The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21
WHOLE STATE WILL
OBSERVE UTAH DAY
Thursday to Be Devoted to
Boosting for Advantages
and Opportunities.
SCHOOLS WILL ASSIST
Appropriate Exercises by
Pupils; Big Mass Meeting
in Tabernacle Here.
SCHOOLS WILL ASSIST

III / dUCI IldClC llCIC.
Final details Of the arrangements FOL
a statewide observance of "Utah De
velopment day Thursday, April 70
virtually have been completed. All in
dications point to one of the most sue
cessful aud beneficial celebrations ever
planned in the interests of city and
state.
Tn practically every city. town OF
hamlet of Utah exercises or meetings
will bo held, at each of which Utah Is
resources, attractions, advantages and
possibilities will be thoroughly sct out.
By word, through correspondence IN
music. song and ceremony, the people
Of tho state and the school children VIII
render praise to the commonwealth and
send out to tho four corners or the
country some word, postcard or symbol
that will "boost'' for Utah. The day
has been set apart hy proclamation by
Governor William Spry,
During the afternoon of April 20 eI-
crcses Will loo carried out i'll all public
schools. at high schools and universities.
The programmes have been arranged
hv school officials, with the co-opera-
tion of the Utah Development league.
Spirit in Essays.
The best essays on What Opportuni-
tics Utah Offers Young People, by Il
boy of the highest grade, and on "What
Utah Day Means TO Nc" by girl Of
the highest grade, arc to be read at
the exercises of each public school. No
special prizes have as yet been offered
for these,
In the high schools each principal is
to select the two best essays on "Why
Utah j. Good Place to Live ono
TO he written by young man and tho |
other by a young woman. These ESSAYS
will be forwarded to Superintendent 4 |
G. Nelson of tho state schools, signed |
with nom dc plume. The correct |
name, with accompanying nom dc |
nlumc, will bo forwarded to Governor
William Spry..
committee consisting Of represent
afives of tue state school supcrintend- |
cut s office. the city school superin-
tcndoDt s office. the state university,
the state agricultural college and the
Utah Development league will pass on
the prize essays.
-Four prizes will be offered for high |
school essays. For the Young men the
first prize will be choice between a
scholarship IN the University Of Utah
and "A scholarship in the State Apricul-
tnral college. The second prize will be
the scholarship not chosen by the first
winner Ibc same prizes Will be of
fercd To the two winning women. Es.
says will be limited to 1000 words.
Plan Great Mass Meetings.
In the evening. throughout the state.
mass meetings will be held under the
n1 c,l
gther public or civic organizations.
lcachcrs,. parents, school children and
Gltlzens IN general will attend The
Utah Development league will send Que
special speaker to each of the larger
cities or towns. at the expense Of fhe
League, although the different CONNER
eiai clubs are asked to accommodate
speakers, especially where they arc
Cooperative Efforts Have AccompI;sbed
IN Other Communities will probablv
DC general theme at all mass meet.
ings. ''e''
Near 100000 post cards have been
distributed throughout the state tn
school children and will be mailed on
rtah Development day. Each card will
pear an appropriate illustration and
,str asess, figures or data on the resources.
,I attfactioDs and advantages Of Utah. and
VIII be sent to outside people. An citi.
Iens OF the state on April o. also are
expected to mail out cards. IT is esti.
Hated t1at In the neighborbood nf
ogV,oVo persons outside of the stare
WI reen1ve postcard relating 10
Utah and her resources. ~
Meeting in Tabernacle.
In Salt Lake the evening exercises
viii be led by the Commercial cinb
which has arranged a splend;d me-
eramme to be carried out at a big mass
meeting that viii be held in the taber
nacle, beginning at o clock. II is the
lntenton TO make the gathering ono nf
me largest and most enthusiastic of
its .,l KIND IN the history of the city. De-
ea'Is ha'o oeon completed by special
committed. which yesterday Announced
inat the Twentieth Infantry band fron,
Fort Douglas had been secured for tbn
OCCASION. The mass meetipo will he
announced tonight at Religious services
throughout the city
az tho tabernacle, W. w. Armstrong
president of the Commercial club. vii
t ptheslue Ioe hrst number will he the
enorus, America, BY the band. or.
gan: choir and audience. Rabbi Charles
D. Ereund will deliver the iuvocat;on
governor William Spry will make tbo
1henlng address on the subject, .ETbe
Iu5poscs OF Utah Development Dav ,;
tLo pe ,oiioWed by selection by
Iae Er. iaSernacie choir, under Professor
Mcclellan at the organ. o. d.
,ror,',,s,t Mhst Can We, Do to Improve our
iowng will be the subject of On oui .n
1IGss res bv the Rev. Elmer Gnsben m en-
,rwsn,;thl n,s W,ll Preecde a selection by the
Director rector Dc .'IanfTy la N.Y. band, directed by
Secretary Joseph L. Cajno ~ ~,
C9minercial club viii follow With ene
address on The Duty of the fonnno Conn 40
GA club TO the City and the State ;;
;. I1tei rTotessor Stephens's male chou,
" nsir,, n;sn Mi T 5s rendered TO the air of
ors. Nid'e sing
TIc final address of the evening will
ne del,vered BY Mayor Charles r. Ma,
hey Of Bountifnl, on the theme. "Sse
eI a'neIiea First The programme viii
uone'yde @ WIN the "Star-Spangled Ban