Show e SO WITH A COMMUNITY John Ruskin on ono onre e said A nation writes Its history In its arts That ia is true of a community too Utah Is a little different from the rest of f the world It is probably the only commonwealth which escapes the con condemnation condemnation condemnation of being one of the great alike Fortunately the history of ot the pioneers here was unique Their natures na natures natures tures were more or less shaped and molded by that history Their sons eons and daughters still feel feeland and it is to be hoped they always will the Influence of the natures which were strong enough to venture the conquest of the desert a thousand miles from the nearest human help and that at a time when the hardi hardiest hardIest hardiest est of other pioneers were content to take up the first piece of land adjoin adjoining adjoining adjoinIng ing civilization on the west Into this state so 50 constituted has come an expression expresion of art Because of ot the intensive type of life enforced be because because because cause of conditions the Utah people de developed developed music and acting and painting and handicraft Some of the most beau beautiful beautiful j pieces of furniture to be found in inthe tho the country are the work of those men who had abundance of time plenty of material and an ideal toward which they were willing to work whether they made days wages or not Out of the influence of ot the early days to both Mormon and has come that tendency to expression in the arts which deserves and receives the commendation of the tho critical There can be no higher purpose In Inthe inthe inthe the state than to encourage that ten tendency tendency tendency dency Utah Utai has sent splendid exem exemplars plans plas of native talent into the wide world Let the number be increased Let every effort to develop genius be encouraged And let this state con continue as it has so well begun to write its history in its arts |