Arizona republican., 1921-04-12
Entire State Joins City To Do Honor To Citizens Of Other Days = Reunion Begins This Morning
Welcome to the Pioneers.

WeicOme to the Pioneers,
 Today Phoenix. and through PhQe- nix the entire state, extends the hand of greeting to those who laid the foundations upon which has been built the great state of Arizona. From every corner of the common wealth the pioneers have come to this city to renew their memories Of the days of long ago and to meet again with those who with them made history in the day that is gone.
 Perhaps because of the fact that Arizona is the youngest state. per haps because the deeds of the early arrivals here have made deeper i'm pression upon the imagination than has been the case elsewhere, the pio- neer has taken hold of the hearts of Arizonians in a distinctive manner He did not come Into a land flowing with milk and honey, but he followed the western sun into a country or mountain range and desert. peopled with savages no less dangerous than the reptiles he found warming them selves in the sand, and filled with dangers such as the pioneers of other states rarely had to encounter Pioneers Laid Cornerstone He was in a land that. to a great degree. was shut out from communi- cation with the rest of the world 1t was distant from the centers of popu- ! tatiOn and distribution, and he WAY forced to rely almost wholly upon his own exertions and his own ingenuity How well he made his way history has recorded. He conquered and drove out the savages; he made the mountains give up their secrets; he reclaimed the desert and checked l the rowing streams: he built cites and railroads; he formed a code of | law that made the country safe from the outlaw and the bad man-and he | enforced it. He assumed responsi- T, biiities which at this day seem almost appalling, and he carried them sue
 cessfully. And through it all he was
 an American in thought and feeling. The school and the printing press l followed his footsteps into the most l remote recesses, and with them ha | laid the cornerstone of the Arizona Of | today.
 Now. from every part of the state which they helped to make. thespioz . neers have come into Phoenix <<<Ezo@
 more than six months The Red (1 can has been preparing a rec z@ for them and they have co-opS
 1 with will. The reunion, then
 1 begins this morning is being k<I | forward to as perhaps the gri k&| event of its kind ever held i xt1 1 West Pioneers from the vast y V spaces or the North are in Ihs< 4=[I< F
 as there are pioneers from thef f~56< cattle country of the South af zI{te mountains of the East and the f9f<Ee | acres of the West. They have XHn. ! from all the legended valley sS< &< 3 i from all the rich and famous HI8@4 and they have come to listen .1{5 [ welcome extended by the entiref 1<6 2
 in the name of the states largestcits' and its greatest newspaper.
 All City Extends Greeting
 | Cooperating with The Republican in this welcome in a special manner are the chamber of commerce and the various clubs. which have ac- ceded to every request for assistance. The result, therefore. is that the pre- diction that this reunion will mark a new epoch in the history of the state
 will have been borne out when good
 bye and good luckn has been said to-
 morrow evening.
 1 A feature of this reunion. and one
 which will have an undoubted value
 not only for the present but during
 all the future,- has been the coilec-
 ton of the personal "reminiscences of the pioneers. In this work. which has
 resulted in a unique and absorbingly
 interesting history of the state writ
 ten by those who had the chief share
 in its making. the pioneers have CO.,
 operated to a most gratifying extent.
 This history, which will appear as q
 special edition of The Republican to- morrow morning, is not the usual