Show TEXT OF SPEECH AT CEDAR CITY LAST on his return flom Z zion ion national park last Wednes wednesday do y eve evening 11 ia ag president harding arding II addressed the urge large crowd which had assembled there to hear bear him as follows if it idere 1 kere not so late I 1 should like to wait for a few moments because the man who operates the radio amplifying device has not yet returned from the trip arid and I 1 want you to see one of the marvels of modern t science as exhibited in the amplifying of public speech it is not very often that those so far from the larger centers have such an 0 opportunity and I 1 thought you would enjoy the experience A speaker talking be fore one of these devices indicating can have his voice carried from this platform to the further edge of your city and can call be heard distinctly however it is not in operation for the moment I 1 will take this opportunity to say how pleasing it is to ta be so cordially greeted by so large a representation of citizenship of 0 I 1 gout southern bera utah we have had ad a wonderful erful day 1 1 today to day wonderful in many ways we have come to have a new love for the beautiful we have found a new charm in the marvelous works of battue we have seen exhibited the results of her convulsive moods and then we have seen the lie t effect aff act 0 of f her relentless force operating throughout the ages in the canyons and gorges arid and othet aspects of magnificent scenery REVERENCE TOR FOR CREATOR with it all I 1 think we have come a to have perhaps even a greater reverence for the creator a pew wonderment d of his purposes and a new curiosity culio sity to know when we oui ourselves selves are going to fully understand gods purposes it has been an ling day one of the things that interested me most has been to see how bow men and women will toil with all their might and with all their hopes on a little strip of laud land seeking to make mother nature yield to their design I 1 have come to the conc conclusion luion that it j is s due to something more than a mere ambition to subsist and make a home I 1 believe the more impelling purpose must c an all inherent one in man to have something lie he can call his own and a place where he can see the results of his handiwork handi bandi after all that is about the greatest inspiration there is in life it so happens that we have too little of alch rich inspiration in the great working centers of population MESSAGE TO YOUNG but out here in the great valleys aman a man turns turna his hand to toil some times successfully times with disappointment and yet always he e has time to appraise the thing that he has done and foid pride in 11 his is work if I 1 were going to give a message to the boys and girls who are listening to me at this moment I 1 would tell them always to have pride in what they undertake to do in life fur for pride in accomplishment always impello humanity onward oh it has been good to see you arid and I 1 wish I 1 could leave with you an n adequate impression of the wonderful and babay day we have had bad it is good to come so far fr from m the great centers and nd find this distinctly american population working hopefully arid and confidently in the making of a great america you are doing your part handsomely aud and I 1 offer you my congratulations arid and pay you my illy tribute I 1 cannot tell you how proud I 1 am as president of the united states stales that you are arc cut cm crying forward your splendid m work or you live in a wonderful state and you people ot utah are empire builders I 1 senator smoot was telling me today that the resources 0 of utah are arc so great arid and her investment so varied that although a wall were ivere built around the state stat e shutting butting s it off crobu fr om the world yet her people could live with within it and for themselves alone but you do not want to do 10 that you yon are citizens of the greatest republic in the world and that republic wants you to be a part of it I 1 like to tell you for I 1 believe it with all my heart that all the republic is concerned in the common welfare of america it is impossible to have a gre areat at cou country ritty where one section pro prospers spars at the expense of another we can not have a fortunate foit country where one class of its citizenship is doing well while another is ia suffering we can only have a happy contented arid and thriving people when the common weal is in fact the cornmon common 11 W weal eat arid and ecco body is a pard cippant in the common good fortune I 1 wah you your share of the corn com mon inon good fortune of the united states of america applause I 1 wish you every good that can call come to you if I 1 am the fist first president of the united states to visit your I 1 section I 1 am going to give some of my illy successors such an all impression of you yet that they likewise will want to come I 1 am sure they will enjoy their visit as we have done today 1 I thank you all for your cordial grec greeting ting aal this of vo your ur interest and frie friendship it is I 1 can assure you more than cordially reciprocated Ap applause plaue SALUTES PIONEERS riON LEKS at this p flait state sate Represent representative atie land randall a 11 jones called the presidents attention to the fact that were present a num berof original the pioneers of iron county utah where the president further said 1 I am glad to salute the pioneers audi should like to shake hands bands with each one of them as I 1 should like to shake hands with all who are present if time permitted to the pioneers let me say that they make a strong amstrong appeal to me I 1 know something of the type of men who make successful pioneers I 1 saw them go out from my own community in ohio to build up the wonderful west particularly that portion embraced within the states of missuri miss uri iowa kansas and nebraska I 1 saw some of them possessing a little material store in life cut adrift from everything build the their covered w wag g sons gons place all their belou belongings gli i gs therein herein as well as their families arid and start westward the march of the star of empire to build a new empire of the west it took courage and only the fit survived and made a success of it I 1 k know nov the sturdy stuff of which HIP lie pioneers are made I 1 ply you pioneers of this section my illy greatest respects for the foundation which 3 you laid in building this magnificent ent community of Sou thein utah salt lake tribune |