Show A CONTRAST seventy one years ao age the pioneer entered tere d the salt lake valley afeei ate a hard and perilous trip across th tb plains only to view a valley desolate an and c coveted macd with save sagebrush brush nev erth eless they were it happy A appy and re jod to know that they had a ai last reached refi thed a haven of safety fron the persecutions to which they had ban hean n subjected to in mutation missouri they mut must have hav been an fundaun ted red b band nd of men and not women to vie with aly so I bleak a place as the salt lake valley not a chrul sh except the sage greeted their eyes towering lowering mountains ne on a every hand band majestically guarded the place a 4 shim shimmering merin body of salty water lav to lo the az west not t a human habitation i re vas to be seen on in I 1 the whole breadth braadt and length bengt h of the valley th the outlook t J k mus must t have been gloomy vet V ot history records record that the hard hardy Y pioneers welcomed d or th ceol lea aks likht of t the bleak and land and immediately pitched sr and prepared ed to make the place r t hm I 1 future home ahnie wl what at a c contri 0 it that valley y pre ma todd to what it as then rot bodai A we I 1 find ad hundreds of homes hundreds of productive farms farina chiusand thi usand anth of happy people porsper oua and co contented n tented in those days daya in the long ago the people who he firt lauded landed in the salt sail lake valley were compelled to live on eitrem extremely c ly short rations did not have ho ve une one single luxury many of them h ent poo poorly t Y clad and nearly all re d deuced I 1 in strength by the hard over and trip an and d shortage of food nit withstanding notwithstanding all this they heroically bei set AS t to work to lead the water from fir in the mountain streams stream onto the land so that it could be via plowed 1 and seeded to the first grain eddans ih that t h had eye ever been sown flows on the virgin I 1 1 aoi I 1 s with ill III what anxiety they witness the be sprouting it or a f the grain cram the ap inart gradual g ad a growing ng during the summer and ad the fin final 1 I ripening in the fall and what hot rejoicing there must have been when the golden gram grain was fin ally n N thre threshed ahe I 1 food and garnered in the bins that grain r must to th have looked I 1 it it bs amr to the pioneers pi to be richer n than th e bold and how jealously they must ald have ve guarded it with allt all the he short rations hard it and deprivations deprivation a not one mur mur against age aist their lot was heard rather was their thanks sent beav en anward ward for the great dr privilege lege of heing beug perm permitted eted to come to the 1 val I le of the mountains where h the could w worship their god and live their religion without persecution from enemies years have bay passed since that time tun and now the of th those osso hardy hady and ml faithfull pm pioneers aers have bay all over the state have homes and farms well cultivated cultivate dand and stock ad be have 1 many OY luxuries that their ancestors anc estora never once enjoyed but do they as did their ances tors offer thanks to their god for far the many blessings they now enjoy some same few do but the majority do not net it cannot be said aid that theme descendants of the pioneers are really forgetful of the teachings that they have been riven given by the their ancestors or that they are forgetful of the blessings of which god has showered upon them in abundance rather have they lived so that a feeling of indifference has come ov or er them they have so many good thag of this world that they have com come e to think of nothing but the pleasures of life many of the descendants of the pioneers today would hold up their hands in holy horror were the they Y compelled comy pei led to work as am did the pioneers when cirit f I 1 the salt lake valley was waa cultivated many of the present generation would think th that god at had deserted them did they he haie to subsist on the same abou amou amount n it of food as ais did the pioneers many of the people today would think thin k that it the h end of the world had c come m e we they compelled to wear im such h cloth ing aa the pioneers were compelled to wear during the arst years of the settlement of utah th the pioneers Pion eera suffered feed all the pangs of hunger stood up under the neura nemr of hard work and expos espos ure ore without murmur while thou sands and of their posterity t today oday are complaining because they have to Houver Hoo venze ize a little on luxuries the pioneers etc ate their bread made ads from wit whole ole wheat flour and baked over the smoky camp fire and never complained th the present day people have ham eith eiery everything ery Vt that they need comfort able ble clothing beautiful homes plenty to eat many of the lumur luxuries of the world do not have to work more the than half the number of hours per day that their parents did and yet they a great many of them at least are complaining bitterly be cause cause they have to eat white whit a bread with about 20 per cent substitute 1 because they 10 a force them selves to use about 20 per cent less sugar than usually and because they are asked to contribute to the red CIO cross or to buy war stamps or liberty bonds etc jo in the pioneer days daya if the people were asked to give tor for a charitable purpose they did so willingly they d d not glie money because they h had d none but they gave of their A substance A S and a gave I 1 liberally 11 v without murmur if there ther e were sick I 1 tb or any without food or clothing the pioneers rallied round around those who were thus afflicted d and gener generously medy divided their at all with wit it them hem t and did it binkly gly today we find descendants of those the faithful loyal and hardy pioneers piou u who have luxuriant hom homes e money in the bank productive product i v farms Is an and cattle and sheep who emp e complain mp a n because they are asked to contra contribute ae toward t ard the welfare of our soldier buy boya s over there who are risking their lives for their protection tec tion so that they may lie his in peace and plenty quite a contrast I 1 is it noo can it be truthfully said that the time des cendan ts of the pioneers at least those home t of them who have ba a been allrud ed to in the above article are III a were the pioneers who first entered salt lake valley we think not |