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Show S. L. Temple Counselors Change Pres.Burton And Knight Named To Positips IN the reorganization of (he Robert I. Burton, of Ogden and President Stephen L. Chipman. presidency of the Salt Lake Jesse Will Knight of Provo They succeeded President Mark Temple effected by the First were named as first and sec- Austin, first counselor and Presidency during the week, ond counselors respectively, to President David A. Broadbent, second counselor who were reSRSMBMMMNtt leased after three years of serv-ic- alks io t'v eacherr e. The new first counselor, Robert Ibbotson Burton, is at present a patriarch of the .Ogden Stake and last weekvwas appointed assistant city treasurer : i 16. 1896-189- 8 1 - Appointed . v the stake High Priest quorum 'with William Robison as r Foge 2 Jon. 22, 1944 STAKE .Elder Eugene Bezzent Peterson was set apart as a member of the stake high council. r ' Elder Owen Wallacef was set apart as second counselor in the bishopric of the Englewood Ward. Wag-staf- Bishop Marvin Q. Ashton of the Presiding Bishopric officiated. Reno Reports On Mission William I N spite of the sparsely settled Dewey 'as second counselor. far flung area and t h - Elder Joseph F, Merrill of workof their reaches the stake, Twelve of Council the the ers of the Reno Stake Mission have achieved remarkable reNAMPA STAKE sults during the past year, disElders Wallace Dea Mon closed by the yearly report sent tague apd Clifford L. Johnson the stake president by Presi were set apart as members dent E. L, Whitehead of that of the stake high council. mission. R. Erickson . Elder Warren Statistics of the report indiwas ordained bishop of the cate that times missionaries Nampa-Seco- nd Ward with were out - doing missionary as j first work jumped from 1,792 in Daniel B. Richards counselor, Leonidas K. Hales 1942 to 4,657 in 1943. Hours essecond counselor andMiltpn spent in missionary work in-Rawlins as ward clerk. creased from 4,164 to 12,344, Elder Joseph Richmond Ison and gospel conversations from was Ordained bishop of the 2,392 to 5,267. Standard Works Caldwell Ward with Oscar L. of the Church distributed in Thornock as first counselor and 1942 numbered 195; in 1943 this Henry E. Stevehs as second number was boosted to 568 while the number of other counselor. Elder Reuben Call was set books distributed increased from 469 to 1,672 and tracts apart as first counselor and from 1,629 to 2,792. The num- and John DENVER This record may be better appreciated when it is known that the number of missionaries at work wasjbut 30, an Increase of only one engaged in the work during 1942, and that Reno is one of the smallest stakes in the Church from point of numbers Its population being 2,000 and scattered over an area of 1,600 square miles or slightly more than one person- - per square mile, The outermost boundaries reach from Reno 132 miles westward and 249 miles east to Tonapah, President Whitehead says of his workers, I know of no group busier than this one. They, have consecrated their lives to the work Of the Lord and as stake mission president I bow my head in humility Jn their presence, for they have in very deed let their light so ber of baptisms increased to shine before men 'that they 41 over the 17 record of 1943. have seen their good works." -- -I interest for more worthy objeetTNeverthe-less- , selected we can not ignore the today is: Should 1899-190- 2 following changes in Laurel E. Leavitt as second stake and ward officers are counselor in the bishopric of reported by members of the the Homedale Ward. Elder Joseph F. Merrill ofgeneral authorities attending ficiated. stake conferences:' quarterly SUGAR HOUSE STAKE BOISE STAKE Elder Harold M. Wright Elders Hurley Berthelson and Kenneth P. were set and Owen B.tMcBride were set apart as membersBorg of the stake apart as members Tf the stake high council, by Elder Nicholas e high council. G. Smith, Assistant to the ' Elder Arthur H. Anderson Council of the Twelve. was set apart as president of --- THE question n -HE N T W AHLQL) i ST PH. B President Burton. was bom Feb. 9, 1879, at Ogden, the son .of William-WaltoBurton and Rachel Fielding. He filled a mission to Germany Jn and following his return WiU Robert I. Barton J. Knight he married Letitia Jane Richards 'Dec. 2, 1903, to which union was born four children. President Knight was born in Payson, Utah, Aug, 20, 1874, a son of Jesse Knight and Amanda McEwan. In he filled a mission in Great Britain. In 1899 he married Lucy Jane BrimhalL In 1900 Elder Knight, together with his father and brother went to Canada where they engaged in farming, later erecting a sugar- - factory" and subsequently organized the town of Raymond. In 1901 Elder Knight was ordained bish-op pf Raymond, and later, in 1903. became second counselor of the Taylor Stake. Returning to Provo In 1907 he was chosen a member of A. David Broadbent Mark Austin the superintendency of the THE NEW and retiring counselors In the presidency of the Fifth Ward Sunday School and Balt Lake Temple. President Bnrton succeeds President Aus- soon thereafty was named tin as first counselor and President Knight succeeds President first counselor in the Utah Broadbent as second counselor. Stake presidency. New Church Off ice BY-JOH- . of Ogden. He was the first president "of the Mount Ogden Stake and prior to that appointment served successively-a- s member of the Weber Stake Sunday School Board, president of the T7th Quorum of Seventy, and a member of the High Council. the Church teacher recognize childrens interests. Teaching children the interests" of the chil- consists of taking where they are to where dren? If so, how? TZ fromWant them to be. Children Since the days of Plato, edu- you cators have wrestled with the are bundles of interests, you can not, see and deal with them problem of . interest. Unfortheir not have always without recognizing tunately, they had Platos power of discern- interests. Certainly, children's inter-esment in fact, at times interest should be recognized. has been looked upon as an is important in learnWhat excluded at interloper, to be Is it the fond of Infor. a ing? Plato cost asserted, any free man ought to acquire no mation and facts that are acor is it the interests training under slavery." In quired, the same passage in the Republic, he observed that the body Teachers: What does not deteriorate while perAre Your Problems? forming acts of compulsion, it for the soul, but Have you tEACHERS: 1 no compulsory discipline." He questions abouf your advocated that the boys should particular assignment? Is be forced to their learning, but your problem one of discitrainedthrough their Interests: pline or procedure? Or do Platos concepts Moreover, you have personality diffiwere put into practice. Mathew culties? Arnold thought that the exDr. Wahlquist has indicated his desire to help and traordinary charm of the old Greek civilization'" was that will give your problems his life was so interesting." Send personal attention. The. latent dictum of the them addressed to Dr. John scientific investigator is that T. Wahlquist, care of Editor interest is a more positive Church. News, for an early force than imposed, discipline. and careful consideration. Thorndike, the eminent psychologist, says, The " discand attitudes cultivated in ipline' from enduring the the pursuit of knowledge? disagreeable Seems to be far Facts and information are outweighed by the discipline but the interests, 'transitory, from working with an inproperly cultivated, may be terested will along lines that permanent possessions. fit ones abilities. If Plato This does not mean that needed to be vindicated, here the child does or everything itJs.- wants signifies deep and abidInterest is the basis of efMuch of the acinterest ing fort People vused to think tions of' children is' predicatthat children Jwere naturally ed upon nothing mor substanlazy. Consequently, teachers whim or caprice. A forced work Upon pupils. Many tial than teacher who builds upon such pedagogues thought It neces- sand has Vor footing. Appeal-- " sary to break the children, as to and momenthe vague the bronco buster subdues ing children interests of may tary horses. Such a procedure makes excitaneither good children nor good be nothing more than as Dewey horses. As a matter of fact, tion; it often means, a power few adults work as hard at said, playing with so as continually to sfir it up their jobs as children work toward In their play. Children exert without directing "if definite achievement , themselves when interested! And, as illustrated in the prin- ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Reliance upon interest is ciples of self activity, , an ounce of experience is worth educationally- - legitimate only in the degree that the activity a ton of theory. Incited involves growth and deCAN NOT "IGNORE , velopment There is such a INTERESTS as arrested development We learn by activity, but thing in the classroom. When the actions wait upon interests. teacher leaves the children Should the teacher, then, folwith the same interests with low the interests of the chilwhich they started a course of' dren? -- No, the teacher should study, or Indulges the youngstimulate,- - create, and guide sters after day in the selfthe interests of the children, same day Interesting activities, the e as well as recognize the of interest true principle interests they possess violated. Interesting chilwhen they come under his dren should never mean merely tutelage. Appeal to present inor exciting pacifying, amusing terests may be a necessary them. step in getting attention. How- ' The interested class is easily ever, if we leave children with detected. The general emotionthe same interests they had al tone is very evident; the before our tutorage we have children are happy, enthusiasfailed to Influence their. lives. and tic, cooperative. They sit Acquired attention is as effec- erect in their seats or lean tive as instinctive attention, t t f. and. usually centered, on . a (Continued ion Rage .Twelve) ts t can-endu- re legiti-mat- has-be- i- -- - en n |