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Show Granger, Peterson Address Rotary Club Luncheon Speakers at the meeting of the Cedar City Rotary club meeting Tuesday were Congressman W. K. Granger and Prof. Edwin L. Peterson. The program was in charge of L. A. Burascano, chairman chair-man of the International committee com-mittee of the club. Congressman Granger spoke briefly, emphasizing the importance import-ance of water to the state and the nation, and pointed out the necessity for protecting the state's rights in the waters of the Colorado river if the state is to continue to develop, either industrially indus-trially or in agriculture. Prof. Peterson spoke on the purpose and aims of the United Nations and said that the wish of the majority of the people of the world is to live in peace without fear of aggression, and that to have individual freedom of speech and worship was a dream hundreds of years old, and that the United Nations organization or-ganization is striving to make at least the latter part of such a dream a reality. "The progress of the UN has been slow," he said, "but it has taken the U. S. government 150 years to get where it now is, which, though far from perfect, is the best in the world today." "This," he said, "was accomplished accomp-lished through united effort of all the states, "many of which did not agree on many points, but which were willing to settle these differences by compromise." compro-mise." The speaker claimed that in spite of the fact that many feel that the UN is nothing but talk. It has already avoided two wars, oncMn -Palestine and one in India. He pointed out that Russia is the biggest stumbling block to the success of the UN and that it will be many years before we have anything like a perfect, workable agreement among the various members of the United Nations. |