Show Thirty Years Ago One of the annual headaches of an editorial writer both collegiate and professional is to say something appropriate and original on an occasion such as And it's admittedly encouraging to look through back issues of the and find that other editors in other years were faced with similar Nearly 30 years an editorial in the 1931 pre-Thanksgiving issue summed-up the feelings of the who became the parents of the collegians of K something about us young folk which seems inhibit frank expressions of What is Youthful diffidence or we ought to be more demonstrative in our It isn't enough just to give it a We ought not to go along day after day accepting things as a matter of moment's reflection will reveal a score of reasons why Utah classmen should be serious about Thanksgiving this we are surely thankful for our opportunity to train here at Utah for leadership in the world of Not everyone has such a the statisticians see brighter days It now that we students shall be right in the midst of those good winning our places in the for 1931 actually means far more than any mere editor can express Unfortunately their legacy was not a or an era of They were challenged by economic depression a great world war and a tragic Yet the students of 1931 won for themselves their promised in the by meeting and conquering the challenges that have since become The world of 1931 seems a long time The yellowed pages of the weekly Chronicle say that with Bill Boyd was playing then at the Orpheum Theatre that the campus barber shop offered haircuts for 35 cents and that the new Union dream come was And while the same inhibitions that somehow prevented student expression of gratitude in 1931 still it's encouraging to note that Thanksgiving still means more than any mere editor can |