Show PROF BRIGGS AT THE TABEi tabernacle fiGLE sunday evening at the tabernacle prof howard R driggs of the llie U of V U delivered a splendid talk on oil the needs of a library and gymnasium prot prof J T if 11 paul should hive have beet 1 resent present I 1 also but through th rough a misunderstanding banding tan ding he be failed to make connection with the train the meeting was nas held under tinder the direction of the M I 1 A and was presided over by oluff petersen first abst in tile the stake after the opening hymn blymn and prayer mrs elfleda L jensen cattle callie lund isaac IL H jensen and clarence C jensen rendered a beautiful quartette entitled the last rose of summer prof driggs was introduced and commenced his remarks by defining the mission of the pioneers which lie he gave as that of changing the desett wastes into fruit fields and the substance kiib of human energy is tile the redemption demp tion of waste lie he told how the pioneers led water over mer the thirsty plains and made them produce bounteous crops for the blessing of mankind also how the great industrial captains of 0 today scheme and study to save time energy and distance in fact ciery everything thing that can possibly be turned into a commercial value Js is done so the speaker vaen t ien made u comparison of the worth orth or of human lives from a cash basis of their power to produce at different periods the babe with all ill his P possibilities is reckoned as worth 90 the old per son is figured at the same price the middle aged person full of vigor and mental power is rated at the estimated waste commercially in the united states every year is placed as the waste of oe human u hies tor for the same period Is double that much figured in dollars and cents this waste comes through channels of sin such as the sIo scoott ott zar tamb riblin lins hall a and nd kindred evils each ri n the abi land cona tributes its duoto to tc the enormous waste and the question is how low to stop it ilow how many people would be billing vi tiling to pay it a competent man a 1 month to manage it a gold mine that was producing millions of dollars in dividends bont Nono would think the price ilow how many parents would be willing to pay that much or even less to fo the man who could touch their boy and make of the evil inclined youth a strong and noble man our children are the greatest wealth wo can call possibly possess but many par cuts spend more time worrying and fussing aussin over their horses sheep and cattle thin than they to do over their child i en our education in utah costs the 66 state 13 3 per day which speaks well for our educational system but there is too little done for the social bide of our life if every family in this city would contribute 2 per year the community could establish and conduct one of the finest libraries and gymnasiums in the land it if you prohibit one thins thing you must substitute sti tIte something to lead off in the op opposite direction it if the saloon must go and we want it to go a place must be provided where here the boys can go and spend their evenings when the pioneers first began to irrigate the first thing they did was to dig ditches to conduct the water wate rout out on the thirsty soil it if they had constructed ted dams first the water would have burst the dam and went on oil in its old course but by having the ditches ready when the alie dam dain was made the water readily run out in the ditches and onto the thirsty ground so li it Is with the vices for every one that Is abolished something of an all opp opposite osite character must be sub and there so appeals to the young people as a nice gymnasium and reading room combined prof driggs went on to urge arg ge that the community do something soni ething in the way of 0 taking the responsibility of the rending reading room from the shoulders of the who have so nobly borrie borne the burden these many any years and enlarge it construct a swimming pool in connection with a gymnasium and do something to reclaim the boys and girls who are gradually slipping away the lecture was a most instructive one and was listened to by a fairly good audience |