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Show I Snow College Notes Snow Collefre Takes Speech Mert 'snow College had little difficulty - winning first place in a sp.ech ournament held here Friday and Saturday with teams from Dixie X-llcge st. Georg2, the Branch Lgricultural College cf Cedar City, (Pd Snow participating. The local school won first, sec-,nd sec-,nd and third places in oratory ,nd extnmporaneous speaking, sec-md sec-md place in debate, and took all I'aces in interprative reading, the ther sch'.ols failing to enter this jvert. Boyle Munson ar d Harold Knight of B. A. C. won first place in debate; de-bate; Twain Tippetts and Garth Sorensen of Snow, second; and Ruth Milne and Evans Woodbury of nixie, third. The question debated was: "Resolved: "Re-solved: That Congress shculd be empowered to set minimum wages and maximum hours for industry." Each team met each other team from the oppoing schools making " six rounds of four debates each ' during the two. days. Winners in the other events, all from Snow College, were; Oratory Hcyt Anderson, Ephraim, first;- Ethel Eth-el Johnson, . Ephraim, - second; Twain Tippetts, Ephraim, third. Extemporaneous speaking Hoyt Anderson, first-; Garth Sorens:n, Aurora, sec.nd; Twain Tippetts, third. Interpretative readings Fern McGee, Fruitland, New Mexico Mex-ico first; Royal Andreasen, Monroe', Mon-roe', second; Helen Cox, Manti, third. The winners were announced at a banquet in the Sr?ow College dining din-ing room Saturday afternoon, at vhich student .body pre' ident Ther-al Ther-al Black cf Snow College acted as master of ceremonies. The prop-am followed the theme of a "Council of Peace," with peace pipes as favors at each plate. A program of ' music, toasts and spceche- was given. Durant Lectures Outlining what hs c onfeidered crises in the physical,. : biokgical, moral, economic and political life i of America and 'suggesting ways of meeting each,. Dr. Will Durant, philosopher, author, journalist and lecturer, rpoke before & large audience audi-ence drawn frenx communities of Sanpete county in the Snow College I auditorium Friday evening. Destruction of the forests and i depletion of the soil fertility were termed alarming in the physical life of the nation. Decrease in the II birth-rate of the middle, classes, and a rapid increase of the unfit were faid to constitute a crisis in t- the biological life. 11 Concentration of the efforts of t the schools on training minds in-,' in-,' stead of men' and the consequent lack of moral training, coupled with 8 a decliie in the influence of relig-. ion make a snious crisis in the re moral field, the speaker raid. Mass j production without prevision for nd mass consumption was blamed for or the nation's economic crisis. be As a fir. t step to meet and con- quer these cri.es, Dr. Durant would is) rave a national advisory council to which each profession., each indus-ing indus-ing try cr each large group could elect ew one outstanding member. This bo-co bo-co Jy would have recommendatory nsj and advi ory powers only and would furnish; data for the use of Congress. He claimed that the problems of the natUn will not be solved through one man or througn L a group cf men, but through a en-3Q en-3Q lightened populace, especially the ,1 upper class. . , tal He expres-ed faith In America and ines said that the people are capable ol test meeting and overcoming cbstacles. can Presented Program $i The Snow-Sanpete Club from, the $ B. Y. U. presented a very line pro-ml pro-ml gram in akmbly Friday, February seat -th Bruce Ellis acted a. master oJ e t0 ;eremonies and the folic wing num.- rs were giv-n:. "On Snow CoUege leg nchestra and chorus: vcal tiio have Svelyn Jones, Ethelyn Peterson and your jUcillB Hansen; reading, Louis' mtee 3arton; trumpet solo, Ted Ander-yu,r Ander-yu,r onl; vecal solo, Harvey Rawlinson l lovelty saxophone solo, Rex Chris-ensen; Chris-ensen; harmonica trio, Edward Mi-lier, Mi-lier, Devon Sanderson and LaMa UArsen; xylophone solo, Dean Pe erson; Piano duo, Veone Sorensei - nd Aarcn Jones;' tap dance, Shir ;nbcrs ;y swensen and Jane Newell. |