| Show SALT SALT SALT-LAKERS LAKERS JOIN IN 1 HONOR TO WILSON I AS RITES ARE HELD Guns Boom Salute of Tribute While Students in Schools and Colleges Hold Special Exercises Citizens Join in Observance FOR FORthe the second time in the past six months the citizens of I Salt Lake from the tiniest tot to the eldest grownup today joined in sympathy with the citizens ot oZ a great nation and paid tribute to a great man Contemporaneously with the services for tho statesman statesman- president V Woodrow Wilson Vilson in Washington children in grade schools students in colleges and citizens in every walk of life lifer 2100 miles removed from the scene of the funeral reflected their sorrow for the tile former forme executive Flags dripping with the morning rain and snow drooped at half mast maat from every building building- in the city STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED The local stock exchange after atter receiving the early morning quotations quotations quotations quota quota- closed Its doors at 1030 School children In every public publIo school in III the city bowed their heads for tor one minute at exactly 1 o'clock Students of the University of Utah stopped their routine class work gathered in the assembly halt hall at 11 1130 30 o'clock and paid their respects Throughout the city for one brief moment citizens recalled the memory memory mem mem- ory of ot the former president FORT GUNS OM BOM At dawn this morning thirteen guns boomed from Ft Douglas and the signal gun was fired tired every half hour during the day The I ceremonies will conclude with firing forty eight guns at sunset Rev George E. E DaIe Dayie pastor of the First Presbyterian church expressed ex expressed ex- ex pressed the thought of or the city in his address before tho the students of the University of Utah He lie said In part We Ve are not attempting to settle an estimate of Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's character toda today We Ve are here to pay tribute to a great man and to rededicate ourselves to a great unfinished task There were doubtless men of greater eloquence loquence In jn national life Ufe such as Wendell Phillips Patrick Henry and Abraham Lincoln but buttor for tor sheer persistence in Ia at attempting attempting attempting at- at tempting to put his Ideals Into practise he ho was alone The greatness greatness greatness great great- ness of Wilson Is indicated In his persistence In In effort to embody his hisS ideals In practical form That the high ambition of his to realize by way of a solemn league and covenant t was not lot fully tully attained was vas as not due to any lack Jack of vision or energy upon the tho part of ot its author Wilson did not riot fail faU so much as did humanity Surrounded Surrounded Sur Sun rounded by incompetency and po political political political po- po duplicity his heroic efforts were an attempt at the impossible I WILLING TO GIVE LIFE However truth crushed to earth will rise again As an evidence evidence evi evi- dence of President Wilsons Wilson's sincerity sincerity sin sin- was his willingness to pay the price that did not end In self When cautioned about tho danger that threatened his life Ufe on his speaking tours he remarked I much go on it if It costs my life His Ills was the great privilege to sow the seeds which we trust will germinate In after years to produce produce produce pro pro- duce a harvest with Its pious usury of thirty sixty and a hundred hundred- told fold In conclusion the Rev Mr Davies asked the students to rededicate rededicate rededicate re- re dedicate themselves to the unfinished unfinished work before the Individual and nd the great nation Lets do It Jt and do it quickly he charged EAST AND WEST HIGH SCHOOLS PAY TRIBUTE Amid slI silent nt awe and then histrionic histrionic his his- eulogy that bespoke silent tribute strains of songs that be bespoke bespoke bespoke be- be spoke patriotism and the taps from bugles that bespoke death the spirit of Wilson hovered over o the heads beads of more than school students this afternoon The pro grams at the East and West High schools that began at nt 1 o'clock were both brief and Impressive The auditorium stages were draped with American flags lags and with the battalion battalion battalion battal battal- ion flags of the hl high h school cadet corps The battalion flag that occupied oc oc- the center of the platform at each school was overhung with Continued on page 6 G. i I SALT LAKERS JOIN Continued from page 1 I. I crepe and guarded b by members of ot the cadet corps At the East High school Frank I Beckwith president of ot the student bod body opened the assembly with the I statement that the students had been called together to pay respect to the late tate President Wilson Vilson whose funeral was at that moment taking place in Washington The student body ody t then sang America after acter i which C. C Orin Wilson member of ot the faculty spoke He paid tribute I to the late ate President not only as I a patriot but also as a scholar a I teacher and a man The man who wao I devotes his life to idealistic service for for- forthe the good of humanity stands humanity stands I the as the highest type of citizen said I Mr Wilson Vilson It does not matter I what creed or doctrine he adhered i to to the speaker continued the outcome outcome out out- 1 come is the same The great President President I dent will take his place in history not only as an Illustrious American American American Amer Amer- ican but also as a citizen of the world he added I KIPLING POEM READ Assistant Principal Alice E E. Rowe gave a reading of the poem If by Kipling and Mrs Atkinson sang The Flag Without a Stain The entire school then gave the salute to the flag ester after which there was one minute of silent tribute and taps was sounded The assembly at the West High school was opened by Fawn Gillespie Gilles- Gilles pie vice president of the student body Harold l M. M Stephens delivered delivered delivered ered the address address address-a a glowing tribute to the man for whom the whole world is mourning Mr Stephens gave a 11 graphic description of the late Presidents President's qualities A musical selection was rendered by the high school orchestra The Girls' Girls quartet composed of Susanna I Beasley Florence Olsen Kathleen Derr and Anna Smith san I Come Cometo ComeI I to Thee Taps closed the exert exer- exer t I PROGRAMS IN GRADE SCHOOLS I Public Public schools of this city today paid tribute to the memory of ot Woodrow Woodrow Wood- Wood WoodI I row Wilson when at 1 o'clock as asI the former Presidents President's funeral was I going forward in the nations capital the pupils In each school were as asI as- as I special exercises The nature of the program was left I to each school principal according to George N N. Child city superintendent superintendent of schools Two features were stipulated for tor general observation On each school building the national colors floated at half mast and for a period period period per per- iod of one minute precisely at 1 I o'clock every school child in the city stood with bowed head in reverence reverence rever rever- ence to the departed In many of the schools special speakers were invited to address the pupils briefly In others the principals or some member of ot the faculty spoke on the life of Wilson and the lessons to- to tobe be learned from J his career SERVICES HELD I BY EPISCOPALIANS I Services for tor President Wilson were held at the St. St Marks Mark's cathedral cathe- cathe dral at 2 o'clock under the direction direction tion of the Very Rev Dean W. W W. W Wi I Fleetwood It was a combined service ser ser- service vice of all the Episcopal churches ser ser-I of the city and was featured by bythe bythe bythe the presence of the Boy Scouts of I Ithe the Episcopal church who gathered gathered gath gath- ered to pay their respects I gath-I The services in the city today will conclude with a 11 special service service service ser ser- vice at the Cathedral of M Madeleine at 7 30 o'clock this evening under the direction of Rev D. D G. G Hunt The Salt Lake post No Ko 2 of the American legion paid tribute to Woodrow Wilson in a resolution passed at its meeting last night The post then adjourned out of ot respect to the dead president The resolution follows Resolved That we the members of Salt Lake Lalee post No Xo 2 of the American legion do pay our humble humble humble hum hum- ble tribute to the in commander-in- chief of ot the armed forces with whom we the served in the following memorial Woodrow Wilson has answered the last clear call as a world of mournIng bows silently in Jh a 11 griet with ith which is blended everlasting e I gratitude for his great efforts to achieve enduring peace His idealIsm idealism idealism ideal- ideal Ism stirred the peoples of all nations nations na nations na- na to a new understanding of the true brotherhood of man and while his purpose pupos was not achieved In fullest manner his efforts in which it was given us to play a little part have stirred mens men's hearts and fired the world with that desire for peace which will we do earnestly pray lead at last to a warless time Let us therefore therefore therefore there there- fore as members of the American legion dedicated to the Ideals of ot patriotism and unselfish service which were ever the lights that guided Woodrow Wilson 1 add this our last word of simple gratitude and sorrow to the voice of ot the multitude which this day honors our late c in commander IOU If a single heart In America Is toda today untouched by the former I presidents president's death it is is' is l because th thiaL e eart r is Ja aUe alien to t the tho Q i. i u- u I of America Anthony W. W Ivins declared before the Rotary club which met at the Hotel Utah last ast night During the meeting the I members bowed for one minute in memory of the late president To me Woodrow Wilson was an embodiment of ot principles on which I our nation was built I admired him ilm for his scholarship for lor his patriotism and for tor his integrity I The states state's expression of tribute to o Woodrow Wilson was sounded I In n the salute of ot twenty-one twenty guns fired at the state capitol A at 1 1 j l o'clock today by by the One Hundred Forty fifth field artillery |
