1915-08-Improvement Era-Utahs Best Advertisement

Improvement Era, v18 n10, August 1915, pp. 933-934.

"Utah's Best Advertisement"

The picture represents Lawrence Sloan, son of Thomas W. Sloan of Salt Lake City, and Allen S. Tingey, son of Bishop Tingey of the Seventeenth Ward, who are laboring in New York. It was Elder Sloan, who, some weeks ago, with another companion, Elder Parkinson, called at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, to see Dr. David B. Anderson. The latter wrote of the call as follows, under date of April 25:

"I told you, I believe, that I had received some pamphlets from the Bureau of Information about Utah and the 'Mormons,' in response to a written request, for the benefit of a Dr. Bruckheimer, who has become interested in the West. I got the pamphlets about a week ago. Day before yesterday two young fellows came to the hospital here and inquired for me. I went down and they gave me their cards. They were a Mr. Sloan from Salt Lake City, and a Mr. Parkinson from Franklin, Idaho,—'Mormon' missionaries. They said that my name had been sent to them by the Bureau of Information as an inquirer about Utah, and that they would gladly tell me anything they could about Utah and its people. I told them, yes, I was very much interested in Utah and its people, but I didn't think there was anything they could tell me either about the place or the people; because, besides having read much upon the subject, I had been born and reared in Utah! You should have seen their looks of surprise when I told them! They were good looking chaps, very well dressed, with an address that bespoke honesty and fearlessness. Elder Sloan left me a photo album of views in and about Salt Lake, the equal of which I have never before seen. I have been showing it to everybody in the hospital. I invited the boys to come back to talk with me again at their leisure. Such chaps as they are the best advertisements Utah can have. As Elbert Hubbard says, in a news clipping I am enclosing, 'By their fruits ye shall know them."