Show 4 Admission Day DayT T THIRTY NINE NINE HIRTY-NINE years ears ago o today President Grover Cleveland proclaimed to the nation nation na na- iia- iia tion that the terms and con conditions prescribed b by the tho con congress to entitle the state of Utah to admission into tho the Union had been complied with This was the culmination of 47 17 years of effort and eight separate attempts to win this coveted recognition On the morning of or January 4 1896 a round rounel fired from front a gun in front of the telegraph office office of of- fice fico on Maui Ham street announced to the citizenry that statehood had been won 1 It was t the he si nal ral for an enthusiastic an joyous and jo celebration on that since that day has lias only been surpassed 1 by bythe bythe the demonstration on Nm November 11 II 1918 1018 when news of the si signing ning of the armistice stice that ended the tile world war w was s flashed from front Paris Troops public officers and civilians joined in a parade that progressed with difficulty t through rough streets jammed with humanity The occasion wrote a new chapter in n the thc history of the commonwealth and never will be forgotten forgotten for for- or- or gotten by those who were participants and onlookers onlookers onlookers on on- lookers as the lay day jubilations were staged in Salt Lake Lace Cit City and in ever every ery community in iii inthe inthe the state The rhe day dar marked tho the addition of the forty fifth star ill in inthe the blue field of Glon Yet never until today has there been heen a formal formal for for for- mal inal observance of the passing of the significant significant significant cant anniversary 1 I Admission day in is entitled to become a red letter Jetter day dar on Ut Utah's hs h's calendar To Governor GO Henry II IT Blood belongs the distinction of having haying hay hay- ing suggested a n fc few months a agoto goto the Dau Daughters Daughters Daugh Daugh- h- h tel'S of Utah Pioneers and Sons of or Utah Pioneers Pioneers Pio Pio- Inc that fit t n exercises be arranged ed to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the tile event The Tue public reception in ill tHe Lion House Honse social center this afternoon and aul this s assembly in the tabernacle are arc the results of or the governors governor's suggestion and enthusiastic response b by the two societies It is highly desirable that hint the state legislature should take appropriate action at its forthcoming session to give the date official status as 81 a 1 basis hasi for annual observance ob ob- ob- ob servance of the lay day by the people of Utah I It is a a. lit fit thing that the program of or th the d day includes paying honor and respect to the nl members of the tIle constitutional convention which s sat t in 1895 to c draw fil the states state's fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental law Eighteen of these survive and Imd andare andare are ire to be accorded recognition due duc for their constructive construct service ice to their fellow citizens Under the German government organization all that is needed is the decision of ot a handful of men to launch an attack without notice Winston Churchill |