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Show SACRED DAYS Old Folks' Day and Pioneer Day are both white days In Utah. One is a symbol that the thought of the younger generation is that all tenderness and affection must steady the steps and make soft the couches of those whose mornings were filled with toil and on the noon days of whose lives the sun beat pitilessly, wny not witn ieasung and music and gentle service make joyous the day? The other day Is the setting to words the thought, "Lest wo forget." Utah is smiling today to-day with fruits and flowers, with ripening harvests, har-vests, with stately edifices, with thousands of homes. But there was a day when none of these things were here; a day when only the sunbeams were warm and bright; when the land lay desolate under Jts robes of serge; when the valleys hid from sight their fertility, when the mountains like surly misers, kept their wealth concealed On such a day tho Pioneers came and drove the first rude stakes as signals that the fight against the wilderness and the desert had begun. They had put aside the world's enchantments; they had consecrated their lives to toil; they had no earthly dream before them save that through un intermitting toil to earn their broad; comforts they had learned to do without, luxuries they had long before ceased to consider. But what they did was to lay the foundations of a state; to build altars in the desort; to make possible what has since come. It is right to honor them, their memories and their work. Pioneer Day and Old Folks' Day are sacred days In Utah |