The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-22
UTAH DAY To Be
MEMORABLE Event
Reports Indicate That Thurs
days Observance Will
Be Statewide.
MANY MASS MEETINGS
Schools Will Join in Educa-
tional Move; Big Gathering
at Tabernacle Here.
MANY MASS MEETINGS

That the celebration of Utah Devcl'
opmeut day next Thursday will be one
Of the most memorable in the history
Of the state is indicated By the reports
that are coming in Of preparations be
| ing made for its statewide observance.
Every section is touched BY spirit
of state pride and is filled with a de-
sire to make known its belief that Utah
is the greatest state in the union and
to give ITS reasons for that belief.
In addition to emphasizing the great
opportunities The state offers those
within its own borders the attention
of those outside will he solicited
through hundreds and thousands OIL
post cards which will be sent through
the mails to points far and wide.
a post card illustrative of some OF
the resources, advantages and attrac-
tions of the state will be placed in the
hands of every school child in the state
to be mailed on Thursday. Arrange
ments have been made to supply. every
school child in the state except iii We
ber county, by the Utah Development
league and the publicity bureau OF the
Commercial club, which are co-operat-
ing.
Post Card Campaign.
The children of Weber county will be
supplied by the publicity bureau of the
Weber club of Ogden. In addition. to
the supply sent to school children, the
publicity bureaus of the Commercial
club and the Weber club will send
cards to individuals and corporations
on their mailing lists. Cards also will
be available for individual residents Of
the state for mailing to outside friends.
At every school in the state, includ-
ing the State university. Agricultural
college, seetarian and private institu-
tions. set programme will be rendered
for the purpose of embuing the stu
dents and pupils with state pride.
These programmes will include the
singing of Evan Stephens g song,
"'Utah. We Love Thee - the reading
Of prize essays and addresses By rep
rcsentative citizens, especially assigned
bv the Utah Development league.
Word was received yesterday from
Logan that the Commercial Boosters
club OF that city is arranging big
demonstration for the evening Of Utah
Development day.
Public Demonstrations.
From Richfeld comes report that
the people Of that city will observe
the day most fttingly with public
meeting at the tabernacle in the even
ing under the auspices of the high
school. There will be band concert,
prize essays and addresses on the sig.
Dificance of the day and what may be
accomplished by home effort Among
the speakers will be George T. Odell OF
Salt Lake City.
Besides the exercises in the schools,
mass meetings will be held throughout
the entire state under the auspices of
local commercial clubs or other civic
orga mutations. The addresses at these
meetings viii relate to the general
theme. "What Cooperative Efforts
Have Accomplished in Other Communi-
ties. -
In this city a great mass meeting
will be held in the tabernacle under
the auspices of the Commercial club. A
special feature will be the presence OF
the Twentieth Infantry band from Fort
Douglas.
The central object of the days OBJ
servance will be the education Of the
residents OF the state in the resources
and advantages of their state and to
imbue them with boosting spirit that
they may act aB missionaries to the
world at large in the interests of their
native state.