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Show I iii mm A? I I 1 ... V?W JA 111 BACCALAURETTE SPEAKER. Marion D. Hanks,! right discusses SUSC Baccalaureate Services with 'President Royden C. Braithwaite, Elder Hanks, Assistant As-sistant to the Council of the Twelve of the L. D. S. Church was the speaker. Values are nurtured in the home church leaders advise SUSC gratis Elder Marion D. Hanks, as-1 as-1 sistant to the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Church 1 of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ! Saints, told Southern Utah ; State College graduates, their i families and friends Thursday at SUSC baccalaureate services that the home is the place in which' values are nurtured. As family members, "We are all participating every hour of , every day in an election of values," Elder Hanks said. He added that the system involves in-volves our "voting afid then backing up our pledge.!' He told his listeners that "Our greatest knowledge and power comes from close and immediate relationships .... as Individuals we ean make a real contribution toward solv-1 solv-1 n g w orld problems by strengthening solid, complete, happy family ties. "It matters who we marry," Elder Hanks told his audience. "We should be conscious of the associations our children will have long before they are born." Elder Hanks cited the build-ing build-ing of memorable traditions as one way in which family ties can be maintained. He used as an example the Christmas Christ-mas tradition of his own family fam-ily to visit each of their neighbors neigh-bors during the holidays to sing carols and present small gifts. He emphasized the quality of honesty in the home. "Children da not fall for fraud," he said. 'They are rarely misled. They do not honor values we celebrate with our lips and not witn our lives." Elder Hanks said that discipline dis-cipline in the home is necessary necess-ary and this measure should not be construed as punishment. punish-ment. He said that rules should be set up that parents and children can believe in. |