OCR Text |
Show RECORD CROWDS ATTEND M. I. A. JUBILEE MEET Parade Largest In History Of The Inter-Mountain West Salt Lake City. The eyes of many thousands of people in Utah and the surrounding states, reaching as far north as Canada, and as far south as Ar" ilf and enabling the importer to buy tc a cheap labor product abroad would h- not help the consumer, while it would be certain to expose the American producer to destructive competition. ; How much less than' $4 would an r ir se Italian hat sell to the American con- sumer if the 27.6 cent tariff were tpi sng taken off? How much cheaper js would the $7 English-made hat be osn nt retail if the seventy cent tariff were taken off? If it is the tariff that boosts the price the Italian hat would sell for $3. This is the as- j, sumption upon which anti-protection-;sts make their arguments. t.,e. yfie DO YOU KNOW d,to That 21,000,000 letters went to the ppn Dead Letter office last year? Oh- That 803,000 parcels did likewise? afhe That 100,000 letters go into the Mch mail yearly in perfectly blank enve- T! lopes? ; hsn- That $55,000 in cash is removed an t!l3S nually from misdirected mall? Brn That $12,000 in postage stamps is Juid found in similar fashion ? gSs That $3,000,000 in checks, drafts, . l- ind money orders never reach intend lze. 0j, i- ?d owners ? ;o That Uncle Sam collects $92,000 id yearly in postage stamps for the re- Af turn of mail sent; to the Dead Letter SiYd Office? W That it costs Uncle Sam $1,740,000 to 5- yeaz'ly to look up addresses on mis- thi;x directed mail? "o- . That 200,000,000 letters are given r. Ais service yearly, and DO YOU . :e KNOW that this vast sum could be nate saved and the Dead letter office abol- e(j ;h ished if each piece of mail carried a pe(ig return address, and if each parcel ji-1 ,vas wrapped in stout paper and tied ant general and departmental meetings meet-ings were conducted in which vital mutual improvement problems were discussed. This organization was under the direction of expert leaders and afforded an unusual opportunity for Mutual Improvement workers. One feature of the Jubilee was . a grand pageant "The Torch of Inspiration" Inspir-ation" given in the great Tabernacle. For this special occasion a great cy-clorama, cy-clorama, or stage draping was used for the 'first time extending across the entire end of this historic building, build-ing, affording a stage setting and back-ground for the pageant. The principal feature on the stage was a Greek Temple, around which was depicted de-picted the development of Mutual Irn provement Work Past, Present, and Future. The cyclorama is necessarily necessar-ily of great dimensions, consisting of a complete set of beautiful velour curtains, which will form a valuable and permanent equipment for such similar events as may be, in the future, fu-ture, presented in the tabernacle. Over seven hundred people took part in the pageant. Abcve the stag.-1 was Mounted a great torch, significant of the theme treated. Music Contest Another special feature of the Jubilee Ju-bilee w-as a Grand Concert in the Tabernacle, Tab-ernacle, which brought together the winners of the M. I A. Contests the quartettes, the male choruses, the ladies choruses, and the bands. These presented their winning numbers. There was also an ensemble including includ-ing 22 contesting male choruses, and one of 42 contesting ladies choruses; and a great ensemble of 16 brass bands, which rendered special numbers. num-bers. On Wednesday, June 10th, at 11 o'clock started from the head of Main street, the greatest parade ever produced pro-duced in the Inter-mountain States. More than ten thousand people reported re-ported for participation in this great event. It consisted of fourteen divisions, divi-sions, under the direction of former Governor Charles R. Mabey, as Grand Marshall, with one hundred selected aides. The procession marched down Main street to 7th South, thence back on Main street to 2nd South; thence Ease to State street; thence north to South Temple, and then passed the Reviewing Stand in front of the Church Office building. This great event was called the "The Parade of the Banners," for there were hundreds hun-dreds of beautiful banners carried in more than one hundred units of parade, by representatives of over 973 associations, having a total membership mem-bership of more than 100,000. At the head of these banners a magnificent i banner of silk -and gold, perhaps the finest banner ever seen in this locality local-ity was carried. In the various divisions divi-sions were eleven specially prepared floats, representing the studies and activities of the association Religion, History, Science, Music, Literature, Recreation, Fathers-and-sons Outing, Mothers-and-Daughters Day and three pageant floats Past, Present and Future. |