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Show UTAH COUNTY'S ANN ARBOR DAY. The action of the teachers of Utah county, at their meeting in this city last Saturday, in deciding upon the 10th of April as Ann Arbor Day for . . Utah county ia an excellent move. If the school grounds of the various districts dis-tricts were now fenced, the pupils in their respective districts would see to it that instead of barren play gronnds and shadeless sidewalks, oases of delight de-light and comfort would Boon add beauty and utility to their school house surroundings. In some instances this can be done, while in others it would prove useless as yet. Although the conditions for planting shade trees around the school grounds are not as yet sufficiently advanced in many places, yet Arbor Day should and will be kept upon that day, and the pupils -will be delighted and instructed in-structed with their wort. It was proposed that the trees be planted in honorable remembrance of the great and good. As the years roll on those trees, joyously planted, will rear their lofty heads and extend their arms of green and blossom in fulfilrneat of the hopes and expectancies f childhood, still bearing the name of him or her to whom they were long ago dedicated. Heroic characters need not be searched for amid the smoke of battle nor th valoura or achievements of very long ago. They are at our very door. Many are still living and acting, while others have but recently gone beyond. Utah - j ia not, a blank in its chronicles of ' statesmen, patriots, empire-founders and builders. The world has never shown men more devoted to human freedom and human progression, than the lofty minded men and women who laid the foundations of this commonwealth. common-wealth. Their political creed is equality. For it they have encountered the stonns of the past; for it, the ignominy of the present. Let the evergreen grow over the silence of the honored dead, aud the white catalpa perfume the air from smiling blossoms as tokens of honest respect for noble ones yet living. |
