Show INTERESTING fACTS fAC S OF CREEK CREft COMMUNITY LIfE CITIZENSHIP fiRST CONSIDERATION Perhaps no section of the city has experienced so EO rapid d a growth in the past year or so as has that bounded by First Fint and Third South and by Third and Fifth West streets during the vast put twenty-four twenty months A visit vidt to that part of the city discloses building operations oper oper- on every hand and it is surprising ing lug to note the number of at foreigners who are buying property N. N P. P president of the Greek community of Utah shows a ale ale le ledding din ding spirit and declares that it is tho the intention of at these c persons to make I Salt Lake City their home home ur ir sa says fI True irue we are art an alt foreigners but the great great ambition ambition of m my the life life the point I am nm striving to reach and the tue one In which most of f m my time limo Is taken tip up up-is l i to make my countrymen goo good 1 American citizens As president o of the Greek k community which was Willi founded by a n. few ew others and myself we are proud to know that we have accomplished so much In BO so short a period In 1902 there were ere only fifty Greeks In Utah but now there are arc over 2000 and do you ou know that of ot the tue 1000 Greek residents o of Salt Lake jako City CIt there were ere Greek voters In n the last city Ile election Does that look lookas lookas lookas as If mv ms' countrymen were here herp to make male maleo a few li hundred dr dollars s and thru 1 go back backo 1 T I to o th the old l country The Greeks come here iere to stay contrary to the popular be- be I lef lIet and I believe belle that we make average a aver age citizens The Greek community o of Utah was organized January 22 1905 1903 and It Is 18 Incorporated under the laws of the he state The purpose of the organization organization organization Is to help the newcomers to an understanding of ot America and Amet lean ways was but understand me me we wo do not colonize but try to spread out and mingia with the Americans In all business and anti labor abor v ventures I L have ha noticed on different occasions where the Greeks were referred to as strikebreakers Such however howe Is not the he easeS rase and those who were at work on the he Commercial club building went there tinder inder the Impression that tho t there was no strike on but refused to work just as soon as the they had hat learned the contrary Not Strikebreakers The American laborer has nothing to tear fear ear from our quarter and It If an any Greek has taken the place of an any American at smaller mailer wages I am not aware of ot the fact act We e are arp proud to call ourselves Salt Lakers Bakers for tOI we like the city anti and forty forty- Ive o of us have nailed oi Ot flag to the mast by purchasing property In the city There are also 4 Greeks who are c ranch owners In the tIle state employing about OO men J If you will look up the tile criminal records of Salt I Lake ake count county counts you will not find one Gr Greek lI murderer While necessarily there are some knaves among moo or persons our Intention f to help th the officers rs o of the law to punish the offenders The people of the United States Slates are thE he best people In the world and we eel feel that we wp al' al are e welcome here while we are all proud pron of ot the th traditions of our race raco and know that ancient Gre Greece IB Is the moth r o of t the e civilized world While still MI having lov c for tl Ii tI mother country we are arp wining wilting to fight and la lay laIA down our lives live A for or this noble nohe land o of the free Our brothers at home need the sympathy sym sym- pathy o of the press pre along with i that of the European countries and until th there re is something tine In the way of helping them they must remain under tinder tile the rule o of the Mohammedan religion L There rp are 1 no Greeks or who are o of r this K bell I belief t. t but bitt all b belong long to the Greek orthodox church All of the Greeks in Salt I Lake ake City are sto steadfast adast members o of our church here which was built at a cost o of 1 r. Rev nev th the local priest who came cents to io Halt Salt Lake Inke City direct K Interesting from rom Athens In April Apr 1905 Is n a man ot of personality t He UP Ral said said- I Ve We do are patriots the and nd believe e While In 10 Rome nome as Romans I am safe in saying that an any of or the Greeks In th the city who are their Ir n naturalized services e to o would this d co country country- gladly r. r volunteer if it a all call I were made and they wet needed The outlook was wall very fry Unsatisfactory in th the total local while the panic was In progress and anc 1 our finances were e strained almost to the breaking point by the drain upon them then At our church we fed td or lo over for ra a periOd 0 ot about Tour our monthS months and the fact f that w we asked no charity Is significant that we are well able to take rare care o of ourselves s. s No Local I We p have ha VP no respect for tor the one who entirely forgets the mother country and 1 don dont don't would n t bellev make that a person of at that that type a good citizen In an any countr country coun coun- tr try says Mr 1 We Ve 0 want to be called Greek Americans and the better bet bet- ter class by class by those I mean those who are In business objeCt object to having ha this part of the th city called Greek because there lucre Is no Justification for or such a cogno cogno- men men- O Of the fifty business houses on both sides o of Second South street between fourth o and nd Fifth West est there thero arc only nineteen that are owned by Greeks Creeks The rhe balance is III owned main mainly I by Bulgarians Italians Slavs Slays and Jews We 0 I I believe bellE that the press of Salt Fait Lake City has helped to make our community a success sue suc cess and we hope that the good work will wilt continue The re gg community u gave the e high school ca cadets to help fi them ri on t their f t trip or to San Francisco to welcome the tile Atlantic fleet but we took pride in ro so doing and andare andare andare are willing to help any public cause in III a like Ike manner Mr II was asked If the Greek boys In the city were endeavoring to get getan getan getan an education and his reply was They most certainly are I have two sons lions One On will finish the course in the state university In two years and the theother theother theother other Is holding a responsible position with a banking firm Irm of ot this city The system among the Greek Greel laborers Is s the worst thing thinA we have to contend t with along labor lines The Interpreters are the ones onE'S who are responsible and until un- un 11 til something is done by the legislature the he laborer will constantly have to divide his wages with these swindlers In a few months there will be l 1500 1000 OO more moN Greeks in America who will be naturalized nat and will be paying taxes There ar ire are over Greek k property owners In America and Instead of ruining business as some would have you ou believe e we are doing all we can to b build it up |