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Show 4 Plant the Flowers I T IS EXPECTED that in August the Grand Army encampment will be here, that some f thousands of old veterans will come with their friends, and we believe it is the disposition of the people of Utah to make their coming and their visit here as hearty and as welcome as any they ever received. We believe each citizen is planning plan-ning to do something to make the stay of those veterans pleasant. But there is something which should be attended to at once and which should include every household, something that children can be interested in, something the humblest citizen citi-zen who has a little house, can be interested in and that is to procure and plant such flowers as will bloom in the first week of August, flowers either .red or white or blue, that the front yards and back yards and vacant lots in the city may all be radiant with a flowery welcome to the whole band. This is something that people should take up, it. is something the city council should consider. It ought to be a matter of pride to every citizen in the effort to make the city beautiful, for the welcome to the host ought to be unanimous and j enthusiastic. Those people will come here with the idea that we in Salt Lake are on the edge of ' the desert, that we stand on the dividing line be tween the fertility of the east and the solemn barrenness of the desert, hence flowers here will be more appreciated than in any eastern city, and by contrast they will be more beautiful. There is no child above ten years of age who cannot plant some flower seeds. We think our senators and representatives will furnish the seeds. If they do not, they will not cost much, and they can be obtained, and if each citizen who has a house in the city will spend a little time and a little labor to see that flower seeds are j planted which will come to maturity in August, I the effect of the whole will be something magni ficent. They will be good cheer, too, to the eyes of the veterans. Their march is well-nigh over; they are moving down the last Incline toward the silence; anything that can gladden their eyes will be welcome, and nothing willbe more welcome wel-come than to find that in a city on the verge of the desert, the desert has been driven back, and 's where its frown rested once the whole city is smiling under its garniture of flowers. This ought to be a personal matter with each citizen. Each one ought to have a personal pride in it. Their patriotism need not be awakened any more than It is, but It can be put Into tangible tan-gible form and every house can show to these visitors, when they come, that they are welcome. lit As men grow old those little attentions im- III press them more and more, 'and It will be for the I1 honor and for the good of Utah, that when they come here and spend a few days and go away, they will have nothing but good words to say for this state and city. |