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Show "TH,S THE place-J-THAT. THE (Deseret News)! off;BUn appears to be Lteiym-With Lteiym-With live ideas and gifted whhS aptitude in impartlng8therae 'has been ln these parts for u r? , past, and has been makfag hfa fnfta encefelt. A week ago bj f aumated to the progressive- spirits f ri!i that they might appU y. meraorate in 1919 the fiftieth annivr sary of the completion of tha fw transcontinental railway an "jf" which made their city the great W tion on the nation's highway t night, addressing roprosentativ- 2 new men of Salt Lake, he SJSuSSSd " Wmm his conversion to the doctrine enunciated enun-ciated by the leader of the Pioneer band ln 1847, "This is the place!" The latter historic dictum is ad true today as It was 68 years ago when Brlgham Young gave it utterance utter-ance as he struck his cane upon the ground, and Wilford Woodruff drove in a peg to mark the spot This Is still "the place." No part of tho world is more favored, and none offers of-fers better opportunities for honest independence. The barren, forbidding desert which the early Immigrants found has been awakened into a soil of never-ending richness. Gardens hav supplanted the wilderness, and teeming fields have superseded the waste places. The contrast which less than 70 years has wrought cannot can-not be lost upon any observer, particularly par-ticularly upon wide-awake men like Mr. Winchell. And that which the early leaders promulgated as the foundation of future safety, the present pres-ent guest emphasizes as the bulwark of continued greatness the development develop-ment of agriculture and the placing of people upon the land. An old principle princi-ple Is often attractively revived by a new advocate. Visitors of Mr. Winchell's type cannot can-not possibly come too often or be in- rim-oil tr, fnllf fnO milPh. Thai- Uno of business may not run too greatly toward banquets, but even of these there may not easily be a surfeit if, as in the Instances noted, the occasion occa-sion Is truly made "a feast of reason rea-son and a flow of soul." . no |