Show MR DALLINS ADDRESS Speaks Eloquently of tho Influence of Utah Upon His Work Mr Dahlia wns greeted with applause as he stepped forward and commenced the delivery of his brief address Ho apologized for readinG tho few Ideas which lIe wished to present said that people were prone to say that artists were men of Ideas only who have no part in tho practical side of life Artists Art-ists on the other hand he said maintain main-tain that ideas are the only vital forces in life that through Ideas everything we know in history everything that we revere has been created and only throughmen of ideas are great works of any kind achieved He said that Brigham Young and the pioneers be fore they reached this valley were men of Ideas Mr Delhi then continued Ills remnrlcs as follows Friends It Is some twenty years I since I i turned my face eastward toward the unknown land of my hopes and I aspirations and as one who has visited strange lands and seen many sights I return to the font where I first drank the lifegiving waters of pure inspira tion To those who are born and reared amid these circling hills I have little need to tell what a potent spell they have and as what6ver little I have done has been directly traceable to their Influence you can well understand under-stand how they are Intimately connected con-nected with tho most sacred part of my being INFLUENCE OF NATURE ON ART To the mighty fgrms of sculptural beauty and the ever changing lights and shades of the peaks my mind was ever attuned and as the history of Sculpture plainly shows sculptors have ever been reared amid the mountains These silent formative influences are even deeper and more lasting than wo realize and to you who have the privilege privi-lege of this silent qommunion of the hills your spirits must ever bo awake to the beauty and poetry that daily speaks to you from the mighty heights Art of every kind is simply the realization that beauty lies afound us on every hand and the artist is I only he who possibly realizes more fully this truth and he only becomes nn artist In trying to reveal this truth to his fellowman Art to the many is considered a luxury or an accomplishment accomplish-ment whereas in truth it is one of the most necessary functions ora well ordered life and to deprive man of this means of expression would plungo him into a barbarism from which there would be no hope of ever recovering recov-ering him JUS HOPES FOR THE FUTURE I want to Impress upon your minds these plain truths as tho dignity of our art demands It and although I cannot claim f rmy own work any I small degree of these attributes I still live in hopes that somo day I shall 1 realize some part of my dream And In regard to the monument which is now completed after many delays I can only trust to your indulgence Indul-gence In unveiling it now after nearly near-ly eight years since I did tho work I feel somewhat as though I wore exposing ex-posing some early sin and 1 only regret that I could not do It over again ns I am confident that I could do It better The monument as It now Stands is an attempt to depict the early hltitory and condition of Utah and with the exception of the statue of Brigham Young the statues are representative Thus the Indian represents the early condition that prevailed in this valley before the advent of the whites and the Trapper represents the first white man that over penetrated the wilderness wilder-ness The Pioneer Group represents tho lundy Indomitable family that first made their home Jn the wilderness and from them sprang the first civilization of tho great West Applause |