Show SALT LAKE LAUDED BY NATIONAL NATIONALS S WRITER I I Colliers Colliers' Commends Spirit of Play and Right Living I Found i in City In no state in the the- Union that we have visited is there seen so many young-old young people people- as in Utah is the remark made by practically all tourists who visit the state and this Is followed by the question question question ques ques- tion How do you rou account for It The answer Is given to the tho question In Ina Ino ina a story printed 1 in t the current current- ur issue of ririA Colliers o n g. g written by y Allen le D D. D n Albert f gJ on How Americans Live and he points out that Salt Lake is a civilization not civilization not a curiosity that It is the only city in America that really knows how to play CITY IS GENEROUS Then he adds this tribute A community community community com com- that can be thrifty and generous at the same time which bears the stamp of a religion that less than half hatt the people peo peo- pie accept which will prosper so long as snows melt water for irrigation and grow as long as nearby valleys continue I to fill up with people cit city of Salt alt Lake is no aggregation tion boli of curios continues Mr Albert Itis It ItIs Itis is the seventh fifty-seventh city of the United States tates by the new census with a population population population lation of To be sure the outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing institutions are Mormon To b be sure Mormon leadership fixes its character char char- acter But today less than half its people people peo pea pie are Mormons To Today ay It has a social character that commends It to our Interests in interests interests In- In rather than to our curiosity As n nearly as 1 I can tell after aCter study at close range the Gentiles esteem their Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon neighbors precisely as you and I l esteem m our whose religious Ious faith happens to be unlike ours Continuing U. U J iwert says sas Some poverty you will find It is mainly among among families it includes In Includes includes in- in a disproportionate number of ot floaters and It is fed by the metal WorkIng working working work work- ing plants of a thousand miles around Yet the sum of it in Sa Salt t Lake Is not a fourth of the average among American I cI cities ties of ot this class lass It is In iii its its' play that Salt Lake Lale shines I brightest Its Us thrift its education its health its religion no doubt all contribute contrib contrib- ute to its play and I suppose were all aU requisite to so fine so-fine fine a devo of re refreshment refreshment re- re freshment for the spirit If It that is so then surely the play of Salt Lake people I repays those other activities with interest COMMUNITY THEATRE A theatre went along with with the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- I m mon n pioneers across the desert In the first two years of life in Salt Lake a modest rough little building was erected tor lor plays and named The Howel Bowery Two years later there was wa a Social l hall with witha a banquet and dance hall in in- inthe the basement basement base base- ment meat an auditorium and completely equipped stage st. above above- Out of that that- grew gre the now historic Salt Lake theatre In I reality a theatre of the people whose actors actors actors act act- ors very possibly grubbed sagebrush through the dayOn day I On pitching camp the pioneers did nOtI not always dance they did always assemble I I asa is a family and read and sing The Tabernacle Tabernacle Tab lab choir is IS' the outcome There were I classes in singing and sight reading in inthe inthe I the early SOs and chorus choirs In nearly nearly near near- 1 ly Iy all the churches of ot all denominations are their present successors I KIDDIES ENTERTAINED la ln Salt SaU Lake LKc whatever hat vel their i I I r ii L J J faith can go to the movies movies movies-as as often as kiddies should which should which is once ence or twice a week In a church To see not the dime novels of the screen and crude reveling in sex but Hans Christian Andersen Anderson and the finer educational films l Free ree reeThe The young people can dance In a achurch church A At a party op opened ned with prayer and dismissed d with a benediction With the loveliest young matrons of the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- sitting about the walls as chaperons chap chap- You Tou and I and the majority of the people of Salt Lake are not Mormons We Weare Weare e eare are orthodox Christians Jews Liberal Christians Christians Christian Scientists etc Perhaps Per Per- haps who haps who knows we knows we may be open- open minded enough to loarn loam the blessings of ot the drama of music of play in the open air from air from Mormons |