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Show Utah Flag Wins Praise Beehive Hangs in Capital By HARRY J. BROWN. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, June 7.-On behalf of the postmasters and postal em- era ployees of Utah, Representative but Leatherwood today presented to Postmaster General New a handsome silk cia emblem bearing the seal of the state the of Utah; to be hung in the spacious court of the postoffice department at Washington, along with flags from the postal Officials and employees of all other states. When the Utah emblem was unfurled and its glory shown one of the officials present remarked: "It is as royal robes in the presence p; of beggars' rags." The Utah emblem (easily is the most handsome and most n elaborate state emblem yet presented C; to the postoffice department. s With a dark blue field of heavy b flag silk the Utah banner bears the t Utah coat of arms and state flower s embroidered in silk and the Utah \ beehive with the word "industry" and j the dates 1847 and 1896. The flag 5 during the presentation ceremony was i held by Mrs. Martha Crowley and ( Miss Florence Zimmerman, Utah girls employed in the postoffice department. As he presented the emblem Representative leather wood told the story of the pioneers who pushed across the 1 plains in 1847, and after months of suffering reached the site of what is 1 now Salt Lake City, where they be- pan the first practical reclamation From that beginning, he said, Utan , industry has carried irrigation into the numerous valleys of the state, until they are now producing great j crops not only for their own people but a surplus for export. He told of the other great industries that have been built up in Utah, referring especially to the largest copper mines in ( the United States, and the largest j smelting industry, all brought about t by the industry of which the beehive t is the emblem. " t Among those who 'had contributed t by their industry to make Utah great, he isaid, none had dbr)6" more than the- men and women of the postal service. ! These workers of the postal service in Utah, he added, sent this banner " as indicating their loyalty to the de- partment and to the service. i In accepting the Utah banner, Post- t t master General Harry New briefly re- tl called the history of Utah. The hard- ti ships endured by her early pioneers, y he said, were probably unparalleled in S' e the history of all the states. In no v -'r state had the pioneers suffered more, b •h yet in no state, he added, had the trl pioneers and those who followed v 'g achieved greater results than in Utah. C is He spoke in commendation of the in- 1' id dustry of the people of Utah, and re- k 'Is marked that he had found a refleo- S 't- tion of this cardinal principle in the work being done by the postmasters e- nnd postal employees of the state. ry Through Representative Leatherwood. r he General New sent his thanks to those i of who had sent the banner and com- t is mended the handiwork of those who ] be- had made it. I ion undertaken in the United States. |
