Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-19
Photos by C. r. Savage o.

lights caught in an angle of the club
rooms while Held's band made merry
music and Christensen's orchestra en-
livened the conversation of the wives
OF the travellers while they talked to
each other in the hour of waiting be-
fore the parade.
Another was in the display of the
japanese community. The world Is
not yet many generations away from
the time when might alone made right,
and when the rule OF the strong arm,
or the mailed fist. was never tempered
by law or judge or blind justice
owning pair of scales. And in those
generations, the man in foreign
country had nothing but the mercy Of
those among whom he dwelt to de-
pend on for his safety. When the
family extended its fellowship only to
the family circle. lucky was he If he
could become adopted and vouched for
by someone whom others dared not to
devastate. And when strong fortified
cities pointed the way TO growing
states and kingdoms, he must seek
household whose protection he could
secure, only to find a little later that
with the king and kingdom in the
land, ~ was most lucky who had the
strongest friend at court.
And when the Japanese bombs ex-
plodtu III the dlT yesterday, anu
the American flag was loosened 500
feet above the parade. to fiutter across
the sky. with Japanese flag fluttering
10 the same breeze and attached to
1t by tiny string, it must have warm
ed the hearts of the little brown par
aders.
Assimlating a Japanese population
Is one of the privileges of the present
generation of those who have already
an tn laf N.v 4
the use of freedom. That the same
instrument of liberty which the AM
orleans of 1875 looked to as dlvinely
inspired document. Is looked to in
1908 by a colony of men coming east
ward from the orient as the ensiaved
men of Europe came westward from
feudal Kingdoms. 1t is a matter that
shows the people how we'll their new
neighbors are becoming assimilated in
fellowship with those whose parents
were Britons. Frenchmen, Scandinavia
ans, or Spaniards.
And like the Japanese, was the
chariot OF old Greece a counterpart Of
those which rumbled on the festal
days OF the worlds first civilized peo-
pie. That these people, owning pro-
perty here, hoping to become citizens
here, making permanent homes here,
should drive through parade u char
lot or women in the classic gowns long
famous as pictures on university walls,
with men In the helmets and mailed
dress known only as illustrations for
the battle Thermopylae or 10 costume
| as autographed Achilles, is suggestive
Of the way continuing nature writes
| new chapters for an old. old story.
When the culture OF Europe, to which
| the Americans today are proud TO d.
rectly trace their civilization. was frst
struggling for light In the dawn hours
| OF the Italian Renaissance, II was the
| discovery OF the Greek manuscripts I'm
the monlSsh converts. which led Il
| rapid growth OF the humanities, and 70
the enrichment OF the English language
through the introduction OF Greek
words, Greek literature. Greek dramas
and Greek philosophy,
Americans who have learned to love
the string OF English poets from Chau-
Ger through Sir philip sidney, down ia
Dante Gabriel RossettI, have been slow
10 recognize their Indebtedness 10 such
Italians as Petrarch, and the school OF
his followers whose lives were first H.
lumined by the redisCoyered words OF
the men whose names they saved &C
| civilization, Buripides. Suph,cles, De
mosthenes and the others whose works
are required Of the students o.
classics even OF today Yet In a silent
way the literature Of Athens worked
through this channel TO illumine tho
literature which makes our presen
standard. And In Just as effective 1
manner the practises OF dress develop
ed when Sparta was young and Athen
was growing In power, and the race
they ran. survived 10 have their effec
on a Salt Lake parade In 1908, makinl
one OF It's delightful features, and do
ing honor to the Greek communit!
which developed II
Did sou notice how free from over
whelming exertion of the parade wit
all Its pageantry was. II flowed nat
uraly from Salt Lakes resources III
automobiles were here, and al the PEG
pie had 70 do was 70 run down town I