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Show I ! GETTING ACOUANTED WITH OURSELVES State-wide Interest In "Utah Day" Assures Success of Movement That Much to Utahns. Interest In the observance of t'tah Day, which has been proclaimed by Governor Spry for April is extended ex-tended to every corner f the statu nnd In a general way the success of tho movement which originated with the Utah Development League and the newspaper editors of the state Is already assured. Many of the Important Im-portant features of this day will be tho mailing of post cards and letters let-ters to friends and acquaintances of outside states. Along this line the Commercial Club Publicity Bureau of Salt Lake will send out more than Ifiu.OUO post card on this day, while the commercial commer-cial organizations of other towns will probably send out an equal number. num-ber. The post curd Idea, while It Is a good one so far as it goes, Is intended in-tended merely to supplement ihe writing of personal letters to friend.-! and acquaintances lu other parts of the United States, calling their attention at-tention to the resources and opportunities oppor-tunities of Utah. One of tho many advantages of this plan that will be readily noted, lies In the fact that the school children of the state, as well as many of their parents and older brothers and sisters will gain for themselves a more Intlmat' knowledge of the state of Utah through the work that will be necessary nec-essary In composing then letters. Advertising experts tell us thot the personal appeal Is thn strongest method of arousing and holding Interest, In-terest, und If this be true, the friends of Utah have In tlietr power the means for counteracting any and all of tho unfavorable Impressions which have been circulated regarding the li'chlve State and Its citizens. lur-lug lur-lug the lust six months there has been a decided change In the tone of Inquiries received from homeseekers ami Investors of the Hast. Tliene Inquiries generally have b-ss antagonism antag-onism nnd less skepticism, with more genuine and friendly interest. It Is this attitude which Utah must foster In the campaign for letting citizens of other state s know the truth about Utah. There are many Instances where citizens of Utah have sold their lands at a sacrifice and removed to distant dis-tant points to begin all over again the work of establishing a home, and then discovered that tho lands they have purchased at higher price havo been in every way Inferior to the lands which they have sold or have overlooked la tho -wtn f Utah nytr their former homes. In many of these Instances, where citizens have been blind to the opportunities near at hand, they have gone too far to turn back, but It remains for others to profit by their mistakes and to act on the theory that Utah Is find for Utahns and that our own state Is not only able to give bigger and surer returns for consistent and Intelligent effort than any other state of the West, but that the opportunities of Utah are wide enough In their range and diversified In their character to furnish comfortable homes and the necessities and luxuries of modern life to hundreds of thousands of new citizens. These are some of the Ideas which brought about the movement for the designation of April 2.1 as Utah Day and which have resulted Inthe arrangement arrange-ment of plans for the observance of this day which have the official approval ap-proval of the governor of Utah and the state superintendent of public Instruction, In-struction, county superintendents and educators or the state In general. Suggestive programs for the meetings meet-ings which will be h'id in the various schools lu Ihe afternoon and for the mass meetings which will be held in the public: halls throughout the state In the evening, will appear In our next Issue. |
