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Show Clarks Warns About "Isms" The world should guard against the threat of a governmental sys- lciu wmi, wuuiu luu tile muiviuuiu of Christian freedom and against philosophies that would destroy belief in God and Christ, J. Reuben Reu-ben Clark, member of the L D S church first presidency, declared in the baccalaureate sermon at Utah State Agricultural college's commencement Sunday. The services featured a statement state-ment by Dr. E. G. IPeterson, retiring re-tiring president of the college after af-ter 29 years of service, who praised prais-ed the role of landgrant colleges in providing education for the "common man." "The religious liberty granted by the constitution of the United States was brought about and maintained by a Christian people," President Clark declared. '"So long as our constitution stand.-, and is maintained in full force and effect, ef-fect, there will be full religious liberty for members of every re-lipious re-lipious group under heaven." The speaker pomtoo out that Christianity has brought to mankind man-kind more of comfort and ease, of human wellbeing and l-.rnith; has (Continued on page Eight) Grads Hear Call To Service j Ccrr.li.ued from page One) ; roi...i& more of ?...u..-i:::'.-.i and cul.ure among the peoples; ls VX:A pecpi-s' lives r: : .: and joy; has harbored t more of love and charity ar.d ( i common brotherhood; has given; less place to hale and terror an.' j cruelty than have been given to ! humanity by ..11 the pagan and , non-Christian nations since the , beginning of time. ; "Men have failed, but Christian-1 ity has not," he declared, in dis-: cussing his theme that threatening anti-Christ doctrines should be shunned. "Christianity must be ; saved whatever else falls, for through it comes the salvation j and exaltation of the whole hu- , man race." j He charged that "absolutism in : government, whether in a crush- J ing majority, a despotic minority, or a single dictator, is the mortal enemy of free thought, free j speech and free worship. These j are the essentials of Christianity I which must be saved." j President Clark admonished youth not to depart from the spiritual ways of their fathers to the loss of happiness here and salivation hereafter. "Place the welfare of your souls abovs the pleasures of the flesh . . . remember remem-ber there is no excellence without labor." Dr. Peterson, president of the I college in delivering his annual I statement, dispensed with the Logan. C. G. Adney, president of the board, in a few closing remarks, congratulated the graduates on their achievement. Dr. D a r y 1 Chase, Director of the Logan LDS Insitute, offered the invocation and Professor A. N. Sorensen pronounced pro-nounced the benediction. usual facts and figures about the institution and talked about the greit purposes , (Which actuated the founding of the college and the objectives which are in view. "This is the time to look for. ward, not back," he declared. 'The past can be of value to us in teaching important lessons which will aid us in . the problems which we face in the future. But the great stake of the college is in the future as is the stake .of the nation and the world and every individual in-dividual in it. I "The dead past should not be permitted to stand in the way of progress, for this college particularly, particu-larly, 'forward' is the watchword," he said. He reviewed briefly the processes that led up to the founding of land-grant colleges, and declared "they were conceived as a means, in a democratic country, of democratising demo-cratising education." Previously, he pointed out, the prevailing higher education in America Am-erica had been patterned after the English Oxford-Cambridge type of institution which provided an educational opportunity for the select few with no pretense at trying to reach that great stratum in society called the common people. peo-ple. Among the many fields opened up by this "education for the common man," included- the education edu-cation of mothers. ''I believe of all the people in the world who should be educated, "the mother in the home is among the first. With her," Dr. Peterson declared, "rests in large degree, the future of the next generation." He talked also about the value of "common man" education to agriculture engineering, industries, trades, home economics, and other fields and praised the work of the Experiment station and Extension Ex-tension service. "The financial investment in-vestment in this type of work is small compared with the returns to the producers acd homes of our state," he said. Dr. Peterson, who will retire this year fter serving 29 years as president, commended the fac. ulty, those in administrative pos- itions and said: "My work over many years has been aided greatly by their ability and loyalty." ''Of the students, I speak with deep affection. They have been influential in giving the college the clean and powerful spirit which is here. We have appreciated apprec-iated their high regard for the college and its traditions, and likewise their humility, which is an expression of understanding and power. "The future of the college, the future of all education is bound up with the effort to achieve peace in the world," Dr. Peterson emphasized. "There is a good future awaiting mankind if we are faithful, but this future of opportunity for us here and for mankind generally is gravely qualified by the question as to men's desire for peace and righteousness, this only can usher in that bright day toward which mankind bis been so long traveling." travel-ing." Merrill Wamick, Pleasant Grove, member of the Board of Trustees, presided. Musical numbers were presented by the college orchestra, a ladies chorus, a vocal solo by Coy Christensen, Banida, Idaho, and a violin solo, Norma Olsen, |