| Show Empire Day Will Be Remembered By BT jt in Salt L Lake ake Today 1 I hurrah Hip Twenty fourth of or orIn May In Queens Queen's birthday If U you dont don't give us a a. holiday Well We'll all run away awny If there is a in Salt Lake be bc ho he from Crom the tight little Isle Canada Can Can- ada India Australia or the Islands of or the sea he will recall that dog doggerel as one of or the earliest of his memories It was one of the first rhymes ho over ever learned and It voiced the tho delight with which the tho school boy hailed the tho approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap of spending a Joyous spring from his books and amid day da away awa all the din noise firecrackers and ant waving or of banners that characterize a national holiday hollday For moro more than GO CO years the BritIsh British Brit Brit- In ish nation welcomed that holiday May lay and the chance it gave him to his country and testify to his loyalty to to one of or the best IeSt women that ever breathed In GO CO p years h he had formed a a. habit and when Queen Victoria died dietl It t w was s decided that th tho day da should be e still observed ed as a holiday Empire to It Is now known as day clay commemorate the growth of or the Brit Brit- Ish sh rule From a a. tiny Island Islan hardly discernible on the thc map with a a. few ew unknown adjuncts called colonies coloni s at ot athe atthe the he beginning of Queen Victorias Victoria's reign it 11 grew before she sho died to an immense empire stretching clear around tho the world east cast anti and west and north and ant south and firmly bound to together together to- to gether gother by ties of loyalty and kinship and In later da days S of commercial preference reference Where here there Is ts a a. in a a. foreign land the day Is remembered wIth as much enthusiasm If it not with withas withas as much noise noIe as aa in the land he still sun knows as home In most of the larger larg hug er or cities of ot the United States there is usually some somo function unction where the Stars with ant and Stripes mn may bo be entwined tho Union Jack and orators of or both nations may tell ten oC or the bonds that still exist between mother and daughter daught daught- er or and tho the blood that is thicker than all an the waters of ot the tho Atlantic Usually too there Is a a. banquet where to tn th the w American i ea eagle c l U lid i- i U I 11 U ASS J V J k the British lion and tho the Canadian beaver bea In Salt Lake Lako today the holiday and what It stands for will be remembered remember remember- ed quietly There will be ho a ci few quiet affairs where people of the same am country will get set together and recall the tho days of or their childhood But Dut there WI will be no big bis function either cither toda today or or tomorrow Tho The Is 19 undemonstrative at best and unless it were that a good Inner dinner was promised rather rathor pr f Ms rs his loyalty quietly than to Ic toI to enjoy enjo I flaunt It in the tho face of ot an uninterested p public bUco |
