Show e e Patriotism of a State Institution f bt Story ry 0 of f the Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful- L I fl rl rl f War S Service r Rendered b bIU by rl- rl 1 t-i t J-J J 0 o 3 c a fi o 0 j r IU t College i 1 B By y D. D E E. Robinson T OGAN July 5 Th Tb Utah Agricultural toll college gc measures its war ser service serice ice L nation of dollars It measures mc its to the CIlC slate state and md nation in in terms o of millions ons direct military service in terms of hundreds of or men tr trained ined for modern warfare It measures its sacrifice in in the lives of or its students w who o gave up their existence fighting for the salvation of tho the world The following tor tore ory is one of unselfish sacrifices on tho the part of or n a great educational institution fulfilling t the e trust put in it by the people of Utah Ulah The U. U A. A C. C has been essentially a W war r institution for the pas past two Iwo years s. s Until that memorable date November 11 1918 when the armistice the thc war was signed its energies energies' and Iua resources were dedicated to lo winning winnin g less fictive attire in meeting g the c war post-war problems that Sin Since c then it has been no lace face the state THE PATRIOTISM OF AN INSTITUTION The greatest war sacrifice the Utah Agricultural college was caned called upon to make was the offering to the nation of the services s an and in many ages ases the lives live of its ils students Over members of the prewar student jody nody of the institution fought for the ideals of democracy To 10 this con con- number must be a added dc the names llames of or GSA men who received special g the of 1918 nn and in whom the tar var training g at the college during summer Institution has an abid abiding n interest and the names of 7 4 men students o of he hc U. U A A A. C C C. who were train trained cd as fiS members of the students students' army training their lives to the hc cause of freedom students orts Twenty six sr x Aggie gie r gave SIX SIX y-SIX NAMES ON HONOR ROLL These men who will ever constitute n a roll loll of ot honor at the institution v r 1 1 Fork Geoorge B. B Look Cook Willard illard Boy Hoy t vent vere Horace lorace Ar Argyle o- o Spanish Logan Lom Lawrence N. N T Evans Nephi Ray Hay Cowers Gowers Edwin I VT T. Gay Gny Elsinore Walter waiter u B. B Honks Hanks uru Grover ui Milton lilton G. G Hansen n i lence Barney Hanley T. T Justesen Logan Loan Joseph A. A Morrison Logan Log J Ray flay ay Peter Peter- leter 1 on 1 Park alb City Claytor Clator P. P Preston Logan r uv B B. Alexander Logan r rouis Edward II Walters Logan Joseph C C. C Will Will- ilI Lake ouis II Rowe Howe S Salt alt L e I core Logan II Fred ed Grant Ruth Buth William 0 O. Funk Sm Smithfield Thorvald lhor Smith Smith- Logan Amos G. G lIa Hatfield Springville Maurice l K Niles Miles Smith Smith- Lenoy A A. E Lyre Eyre rc Minersville ilIe j Den Den-c Dewey Dowey II Manti George B. B arkinson L LIron Logan j J. J Randle Draper Moroni loroni an and Ja Jay II H. JIa Hague ue McCain- McCain 11 Iron Ida I Of or the more than men who represented the prewar student body y i f the tho Utah A Agricultural college I practically all nil were officers offices Nearly two schools when h officers officers' tr training ining red 1 had comet commissions or were attending he armistice was sign signed cd One held the rank rink of brigadier general g one of colonel SC l several ral ot of major and many of captain T Many rany ran faculty and former faculty members member also served with ith the armedor armed g these by no means no-means means or es o of the nation While hile statistics concerning arc are it is known that of the more than one forty with the colors s three ere colonels one was teas a major three were captains fifteen were lieutenants nd eight were in training for commissions I. I 0 O. T T. C. C BECOMES BECOME S. S A A. A T T. C. C t In the thc spun spring g of 1917 the Utah Agricultural college in iu company with nany other land grant institutions where efficient student military organ- organ 7 rations were in exi existence was asked by the war department to train men mell mena a y os officers for the United States army By the establishment at th the ulion of ot a senior infantry unit uni unito tf pf of the Reserve Officers Officers' Training Corps the I of a wide nation-wide officer training or- or became an integral part on The Reserve Officers Officers' Training Corps R R. R 0 0 O. T. T C. C was in in lull full pe during 19 13 an and gave ga e intensive military military- training to nearly C C 1 hundred young oung men With the tho coming cominS' of or the summer Cummer ot of 1918 when tho war department saw hat th tho lino complete completo mobilization of or cv- cv ry r national force was necessary If it ivo vo were to bring the war Avar to a speedy speed is s well as A glorious close it was dei dc- dc i c to use even more intensively the Military organization of or the land- land rant colleges colloS 3 of oC th the country countr and to in many other educational In- In military units The I R. R O. O r. r C C- Cat at the U U. A. A C C. was then merged In-I In unto Into a still sUIl comprehensive more aton known as the students students' army training cort corps s S. S A. A T T. C C. C The Tho military work given during 1918 at tt tho the colle college e was as a unit of oC tilt S a A. A 1 T. T 1 C. C l During the fall faU quarter of oC 1918 th there ro wore GiO men In this thi organ organ organ- At le st 2000 more would woul have been trained had not the end of or the war made this unnecessary These men received under strict military discipline DUne pline special military training an and academic Instruction designed d to pre prepare pare them for tor further training In of officers officers' or- or leers leers' training schools school a or to fit them to serve as mechanics and technicians In the arm army I Military Instruction Gh Given a Twenty one commissioned slone 1 officers were In charge of oC the military Instruction instruction instruction tion given Iven these men while practically the entire college e faculty aided in to the academic instruction Riven Tho The In Institution Institution In- In gave sac to the tho O men In the collegiate lato section instruction in military military military mili mili- tary law the history of tho the war physics physics phys phs ics les mathematics and personnel work One hundred men were trained as ra- ra telephone dio Three hundred hundred hun hun- dred were trained as surveyors chauffeurs feurs fours auto mechanics machinists carpenters carpenters car car- penters blacksmiths concrete cort- cort crete workers or Tho The Utah Agricultural college e was al asked by the war department to recommend recommend rec rec- men In unlimited numbers number from the S. S A. A T. T C. C for tor officers officers' training train train- in ing tn- schools During the first two months of oC operation of oC tho the S S. A A. T. T C. C nine fifty men were recommended These Thue recommendations were made from flom both tho the and vocational vocation vocation- al III sections Many I n Problems Problem Met d The members of the students students' army training corps were soldiers In the tile army of the tho United States They wore ere fed ted quartered equipped provided with clothing and paid b by the war depart depart- monte moat The biggest Best problems lems the college colle college col col- le lege c had to In making malting arran arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- c- c ments to care for the tho largo number of or S. S A A. A T. T C. C men assigned to o It were verc tho the pr problems of or quarters qu and rations With limited space at Its command the Institution was able b by readjustments readjust readjust- ments here and there to pr provide vido adequate adequate ade ade- quate accommodations for the tho men and to do this without disrupting In to any serious degree the tho regular Instructional Instructional work of the institution The college was particularly fortunate In Its mess accommodations and received special commendation n from government govern sovern- government ment Inspectors on the absence of oC waste asto to bo be found In tho the mess mesa halls 11 and kitchens kitchen and on the quality of or food provided Although the war department department depart rt ment was under great stress l IP tp provide pro pro- vide vido cots cola blankets and other equipments equip tn ments to the millions of oC soldiers al all already already al- al l ready ready- under arms the S S. S A. A T. T C C. unit at tho the college was fortunate fortunato to o re rc- rc I cehe early In tho the fall faU a a. full ull complo- complo I comple-I me it of equipment for Cor 1000 men Special Training GI Given GIa a The field of at service of ot the tho Utah Agricultural Ag Ag- Agricultural college was not restricted to the tho military phase Through the three main divisions ons of oC the tho Institution the division of ot interior Instruction the experIment experiment experiment ex ex- s station atlon and the tho extension di division dl- dl vl vision lon the college was able to render Utah most valuable aid in the solution n nat of at many of or the pressing agricultural commercial and industrial problems that confronted the state stale War placed even a higher his valuation than peace on trained d leadership The Tho division of interior instruction or the college prop proper r. r located at Lo Logan an adjusted adJusted adjusted ad- ad its curricula at the tho ver very be beginning beginning begin begin- ln- ln ning of or the war to moet meet changed educational educational educational edu edu- ne needs As a re result lt of oC this change chanse tho the Institution was able to offer intensive courses course designed to aid the IIa nation on in the tho successful pros prosecution u- u tion Uon of or the hc war Aided Su Sugar r Producers Producer Tyre Tle Importance of Utah as a sugar pro producing state slate an and the great shortage of or sugar gave save particular value to a short hort Intensive course on sugar beet culture given by the tho college collese to practical practical practical farmers and field men of at various Western beet sugar Huar factories This course which ran for tor six weeks during the tho winter winter of oC 1917 18 an answered a very direct need of oC Utah's sugar producers A similar course offered d to representatives representatives represent represent- e of oC canning companies gave Save the most advanced d hl ideas as in the tho growth and m caro taro of or canning crops Special courses O Oon on the prop proper r selection of at seed aced wheat and tho the pro production of or wheat were given as aa were courses on tho the proper feeding of or beef animals ls care of or swine dairy cow management Increased poultry poultry poultry poul poul- try pro production the caro care of or war gardens and ind farm management It la Is useless to produce moro more food tood If It the Increase Is 18 to be wasted or used Sod not wisely Realizing this the School of or Home Homo Economics bent Its energies to demonstrating tho the principles of ot food conservation to the end that ont oat only the increase might lIt be saved but that even a a. greater grenter saving ml might ht be bo made The nutritive o values value o of different foods roods were studied In class work Students were taught how substitutes might save the tho necessary wheat meat and sugar The conservation of at clothing was taught Young women were pre pro prePared prepared pared to go out over tho the state and act ua as leaders In the tho important food and clothing conservation campaigns ns noel Iced Cross Crose workers were trained Preliminary Prelim Prelim- inary training for lor nursing was given Ivon and thousands of or articles were made by the young women students for the tho TIed Red Cross War nr Course Coarse for tor Farmers Farmer Possibly tho the greatest interest was manifested by farmers of or the west in tho extensive work given Ilven by the institution institution In autos and farm tractors During tho the winter quarter over fifty farmers and anel tractor operators attended a a. special war course For those who could not spend a full tun quarter at the time college a very Intensive courso of two weeks weeks' duration was given at which over one hundred were in attendance I A similar course courso running for tor tho the I spring quarter Guarter had an attendance of oC thirty The Tlc extensive equipment the college had harl available for this work and the added Importance lent to th the tho 1 AJ I farm tarm tractor by tho the shortage e of ot labor made there courses of or extreme value in inthe the tho Increased production campaign campal n waged waed b by the tho nation This farm tarm tractor equipment was doubled during the summer ot of 1918 1913 when the college trained several Eo hundred soldiers as auto mechanics With Ith these now new facilities facilities facil facil- the the- institution will be bo able to In offer even more extensive courses autos aulon and farm tractors In tho the future Tho The labor shortage of oC 1917 18 duo to toWar towar towar war conditions was probably as great In business as it was In agriculture To meet an m insistent demand upon the part parlor of the government and of or private business s concerns for trained office help tho the colle college rJ organized Intensive coUrses courses In lii stenography typewriting bookkeeping and office m management In these courses students could secure In a few low months tho the technical 1 information lion tion that is generally acquired only after ter a much longer lonser period perlo Many Iun students who tool took advantage of ot these courses were placed in important and lucrative positions rr French Taught bt 1 In order that young men who expected expected ex ex- to bo be called Into Int active service anI and get to Franco might know Imo something some conic thin thing of ot the language tho department department de de- or of modern languages ICS offered three courses In military French Trench Jh The Thu department of oC history conducted war courses which gave ave to tu stu students ont a clear 1 understanding o of tho the un underlying causes I of or tho the greatest rato t war of oC all hl history tory In Inthe Inthe inthe the department of at L English lure tho patriotic patriotic patri patri- otic a addresses es of or leading American an and allied statesmen ero used for titu study y Throughout thu year r the Iho collude college aimed to give that valuable practical Information tion so EO necessary r where Is important Import Important Im Im- port nl work worle to bo ho dune done an and at trio tho Saint yamo time lime to maintain those ideals of or American Americus democracy to save which America entered the thu war wal Tho Thu fundamental truths underlying proper lUan t of ot tho thu various J phases s of or can bo lie fully uld under under- r- r only oldy alter m many years of or careful care care- careful ful ln Time The World war from Irom rom wo wu have o just j emerged bo be 0 victoriously victoriously vic vie has tur forced to tho the foreground the tho true truc relationship hip of or th the agricultural agricultural tural experiment station to world Wel fare lany truths covering co food loud production pro pro- production which havy u been slowly brought hl to the un understanding cr of or thu Iho W western farmer 1 by the iho work of r thu the Utah experiment station during the iho Quarter century Just past Iut ate ure now making possible a tremendous in food Vl production du During this great truit i orld emergency the application of or orI scientific truth to farm practice ha has I far Clr ucc c-ucc exceeded cel the rate ratu of or discovery of r now uW truths in tit agriculture Tills his sounds a a note of ot warning which should ou lIu I tully Hilly understood und by c |