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Show THE INTEPIOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 34 u. The Toastmaster next presented Bishop Mitty, Salt Lakes new Shepherd, in the following words: We do not feel that we have been greeting a stranger tonight, for since the day of your appointment to Salt, Bishop Mitty, a close, mutual understanding seems to have been established between you and the people of your Diocese. From the Borough of the Bronx to the ways of the West is indeed a vast change. Let us assure you that, though you have left much, we have much to offer you in return. And tonight, with e of our Westsincerity, with gratitude, we pledge it to you: a loyalty as true as, the ern skies, a devotion as deep as our mighty canyons, a as faithful as our changeless mountains, and a trust as beautiful as our matchless sunsets! i Will you accept our greeting, Bishop Mitty? star-shin- co-operati- on As Bishop Mitty arose to speak the orches tra began playing The Sidewalks of New York, and everyone in the banquet hall sang the words of this famous song. At the close of this tribute to him, the Bishop began : Your Eminence, Your Grace, Right Reverend Bishops, Reverend Fathers and My dear . Friends: After the song which we have sung with such gusto, I find that my first duty tonight is of a nature that is important and urgent and pressing. As Bishop of Salt Lake, being of sound mind and in full possession of my senses, I hereby bequeath to His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, the sidewalks of New York. so much that has touched the I have gone through so much today that is very depths of my heart, that I find it very difficult to put into words the feelings and the emotions that are surging through me at this present moment. I am very grateful indeed to your representatives tonight to Mr. Cosgriff and Mr. Ivers and to Monsignor Hunt for their pledges of loyalty and cooperation in your name. But I can tell you very frankly that I did not need any pledge,1 because from the welcome that you have already given me from your hearts I knew that you will give me your very best, that you will assist me and cooperate with me with every' possible loyalty. There are problems confronting me here in this Diocese. I am not familiar with all of them as yet. I have sensed some of them, but d when I face them and try to solve them, I know I can count upon the and whole-soulesupport of the priests and the laity of the Diocese of Salt Lake. Reference has been made tonight to the lack of native vocations. I hope, please God, the day will soon come when we will have many, many vocations from the boys and girls of this Diocese. I understand that a number of girls from the Diocese have already entered the convent and I hope that we shall soon have a large number of boys going into the seminary. It was my pleasure to assist at the Mass said by the Cardinal this morning for the boys and girls of our Catholic schools and high school, at which His Eminence himself very graciously gave them Holy Communion. It was my privilege to say a few words expressing my love and my affection for the children of my flock. And as I looked over them, I breathed a prayer to God that many of those boys and girls would dedicate their lives to God in religion. And I think that a great deal of it can be done by the mothers and the fathers. My own mother died when I was but a boy of ten. And my best recollece tion of her is very closely associated with my own priesthood. The great seminary of was being started and, when I was a lad of but eight or nine years, she took me one summer Sunday afternoon to see this seminary. Only the foundations were laid, but the soul-stirrin- g, full-hearte- d 1 Dun-woodi- |