https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/84cd17ee57e9291019312897d18679b0.pdf 187e660d33870c86aa71d643c7a5d268 PDF Text Text "MAGAZINE SECTION THE DENVER POST—FIRST IN EVERYTHING—SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1938 TAe Post Phone—'Main '2121 �Crossed the Plains day, July 24, hailed thruout the intcrmountain sec­ tion, is the Mardi Gras of the ORJION M west. The date—a state holiday in Utah— calls for a solid week of celebration and from July 19 to 25, this year, the event will be widely and wildly her­ alded, in Salt Lake City and Ogden especially. Annually there are solid rounds of parades, processions, wild West shows, rodeos and dramas depict­ ing the trek of the Mormons (LatterDay Saints) in the early days to Utah. The celebration this year will com­ memorate the ninety-first anniversary of the state’s founding. On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young, Mormon pioneer leader, with his band of Mormons, arrived in Salt Lake City (then a wilderness) after a trek by handcart and oxteam across the plains, from Nauvoo, Ill., to found his western empire. “This is the place,” cried Pioneer Young, setting his staff in the ground end halting his followers. Today nearly one million Mormons In all parts of the world echo this cry end on Mormon day revere his mem­ ory, The west is colonized. OVERED wagons have been greased for the long lines of parades which will be staged daily. Oxen have been given final training in drawing heavy oxcarts for the processions planned for thousands of spectators which annually ere drawn to Ogden and Salt Lake City by the celebrations. Pioneer costumes have been made ready for the dances and pageants which will be held. Sagebrush days will come to life as Utah gets “wild” and the “good old days of the west” will be relived by the Beehive state. Mormon day queens are chosen anrually from among the fairest in Mormondom. This year, at Ogden, for the pioneer Days celebration, blond Mar­ jorie Anderson, 16, will reign, heading the procession on her buckskin pony. Pal. Helen Vent, curly-haired eques­ trienne, will head the horse .show and jodeo. At Salt Lake City, for the Covered Wagon Days celebration, brunet Kay Robins will reign, assisted by her aids, Elaine Hatch and Betty Lee Buehler. The beauties will reign supreme at the rodeos, parades and head pageants into which will be woven the back­ ground of Mormondom, followers ol the Angel Moroni. Heber J. Grant, bearded president of the Mormons, an­ nounces that services will be held thrucut Mormondqm—Pioneer day comes cn Sunday. Tributes will be paid in the various Mormon wards or branches and at the world-famrfus Tabernacle Square, in Salt Lake City, to the valiant colonizers ■who braved the wilderness, Indian.s, starvation and thirst on that perilous 1,037-milo trek across the plains west­ ward. The movement began at Nauvoo, 111,, February, 1846, when the Mormons C Kay Robins, center. Is queen of the Salt Lake City celebration. Her as­ sistants are Elaine Hatch and Betty Lee Buehler. Bridger helped guide them part' of the' way, pointing out the route to Great Salt Lake valley. He said, however, it would be useless to try to farm—he would give $100 for the first bushel of corn grown on the alkali flats. '• On July 23, 1847, Pioneer Young, lying ill in the wagon of Edgar 'Wilford ■Woodruff, obtained his first view of the land in -which he purported to find rest and peace for his weary people. ' Young gazed out upon the Salt Lakei valley for a long time and then said; “Enough. This is the place. Drive on,” The pioneer band passed thru Emi« gration canon and came into the val­ ley of the Great Salt lake on July; 24, 1847. _ Then came “hard times,” the build--'; ing of the commonwealth; days of bread and molasses, the discovery of i the sago and other edible roots on which the pioneers might survive; the sowing of grains and the coming of. the Mormon cricket scourge—but thru it all lived the pioneers and others who. followed. Ci They raised the Stars and Stripes everywhere over the new Mormon empire in the Rockies, then Mexican territory, and in a few years applied for admission to the union as the State of Deseret. A great commonwealth which fed the California goldseekers en route west and others had been founded. A NNUALLY, on July 24, the achievejnent of conquering the plains, and the making of the desert “blos­ som like a rose” i.s celebrated. In Salt Lake City the so-called Covcred Wagon Days celebration extends from the year 1849, when the Mormon pioneers gathered in “Pioneer Park,” then a stockade of protection against Indians. Mormon day ha.s codtinued intermit- , lently thru the semicentennial celebra­ tion in 1897 and is designed to reach its climax with a government-spon­ sored “Centennial Celebration,” ob­ serving the hundredth celebration of the settlement of the territory. Ogden, second largest city of the state, caught this spirit five years ago and staged a mammoth Pioneer Days celebration, led by Mayor Harman W. Peery, Utah’s “cowboy mayor.” The event was one of the most successful This great Mormon cathedral in Salt Lake City, Utah, will be the center celebrations—bar none—ever held, of Founders day activities. and each year the day has been re­ peated. day in Salt Lake City, Og­ band followed the meanderings of the the bare skin of the feet was covered denMormon and thruout Mormondom will com­ Platte river, keeping mostly on the with bark and animal hides. The pioneers were a determined lot. bine the pioneer spirit and the gaiety north side of the stream. They touched Fort Laramie, an old trading post, and Braving the scarcity of food and water of modern days. (Copyright. 1938.) also Red Buttes, Independence Rock, and the danger .of .nearby redskins. Page TItre± Devils’Gate, Little and Big Sandy and Fort Bridger^ Finally the pioneers arrived at Echo canon, where ..they met certain trap­ pers—among them being Martin Harri.s and Jim Bridger. • These two gave the pioneers very dismal pictures of the Salt Lake valley, on the shores of America’s great inland sea. Great Balt lake. The trappers urged the pioneers to go on to the fertile lands of the Pa­ cific coast. But Pioneer Young had decided to seek shelter in “the great basin in the Rocky mountains.” Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, had conceived this idea—the building up of a permanent abiding place of the people belonging to the Mormon church. He would not be dissuaded and the pioneer band trudged on. Skulls of oxen, bulletins of the plains, marked their route. Shoes were worn out and Heber J. Grant, left, president of nearly oiie million Mormons, and Reuben Clark, high in Mormon ■ church circles, will greet their fol- , lowers on Mormon day. banded together to flee from religious persecution. The multitude of church folk numbered 12,000 persons, who possessed 30,000 cattle, mules, horses and sheep. Leaders were chosen in the first exodus from Illinois, with Brig­ ham Young at the head. The companies left Nauvoo in the winter under the command of Pioneer Young, 400 wagons stopping to pitch tents at the first of the “Camps of Israel” upon snow and ice. They renewed the journey on the first day of March, when they traveled five miles and rested on Sugar creek. Permission had been obtained to cross thru Iowa. The company was divided into two parts and each of these into hundreds, fifties and tens, with captains. The prescribed outfit for a family was one wagon, three yoke of cattle or three teams, two cows, two beef cattle, three sheep, 1,000 pounds of flour, twentyfour pounds of sugar, a tent and bed­ ding, seeds, farming tools and rifle, a total being estimated at the value of $250. But in addition to. those which were thus equipped there was a large num­ ber of nondescript outfits, the make.shifts of poverty, from the unsuitable heavy cart that lumbered on mysteri­ ously, with its crazy two-wheeled trundle, to mere handcarts pushed by humans. Roadf? were bad most of the way and wagon.s were always breaking down, so that the company considered it had made remarkable progress when­ ever it covered fifteen miles in a day. The people of Iowa used to tell that all day long the slow procession' passed over their prairies—the strangest spec­ tacle they had ever witnessed—and that they sjnnpathized with the toil of those quiet but zealous pioneers. *T^HE main camp established itself at winter quarters, on the east bank of the Missouri, partly occupying some bluffs at which the Indians were wont to hold their councils, whence the later name of Council Bluffs. The house.s were built of logs, a fortification was erected, a grist mill and log taber­ nacle put up and school established—altho the Mormons knew they were to stay a short time, a year or two at most. The winter was a hard one and the Thi» monument marks the spot •where Brigham Young halted his followers and said: “This is the place.” Their long journey across the plains was ended. Ross Beatty will re-enact . the scene. Marjorie Anderson is queen of the Pioneer day celebration which will^ be held at Ogden, Utah real cowgirl and quite the saddle. journey just complet^ had its dark-i^ side. Sickness had beeij|general. Deaths i) had been so frequent (that burials had , to be performed wjxhout ceremony. H Sorrow and lamentatjbn had been daily ■ visitors. No family had escaped; few ,i[ but had buried one or more. Early in the spring of 1847 PioneerYoung gathered the famous Pioneer 4 company together at winter quarters J and on April 17, 1847, they crossed’, over on the north side of the Platte river, breaking a trail toward the ’ Ko<;ky mountains. Pioneer Young took with him 143 ; men, three women, two children, 148 souls in all; seventy-two wagons, ninety-three horses, fifty-two mules, sixty-six oxen, nineteen cows, seven­ teen dogs and some chickens. He also took along a cannon to awe the Indians. The men were farmers, mechanics and blacksmiths—sturdy pioneers from all walks of life, and progenitors of the j present “hardy” Utahans who today celebrate this famous trek westward. I The women did their share of the work,'; being tender persons who nursed the ' feet and wounds of the men folk and helped to cook the meals and arrange the tents and the wagons. They cheered •. with songs such as “The Girl I Lett: Behind Me” and the religious favorite of the Mormons: “Come, Come, Ye Saints,” the latter ending: “No toil i and labor fear, all is well, all i.s well.” ; For hundreds of miles this pioneer ' �THE DENVER POST—FIRST IN EVERYTHING—SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1938 ■ MAGAZINE SECTION The Roaring Machine Lurches to the Side . • . The Helpless Driver Is Shot High in the Air . .. Racing Enthusiasts Everywhere Go to See the Spills. This One Ended Tragically for the Driver. George Herzog, 23, Is Shown Falling from His Racing Machine as Both Man and Machine Spin Above Track . . . It Turned Upside Down. A Moment Later It I.anded on Top of Him and Snapped His Neck. He Died in an Ambulance on His Way to the Hospital. was the Canada Rid, himself, TA • 71 7 ITsU^^frhTnXSlVtXaS Jewel Acquires Some Mighty whence he had sprung (one his haven of sanctuary. “With all this here org’nizin’ an’ HiJfaintin’ Ideas Which Sort £ y jr \J The Driver Falls, the Engine Bears Upward ... J -jy" • J The Post Phone—Main 212T ' Another Victim for the God of Speed. This Spill Occurred at the Memorial Day Race at Indianapolis When the Car of Al Gordon and Frank Howard Went into a Spin. Miraculously, They Lived. �back. An’ my business, bein’ in a sort o’ luxury bracket for its source, is feelin’ the pinch.” The Kid’s business, of course, is that of being the slickest pickpocket in all the Americas. "I was sayin’ to Jewel,” he con­ tinued, bringing in, as he always did, his adored red-headed wife, “that it’s no use stickin’ your fingers into kicks what ain’ got nothin’ in ’em. “Big shots ain’ makin’ no profits, most o’ the workers is on strike an’ most o’ the rest of ’em is out o’ jobs. I s’pose I could lift a few relief checks, but I ain’ fellen that low yet. i‘I figger these here lib’ral labqr laws is what’s at the bottom o’ the brief. An’ yet, I belong to one o’ the oldest an’ most hon’rable unions in the land. “For half a cench’ry or more, the Pickpockets’ Trust, or Dips’ Union, has had headquarters in Ch’cago an’ branches aroun’ the country. “Ev’ry p’fessional is a member. The dues is on percentage, the amounts is paid on the honor system, an’ our bpys play on the up-an’-up with the org’nization. The dues is a tenth .o’ the take; the scripchural tithe. “It’s what we call ‘fall dough.’ A ‘fair is when one o’ the lads gets in trouble. Then the fund gets him a square mouthpiece if that’ll help, or a fixer what can reach the right peo­ ple—judges, juries or prosecutors— a^tiTITHE A True Story From Real Life !*‘My Business, Bein’ in a Sort o’ LuxSury Bracket for Its Source, Is Feelln’ » the Pinch, Too.” By Jack Lait or it puts up in cash so he can lam the bail if it’s hopeless. “It don’ say ‘Pickpockets’ Trust’; on the door, o’ course. But it’s a law firm, see ? That firm ain’ got no other kind o’ cases. An’ they gets paid by’ the year, so much. “The head office is in a skyscraperowned by a big bank, an’ the rent is’ paid on the'line. “lye got ev’rything an org’niza­ tion o’ workers or industrialists—fig-; ger us either way—could need, excep’ a press agent or a senator. , “We exchange inf’mation about conditions aroun’ the country, where the bulls is tough, where a new D. A/ can or cannot be reached, what race­ tracks is bearin’ down, where we can So She Throws a Book at Me—an’ the Book Is b.y One o’ the M a r X Brothers — 1 Think Karl.” Illustration by Geo. A. Fish slip a few grand in the campaign fund of a right judge—an’ if any brother is in distress, penal or pers’nal. “We even got international c’nections to fence bonds an’ di’monds an’ such where it ain’ too close to their home. I, my?elf, never touch securi­ ties or ice. Currency is my dish. It ain’ got no identity. It’s tough enough to chance a rap for ‘larceny from the person’ wit’out havin’ to get by ‘possession o’ stolen goods’ or c’nspiracy falls. “But I say I’m a good org’nization man. I come clean with my tithe an’ I appreciate what p’tection it gets me. “But we ain’ in no fed’ration or other union o’ unions. We ain’ tryin’ to shape over the world. We’re sim­ ply one for all an’ all for one; we ain’ lobbyin’ for no floor'under what a sucker can carry in his wallet or a ceilin’ over how long one of us can chump cased. “Some weeks I work forty hours an’ some I jus’ lay aroun’ the house an’ look at Jewel, an’ some weeks I stay on a trail night an’ day till I clip my cluck. “If Stalin Is handin’ out orders to all these here unions, he hasn’t got aroun’ to ourn yet, an’ if he ever shows up at our headquarters one o’ the members’ll prob’ly frisk him for his five-year plan. “Nach’rally, like in all groups, we have our radicals. Some o’ the tithe-payers in good standin’ are defi­ nitely for packin’ the Supreme Court the New Deal way, though me, myself, I don’ see how you’re gonna get in the pockets of a sapi all covered up in a Ku1 Klux kimono. “My Jewel — who’sI got some red in her. Sideswiped! Charles Engles Ploughs Over the Side Wall After Striking Car No. 34, Driven by Don McKenzie, Whose Machine Was Turned Completely Around. -mostly in her hair—says as how he bein ’ byI’m trade a shoplifter —• “— She says a tory, an Indivij;fould never nothin out ofana’ ualist, out of swipe time wit ’ the’ times torenowhat a picket-line; she ^ot sense had o’ solidarity. zouldn ’ work a place what “I says it ainin’ so. I’m for old was age [nfair. I saysyour that hands was a flock o’ msionsSo when get so loloney an’can I’d’t not go at’empty rough laky you put only ’em in 1itch-pocket picket-line wit but’out go turnin t’rough aa picket ’ in riot i— if heI’m had for anything. ill. share-the-wealth—I ant a share of anybody’s wealth, n’ I can sit down with as much enirance an’ enthusism as any man. “Jewel asks me am I for c’lective irgaining, so I tells her no but she bughta be. ’Cuz when them mammas p’lect for bargains in them stores, that’s when she can put in her best licks. An’ she says stop kiddin’—do stay on the job if he’s got a good--.. I ptand for the closed shop? So I i says avboob what marries a red-head learns to stand for anything. So she Ithrows a-book at me—an’ the book is by one V the Marx brothers—I think Karl. \ w’ cho ii■? “An she says she’s a hund’ed per ;ent behind the ti tirls in our hand the corner, what’s laundry aroun’ thi been out now for two months for a livin’ wage an’ shorter hours. i “So I says, well if them laundry girls wasn’ gettih’ no livin’ wage an’ struck for one, how was they livin’ ipp to then? An’ she says maybe I Bbetter not ask. Girls who can’t get & livin’ wage have been forced to feates worse’n death. I says I don’ tbelieve it, ’cus I’ve seen the girls in phis laundry. |. “Anyway, Jewel says, they’re right fin demandin’ shorter hours. So I says |l don’ know. How many hours was [they workin’ before they struck an’ ^demanded shorter hours? An’ she bays she don’ know an’ that’s beside fehe point. I “I says how ? If you don’ know blow many hours they was workin’, plow can you say that many hours ithey was workin’ was too long an’ tthey’re right in strikin’ for less |hours ? j “An’ Jewel says, bless her, she Ididn’ unde’stand they was strikin’ for jUESS hours—they was strikin’ for SHORTER hours!” Al Gordon Does a Solo Flight This Time. He Crashed Through the Fence Below the Wheels and Flew 125 Feet In the Air. He Received a Broken Nose and Bruises. Note How This Thrill-Provider Is Trying to Extricate Himself Before His Whirl­ ing Slachine Falls on Top of Him. The Driver Escaped with Minor Injuries. Copyright. 1338, King features Syndicate, Inc. Page Four ' ,, '• i. -.1 ............ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alfred J. 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