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Show HIGH SCHOOL . "IAT UTAH DAY MEANS TO ME. , LILLIAN FLYGARE, OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL Our gracious governor has granted us a most precious gift The sister slatCB jo fully recognizes it, April warmly welcomes It, and wo cole-brato cole-brato it with the inspiration of our past and tho hope of our future. Long centuries ago, the silent shepherds, shep-herds, watching their flocks by night, discovered a new star far In tho East. This star signalled tho birth of a great power upon earth, and even tho angels rejoiced, singing, "Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men." Sixteen ears ago, our statesmen watching their great territories, discovered dis-covered a now star, far In tho West ' This star signalled the birth of our beloved state, and its people rejoiced, shouting, "Progress and Prosperity in Utah, a State of tho Great Union." Sweot sixteen pauses to look with pardonable pride, In tho mirror What has she done, and what has she become be-come during her wonderful sixteen years? She has made the gains and won the victories of rosy, triumphant youth. Tho warm South has gieetod hor, tho old East has acknowledged her, and oven the cold North has made admissions ad-missions of her sterling worth. She rejoices In her chances and charms. Her mines, her fruits, her railroads, hor churches and schools, her varied industilcs and many inventions in-ventions all add luster to her name. But yet Utah Is not content. Youth would not be youth without "vaulting ambition" All her opportunities aie not opportunity enough, for sweet bixteen has her dreams. Perhaps the most constant dream is tho dream of physical beauty. Beauty with utility. She dreams of tho day when tho banks of her Irrigation ditches may bloom as brilliantly with tulips as thobo of Holland; or "gleam as brightly groou with grass as those of southern France. She dreams of cities and towns planned to match their gorgeous mountain "backgrounds. They show hor no monotonous regular! t, and admit ad-mit Ing her gigantic teachers, Utah, theretore, devises streets with graceful grace-ful curves and quaint, Irregular byways. by-ways. Finding sermonB In stones sho repeats them in wood and marble. Another frequent dream Is suggested suggest-ed by tho visual imagea Utah affords. Surely, color Is ono of God's best messengers! mes-sengers! Tho deep bluo of tho sky, tho gray-white shimmer of the gulls' great wings, tho gold of the Sun god kissing the rippling lake, tho rosy radiance of tho mountains at sunset, or their crystal purity in April air-all air-all this opulence of color dazzles and bewilders the eyes of young Utah, but hor heart and soul roceivo an Ilium -Inution thereby. A prayer 1b born of her dream. She prays that future Utah day6 may havo colorlsts to com-. com-. memorato thorn. And Angel of Hope whispers to her that sluco "eyos were mado for seeing" thlB great state must some day become famous because of the men and women who bhall cep-turo cep-turo ltB great color-secret and tell it anew. Again sho dreams of Utah music. This lb a vivid dream, bilghtcued by tho stato's history. Already our musicians mu-sicians have gained renown, but In her dreams Utah hears a greater chorus than has yet sung; it 1B a grand au-tiphonal au-tiphonal chorus, echoing the wild, free music of her mountain winds; it is a low, sweet chorus, repeating tho quiet music of mountain brooks; It JB a chorus, cho-rus, modeled from the lullaby of her tree-tops and the sweet melody of her meadow larks, It Is a chorus w'hlch gives a promise of Hfo everlasting Then comes a fainter dream Shrouded In mists, veiled in clouds, yet stately and beautiful, is the dream of the Great Book which Utah longs to create. There Is In It all her strengthening sunbhine, all her moun- tain maple, all her sweetest odors of j field and forest. It Is the very spirit of tho West, yet It bears a message for the Eust, and its unity is neither I Wcstora nor Eastern, but American I But the greatest dream of all Is the dream that comes at dawn In hor waking hours Utah has exulted In hor materinl progress It is this that affords af-fords her unprecedented facilltleh for intellectual advancement A thousand times has sho rejoiced, a thousand time6 proclaimed that her soil and sky aro unsurpassable In her vision at tho dawning it is glvon her to know what theso may produce Sho looks upon Hfo Itself. Sho sees hor own people. Rich and poor, high and low, young and old, they stand in unity. No lonEcr any classes, no longer long-er any Beets or Echlsms, l.atead, ono compact, dynamic masb, vital with lovo and faith and sympathy, moving with tho great rhythm of humanity toward to-ward the high Ideal of the Anglo-Saxon race a complete and perfect Democracy, Dem-ocracy, j |