Show legion Aux auxiliary inary head of state protests merging armistice thanksgiving HIS II 11 H RICH 8 BUS itis AUXILIARY approve COMBINING 0 av AND PROPOSED air aut LARN 0 the plan ot of the salt te chainer ber of 0 commerce on alvic 11 improve dent ment all municipal affairs to con Boll date armistice and thanksgiving days into one holiday li Is eting with throughout the tale state aa As announced in a press re port bort from the capitol the board of if governor governors of the chamber ot of commerce bas approved the action ot of the committee which originated the plan of consolidation according to the press announcement announce meLt the bait salt lake chamber ot of Com commerce morce baa has recommended that its board ol 01 governor governors take necessary et pa either through the utah legislature the federal government or the united states chamber of at commerce to develop plane and to consolidate the two holiday holidays the action ot of the salt lake or atlon was taken without alt hout conferring with any organization ot any eort sort iron from beyond the confines ot of the capitol city notwithstanding the tact fact that the entire state lo 10 interested in the matter of retaining or abolishing abol lehing part ot of its it holidays in vernal the consensus ot of opinion Is 1 that it tho the elate state ot of utah ha his too tox many holiday holidays may be well tip t put into the discard name ot of lesser lessor importance than christmas day in dependence day memorial day armistice day and thanksgiving day mra airs E illch rich state president ot of the american loylon auxiliary ot of utah in an interview bald said in my apin on the auxiliary member members ot of will not approve the movement by the salt lake chamber of commerce to connoll late armistice day and thanksgiving Thank BElvIng day Armi armistice day fay com remor a t ti po 00 much dear to the hearte hearts ot of the people tut ti th day li burely surely entitled to tand stand on ita its own merits the same li 14 true ot of thanksgiving day an inal american institution that hai pread to in other lands geld star mothers above all should be con berred with before any steps ara tal talen en to minim lAe the importance Import nico ince 1 of I armistice day it if the ed action of the silt lake Chi niber of 0 ka 0 admix tice lice day and day captain burr irvin I 1 in commander of a salt lake post ot of the egton legion I eald said I 1 I 1 doubt if it could bo be done I 1 don t believe it should be done both days have a strong identa and place in the hearte hearts ot of the sti people and you za t readily change tradition I 1 am personally opposed to it it Is 1 apparent to all that it III be comee comes any in the stale state ot at utah to be instrumental in an endeavor to minimize the importance t f armistice end and thanksgiving days to minimize these holidays will inevitably evit ably cause nullification of their proper observance and this would art be a matter on which the people of the state ot of utah could congratulate th less than ten years havo hay elapsed since the youth ot at utah shouldered arma arms and marched to war only 8 years have fone gone by since day was to eded ie as a national insul in memory ot of the youth of utah and the ether other states who fought and many whom did not return to their homes and ther loved ones utah Is big enough can afford time enough from other endea lors to devote ono one day each year to the mero mem cry of the men mon of the state and the women ut of the state volio io served in the areat war and the he state is big enough to devote another day to thanksgiving day an institution so firmly established that its it perpetuity ie Is assured |