Show CONSERVE THE I YOUNG PEOPLE Prof Driggs of University of Utah Makes Strong Plea at Tabernacle ENTERTAINMENTS A SNARE Pleasures Wreck Lives anti and Souls of Boys and Girls and Leave Them Stranded Declaring that the tax lax method or of parents In looking after ner the moments of theIr children Is log Ing the future development and nd pros I pertLy of oC nations Professor MOr HOWard IL H of the University or of Utah made madean an eloquent and practical plea for tor the promo on or of more pd pas pastImes tImes time for tho young In a sermon Monnon at the yesterday e Taking for Cor his subject the waste ot or human life energy and nfl could through the snares of oC public entertainment the wrecking of lives live a as they how Ilow down the river or of Unto With It numerous tre treacherous and wicked rapIds rapid he paint painted ed ad a vivid and nd startling picture of OC conditions as they are re and drew a cont contrast 0 of social lire life as asIt asIt It Is ROW now and nd u as It wu was when the plo pio wended their WIlT way through a waste of DC anti de desert ert land to develop tile the wonderful state tte of oC Utah j 1 am m to tre treat t a subject that thatIs Is III 0 of vital Ital not Jot only to Lat erday Saints but to the whole world saki Iel Mr ir Driggs It is the wa waste t of oC human lUmn life and nel souls In this hurrying work 0 of 0 ours wherein herein young boys boy and girls are re dashed the desolate shoals of defeat an lose loee character by Mum tum Mumbling bling Into the pitfall a that beset bellet lifes n the pioneer came here th they found nothing but a desert we waste from one end of oC this broad section to the te teother theother other ibm and nel tb there e were wre a few ew that sowed from Crom the snowcapped peaks down through th the broad eX of oC gray aate los Ioe lug them In the calt It lakes n and nd marsh Th first work or of the pioneer was to d dig ditches from th these e to tM the arid stretches ye years have haTe pu passed ed b by since nef then and the romantic story or of Utah growth Is old In the work of those men In the g gray to green the green to golden h harvests It I Ii mar magnificent this transforms lion Yet the work I Is not tully fully ac hed The pioneering must If go goon 0 on nn R I had view DC map of It was painted to show the df 4 10 portion and that part still In U Its virgin state lItte The cultivated part was n represented b by green the other b by black And not mo more than part of it w was green I I Is very Try rapidly n en tending the green ren yet the great I work ork Ii to red redeem Use the de desert ert to tol fol follow I Ilow low tINt the noble nuble of the moo mOR who made the state habitable The rhe great question nowadays I Ithe is the saving Tin of time the turning to good GOd or of energy nem which has hall lain idle The lit streams that now flow way away without beth being bene beneficial elaI must be har It ItI I the conservation of oC everything that thatis I is employing the attention or of the world It Is ask Jd that In I the stockyard or of Chicago o th they set get five quarter out of an n animal This I Is rather hard harel for Cor V u to and understand nd but they do It by conservation They tell u us that with pip pIg Is hi used except th the ami nd that they are re talking of oC canning that to use UN In political can But the of oC this material waste pales Into when compared to the waste e of human lIfe With the accumulation of oC wealth comes conlee tile the advent of leisure hoa boors The hours boun pile up ap and nd the question I is what shall 1 we tie do with them Oo 00 where you Ou will the great cu cuoC curse of oC life is Loafing may not be bad but It I is the mother or of mI evil The desire for Cor plea pleasure ure canoes tho those e hours to be used In seek I lug new enjoyment which means meane the dIscovery of wicked pursuits When the work learns to devote th these Idle momen moments l tv to accomplishing Rood good then the secret Meret of ur life and happIness will be solved oled but not until then Tou rou mix ma pus the wealth IU to tn the heavens heaven but It will crumble if IC ou hent rIled rallied men women to carry the tI or of the nAtion down the of oC tIm Utah has hall long boasted thAt Its b bent t crop t Is that of DC its Ita buys and anel gIrls That boast JIll is In danger by Callie fai thin creeping Into their souls and nd destroy log tb them ago It was possible O to plant an n apple tree and leave It unattended until maturing time when It bring forth delicious fruit Crull Then such things as worms worm and nd other destroyers of oC natures nature products were unknown It was the mine me WR way with the nd boya flat But can YOU do It now Not for tor a moment Their 11 liven v like that of the Ule tree WOuld be de destroyed troYed The children must mut be protected from the social and od moral that ravage the country It a is the duty of the church and nd the tho parents parente to see that their leisure moments are spent In the pursuit of beneficial plea pleasures Pastimes must he brought to a higher level leel so that the minds or of our chil children children dren are not diseased The mind of the child Is 18 like Uke U the of play pia and power It If Itou you ou dont chock check It It will flow down lifes vaT unhampered Into the salt of oC dissipation The Mormon people have havo taken a good stand In thIs matter mattor Ono One or of their principles hu baa been to meet plea pleasure ure half WT way to mingle with Ith it IL But Dut sometimes the they forget and grow Jac The motion picture are aro dominated b by a trust The proprietor ha has nothing to lT say T as to what pictures he shall exhibit Many or of these are aro bAd for Cor the tho children These places place are so often otten frequented by the young that the parents riso up and demand that cleaner and moro more pictures be shown The Tho Im Improvement provement clubs of the church are aro doing good work along these lines but nothing loss ION than a countrywide pro protest test Is 18 necessary to accomplish the tho do de aired result Thoro Thero Is no excuse for tor bad boys bos and ancl girls ParentS Parent many times claim they cannot the tho rocket of children n pta playing about th tb thI I housE hOUP t It Is I far r for Cor them I tj bo where hero they can enn be I thais of ot somewhere to do what they mind years ago 80 while strolling do d own South Temple street I 1 saw MW it wigwam an n Indian and h his squaw w Th The brave brae W lolling about smoking his pipe while the squaw was waif l ug the rustic evening meal And what a great contrast It was summing humming I about him wires stretching overhead carryIng m messages to all parts of oC the world antI nd all the tin Im or of modern science elenoe staring him In the fAce Fifty years ago It wu was different Everything here was like the Indian In i n a very crude crud state Hut But the Indian mIght have had Ute the tage of oC hili white brothers had 1 he the energy and nd th the ambition to todo todo do things to make the soil eoll bloom Ilk like the rose Some of us today are Ilk like that Indian We VE arE wanting our lives unmindful o of the opportunities about us usI I Ve lVe Any children to flee fice upon th the altar or of vice We need Deed aU all the youngsters need them to build them Ulean up to true men and women Ve teach them to con th the work of the pIoneers we must steer them clear clar or of the pitfalls bring them out a dear clear and god Ilia a ain In gone b |