| Show Californian Has I Praise for Utah I Lured b by the thrilling stories of at Its vast beauty John Steven McGroaty McGroaty Mc Mc- writing In tho the Los Angeles Times paints a glowing word word-pic- turo ture of Utah The Mormon 1 Em Em- pire Mr McGroaty 1 expresses himself in most beautiful t terms in his tribute to the builders of this Empire our pioneers I When I had a loan from tram God and was on my way to the old blue hills tills of at home in Penns Penn's Woods where I was born horn he wrote I spent a fow few handfuls of my golden store of time In Utah It is a place where I had often longed to be bethe bethe bethe be- be the Great Morman Borman Empire the vast beauty of oC which with Ith its thrilling story had lured and fascinated me methis methis methis this long time In his majestic manner of writing Mr 11 McGroaty 1 tells of the wonders of Zion with Its stupendous tem tem- 1 u pies and aliU gleaming l domes 5 of UL or the me ne Red City that Bryce the Scot found in a great gash in n the Wasatch hills nills At last last he said I have crossed cross Gros- eros s ed its its' domain from end to end and andam andam andam am owed in the overwhelming realization realization realization reali reali- of what it means to be an Americ American n. n Utah alone and by itself he calls a 3 greater country in every way than all Europe put to together together together to- to gether and yet Utah is only a small part hart of America Realizing all this the very stars on the flag take on ona a brighter glory and its crimson stripes a deeper flame Traversing Utah Mr McGroaty's first though was of the pioneers He lie could not get his mind off them and all they had endured to reach the Promised Land its parallel In n human history history and and exodus before which that of at Israel itself would seem to pale into significance Quoting the late Judge Goodwin at one time editor of the Salt Lake Tribune the following tribute is paid the Mormon Pioneers The exodus to Utah was not like any other recorded in history The exodus to Italy w was w-as s to a a. aland I land of sunshine native fruits and flowers flowers' the march maich of Xenophon's I Immortal band was a march of or II I fighting men back to their homes I Ii I the exodus of the Pilgrims was to a anew anew new world of unmeasured possibilities ties but she exodus to Utah was rc- rc t J 1 i M T a march out of or despair to a dent ina on the tho unresponsive breast of ot a desert The Tho Utah Pioneers ha hn d been tossed out of or civilization into the wilderness and on the outer outer gate 01 of tUat LUat ci civilization a a. flaming which turned every way against again them i All Ail ties of the tho past had been s sun un dered They were so poor tha their utmost hope was to secure th merest necessities necessities' of life if eve evea a dream of anything like comfort o 0 luxuries came to them they mad mada a grave in their hearts for tor tha dream and buried burled it that it raigh no longer vex ex them When three-quarters three of at a cen ceni ury after arter Mr McGroaty 1 visite Utah he ire saw green farms on th banks of shining rivers village among the trees planted by stron strop I pioneer pioneer hands he walked w th thronged streets of or Salt Lake Cit and aud saw the stately capitol of or th tb empire that had risen rison from the thel thelI I j I faith of desert sands Men and women who had burie buric within their hearts dreams of com corn comfort Comfort fort and luxury had lived on t L meet meet me the ne resurrection of or thos thO j I I dreams among smiling fields an an I II flower-flamed flower gardens in the des desI I j lation of a wilderness which the had literally made to blossom as rose I I As a most wonderful story of at h hman hman hi himan man man faith Mr tells of t tt f monument of at the Sea Gulls a record of at that faith erect from tram enduring stone and bronze the beautiful gardens of the Tabe TabeI j I nacle in Salt Lake City I I He describes the Promised Laj La Lac LacI I I j of Israel as a land of corn and win winI I flowing with milk and sweet s' w wit wi honey A land in n which a m ma would would rejoice But to greet t t. th weary hearts the tired eyes and t taching taching U aching bodies of the Morman Mormon pio eelS eel'S was a vast stretch of or desol And yet they accepted even gladly They lighted the the I camp fires upon the arid and wastes a ai f lifted up voices in wild gra gral ful of praise to God amid t and inhospitable hill hll Of what heroic stuff they must ha been made not to have been d d heartened as they gazed upon t th inhospitable scene One lone sir sera g gy tree in that vast desolation greet their eyes eyers I How perfect m mi have been their faith as they without a murmur the d turn of their leader Brigham You when he said This is the place Times Nephi Nephi |
