Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 12 | Utah Topic of 'Nation' Article

UTAH TOPIC OF WW ARTICLE Murray King Writes of Mormon Church and Bee Hive State The Mormon chunh ha lost most I of its isolation and picturesque features, fea-tures, writes Murray King, In The Xa-i Xa-i Hon for June 28. He considers it BO 'important a force, however, in the .-jucatlon .-jucatlon and politics of L'tah thai he makes It the central theme of his article ar-ticle ' L'tah. Apocalypse of the Desert," Des-ert," which is the sixth of in The Na-itions Na-itions series. "These I'nitcd States," ami Is intended to give a fair and accurate ac-curate picture of Utah to other parts of tbe country who do not understand j her very clearly A sight of the Mormon conference crowd In Salt Jjake lty evefj April and October.' writes Mr. King, I 'should dispel impressions of the Mormons Mor-mons that have grown out of stories 'of polygamous escapades. Danites and 'Avenging Angels . . .The multitude multi-tude on the tabernacle grounds looks inu. h like un predominatingly rural crowd anywhere between Hulutb and Dallas It'a only striking pe- . culiarity is that the older generation la an unusual patchwork of nation-Jalities nation-Jalities Many blonde. sunburned iNorscmen contrast with groups of dark, stocky Welsh men and women talking excitedly with bands and i . I tongues . . .English lolk are much 'In evidence undersized factory work-ilers work-ilers Cockneys, stolid Yorkshire farm-i'ers farm-i'ers Icelanders from Spanish Kork, I Efawallana from bleak Skull Valley, ,!and B sprinkling of Germans, Scotch. I Dutch Notwithstanding a common spirit imparts a clearly col- . lectlve character." The author describes Celestial mar- ; ri ages ' and other features of the mod- , ,iern Mormon ceremonial. Me finds a! I danger In the strength of religious' I education in L'tah. and In the amount! . j of real estate, factories, and other properly owned by the church. The mountains he describes as for- , s, . ,p;iHbi-d ranges. Hunt, in :i great semicircle, with a gray desert to the I northwest and a red desert to the .southeast, and a chain of watered val- j leys through ihe center grassy valley.: lor gray with "rugs of green" "If this; 1 is a forbidding picture." he exclaims, j l 'you have not learned the lure and j r i deception of L'tah. Mr King is B native of L'tah. brought I up as a Morman. he has been associated associ-ated With various newspapers in Utah oo