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Show SALGGtaS "" COLLEGES? President John A. Wldtsoe of the U. A. C Says Both .Cannot I Progress i Editor Logan Republican: Logan occupies a distinguished position po-sition among the cities of Utah ' be-' cnuso it Is tho homo of tho Temple1 nnd of tho Hrlghnm Young and Agricultural Agri-cultural Colleges. Other cities have factories, or milk condensories or other Industries but Logan Is the only city denominated, becauso of Its superior educational facilities, the Athens of Utah, Tho collogo activities activi-ties give our life n distinctive cdura tlonal flavor. Our high social and intellectual conditions, resulting from1 tho ndvnntnges of tho colleges, nro' becoming w.dely recognized, nnd prospective pros-pective homescokers, of tho highest clnss, nro frequently ndoptlng Logan ns their homo. Lognn promises to becomo tho most dcslrnble city In tho stato, for home builders who seek tho most satisfactory moral, solal nnd lntollcctunl environment. AH of this is a result of tho founding In Lognn Lo-gnn of splcnd'd educational and church Institutions. Tho really big question beforo tho voters nt the coming election Is how tho reopening of saloons In Logan will nffect the splendidly high educational and social so-cial position now occupied by our c ty Tho wholo sum of money involved In tho whiskey trado of Logan Is extremely ex-tremely small compared with tho business resulting from tho families drawn to Logan becauso of Its special fitness for clean high minded home builders. Wilt Logan ns a whiskey town nttrait these ns beforo? Moreover, tho colleges enn servo tho city nnd the stato best when so many students attend them. Tho colleges col-leges of Logan, especially tho Agricultural Agri-cultural College, are sorlously hnndl-capped hnndl-capped In their campaign for stud-, cuts. Logan Is located within a few miles of tho Idaho Hno. Tho major-1 Ity of Utah's peoplo Uvo many miles i southward. Students coming to the, Logan Colleges must pass through j Salt Lake, Provo, nnd othor c tics, each possessing splendid schools of ) colleglnto rank. Why should stud-! cuts pass through theso cities nnd hnvo such excellent Institutions of learning ns nro tho H. Y. University nnd tho University of Utah, to go to tho far North, to Logan, to do their I college work It costs moro railroad furo, tho young people aro farther fiom home, yet, during tho last fow years especially, great numbers of tho best young people of Utah hnvo como to Logan to study, Beforo a young man or woman Is sent away from homo to study, thero Is much serious thought on tho pnrt of pnrcnts nnd many family councils nro held. Tho merits of the different differ-ent schools nnd cltleB nro carefully discussed and tho student Is sent to tho placo that scorns best fitted -to educate him and to keep him in the paths of rcctltudo. Tho peculiarly valuable pratlcal work of the Agricultural College has no doubt attracted many students, but It Is equally true that tho reputation reputa-tion of Logan as a clean, moral city has determined many a parent to send his child hore. Parents aro not fond of taking chances with thoir children. Even an education Is too dear, if obtained at the sacrifice of morality and high Ideals of living. Tho first question asked by parents of prospective students as wo travel over tho stnto, Is concerning the mor-nl mor-nl conditions of Lognn, whether It is a dry town, whothor tho mayor nnd pollio officers do thoir duty In enforcing en-forcing tho law, and .similar mattors. Practically the only reason why tho University, located in a whlskoy town, Is nblo to maintain n largo student stu-dent body, is that within street car distance of tho University campus aro living fully ono half of nil tho people peo-ple of Utnh. Plnco our State University Uni-versity In n whlskoy town of the slzo of Lognn nnd equnlly fnr from tho I center of populntlon nnd lenvo the Agricultural Collego In n dry Logan, and tho attendance at tho Agrlcultur-nl Agrlcultur-nl Collego would ho nt least four t mes tho nttendanco at tho University Univer-sity in tho whiskey town. With the handicaps of location and Hia vigorous competition of other eolleges, do Logan peoplo wont to tako chances on reducing the nt-tnndnnco nt-tnndnnco at tho Colleges? Tho loss of two scoro students would mean n financial loss much grcntor than tho highest posslblo gnln from tho open snloons. It is nbsolutely certain, to all who know tho Slate, that with open Bnloons hundreds of students who otherwlso would como hero, wdl be sent elsewhere; for Lognn, the whlskoy town, will have no advantage ocr Salt Lako City or othor cities. Should It happen In tho coming election elec-tion that Provo should remain dry and l-ogan go In for whiskey, a large number of our students would bo 4" rnt to ''roo next year. Tho chanc-' es aro too big for Locan to take. However, when Logan ccccptcd tho Urigham Young and Agrliulturaf Coil-leges, Coil-leges, It virtually ngreed to g'.ve the proper protection to tho student3 who should nssemblo In theso Institutions. I If tho whole state were wet It would . still ho tho duty of tho Colloge towns to remain dry. Most College towns ! throughout the country recognize this obligation. Cambridge, tho homo of l Harvard University Is virtually a part of Boston, only a river' separates them. Boston has saloons' galore; Cambrldgo has been dry for more than a quarter of a century, and It Is famous ns n Collego town. When Logan Lo-gan had saloons, nearly half a hundred hun-dred cases of disorderly conduct among Agricultural Collego students had to be handled annually. Tho year nftcr tho saloons wcro closed tho number fell to nbout five, nnd this yenr wo had trouhlo only when tho student body wont on nn excursion to Snlt Lake City, which linn nnlnmis. By rebuking effectively the clamor for whiskey Logan will show tho Stato that It senses fully tho respon-i respon-i s bllity It carries for tho welfaro of the hundreds of young pcoplo who nro sent hero hy anxious, self sairlfic-ilng sairlfic-ilng fathers and mothers. ! In tho building of an Ideal Ity, tho Temple and tho Colleges nro Logan's greatest resourco nnd help. Thoy nro inl8o the biggest flnnnclal helps to tho city. Tho open saloon Is diametrical-Jly diametrical-Jly opposed to tho spirit of theso In-Istltutlons. In-Istltutlons. Evory person acquainted j with education knows that along with tho saloon aro all tho Iniquities and J vices which distort mankind and mako God's Imago hideous. Finally, do not let us bo fooled. Tho agitation for whiskey In Logan originated orig-inated with tho whiskey peoplo whoso j agent directed tho campaign for signatures sig-natures and who directs tho campaign cam-paign now. Tho world is shaking It-I It-I self looso from tho bondago of whiskey; whis-key; tho whlskoy pcoplo nro despor-,ato; despor-,ato; thoy must win at any cost, and what caro they for human misery or , human lives so long as thoy can gath-!er gath-!er In tho dollars. Very fow of our Logan peoplo want saloons; somo are , fooled; nnd some nro Ignorant; but I tho majority of us do not want rn-loons, rn-loons, and do not caro to havo tho whiskey trust tell us what wo nro lo do. If Logan should go wet, how they would laugh, thoso riders of whiskey barrels, nt tho enso with v. hi eh wo pnrted with our precious birthright. Hut, this tlmo whlskoy won't win In Logan. ..The choice Is between saloons and the Colleaes. They cannot both prosper In Lonan. Therefore, all hands out on election day to give tho slimy whiskey snake an unforgettahlo rebuke that will send him back permanently per-manently to roll and froth among tho whiskey barrels of his clammy collar. JOHN A. WIDTSOE. |