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Show Coast Newspaperman Lauds Utah Pioneers Seattle Columnist Visits Utah In Interest of Scripps-Canfield Newspapers; Says Pioneers'Used Their Heads as many have done when they rough t to tame the west and so out here I hero has grown up a conviction that there is only one great sin on earth and that: ignorance Last night in every valley and thru every city there run the white flame of remembrance for the pioneers who used their heads and the visitor ga.ing across the valleys to the painted slopes of the Wasatch got a useful lesson les-son in what could be done with plain earth and water and brians Without intelligence and the spirit to apply it these valleys still would be baking deserts and grear. treeless wastes would si retch n-terminably n-terminably between the hills ignorance would have condemned con-demned the land to idleness and there would be silence instead of the hum of busy life AND, LISTEN: Somehow or other as you travel thru these lush valleys and see the evidences of prosperity on every side you come to believe as you have never believed be-lieved before that Providence really does help those who help themselves. Tribute to the pluck and intelligence intelli-gence of the Utah pioneers was given last week by Jim Marshall, editor of Western Features of Seattle, Wash., creator of the column col-umn "The Observer" printed daily on the editorial page of Evening Herald and all the other Scripps-Canfield Scripps-Canfield newspapers of the western states. Accompanied by Mrs. Marshall, treeless wastes would stretch in. Provo recently. While here he visited vis-ited the various towns of tho county coun-ty to become acquainted with conditions con-ditions in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall also traveled over the Alpine Scenic highway and were guests for a brief time at Altamont camp in American Fork canyon. They expressed enthusiasm enthus-iasm over the wonderful mountain scenery here. Is I.ogan Visitor Pioneer day was spent in Logan, where Mr. Marshall visited the second Utah newspaper in the Scripps-Canfield group, the Logan Daily Herald, which in loss than ten months has become tho leading daily newspaper in northern Utah and southern Idaho. While in Logan, Mr. Marshall wrote the following tribute to the Utah pioneers: Just 82 years ago Wednesday the vanguard of the pioneers came breasting out of the defile of Emigration Emi-gration canyon and saw spread before them the flowing sheet of sand and purple sage that was the Salt Lake valley nd Brigham Young flushed with fever raised himself from his pallet and gazing with misted eyes to the westward said "This is the place!" Today across these broad valleys val-leys is flung a carpet of green and here and there are quick-stopping quick-stopping cities everywhere the silver wator runs swiftly from the hills and the golden sunshine brings prosperity to hundreds of thousands of good folks who aren't afraid to work ' and who still carry on the traditions tra-ditions of their fathers-who had the courage to dare and to fight It wasn't luck and it wasn't just hard work that changed these valleys from worthless wastes to fruitful field3 the mainspring of the machine was intelligence it would have been easy for a few hundred pioneers to seep into these valleys and starve miserably to despair i |