Show i B ress to ara 0 delivered Delivered by Colonel William m Nelson at the Commencement Commencement Com- Com t Exercises in the Salt Lake Theatre li r As the master builder strives to perfect t His liis ship and launch it upon the sea of waters so have your instructors endeavored endeavored r ored to perfect your training and launch f you upon the sea of life Henceforth you will make your own way let us usI I hope staunchly and truly bearing rich freightage of help hope and joy to the souls of men and to the of the communities of the state in which you may dwell and work You have been given due care and instruction in the theO O studies of the course and of your choice and vou you have received the benefit of surf surroundings surroundings sur sur- f that should elevate and broaden your minds Yet not so that yo you are done with learning but that you may impart impart impart im im- part to others of what you have received to each in beneficial degree as you are able and have the pr privilege And nd you will still be taught of others indeed that should be your chief advantage that in your development thus far your minds 0 12 will be more open to learn than if you f had not been through the schools you have the habit of learning and to those who have learned in part the ease is greater to learn yet more Be ready t then to learn as well as to instruct Yet i in imparting avoid as much as possible C the appearance of so doing for souls are 1 often sensitive Yet the need is upon you to give as you have received A A talent that is wrapped in ina a napkin and hid away is lost to the world It was a saying of John Knox that the state is the gainer 1 by every educated person it contains and andr r this saying of his has borne rich fruitage in the land where he lived and sternly p pursued sued a life of dev devoted ted duty such as few men have ever conceived It t is true 1 that few can be mighty leaders of mankind mankind man man- kind but everyone can do his part and 1 w when hen that is done the conscience is clear I and the community is well served The importance of the work before you is great This is a new state there is I much to be done See that you do i it 1 worthily and with all your hearts Your voices and counsel must always be for for j progress that which on candid consideration tion you conclude not to be best not alone for yourself but for all And when you have so concluded be steadfast let all know where you are to be found fund In the words of your Uncle David Harum Stand without hitching Let the people people peo peo- pIe see that a graduation in the University of Utah means something that it means something not only in prese present t attainment but in what is even of higher importance in the ability to learn more to keep on learning to prove that what the people have done in affording opportunities you have enjoyed pays not only in a money sense although I would have them see 1 that too too for for it does does but but in the introduction introduction introduction intro intro- of better thoughts higher aspirations aspirations aspirations i a broader kindlier and more ad admirable admirable admirable ad- ad i i mirable citizenship Your voices and influences will of course always be forthe for forthe the schools s for the perfection of the j school system as a whole and in all its i parts Some Some of the cogs in the great 1 educational machine are not yet perfect i Some connections are in part missing and some will need to be readjusted It will willbe willbe willbe be y your ur grateful duty and high privilege to attend to some of these lacks as you find or make the opportunity Generously Generously Generously Gener Gener- ye have received zealously repay Great progress has been made of late years in the schools of Utah It will be your work to push it along The world is full of strife of turbulence turbulence len lence o of hate From of old men have j u I f r warred waned against men until recent times there were vast wildernesses in what are arenoW arenow arenow now the most civilized and well-peopled well countries Population was sparse compared compared compared com com- pared with the thronging multitudes of today Famines were frequent even among the few people there were These things were because of the wars the pillage the slaughter With the diffusion of education and the growth of the arts of peace came better times passion was subdued rage turned away Even religion religion religion re re- ligion had been subdued to foster strife and men contended fiercely about it and fought about the way to educate the oncoming oncoming oncoming on on- coming generations But man ever struggled toward the light and made progress progress progress pro pro- gress withal You will have a nobler age to work in than had those of old yet there are and hates in the he world today despite twenty centuries from the Prince of Peace Your voices will be al always always always al- al ways for moderation calmness and justice Yet not would you even for peace sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice fice principle for that is the anchor to the souls of men but be sure that it is principle principle principle before staking too much upon it it When you are fully convinced that it is principle then clasp it with hooks of steel For the upholding of a worthy and important principle principle principle prin prin- ciple no effort can be too much no sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice fice too great Let us hope that in your cases no great crisis demanding such devotion devotion devotion de de- will come into your lives lives but if it does be worthy and do not shrink When humanity has lost its power of sacrifice and tenacious holding on to gre great t things f at no matter what peril it will need regeneration regeneration regeneration re re- generation through a new birth Be diligent do not waste time seek useful employment ment and be con content ent i in oc occupying occupying c J r with th i it Adapt Adapt- yo your your r work as far as as possible to helpfulness rather than to mere display Do what ought to be done Bishop the great Christian teacher of the Goths translated the Scriptures Old and New into the Gothic language making his al alphabet alphabet al- al t for the words but he lie refused to to translate the Books of the Kings because he said there was too much fighting in them and bloody wars were too much commended to be good for for- forthe the fhe Goths who were naturally too fond of fighting and needed rather to be prevented in this than encouraged So in your work adapt it as far as s you may to the needs of those who are to be helped do not push upon them what may not be good for them Tell it all may do at times but it is not always well to sow seed upon soil that is unprepared to receive it Tell ell w what hat will do the most good is the best rule and if this includes it all very well but you must judge for yourselves Be earnest in your lives and in n what you do and say honest with your associates associates associates ates but but- above all with your own hearts Harbor no illusions in matters of conduct conductor or action but try to see to-see see everything about you as it is For the lack of perception and of ability to act upon realities many manya a life has been wrecked Read as much muchas as you can Keep up with the knowledge of the times It is impossible to act with perfect judgment unless you know what is doing and as you will be called upon for light your electric arc should always be in perfect connection with the central bureau of illumination Courtesy kindliness kindliness ness and neighborly helpfulness are not only great social virtues they are the keys to great opportunities and are are worth striving for with all earnestness and strength There i is much said in our day about the str strenuous life It is a a agoo goo good life It means means' that one living it it do does s all he can his time is fully and profitably perhaps productively occupied It is wonderful to those not in the habit of applying all their time how much can be done by per- per application and by utilizing all the fractions of hours The strenuous life demands not not- only that much shall be done but that it shall be done with your might no lagging no hanging back but driving forward with all the energy and go that thatis is in you The more you do the tle more you can do But you mu must t not overtax your strength Be reasonable in your efforts Gauge your powers do not overdo Preserve your yom health most guardedly and carefully for when that fails your best is n never ver possible A sound t f t mind in a sound body as said of old is the great condition to be reached and arid held But as a rule men and women do not wear out they rust out out they become become become be be- come listless careless lazy they do not r care to undertake what they ought to do i and finally do not care to do anything that is worthy of them The cares of life are heavy it is true and I would not ignore ignore ig ig- f. f nore them but there is in every life much x t time and energy that could be more profitably employed than it is Be patriotic public spirited Lift your eyes above your personal interests Take a lively interest in political affairs those of the precinct city county state nation If public affairs are not b being ing well conducted con conducted con con- ducted say so openly and help to see that better management is installed If you have to pay for good roads see that you get good roads If you are taxed for charity see that that charity is devoted to the purposes for which it was collected and that it is well applied d. d If your state should do a certain work and has undertaken undertaken under under- I taken to do it and has raised the money use your power to see that it does it in the same good faith and honesty that you demand of f some one who has contracted to do a special piece of work for yourself Let your hearts be filled with love of country and strive to make your country such that you can love it with all your soul Your country will be always what you and your compatriots make it therefore therefore therefore there there- fore let your ideals be high and enforce them up upon m public life A country that is fit to die for if it needs you should be a very great and good country you can make this c country such and that you you will do your part to that end we are all well as as- Vote always when you may rightly right right- ly do so for a full vote and honest hone t count are the life of the republic and always vote with a full sense of responsibility Be Be ready to follow your vote to the battlefield if necessary in the rescue of your country as your countrymen by the hundreds of thousands have done before I Do not be swift to conclude that others in case some sorrow or calamity come upon upon upon up up- on them are being punished for their sins ins insor or their transgressions It is true that w we have the record of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed for s of their inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants but the calamities are not at always ways the results of wickedness as witness the righteous Job and we have the reign of fire file in Martinique with its terrible destruction destruction destruction des des- of life to show that an awful death to thousands is not necessarily punishment pun pun- There is no evidence that the people of that unhappy island were wei Vere e wicked above others while if belching fire and torrents of scorching lava were the chosen scourge for sin and crime it might be that a small volcano is past due in in most great cities of the earth Have courage with unswerving purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose and dauntless heart push forward to the accomplishment of every good purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose you have in mind and that needs tobe tobe to tobe be done Be not daunted by difficulties diverted by attractions or calls aside nor dismayed by the seeming odds against you A recent writer has brought forth old ditty ditty ditty dit dit- from a generations generation's disuse an war ty V which runs V t v The race is not to them that's got wi w The longest legs to run N Nor or the battell to to that f That shoots the biggest gun g As poetry that is away below par but p the sentiment of it is high it soars above old Baldy or the Twin Peaks Your opportunities of service are great yot yot can do much for the state It is rich richin richin richin in natural wealth it has great mines some of which have been worked and many worked in part but in these beetling crags more moie mines are yet to be found and that Utah will be a great mining state for centuries I have no doubt you will have your share shaie in the great and profitable work of taking out these minerals and red reducing reducing re re- d them to sei serve ve the purpose of man man- kind We vVe have gi great eat opportunities in agriculture agriculture ag- ag also some things have been done but much more must yet be done The life of the soil is the water from the winters wint wint- ers snows When V this water has all been stored and all th the land to which it can give fruitful life has been put under tillage you in your old age will look back upon what we see now as the day of small things thing You will respect the efforts that have been made but you will far surpass themas asit it is just and rig right t that you should do so for or you will have the groundwork already aheady ady laid fro from which to proceed I feel that the state will be safe in the hands of th the new generations as they thay take hold of the magnificent opportunities it will afford them In art and literature too you will go far already the sons and daughters of Utah are making a stir in the world of music and song already aheady they are known on the stage The state has produced poets artists historians ec economists skilled experts experts p in the sciences It has produced writers of prose and also some prosy pros writers s. s The state has rio reason to be ashamed l of of her children and the eminence that it is proper to strive fo for is hers herd in I part and all will come in du due time It has and has had many of whose ments it may justly be proud The University of Utah is fairly taking the place at the head of the educational system of Utah which it of right should occupy Its instructors are earnest competent competent competent com com- able in their line of work The instruction affords the students of the state such advantages as a state university should offer The institution should havethe havethe have havethe the war warm approval and steady support of all the people of Utah It should be fed with educational material from high schools in all the chief settlements and the people should see that the legislature deals generously with it In the ancient land before our era there lived a king who was high minded and useful as well as as great He took thought for the good of his people He applied his mind to restore settlements fallen into decay and to cultivate the neighboring lands who set his heart on making many a Waste place that under the kings his fathers had never known an irrigation canal to bring forth grain and resound with glad shouts to clear the neglected beds of water courses open dykes and feed them from above and below below below be be- low with waters abundant as the flow of the sea A king of open mind of an understanding understanding understanding un un- eye for all things This king built a city for his capital building it in righteousness and such as the world had never known and marvels at the remains of it to this day Day and night he planned to build this city I- I He Ie e bought at a just price the sight he had chosen in accordance with his views that he might be the guardian of right and justice govern the lawless not harm the weak as as we learn from his records he paid paia the price of the land for the city after tablets appraising its value to |