Show I I I i I i i SAYS BIG U DEFACES HILt HILL Efforts of University of Utah Ut h Students Denounced by Rev Elmer I 1 Goshen LEAVE THEM AS THEY ARE ADVANCES IDEA THAT MOUN MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS ARE GRAND ENOUGH In the course cirse co of his Ills sermon sennon in the tho First FIrt FI l Congregational church yesterday forenoon the Rev Elmer Elmerl Goshen took occasion to denounce deno the work of or the university stu students students dents In placing the gigantic U On n the side of the mountain The speaker declared that it was noth nothing nothing nothing ing short of ot vandalism on the part of the students thus to deface the tile surface of the mountains He said that the mountains are arO nr too sacred and too grand to be thus marked by the th rude hand of man and that the big U L was no better In his mind than an advertisement In support of ot his position he hI cited the case ease of the Swiss merchant who what imbibing some of the thc advertising spirit which prevails In this country countI placed a large Ia e shoe sign on the tho side sirle of one of the Alps mountains For this act he lie was fined and imprisoned and anI never again regained re his trade He lIe also cited the tue against de dc defacing defacing facing the Palisades of the tho Hudson river In New York state by b advertisements and Isaid said that the commercial spirit of or the I age should not bo lie allowed to extinguish in the people all sense of scenic grandeur Quite a number of university students attended the tho services and took exception afterwards aCt to the Rev Rey Mr Sir re ro remarks remarks marks marls claiming that the hill lull upon which the tho U is placed is nothing but a foot foothill foothill hill hm and amounts to nothing from a scenic standpoint |