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Show BENNION AND l: SMITH SPEAK ! AT ASSEMBLY Significance of Family Life Stressed By Smith; Note of Optimism . Is Sounded By Church School Leader. Elder Jost'pli Fichlini: Smith of the iiioruin of Twelve nmi 1 r. Adam Bcniifon. 'suptM-iiueiulciit of the Jj. 1). S. school system, were the speakers t the first penenil session of the e;ulership Week ist I the Xonng university ilondny aftci'-noon. aftci'-noon. Home Is Signficant I Klder Smith discussed the theme, ; "Youth iTiul the Home". To Latter- , day Saints, said Elder Smith, the 1 term homo is especially significant, j fur with them marriage is not for i this hie alone, hut for eternity. The home will never cease to exist. The fnudly relationship,- he ured, i- most sacred, and .being so. it is of the - highest jmportnn.ee that The children in Latter-day Saint homes should he trained with the greatest care. A marriage ceremony - performed in the temple of God, said the speaker,, should be- considered holy. Among the Lat tor-day Saints there should be no divorces. VYhere there is love between husband and "wile there will be love among the children. chil-dren. It becomes the duty of -parents, he said to sot worthy examples. ex-amples. There must be no deception. Children should obey, their parents, par-ents, the' speaker' admonished, but -if the parents do not set worthy examples, are not honest and true, it enn not be expected that children shall be obedient and follow parental par-ental admonition. "Warning was sounded against modern conditions which tend to detract from the discipline1 dis-cipline1 of the home. Superintendent Bennion sounded an optimistic note relative to righteousness.- He contended that there . is less crime per capita today than 50 years ago. The appearance to the contrary -'is due to the greater facility fa-cility in- gathering news ' and sensational sen-sational press dispatches. Hopes For Change-He Change-He hoped the time would come when positive encouragement would, be given, to families to live in their own homes. At -present homes are. heavily, taxed1 while those who live in apartment houses go almost tax-free. tax-free. Dr. Bennion cited statistics to show the rapid decrease in the birth rule, the sin test showing but" a fraction more than an average of two toj a family. Perhaps at present, he said, the average is bss than two. Further statistics showed that the average was much less among the intvllecturil classes than among other classes. The invocation was offered by .j-p: -Susa Young (.';ites, of the bo'ard f"t Tustees of "the university, ;nil the- benediction was "offered by President -James H. Clarke nf the j Alpine stake.- - ' Mnnieal numbers Were rendered by the faculty quartet, consisting of , L "W. teAllrster. Thomas L. .Martin, Carl-"Christ ensen and Murray K. Roberts. . . ; ! |