Imperial Valley press., 1921-06-18
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Pho NEERS
Of GREAT
West
Federation Of WOmen's
Clubs Treated TO HistOri-
cal Review of Making Of
This Wonderful Land.

! SALT LAKE CITY. June ls.--De-
| clarations that the west is distinctly
A .erican and that westerners are
progressive and aggressive and are
/ launching out along the larger lines
! that make for peace and comfort"
were made by Professor Levi Edgar
Young of the University Of Utah here
| in i speech at the Gret. Salt Lake
council of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. His subject was The
Idealism of the West and the Signi-
ficance of the West to the Nation
Professor Young traced the history
and development of the west from the
time "the pioneer plunged across the
Appalachian Mountains into the for
ests and great extensive lands of the
Mississippi Valley, taking with him
well-defned ideals of democratic gov
eminent"
Pioneers, the professor declared,
were the men destined to conquer the
whole of the American continent and
they conquered the elements Which, re
suited in new and greater America.
"The pioneer" he said. "trekked
through painless forests, forded the
mighty rivers, clambered UP the noun
tain slopes. He starved, thrsted,
fought and in the wake of his trail he
left the foundations for enduring Am
erican Institutions. He was our Amer
lean pioneer-the man of great faith
and great toll"
The speaker told of the reclamation
work being carried on inthe west,
told how the old free range has given
way to the ranch and declared the
Great Basin of the west is capable of
raising enough wheat to supply the
United States.
"The west is distinctly American
and is developing the ideas of demo-
cracy that have held sacred through
out the years since 1882" he asserted.
"The pioneer plunged into the wilder
ness with the organic law of our
country ringing true in his heart and
his great soul has lived for it and es-
tablished it in every nook and corner
of this great stretch of country"
Development of museums in the
west to tell the whole story of human
development and endeavor in subduing
and enriching" the western part of the
United States was proposed by Dean
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Arizona in an address.
Dean Cummings spoke on THE Pre-
historic Record Of Arizona and the
Southwest" and he gave an interest
ing description of the cave, cliff and
pueblo jewellers of former days, whose
landmarks" he said appear in many
parts of southern Utah, southwestern
Colorado, sections of Arizona and
New Mexico and stretch into Chihua-
hua and Sonora in Mexico.
"These cliff and valley pueblo peo-
pie" the dean said, "evidently repre-
sented a migration of pre-Aztec peo-
pie of Mexico northward in search of
new homes and better opportunity to
work out their clan ideals. Their ag-
riculture, architecture, arts and re-
ligious customs point to such an
origin.
"They built substantial and endur-
ing homes for their families. developed
community interest, learned to love
peace, cultivated the soil, and devel-
oped irrigation In the Salt River val
ley alone in one section more than
100000 acres of land were brought I'M
der irrigation by these ancient people.
"They often are called basket max
ers because they seem to have carried
the art of making splint baskets and
weaving belts and sandals from yucca
fibre to a great degree of excellence
The weaver's art was their supreme