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Show Ml FOUNDER'S DAY PROGRAM MEN Apostle Widtsoe Delivers - Chief Address; Grant ' and Smoot Speak PROVO. Oct. 2V Founder'! day exercises ex-ercises of the Brlgham Young university were held In the tUke tagernarle yesterday, yes-terday, president Hfbr J. (Irani, Apostle Apos-tle John A. Widtsoe and Henaicr Heed Smooth were ttt attendance. Apostle Wldtso delivered the principal address, taking -for his subject. "Hrig-ham "Hrig-ham Young. Empire Builder." Apostle Widtsoe sld that there ere tenia of successful empire build I nr. confidence In th empire that out of the raw ma-i ma-i tertala valla hi It rould bs hullt. con- ftdence In the ability of the builders to ; construct an empire out of the ruw ; materials." Brlgham Voung, ha as id, had confidence In the West, and too much prmlae could not he given to him as a general. In conducting the march from the Missouri river to the valley of the Ureal Halt l-ake. As a leader and builder In making this country habitable. Apostle Widtsoe showed what had been done by way of making his people self-support-las, bv converting the waters from their natural channels snd using It In the pro .UuctlaiL aX the, aolL i. . The speaker showed how this leader, i not only had confidence In the West, how i he made the soli produce, but how he1 provided for the more durable wants of man. Cnder hla leadership, he said, he established the provisional state of Iea-eret, Iea-eret, In I Ms, and preached the doctrine., "It Is bet tar to feed the Indians than to fight them,'.' arid by such a doctrine) hs overcame lawlessness wirVh usually accompanied frontiersmen. He provided recreation and enjoyment for hla people, he said, and hy so doing eliminated much discontentment, lie recognised the necessity neces-sity of edurstlon. he said, and from the beginning established school of learning, learn-ing, snd three years after arrival established estab-lished the T nlverslty of Deseret, and later the Brig ham Young university and the church school svstem. President ctrsnt sDoka of tha die- tlngulshed alumni of the university, nam- , Ing five apostles, twenty-seven stake presidents two United H'stes senators, on t'nlled mates congressman, and one supreme court Judge. Aenator Mmoot referred to the missionaries mis-sionaries who have gone out to preach the gospel and the great work which had been done by them. He paid a tribute to 1H. Karl Maeaer, the first preel-dent preel-dent of tha school. I 'resident . M. Harris ecter as master of ceremonies and the following program was rendered: Diplomat Marcn, by orchestra; or-chestra; Haydn's "Hna lous Firmaments on High." chorus; overture, "Rhlnefels." t Oruenwald , orchestra ; soprano alo, "Fleeting Dsya," Melba fondle; The (lard en of Kleep" (Ike Iaara, Male (jlee club; exit march, orchestra: Invocation ws offered by H. I.. Richards and the benediction by Joseph Fielding flmlth. In the morning the school marched in a body through the atreeta of I'rovo and in tha afternoon tha big annual barbecue barbe-cue was given, and a football gam be- was played. The day's program was concluded with the annual Faunder'g day ball In tha ladles' la-dles' gym. |