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Show YOUNG TO ATTEND LEAGUE CDNFERENCE Salt Lake Educator to Have Part on Big Meeting's Programme. Professor Levi Edgar Young of tho University of Utah leaves this afternoon after-noon for Philadelphia and New York. Professor Young will represent Utah at the meetings of the League to Enforce En-force Peace, which has been called by the league's president, William Howard Taft. The problems of the war and the need of continuing the struggle until German autocracy is destroyed, will be considered. The league's motto is "Xo peace until the world is made sale for democracy." Addresses will bo made by tho British and French ambassadors to the United States, Nicholas Murray Butler, president presi-dent of Columbia university, A. Lawrence Law-rence Lowell, president of Harvard university, uni-versity, as well as many other noted Americans. Professor Young will make a close study of how the war, as a subject, should be taught in tho schools of the United States from the primary grades to the university. The subject is in demand by teachers far and wide, and during the coming summer. Professor Pro-fessor Young's plan is to lay be-foro be-foro the teachers the truth of the situation situa-tion that confronts America today, which will result, he believes, in a new spiritual awakoning throughout the country and a readiness to sacrifice all on the altar of freedom and democracy. democ-racy. Whilo absont Professor Young will also attend meetings of the annual session ses-sion of the Sons of the American Revolution Revo-lution to be held at Rochester, N. Y. He will visit Columbia and Harvard universities. The trip, however, is essentially es-sentially for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge as to how the war question should be taught to the children of the schools as well as in the homes. |