- L be found In any equal area of the allotted span of life upon the monotonous level! of the plain or amid earth's surface, From the basins the unfriendly strivings of a lowof thaHhousand lakes In the Ulntas lands city Is as assuredly losing a of the north to the terrlfio crevices of the Virgin and the Coloiado in part of his birthright as though committed to felonious servitude. southern Utah and northern AriIf he never sees a snow crowned zona there is a gamut of wonderful ' peak or treads an eehotftg canyon beauty that wot ks a veritable he Is mindfully spared the knowof enchantment. It Is different spell end ledge of his Ions yet he docs lose, apart as distinctively Utah as the and no earthly fame or glory can inert waters of tho Great Halt Lake. wholly compensate. Ho lives an unHtrnngely enough this wonderrounded Individual, land hus been little known to the and world until tho most recent years. oblique. He knows that water runs In seweis, kitchen pipes and sinks, Karly voyageurs have stood In silent he has seen snowflakes leave a wonder and spoke of them to pth-- 1 ers Jn awed voices, yet the message sploti h of dirt in their passing. He never seemed to carry has heard birds sing in cages Or the confines of the state beyond sparrows quarreling in tho park, and even but he wins not of the avnlunrhe Utahns themselves have dwelt In Or thunder echoing amid the Uiffs of the scenic riches that ignorance wore theirs or accepted them withIn all thlh glorious galaxy of n out comment as a part of tho exStates that go to make Up our there cn' he found every chartraordinary things existing In an acter of primal beauty that nature extraordinary country. can disclose. Her every whim and Shouting tho Tourists Through, caprice has boen recorded In tho Hook of Time, from gentlest mood That these woifder spots have so to maddest escapade; from the long been shrouded In mystery Is z Adlargely accounted for by the fact soothing peaqe of the rolling that they are off Vie beaten tines of irondacks to he crazy pinnacles of travel and that m systematic effort the KpotonaiS, from tho broad and been made tp advertise them to has to the placid Mississippi plunging the world until the Host three or turbulence of tho Colorado To him four years Tho first motor travel who seeks "communion with her visible forms there Is vouchsafed through Utah was almost coast to coast traffic and ourwholly a scene to- suit his fancy, however, highways were laid to expedite this humble or exalted he muy bo, can movement. Tourists were shunted he but travel to those realms at across the desert, which along the beauty has And,j happily, the western borders St Great Balt come when to no one need day Lake he deand Into Nevada was so inhosptt-shl- e nted the privilege of these journey- that to travelers no pnt Inga, and In sought other century pertho miles behind them as quickly haps has Nature east her benign inns posslhie. fluence upon the minds and hearts They hurried on to the Uaelflo, glad to coast down the of so many of her devotncui. Surely slopes of the H terras while no one will dispute that higher pattales of frightful desert carrying tribulariotism. greater tolerance, cleaner tions. They hsd never really eecn souls must cpme from such comaa and Utah, drove they munion. If One would foster love hurriedly through in a cloud of dust they of country apd reverence for her were leaving behind them some of Ideals let him, gaze upon her virgin the most bewtldorlngly beautiful beauties, mindful that these conBights In America. stitute the heritage God has loft to This state was further unfortupoint the true meaning of his exnate In being the real battle alted purpoie, , ground between the opposing forces In Utah there are more varieof the Lincoln Highway associaforms of natural phenomena, gated tion and the Victory Highway promore riotous coloring, more stuSituated at the forks of ponents. pendous and fantastlo chasms, road, Utah has been torn bethe mors weird and awesome jumb-lintween these opposing interests, of shapqs and tints, than can constantly getting the worst of It -- q ' ' |