Show U IH 1 N T A IS 13 THE WAY TO SPELL IT with H added easterners do not know how to pro bounce namo name says bay cor respondent by J winter smith your article in a recent is 1 sue regarding the proper spelling of the name of our county and basin is very time ly and opens up a subject of vastly greater importance than Is IB generally realized the time la its now ripe for this basin to begin an exhaustive and systematic advertising campaign descriptive liter ilter aturo must te published and distributed throughout the nation but in that literature continued on page pace I 1 U 1 10 1 11 1 0 Is the way to spell it continued from pace page 1 how are we to spell our name to use either or both forms promiscuously as your article shows is the custom in utah would be disastrous in our eastern advertising and lead to no end ena of conf confusion we must have one definite way of spelling our name shall it bo be U ul I n t tt a or uin U i n t tab ta ah a h b since custom differs we must reason and ocono my tor for the answer supporters of the long form will tell us ug that the word Is of indian origin therefore the h la is retained but they seem to forgot that the indian had no written language and no alphabet consequently no h thoy also overlook the fact that uinta coit county nty wyoming coming from tile the same origin and pronounced just the same came as ours never had the extra it and needs none we are not speaking indian nor do we care where the word came from it is ours oura now and we are all agreed as to its plo pio noun clation and vhf when n spoken it makes a beautiful and well sounding word why should we not spoil spell it in the only way that according to the I 1 ules lulea of our can properly indicate the sound of the spoken word some of the conservatives baconi to shave have fearse that the spelling uinta an aa applied to our county would not be legal such fears are wholly groundless simplified spelling has hall boen been sustained by the highest couise of the land deeds to property which spell tho the name of the county uinta U i 1 n t a give just as good title as an if the extra h were used checks which use the shorter form lire are ly cashed and eagerly accepted oven even by the comp companies antEs that carry the extra h on their it itei heads undo uncle sam seems to havo have no fears its as to the legality of tho the spelling for practically all maps and public documents issued at washington spell uinta without uio kho h somo may say aay the long form iq correct because it was wan used before tho other so were tallow candles used before electric lights but because tho the ono who first ape spelled ailed the name with the it blundered in BO doing to Is that any reason we should perpetuate that blunder through all time to come 14 i tho spelling uinta lias has this in its favor it la Is shorter saves time and paper and ink means meana what it says and says saya what it means has the sanction of the united states government and many state officials and I 1 in line with will tile the great movement toward simplification headed by the greatest schol art an of the nation but far more important than all alae the spelling uinta can be read and correctly pronounced by ono olio who mho has never headd the woid and sees it for the first time in print the importance of this polut point in advertising can not be overestimated first impressions are lasting and there Is more in a name than la is generally supposed los angeles by a ceaseless campaign of systematic boost ing has grown in 20 years from a provincial town toun of CO 60 to a metropolis of she could never have done it in the if her name had been ct cg Squash town we have 4 name that will take well in averting s if we will only spell it as it t is pronounced A prominent lalli oad point in california that fol foi GO 50 yesig doai a lips has borne the name of pajaro a melodious spanish name but pronounced quite different front from its appearance in print was recently ie ic caliri tend because the tourist who taine came that way could not ic cognize tt it as aa tho the saino place lie read aboudi before coming there for this reason another call cali i toinia city of inhabit 1 tants lants about to begin advertising campal jn is now considering the advisability of changing the name it has horne home foi more than it a shall we profit by their ex ample now or try to correct cur ur blunder a century bonce the express and the venial commercial club are the two great powers in this county which working united aly ly could brin brlej I 1 about this reform borm inc in a short time tho the Comme Comine iclAl club ought serl seriously t 0 consider this matter hairr a clear bu business giness stand pont it will nican mean much to the future of this basin ad Noid 01 using sing is a bugin business ss and a namo Is a business asset lets be sulo about our name and then advertise persistently arid and unceasingly and men and in oney money N ill come our way if the homesteader in andl ani ana oi 01 iowa receives a little booklet about uintah basin lio ho puzzles for a while over this barange now void noid with the big bushy tall tail then he at the beginning and takes it in small doses the u 1 il combination he has seen in ili such enolds as ruin bruin etc and he be assum assumes it will bo be similar in uintah th ohp last part tah t a h lie he has met beffie in such buch bards ards as aa latah utah waratah and concludes it has bas the same effect in Utin tah so the result is an it incongruous congruous and oun cable mixture that leaves leavell a bad taste in the mouth and will probably make our eastern friend vow to nover never go near such an awful place but it if the word tomes comes to him spelled uinta he be recalls such ak ab vinta araminta etc flud and at oneo once pron bunc name just as aa we do here to he likes the name it looks good in ili pi paint int and sounds well to the ear he Is favorably impressed and so reads on and perhaps he be will someday be our net abor inthis basin wo we A vant ant him here the countr iam him lets not sen scar i ZB 1193 with tho cumb pao soo ind and utie legs h |