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Show WEAR UTAH BOOSTER BUTTONS ON BORDER Supply of "I Am for Utah" Emblems Sent Moinbers of Twentieth. Infantry. "T Am for Utah" buttons, which wero decidedly in evidence hero last glimmer an4d whicli aro still worn by Utah's progressive citizens, havo boon conspicuously displaj-ed in other parts of tho country. The littlo emblem hns done much in a largo way to proclaim the state to outsiders. Tn El Paso, Tex., where tho Twentieth infantry is patrolling the Mexican border, tho Utah buttons worn by officers of-ficers and privates of the regiment havo excited and urgod El Paso citizens to onvy nnd admiration for Utah. Major W. $. Graves of the Twentieth infantry, in a letter to Wesley King, chairman of the button cpmmittec of tho Commercial club publicity bureau, said that the "I Am for Utah" emblem had attracted so much attention that the Texans had almost insisted that tho ofiicers remove the "buttons to replace them with a badge bearing the slogan, "Hurrah for El Paso." To show,, however, that ho -will always al-ways bo for Utah, Major Graves asked Mr. King to send him at least 200 of tho "I Am for Utah" buttons for distribution dis-tribution among the soldiers nnd El Paso citizens. Ho believes ho can easily -find wearers for tho emblems, and is of tho opinion that the southerners southern-ers .will take readily to tho idea that Utah is ono of the greatest of tho western states. |