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Show UTAH HAS GREAT SCENIC VARIETY SALT LAKE CITY, March 31, 1934. "Utah has a greater and richer variety of scenic beauty than any spot of equal size in the world," Dr. Frederick J. Pack of the University of Utah department depart-ment of geology told 750 students Tuesday in the first lecture of the "Know Your Utah" freshman fresh-man orientation series for the spring quarter. The veteran Utah geologist took his audience for a whirl into in-to the fairyland of shape and color, using tinted photographs taken on his numerous trips to Utah's famous "south." Pointing Point-ing to one -of the famous natral bridges of Bryce canyon, Dr. Pack told his audience that "if Utah had only this one natural bridge it would have its share of this rare phenomenon; but it has a score or two of them." "There is enough variety in the scenery of southern Utah to challenge the creative genius of the master artist, and enough sweep to stagger the master architect," arch-itect," Dr. Pack said. He -said that the visitor to these regions, as he looks into the deep gorges; and as he beholds the sheer cliffs and minaret-like turrets, must see more than the passing fancy of a pleasing sight; he must see the message of the ages speaking through the grand pageant of nature. Dr. Pack rightly observed that these phenomena are too near to us to be fully appreciated, and that if they were far removed from us we should be likely to see them at all cost. The speaker speak-er did not carry the irony further, fur-ther, but he hinted that perhaps the names do not have enough glamor for us. He then cited some notable cases of inadequate and misrepresentative naming of scenic spots. "We should do just as our neighbor California has done," he concluded. "Finally, our own attitude toward to-ward our heritage of natural beauty will do as much as any thing to proclaim Utah s odd natural na-tural pageant of the unusual, the bizarre, and the ' sweeping." |