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Show I Mrs. W. W. Clyde Elected President of Nebo First ! District Federatd Womn's Clubs at Saturday Meet Mrs W W. Clyde of this city, was elected president presi-dent of Nebo First District Federated Women s clubs, at the swine convention held m Sprmgville last Sal ' Club Head . . . livin-- ThewnT-is ThewnT-is a tendencyof stafe. when we know wffj ; only if featured Mrs. Bybe , I008' it W. Bradford accent and Mrs ' Maurice Bird. mpaniVj Following the ononis departmental meeting, m the following h ere American Home, edu arts, public welfare Cnn n' of natural resources' i?sen', relations. s' lntemati0;; The women wer Pntc , a luncheon at noon ThP a -sessions were devoted en club reports by Mrs urer's report. Mr. Rr.v fe. auditor's report ir, -m,1?hts son. The new office ' the morning were ii elect the state prisidenttlrs'Tk ' rison of Salt Lake' Citv A -!- ' and talks were also riv ; state officers P W b' i f ; . 1 l: . - s-'X i i. - :J f i I::'! .. .-a - h V-:- - '- i! y -i I 1 -' . . I ' ' ' - i - . ' ' ' ' 4 v, i j-; ji day. She succeeds Mrs. Isaac Taylor Tay-lor of Spanish Fork, who presidec over the meetings. Other officers elected include Mrs. R. K. Davies, Fillmore anc Mrs. L. D. Stewart of Payson, vice-presidents; vice-presidents; Mrs. Mildred Ream oi Spanish Fork, recording secretary; Mrs. Ralph Beard of Nephi, treasurer; treas-urer; Mrs. Max Creer of Spanish Fork, auditor; Mrs. Vernon Larsen of Payson, historian. The convention was planned around the theme, "for what avails the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?" taken from a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson. A response to the welcome extended ex-tended by the district president, was made by Mrs. Gene Johnsoiv of SpringvilIe, president of the SpringvilIe Federated clubs. The SpringvilIe clubs acted as hosts during the day. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson,- president presi-dent of the Brigham Young University, Uni-versity, was the principal speaker speak-er at the convention general session. ses-sion. He said that we are living in an era when freedom is failing and cited the seizure of the steel mills by the president of the United Uni-ted States. "Never before have I heard in an American court that because the executive department has the power of the army and navy it can do anything it pleases. If this is true our freedom is past history," Dr. Wilkinson stated. He stressed the fact that our government is set up with one thing in mind by the founders and that is it should be "our servant and not our master, but we have allowed government power to go unfettered until it can force us to do anything," he said. "Our forefathers put direct limitations limi-tations on federal government with delegated powers only and forbade it any power not authorized by the constitution," the speaker said. "But the constitution has come to mean only what the supreme court says it means, and if the supreme court approves the action of the president, it will .open the way for further encroachment on our liberties. liber-ties. The vice of prevailing political thinking lies in thinking that the president has no constitutional bounds." Dr. Wilkinson concluded with the thought that pressure groups have asked for government controls con-trols one, by one in their selfishness selfish-ness and desire for security. "And so it has been an easy, but a deadly slipping step by step into a social- ; istic state. Unless people change Mrs. W. W. Clyde that attitude, we shall soon no longer lon-ger have the constitutional republic repub-lic under which we think we are |