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Show breakfast. After breakfast, we were honored by having a government gov-ernment official give us a lecture on his duties. After this lecture, classes were taught in law, civil service, civil government, public safety and first aid. Lester Wire, who has often been called the best detective in the west, conducted con-ducted the class in public safety, and Judge Hoyt of Nephi, Utah, instructed the law classes. The other classes were also taught by very capable men. At 11:00 a. m., our courts held their trials. They functioned exactly ex-actly like our state coitrts. Also at 11 o'clock, our city commission commis-sion met to see that the city was functioning properly, and as I was city recorder, I attended these meetings and thus I got actual experience in the running of our city governments. After dinner at noon, we could go swimming, play ball, or do anything else to entertain ourselves. our-selves. Then between the hours of 3:00 to 5:00 p. m.,- different athletes such as Vadal Peterson, Ike Armstrong, Tony Robello, and many others, offered hoys instruction in the popular sports. Each night at 7:00 p. m., Professor Pro-fessor Dagliesh, a teacher at the University of Utah, gave us a lecture on the different forms of government, such as Democracy, Communism, Nazism, and Facism. He also discussed the duties of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of our government. gov-ernment. After hearing these talks, their is no doubt in any Boys' State citizen's mind, but that Democracy is the only government gov-ernment for the United States. After the professor's interesting interest-ing lecture, a fine entertainment program was featured by the citizens of Boy's State or by outsiders out-siders from different cities. Then at 10:00 p. m., taps were blown, and everyone went to sleep. It was disclosed at camp that $300 worth of food was consumed consum-ed every day and ten cases of soda water were sold every day The average price spent on food was C5c a day for each boy. No citizen of Boys' State will ever forget the stirring speech that President Otto Wiesley made on democracy. He was surrounded surround-ed by cheers from every spot in the hall as he said he would rather be dead than to give up his freedom. At the end of his speech every citizen of Boys' State was given a certificate of merit and then the 1940 Boys' State was officially closed. Everyone was going around with a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes as he went around telling all his friends goodbye. We all met some of the best friends we will ever have, and we knew we would probably never see some of them again in all our lives. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the Bingham American Legion for making me a citizen of Boys' State and I will always be indebted to them. every boy's throat and made them think how wonderful it was to be in a camp of this kind learning learn-ing about our government instead in-stead of learning about the process pro-cess of war. Every afternoon from 1:30 to 3:00 o'clock one could participate par-ticipate in baseball and softball games as he wished or go swimming. swim-ming. Eentertainment in the evenings eve-nings was inside and outside talent tal-ent and motion pictures. The most well liked class to my estimation esti-mation was the mass instruction of athletics held at 3 p.m. Noted coaches and players such as Coach Ike Armstrong, Pete Couch, Tony Robello and Eddy Mulligan gave fundamentals of their various sports. Then as the evening rolled on to 10 o'clock the camp quieted down to listen to taps and to end another glorious glor-ious day. Taps were sounded by several harmonizing buglers and it proved to be well liked by the whole camp. All in all learning to associate with our fellow men, taking active part in city, county, state and national government, By Harold Mattice Four hundred and thirty-six selected se-lected leaders of young men from the four corners of our great state dismantled and packed their tents Saturday turning their backs on a two weeks of citizenship train- gaining experience in voting and supervised classes down to the smallest activity mixed with the fun and humor which is created among a group of fine fellows, has taught us to live and appreciate appre-ciate the American Wav. O MY IMPRESSION OF UTAH BOYS' STATE By John Anderson On Sunday, July 7, when I arrived ar-rived at Camp Williams where the Utah Boys' State was to be held, all there was to be seen was a mass of tents and many people walking around. The camp directors assigned each of us to a certain city, and then we picked pick-ed out a tent in that city to live m. Eight boys lived in each tent and there were six tents in each city. Two of these cities made up a county. We were awakened each morning morn-ing at 6 o'clock by the bugler, and upon dressing, we would go to the grass where we would have our morning callisthenics. Then we would clean our city and our tents and would prepare for ing that they are not likely to forget for some time. The dreams of many Legionnaires Legion-naires came true when they saw the large enrollment of boys taking tak-ing advantage of the opportunity offered them. In this miniature state every citizen of Boys' State readily adjusted themselves to the routine of the camp. The camp was under excellent supervision super-vision of O. A. Wiesley, president, and under him were many other supervisors such as the counselors counsel-ors who oversaw each city. The State was composed of twelve cities over which a mayor was elected to take charge. Two cities made a county making 6 counties in camp. City, county and state e-lections e-lections -enacted by every citizen of Boys' State. The camp had as its mam objective, citizenship training, which was stressed on every side, but Hoys' State offered of-fered us another aspect which is of almost equal value and is found in the associations and acquaintances ac-quaintances which were made there. I believe that to every boy in camp learning to rub elbows el-bows and associate with boys of their own age was one of the greatest offerings found at the camp. We learned to respect each others rights, learned that everyone every-one was created equal in the eyes of the government and law. The men who lectured to us in our classes and assemblies could not have been better qualified or give better lectures. Probably the most colorful and thrilling sight in camp was retreat. At 5:45 the mayor of each city would turn out the boys formed a double line and leisurely leisure-ly walk out on the parade ground. When everyone came to attention and the band played the Star Spangled Banner and Old Glory floated earthward in the the hands of a Boys' State citizen, citi-zen, the sight brought a lump to |