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Show "Pioneer Day," which is to be observed in Utah next Monday, "should not be lightly considered by those not of the Mormon faith under the mistaken idea that the day commemorates only the founding ol a religious colony in Utah. When the Mormon "pioneers" crossed the plains sixty-nine years ago, enduring untold hardships and finally settling in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, they not only founded a great church organization in the West, but they founded a State which has become one of the great States of a great West. Regardless of religious beliefs, the citizens of Utah should do honor to the memory of those hardy, determined pioneers who had a great vision and who allowed neither heat nor cold, danger nor death to deter them from following their star of hope. |