Show the people of provo gladly wel come the scandinavian excursionists to prove they recognize in them an industrious frugal and moral element of blaha boriety Booi ety they and their fellow countrymen have done much to make utah what it is today their patience endurance endur anca and faith in bod have been tested in many ways some crossed the plains draw ing hand carts aid women walked the whale fifteen hundred nailes from iowa city without complaint choie companies compan iea found utah then a barren waste and they settled down to battle with the rough elements without a murmur perchance many times ir the visions of night they saw their green native shores far across the BOB aad the rich orchards and beautiful forests where sang the nightingale in the balmy evenin gsand the cuckoo wooed hia mate all night long scandinavia is a lovely country in the summer months second to no other country in europe excepting it be switzerland then what a contrast early biah must have been to the early mormon scandinavian cuny erts who are today celebrating within our gatea the organization of the first branch of tha church in denmark no merry songs of birds ware heard here such as they had been accustomed boin their childhood irstead of iha mild humid atmosphere tempered at their native homes by surrounding seas which giva to the scandinavian ladies their rich pearly complexion they found here the dry breezes of a desert drying the skin and cracking the lips instead of the beautiful beba ol 01 thir native forests hera were found the prickly pines it as altogether a rough wild country they had immigrated to not at all like the tame shores of their native homo but those early pioneers found here something better than they had left behind they found unbounded room for their ambition no landed estates of rich lords would here reap the bane fita of their earnest toils every daa labor counted on their farms and life soon seemed brighter to them notwithstanding the physical disadvantage than it had seemed at homo contented to own a little land of their own for many years tho scandinavians of utah never launched forth in any big enterprises they left all speculative schemes to th englishman and tha yankee slow ana incessant toil on the farm brongil its sure regard while many englishmen made money quicker and faster than the scandinavians nav ians there wore few classes more V A frugal than abo danes swedes ai d norwegian s year after year ew their farms grow more valuable and tc dy somo of he best properly in utah 13 held by many who were servants in the old country have been back and visited their old employers and have been able to boast of more wealth by their few years accumulative in au erica than their old employers owned through generations of inheritance so much the religion they embraced ha done for the Scandinavian 1 in a material bense but it has done ranch more in ao intellectual tel way has opened up bc fora thorn a world of liberty and equality anel given their children unbounded advantages many of whom are feat forging to the front when all the old scandinavian veterans have passed way as they are fast doing these annual reunions of tarl nationality ill still be of benefit to teach mhd children what has been the early lot of their parents |