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Show CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA ARE TOLDBY KING Senator William H. King Is Speaker at Sprinville lviwanis Luncheon. "Progress is necessary to the development de-velopment of character. " said Senator Sen-ator Win. IL King to the Spriug-ville Spriug-ville Kiwautans at their weekly luncheon held at the Third ward iimuseineiit hall Thursday evening. To build industrially, intellectually intellectual-ly and morally is progress and the foundation of all progress lies in n feeling of dependence in Diely.'' Senator King commented on the prayer that was offered at the beginning be-ginning of the meting and commended commend-ed the club for their spirit of humility, hu-mility, patriotism and manifested desire for social service. He told of his recent trip throush Russia and explained that the rulers rul-ers of liussia not only disregarded I'iety. but held contempt for any of! the subjects who teach a belief in-or in-or even mention tho name of Diety. and that it is an offense against the i state, with penalty attached to men- j tion the name of Diety in the pub-J lie schools. He related an incident that happened hap-pened while lie was there, where a lady school teacher was taken out of the school and prohibited from teaching, because one of the government gov-ernment officials found a picture of the Christ among her personal effects ef-fects at the place where she was boarding. Lack of a reeliL'ious life is the foundation cause of all the sorrow, the low ebb of morality, torture and misery that exists in Russia ! today Senator King declared. The spirit of prayer and reverence for, a devine being develops the finer nature in man and iwthout it there ' is no real progress. j J. O. Reynolds acted as toast-' master of the evening. The com-1 munity singing was led by Wm. X. J Grooms. A male quartet composed I of Glen, Ronald and Wilber Allen i and Guy Brown gave thre selections. I Judge A. B. Morgan of Provo, John I Henry Beal of Ephriam and Ernest! Strong were introduced as special quests of the evening. The attendance attend-ance prize was won by Wm. X. Grooms. |