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Show ADDRESS 10 THE GRADUATING CLASS Sound Counsel From Hon. John Dern, One of the Financial Pillars of Stntc. THE DIGNITY OP AGRICULTURE AGRI-CULTURE IS UPHELD. The Principal Elements of Success, and How to Acquire Them, is Explained. Tho address to tho graduates, delivered de-livered by Hon John Dern, ono of tho directors of tho Utah Agricultural College, and ono of tho finnncinl and business pillars of the state, nt the Commencement exercises held in the B. A. C. auditorium last Tuesday, wns a message of wisdom nnd encouragement, encourage-ment, and is worthy of preservation. Celow wc givo tho principal part of the address: "I am very glad to have the honor of addressing this, the second class to graduate from tho branch of tho Agricultural Ag-ricultural College of Utah. The parent par-ent institution at Logan, of which wc are so proud, will in a few days cclo-brato cclo-brato its twenty-fifth birthday. Rer ognizing the extremely valuablo woik of that institution in developing the agricultural rorourccs of tho state, and feeling that for this reason sci entific agricultural instruction should bo extended as far and aB rapidly as possible, tho legislature in its wisdom two yenrs ago converted tho Cedar City branch of tho Stuto Normal School Into a branch of tho Agricultural Agricul-tural College. Probably tho specific reason for this act was to enable the youngmer andwqm,ih f Millard,. Emery, Grand, Beaver, Piute, Wayne, Iron, Garfield, Washington, Karjg and San Juan counties to attend college near their homes instead of being obliged ob-liged to incur the additional expentic of going to Logan. Furthermore, it was recognized that tho people of southern Utah have to work under somewhat different conditions than obtain in the northern counties, and it was believed that this branch might devoto particular attention to the problems peculiar to this section. Both of these reasons are good ones, and tho establishment of this branch wpb evidently well justified. That it is appreciated by the people of these southern counties Is ovident from tho largo attendance, and from the enthusiastic en-thusiastic interests displayed by the students and their parents, alike. The trustees of the Agricultural College therefore feel that thcro are ample benefltn to offset tho loss of efficiency thnt every capable business man known must inevitably come from conducting con-ducting two plants instead of ono. We aro very happy to note the prosperity pros-perity of this branch. We hope it will continue and increase, and that this school will prove an important factor in Bhowing tho people how to make the most of tho vast possibilities possibili-ties that surround them in this potentially poten-tially rich portion of our state. The Utah of Tomorrow. "But, members of the class, there is n bigger reason why It gives me a great deal of pleasure to address you on this happy occasion, for in speaking speak-ing to you I feel that I am speaking to the Utah of tomorrow. No state, no cour.trj, was svsr made great by its natural resources or advantages but only by its citizens. No matter how fertile the lands, no matter how rich its mines, no matter how invigorating invig-orating its climate, nor how favorable its geographical situation, no nation ever nchived greatness without tho light kind of people to uso these resources re-sources and to make tho moat of them. In a few years tho generation that is now carrying on Utah'H work will ho.VQ ateppod aside, and you wjll take its place, You will be the active generation, gen-eration, und the destinies of the state will bo In your keeping. I thorofore hail you as the Utah of tomorrow. Beautiful Js the prospect that is spread before you, and glorious Ib your opportunity. 1 envy you the prlvilogo of going forth from this institution, in-stitution, with all tho confidence nnd enthusiasm of youth, to take your part in tho great battles of life. Be it far from me to dampen your ardor, or to repress your hopefulness. Rather Rath-er would I give you words of good cheer and encouragement, for you m"Ut have 'faith in yMUtt'elves. Only Three Per Cent Cultivated. 'mRfl "We are fond of saying that Utah mflmfl Is a great stntc, but candor forcea us ijRmfl to admit that this assertion, in some lmmfl respects, is also ono of tho cnthus- 'mRmfl lams of youth. Doubtless our possi- ; H bilitlcs arc stupendous, but at tho mmR present stngo of our development wo RRmfl are fools to say that Utah is great in H population, in wealth, in volume of i business, in cultivated area, nnd in H many other things. Compared with some of tho older Eastern Btates wo '' H are almost insignificant in these . H things, and it behooves us to got the (MmH right perspective, and to boo ourselves t ;H as we really arc. But that is no rca- mRml son for discouragement, for nobody t H can deny that wo have here tho mater- I H inls and resources out of which an in- , tclllgent, enterprising, industrious , RBH people can build a truly great state. BH You arc probably awaro that at prcs- mRmi ont only thrco por cent of the area of HS Utah is under cultivation. Does any- R body believe that this ia all that can RH be cultivated? I have only to gaze HRH across the vast areas of rich land ImrRfl right here in Iron county to convince ' HRH myself of greater possibilities in tho H future. Over yonder, in San Juan j H county, thcro is an empire of land , RJ that is conceded to bo the best dry H farming section in tho state A few HRH weeks ago our Governor took a trip j ,H to Millard county and ho saw there a RR great tract of land that he Bays will HRH become tho granary of Utah. Up in "RH the Uintah country there Is the acre- RH ago nnd tho water to support more RRRJ pcoplo than aro now livng in the en- RRR tire stntc. The report of tho Stato RH Burenu of Immgration, Labor nnd RRH Statistics tells us that tho total area RH of Utah Is a little over 54,000 000 Rl acres. Owing to itH mountalncous , RH character, much of this is not tillable, RH but it is estimated that 22.000.000 . RRRl ncres aro capable of cultivation. Of RRJ this area only 2,000,000 acres, or lesa t H than ten per cent, Is now under the I RH plow. This leaves 20,000,000 acres j ,H more to be reclaimed and made, Into i LvMPMj farms. -These agricultural rearc'e;Jw'. -,vva ! H together with untold mineral wealth, !F lie before you. It is for you to de- R ! mH velop them, to make them productive, p. ' RRj to help solve the problems of trans- ..j RH portation, and to do all thoae other . RRH things that need to be done in a new ' ' H country. It is work for strong men- . LH and strong women, and the task a- j RRfl waits you the Utah of tomorrow. j RJH The Parents' Great Sacrifice. , RRR "While I congratulate you upon hav- RH ing completed your college course, I RRfl cannot forbear speaking a word of ap- . RRH prccintion for those who sent you , RR here. Fathers und mothers often do- RH prive themselves of comforts and RRR luxuries, if not even of necessities, in RRH order that their children may havo r RRR advantages that they themselves have RH not known. They have felt tho handl- , H cap of lack of education and culture, HRfl and they havo highly resolved that RRj if patient toil and self-denial will en- j uble their children to occupy placed RH which .they themselves were never H qualified to fill, it shall be so. No RH doubt that has been true in the fumi- , RH lies of some of tho members of this , RRJ class. The purcnt who makes this j RH sort of a sacrifice is entitled not only . f .RRJ to the life-long gratltudo nnd devotion , RRJ of the son or daughter who has thorc- RRJ by been benefited, but also to the RRJ thanks of the whole state. To such , H parents I say: "Utah humbly honors ' R and reveres you for your noble, pat- y RRJ riotic, unselfish service. In your own RRJ way you have served the state, and RRj your memories shall be enshrined in RRJ the hearts of the people." H Owe a Duty to the State. 9JH 'You ycu::e mar. and woman aro la mH graduates. o a state institution. Tho my state has educated you, and in return vjpm you owo ft solemn duty to the state, , Ifewy tho duty of good citizenship. Tho HESft knowledge and training you have usRSJ gained in this school may properly bo Wjfp used primarily for your own benefit, $ti$& and we hope they may provo valuablo j wflpft? factors In promoting your material i1 welfare and prosperity, and add joy ftlvt to your lives. But tho educated man - ffef1' or woman hus no right to bo satisfied 'P-Ji? with n selfish use of his or her powers. $$gS You have assumed a responsibility. ; SmS You owe it to tho state to do your ! iajSi share of tho public work, to take un -SSj interest, and a part in thoao things LhRjI that have to be done for tho common flfH good. What is it that causes bad, jRi govsrnmont? It Is that tho good, up..' h9 right, clean people do not takonold - 1 ;?nH of the government and run it, but let ' HH it go by default Into the hands of the - j ll incompetent and dishonest. Suppose ; Rfl your community poedB a roadr'R ' RMI bridge, or a public building, or Bom '; -R other Improvement for thorcomfSot R I (Cofttlhut'd on pUi; 5'A .yJE H Rj wBp ' Sff?ml iff IFlml "' '' i m i RJ n s9R - S RRRRRRRRRRRRRmYRRRRRRRRmiRniBBffiuj ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS (Continued from first page.) ', .benefit. Will these things build themselves? them-selves? Will you get them if every , member of the community attends so strictly to his own business that he hns no time to nttend to his duties as u citizen? I am n firm believer in " , minding one's own business, so far as -j not meddling with your neighbor's .v business is concerned; but I am also firmly convinced that you can not bo a good citizen unless you give a fair share of your thought and tima and energy to those things which pertain to the community life. To the Man Who Knows. "You have received scientific instruction. in-struction. If you have got anything " worth while out of your college course you know by this Mine that know-, know-, ledge is power. The world is fairly shrieking for men and women with brains, who can and will think and reason, who can do things bcttc. thun anybody olso can do them. There is so much ignorance and incompetcnci that ho who knows finds a ready wel-' wel-' corns everywhere. To the man who knows, the earth yields up her wealth. To tho man who knows, other men give ready allegiance. Lot it be your constant aim, therefore, not to feel thnt your studies are ended, but that they have just begun. Indeed, an education ed-ucation docs not consist in a head full of facts, but in a training to think and reason, to use the mind intelligently in-telligently upon all occasions, so as to solve problems as they arise. Tho greatest pleasures of life arc the intellectual in-tellectual pleasures, and the educated man can get just as keen intellectual pleasure out of scientific farming as he can out of reading books or writing poetry. Whatever your walk in life may be, you will never bo so happy as when you have Truth on your side. Let me therefore admonish you at all times to seek Truth, and let her be your one and only guide and counsellor. counsel-lor. He who lays'asido his own honest hon-est convictions to follow the dictates of someone else is untrue to himself, which is the greatest crime one can commit. Education vs. Wisdom. "Do not make the mistake of thinking think-ing that education and wisdom are one and the same thing. Many men with x tho finest educations are not wise. Many others with brilliant natural gifts lack wisdom. On the other hand, we have our Benjamin Franklins and our Abraham Lincolns who, with only meager educations, but with clear, alert minds and a fiery zeal for knowledge, know-ledge, became so preeminently wise that wc place them among tho great ones of the dhrth. Wisdom requires good judgement. The man or woman who hns good judgement is the safe ono to follow, not the brilliant, erratic one. Wo may often be led astray by the specious arguments of an eloquent demagog unless we cultivate the habit of studying and weighing carofully all that wo hear, and reasoning ull matters mat-ters out to tho satisfaction of our own minds. Heaven defend us from intellectual slavery. The intellect is ' God's most precious gift, and Ho ex pects us to use it and to keep it pure. Agriculture a Scientific Occupation. "You have been studying scientific agriculture and domestic science, or scientific housekeeping, if I may call it so, and I need not persuado you of tho value and dignity of these callings. call-ings. The fact that you have chosen them for your life work is the best evidence that you consider them fields in which there arc great opportunities, oppor-tunities, and in which there is ample room for your best efforts. Men used to think anybody could be a farmer. Now we are beginning to realize that agriculture is perhaps tho most scientific scien-tific of all occupations, and that nobody no-body is too 'smart to bo a f armor. In fact, it takes, a smart man to be a . successful former. Similarly, it used to be tho idea that there was nothing t to keeping house except the regular r v woman's work that was supposed to come naturally to every woman. Now wo arc learning that housekeeping is a scientific profession, and that the brainiost woman will make tho best housekeeper. Instead of being drudgery, drudg-ery, it ia becoming recognized ao an inviting field, whero a woman can fully develop her powers and satisfy t tho highest aspirations of her hind. 1 Essentials of Success. "Thero arc a few essentials of suc cess in life Nvhich everyone should cvi-Mjvate, cvi-Mjvate, First, I would put thorough-CS3, thorough-CS3, for without thoroughness no good work is ever ttono. If you do not cultivate your land thoroughly ' you will not get a good coj). If you & do not irrigate thoroughly-, "but do it in a haphazard, hit or miss sort of way, you cannot expect good results. Tho woman who is not thorough in her housework, but who gives everything every-thing u "lick und a promise," whether . it be in cooking, washing, sewing or taking care of her children, soon acquires ac-quires the reputation of being slouchy and runs tho risk of forfeiting the respect of her friends, if not oven of her husband. Some misguided women wom-en think a devoted husband will stand -" anything, but I venture, to say that house and an untidy wife cart mar domestic happiness as quickly ns anything any-thing else in the world. Whatever is worth doing at all Is worth doing well, so I say practice thoroughness. Intelligent Direction of One's EffoMs. "Second, I suggest efficiency, which embodies thoroughness, but adds thereto tho elimination of waste. It implies an intelligent direction of one's efTorts, so thnt every movo will count. Efficiency engineers In manufacturing manu-facturing plants study different ways of doing things, in ordor to find out how a task may bo performed with the least effort, and hence at the lowest low-est cost. It is not the person who works the hardest, but the one who works tho most intelligently that gets the mo3t donci Eliminate the lost motion and make yourself efficient If you expect to acompllsh anything. The Rolling Stone. "Third, there is persoverencc. Life is full of mishaps and disappointments. disappoint-ments. He who is not dismayed by them, but continues hopefuly in his "oursc will succeed. Some farmers, if they have a crop failure, think the locality is unfavorable and so they move to another place. Probably they will have the same experience '.licre. Before a farmer can ideally make a success of a place he must oc- upy it several years, so as to get acquainted ac-quainted with the climate, soil and other .conditions. This he can never do if he keeps moving from place to place. If you will oxorclse perseverance persever-ance you can profit this year by the mistakes of last year, and thereby gradually acquire tho knowledge necessary nec-essary for success. A fourth element is stability, which is closely related to perseverance, and I may illustrate it by continuing the same example. The old saying is that the rolling stone gathers no moss. This is conspicuously true in farming. farm-ing. Tho farmer who is always moving mov-ing never gets ahead. Did you know .hat of the six million farmers in tho United States, 52 per cent have occupied occu-pied their farms for lcs3 than five years? Needles to say, the farmers who have the money are all in the jther 48 per cent. If a farmer is tied to the soil, that is, if he owns his place and stays with it, he takes an interest in seeing that the roads and bridges aro kept up, that tho farm buildings are. in good rcpnir, and he takes an interest in the schools, the churcheB and general welfare of tho community. None of these things have any interest for the "fly-by-night" renter. Not having the stability sta-bility to settle down in one place and itay there, he makes no money and cts very little pleasure or satisfac-:ion satisfac-:ion out of life. Set Yourself a Definite Task. "A fifth essential to success is know- ng what you are about. Some people just float aimlessly along, and, like a piece of driftwood at sea, they nev er get anywhere. Let mo admonish you in the strongest terms to set a lefinite task for yourself, and then let ill your efforts be intelligently directed di-rected toward the accomplishment of that task. No progress is ever made ithout some definite program. The 'iiriner sets out for a certain port, and he has no other aim except to each that particular port. Similarly, .f you firmly make up your mind that no matter what happens, you aro going go-ing to havo a certain number of acres ac-res of land, Improved and paid for, pox aro sure to get it. Nothing can stop you, because you have a definite purpose. But if you do not know what you want, and just go aimlessly along, waiting for something to turn up, you will never get anything. Success the Goal of. Everybody. "I havo said that thoroughness, efficiency, ef-ficiency, stability, pcrsovcrence and definiteness of purpose, aro essentials to success. I do not say that these alone are sufficient, but they are a-mong a-mong tho essentials. They are qualities qual-ities that can be cultivated, and I therefore enjoin them upon you. Success Suc-cess is the goal of every person, but what is success? It is as varied as human interests, as different as human hu-man aspirations. Commonly wo think of it bb tho accumulation of wealth, but wo find rich men trying to get satisfaction out of life by giving away their money. Tho man or woman who la Teally successful, Is the ono that gets joy out of life, and the greatest joy comes from creating something. The artist has his moments of greatest great-est exultation, not when finnnclal reward re-ward comes to him, but when he paints a great picture; tho engineer, not when ho draws his biggest fee, but when he builds a great bridge or a factory; the statesman, not when ho lines his own purse, but when his mind conceives a plan that will benefit bene-fit his fellow countrymen. And so a farmer may get his enjoyment out of raising better crops than anyone else, or developing on especialy fino herd of cattle, or in solving nny of the problems prob-lems that confront him. Joy comes from a sense of power, from a feeling feel-ing that one has gained a victory, and especially from the consciousness of having helped others. The successful lifo is the useful life, tho life of Bcr-vico. Bcr-vico. And 'All service ranks tho samo with God, With God, whose puppets, best and Worst, Ao wot tktfAJ to wo Jovfc roV frftJt' " |