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Show Harris, Moyle Speak On Security Theme At Leadership Week Registration Exceeds 2400 at Annual Adult Educational Event; Moyle Decries Growing Dependence on Relief "Selfishness on the part of individuals or as expressed by nations in the extreme nationalism which leads to. war is the greatest clanger to security," declared Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of the Brigham Young university speaking speak-ing at the Leadership Week general assembly this afternoon. President Harris stepped into the breach when it was A learned that President Heber J. Grant was unable to attend as university officials had hoped for. He took for his text the theme of the Leadership Week, - - - "The Security of Zion." In Higher Realm Defining his premises at the outset, President Harris said it is in the higher satisfactions of wisdom, wis-dom, spiritual calm and cultural knowledge rather than in material accomplishments that real security secur-ity for Zion may be found. He defined de-fined Zion as "the pure in heart," and "the Church of God." Self-security rather than general gen-eral security at the cost of others and the overpowing of the weak by the powerful as illustrated in the Far East crisis and the national na-tional strife in Spain will ultimately ultimate-ly lead to world catastrophe," President Harris told his listeners. "Often national or internationally international-ly conditions over which individ-' individ-' uals have no control interfere with personal material security as during the recent depression which was an outgrowth of the World war. Others types of security secur-ity must be relied on," he continued. con-tinued. "Health, material wealth .... used for the benefit of all such as inventions of universal aids; wisdom wis-dom and spiritual calm or peace are the reliable means of obtaining obtain-ing security." Word of Wisdom Observance of the Word of Wisdom, Wis-dom, control of disease, applications applica-tions of the rules of general health were named as the ways to obtain health which is important import-ant in the founding of a secure life. An interesting address on the church security program was delivered de-livered this forenoon by Henry D. Moyle of Salt Lake City, general chairman of the committee in which he called attention to the evils which the government relief oystem is producing. He outlined the church relief plan in broad tenns, pointing out that community projects sponsored sponsor-ed by the church security program must draw wholly from local labor and administrative sources. Each community must care for its own people. Advocates Training He advocated a system of vocational voca-tional training schools to supplement supple-ment the present educational system, sys-tem, citing the fact that 90 per cent of our unemployment is found among the unskilled who have never learned a trade of any kind. "We have always prided ourselves our-selves on our independence but trends today indicate that as a people we are becoming more and more dependent on relief." "The relief program of the federal fed-eral government in the past five years has shown what will happen if we continue to pursue this course of action we will become u nation of paupers rather than fiee men," he concluded. |
