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Show w Utah Pauses Today To Honor Its Pioneers We often complain of the heat and the wind and the dust and other tricks that nature has a habit of handing us out in Utah's Dixie during the months of July and August. Au-gust. We complain about how tired we feel, how nothing tastes good, how we can't sleep and how the hot weather makes us feel ill. But, did you ever stop to think how wonderfully our conditions are improved today over those the Pioneers faced when they came into this valley? We believe that one of the best ways to make you realize how conditions have changed is to read "The Giant Joshua", by Maurine Whipple. They didn't have air-cooling. They didn't have refrigerators. re-frigerators. They didn't have the clear, pure Pine Valley water piped into their homes. They didn't have all the good vitalizing food that they needed" nor drug stores and doctors and hospitals. They didn't have telephones, fine mail service, wonderful highways and fine cars. They didn't have radios, good newspapers, magazines, a fine library, and outstanding educational system and all the many luxuries lux-uries that today we demand as necessities. But, they did have courage, a great religious faith and a will to accomplish the plans and hopes of their leaders. They fought drouth, sickness and death, shortage of food and clothing, flies and insects, heat and storms, heartaches and government interference in their religious and domestic life, but with it all they were able to maintain a sense of humor and not lose sight of the objectives they came to this country for. Today, as we honor our Utah Pioneers, we will do well to try and emulate their virtues. When we think things are hard, we need only to compare today's conditions condi-tions with those of the Pioneers to know that they can be a lot worse. And so, we should honor them for the good fight that they made; for the part that they 'played in making life livable for us today; for the high courage and faith that they left to encourage Dixie's people to carry forward; for the vision to dream dreams and for the courage to carry them through to completion. |