Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-04 | Page 4 | Grim Realist

GRIM I REALIST T r WAS AS rather a grim realist who a addressed I IT the graduates of the Utah State Agricultural Agricultural tural college at nt commencement exercises held in ill the Aggie stadium Saturday Youth Youthful ul H Henry nr A A. T Wallace secretary o of agriculture held forth no ros rosy promises for them but hut instead forecast a battle hattle with new and strange conditions In all aU of their early business and agricultural life he said the road ahead in all probability will be rough The next thirty years cars Secretary Wallace Tallace believes will see much more of significance in human engineering than the past seventy have brought forth in ill mechanical engineering We y e arc in ill the beginning of this thic era and out of the struggle between rugged individualism sm an and cooperation a new order will emerge vouchsafing something of genuine value or value or the whole system will vill fall to pieces he lie in in- in- in In his realistic moments he was something of a prophet of doom as the idealist lie he foretold foretold foretold fore fore- told the the advent of brighter days but days but far ahead We Ye are arc persuaded however that there remains remains remains re re- re- re mains here lere in the west more than a vestige of the spirit and character typified by the man who received well earned honors just before the cabi cabinet let officer be began an his address If th the youth of the west shall command the ruggedness rugged- rugged ness of mind and body to serve ser him as did Anthony W. W Ivins in iii days das when men were upon largely to implement their own purposes graduates of toda today will not have to wait thirty years ears to attain the objectives the they set themselves to today ar Pioneers we still have lave with us for the inspiration tion of sons and daughters rich in ill vigor and vision who arc are the fathers and mothers of the oncoming generation i destiny ny of this flung far-flung region is safe in their hands We Ye could wish that Secretary Tallace Wallace might remain longer with us It would profit him him to see sec with his own e eyes es what has been done to mingle with those who wrought the miracle of bringing the desert to bear fruit and aud flower To his practiced eye ee the ranches and valleys will seem in strange contrast to the showplaces in the he rural sections with which he lie is more fa familiar but familiar but in those New England upstate New York Middle liddle T West cst Virginia and Kentucky regions redemption from wilderness was the work of stout hearted men and women who had finished their work and passed on long before the first of the pioneers forged through the mountain rim of this valle valley to look through the haze that hun hung over the sage to proclaim This is the place 1 I Could he know better the human resources of the intermountain country and the treasure treasure treasure trea trea- sure stored in its hills beyond doubt ho lie le would return to his llis tasks in iii Washington with new understanding that would d be bo helpful to him himin himin himin in charting the course back to prosperity for forthe forthe forthe the farmers dairymen and industries industries industries in in- dependent upon agriculture in this inland empire Their prosperity is the I foundation foun- foun dation of th well being of every family which inhabits these western states We Ye commend Secretary Wallace nevertheless less for choosing to discard discar the tr traditional roseate platitudes of the perfunctory address to graduates The he young man nan and young woman leaving college toda today will not find ile he world at their feet waiting for them to solve its problems There is work to be done But these western boys bos and girls aro are willing and eager to work following in the footsteps of their industrious forebears They will seek their own opportunities All they ask is that they be not hindered by rash and visionary experimentation that they be not prevented from bringing to bear practical minds and practical efforts against the practical problems problems lems of the da day