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Show HUES AWARDED ; COLLEGE DEGREE! ! I I President E. G. Peterson of U. A. C. Confers Honor i Before Legislature. After hn inu' bom honuroil by kin-? j Liiid uiiiporur.'j and al'Ur having rocoivcil . t'lom tin.' M-crt-'tary of war ami Uiu secretary sec-retary ot' tuc navy diM inuiluM service inclaLs t'or his smviees in the war with Liermany, BriaiHer (Jciicral Frank T. KiiK's tood before tbu 1cm iaJy u p. 0t tho sLato ur Utah yesterday afteruoua and was accorded honors by his native state, and received the plaudits of a nati ve son who had uiii; tort h and biouht houor and tftory to this common com-mon wealth. iiet'ore a joint meeting of both houses of tho legislature, tJio governor, members of the :;upremei court and other slate officials asae milled in his honor at the invitation of fiovernor l.iamber-Ker, l.iamber-Ker, General Jlines received the decree of doctor of laws, conferred upon nimby nim-by President F. G. I'oterson. acting lor the trustees of tho Utah Agricultural college. Thus did the college lion or a general who, as a yuuutf man, left her walls more than a score of years ago to answer l ho call for volunteers in tho war with ypain. President James V. Funis of the senate sen-ate called the joint session to order shortly alter 2 o'clock, aud a joint committee com-mittee from bot h houses went to tho governor 's office to inform t ho governor gov-ernor 's party, includui General Jlines 1 and his famfly, that the legislature was ready to receive them. Legislators, stato officials and spectators in tho galleries arose and applauded vigorously when the general, escorted by Governor Bamberger, entered the house chamber, i President Funk briefly welcomed General Mines to his native state, con-, con-, g'ratuluted him on his achievements in the military service, aud called upon President Peterson of the agricultural college to confer the degree of doctor of laws. Dr. Peterson reviewed briefly the military successes and rapid promotions promo-tions of General Hines since he left the college to serve in the war with ISpaiu, and mentioned the decorations and honors hon-ors bestowed on him. He then handed to the general a parchment, conferring upon him the degree of doctor of Jaws, as a mark of recognition from the school where he had finished his education 'prior to entering the army. General liines was visibly affected' by the occasion, and expressed his deep appreciation ap-preciation of the honor done him by the legislature and by the college. 'While he had beeu.houored by foreign countries coun-tries and by his own nation, he said he appreciated more the manifestations on the occasion of the feelings of the people peo-ple of his native state, lie spoke enthusiastically en-thusiastically of the splendid war-record of Utah, noting the fact that this state had given five genera) officers and nearly 30,000 mm in other ranks to the war with Germany, aud that the casualties suffered by Utfth men indicated indi-cated that its citizenship was ready for the supreme test. The state may well be -proud, he declared, of the record made by its warriors. Speaking .briefly and with extreme modesty concerning the work of which he was the guiding head. General Hines told a few interesting facts concerning the transportation of 2.000.000 men from American training camps to Europe, where they stemmed the tide of German invasion and ended the world's greatest war. Few people realized, re-alized, said the general, the problems involved in the transportation of 2.0M,- 000 men overseas. To give his auditors some idea of the number of men. he said that if they were deployed in skirmish skir-mish line the line would reach from Loudon to Berlin. Berlin to Pnrir'. Paris to Coblenz, and leave enough additional men to form another line m from Mew York to Washington. General Hines strongly endorsed universal uni-versal military training as a mean of insuring the country against future wars, and also as a means of improving the physical and mental condition of the youth of America. Me said he did not believe that America would ever favor a large standing army, but that it should be the duty of the new tegular army, which he said bad learned many lessons in the last war, to train the vouth of the country along mi'litary Hnes. so that they might be prepared for duty in case of a national emergency. General Hines praised the men who nao served in the last war, and declared it his opinion that in years to come the men who had served overseas would be j found aligned on the right side of great questions involved in reconstruction problems. |