| Show I 3 j DAY DAYI I Thirty Thin Anniversary of Birth Of Mormon Church Schools Commemorated PROCESSION PROC S OF PROGRESS Stirring g s b H 11 II H Pr st A ir H nUll 0 Sei Special ond ri Provo Utah Ut ii Co t The storm chig Granted d an Irit rl da of ot one o o yesterday rooming m which h th students u and f lut i t 20 f d tom e 1 un grounds to to tho the S t h t nacie nacle for Founders day exercises The and Stripes and nud the white and blue blu handed h the lI c procession followed by hy bythe hythe the brass band Thu classes es then llen came In their order each under undera ti a graceful ful white and blue bear brial bearing ing on it In gilt the th year oar of graduation The class cheers were rather spasmodic ns as If the wet weather and overhanging gloom had damp dampened dampen ened en d the spirits of the students As AsI I usual the district schools were out In force countermarching and cheering incessantly treble voices pro prophetic Pj i of lusty lust student veils ell lii h the not distant future Inside the tho tabernacle was daintily decorated with pot plants and white while and an blue bunting Not many visitors were present but the student made an encouraging audience and the program was a splendid one The music feature consisted of ot two hymns by the choir spirited a selection tion by the orchestra tra a solo O 0 That Wa I Two Were Vere Maying by b Carl Nel Nelson Nelson son and the tho Eisteddfod piano contest selection sel by b Asel Asci Nelson one of oC the prize winners evoked marked enthusiasm and applause Another pleasant Incidental feature was al a reading g entitled The Bishops op Silence SU nce by b Miss Pearl Adams teacher r roC of oC elocution President Brimhall in a tic offered greetings gre to stu students tu dents dent and visitors pointing out some of the th salient sall ht features fe and sll that first founders daY 33 Elder had been be invited ito to d I the Uie Oration r e day but c c 0 O to a more urgent call could not bj W present President rend read his hla letter of or regret with tho comment that the school would keep inviting till he hi should come and give the students one of oC his rousing educational talks Elder E er Horace H Cummings general I superintendent of If Church schools was peremptorily drafted In to take Elder McKays place Ho lIo began b review reviewing reviewIng ing Dr of the tho bayan tree He pointed out that there thore wore were now 27 Church schools throughout Zion nil all patterned after the tho parent Institution h Moreover at a II recent meting of oC the tho genera board of at education four foUl new nc v stake academies hud had been created cl 1 ted to begin work worl next year My lf dear deal fellow rellow teachers and stu students students dents said he do you realize that young oung people are arc today attend attending ing Church schools school und and becoming ac acquainted with the gospel gosp l of Jesus Christ How Elder must re rejoice reo joice jolce at al such a rapid extension of hs hIs I work And yet J t along alonS w lh ls supreme 1 1 blessings au equal responsibility 1 Let Iet me tell you young people that tho very hardest before th eral authorities ot of the Ch Is how to 1 get th mon schools running und and provide for fOI the swiftly In r or the fur tu ture As S you ou know the only source of of 1 tOI this purpose la the tithing Saints Thus youse i trie t each l of or us ue young who Ii trained hero here and elsewhere In our Church schools will become full tithe Uthe payers payer and carry ara this gospel principle with to their thell homes then the good work of oC education can go on un unhampered unhampered hampered The speaker speak then called attention to the fin rn example set Het by the teachers of r the Young university Begin Beginning Beginning ning with tho first payment they vol yoI voluntarily adopted the plan of writing out ut a 0 check for Co I one tenth of their months salary and handing It back to 10 the treasurer to be given to the tithing cleric of their respective wards It Is Isan an nn example said the superintendent that will help me to straighten out the th tithing records record II throughout all allour allour our Church schools The speaker toog occasion lon to bear beal testimony to 10 the tho fine spiritual l atmos atmosphere atmosphere phere of the school As I have said many man a 1 time Im If I should be 00 blind blindfolded folded and carried hack bock and forth In Inand Inand and out a thousand miles then set down within the walls of at this Institution tion I should hould know kno I Iwas was by the th feeling that comes c es to my 1111 soul soulI I 1 A H Lund was present prese on the stand stan and In Introducing Him Prest hoped the time would come coine when there woul L be the same amity and d union u l n of Ideal and achieve achievement ment between bele n the two great Church schools that now exists exist between ete n the respective presidents of those hose s that Smith wasat the h of 1 the Young and president nt at the tho of the L DS I President Pr first observation u i il l was that it is III not money moncy alone that I makes l a I great school chool a thought which he Illustrated by lJ many II n comparisons cOll pall ns Ills lIls general theme was that there could be he no rent real conflict between n spiritual IUd and natural law Truth will coalesce no matter how different its Ils source He told loid the story of how Gall Gali Galileo leo lea invited the monk to look through his hili telescope tele and see for fOI himself that Jupiter had moons the tho monk had re replied replied plied Get thee behind mo Satan He was afraid of oC new no truth lest It top lop topple loppIe pIe over some pet theological opinions The time will never come said he hc when Saints Saint need be afraid of new truth Senator need Smoot reviewed briefly tremendous changes that havo taken of the place i Provo since the founding institution Where here the First atlon nl lank hank now stands there was wa at lit that years after a small time and for Cor many adobe hut used u ed as a IL drug store The eat east half of the block was covered by an all old apple orchard orl the west wesl halt was a 11 path directly across It led le to the Dolen mills This block bloch Is now the business center of the city elt Elder Smoot next spoke of oC the growth of the school referring to Prest st Brim halls remark that there thre were now three times 25 teachers In the faculty Why Vh lie he said s ld that is a II considerable ble larger larer number than there stu the first year ear And as liS for be being ing surprised and gratified at the tho present enrollment nt of lC students In Inthe Inthe the Church schools he predicted that that number In Increased we C should live to see creased to A ripple of oC merriment passed over oyet the audience when wh n upon the announce announcement announcement ment that owing to the th It to of or the thew weather w there thure would be no field sports In the afternoon someone In the audi audience encl ence suggested ed v have a Il boat race nice up Academy A banquet in the afternoon for Cor vis visitors viSItors and the tho general authorities of t the th school choo and a Founders ball at ut night I Closed clos the program for fo the day L |
