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Show President Tells Of Legislation Toward Schools Congress is giving serious con-sidcrntion con-sidcrntion to measures to strengthen strength-en the foundations of America, Dr Elm" G. Feterson, Utah State Agricultural college president, declared de-clared upon his return from Washington D. C, where last week he attended the meetings of the Executive committee of the Association As-sociation of Land Grant Colleges anlj Universities. Efforts are being made to strengthen the foundations in agriculture, range livestock and forestry, in health of the people peo-ple in building up home life, and' child culture, in the maintenance main-tenance of a great corps of teachers in peace time skills, which are also the war time skills, In engineering, industry and trades, he said. The college president explained that throughout America, there are uniform decreases in enrollment enroll-ment in the colleges with the exception of enrollment in courses cours-es in engineering and medicine and in technological courses such as chemistry and physics. "The tremendous demand for men trained in these fields will likely extend far beyond the emergency," emer-gency," he state. "At the same time, the courses now neglected, for instance arts and sciences, teacher training and similar seo-called seo-called non-defense work, will in five years or a decade from now provide heavy demand an comparatively com-paratively large remuneration for those now preparing in these fields, and at just about the time they have finished their preparation," prepar-ation," Dr. Feterson predicted. "Our first duty, of course, these days is to strenghten the defense preparations of our country. The one problem which overshadows all else is the problem of desrtoy-ing desrtoy-ing the evil threat and tragically more than a threat a grim and terrible reality throughout Europe Eu-rope and the East to men's freedom free-dom represented in the aggressor aggres-sor nations. Nothing else is of much importance until this great task is accomplished, then the demand will return for the lines of work, which are always neglected neg-lected in an emergency and those who are prepared will be given exceptional opportunity," he said. Dr. Peterson said he would advise ad-vise students today to first serve their country in any way possible pos-sible to the best advantagp but ' nt to neglect hroad and deep training for their chosen work. "America wil' need them by the hundreds of thousands in the years ahead in which America must provide the leadership which until now other nations have provided," he continued. "Half prepared leadership emphatically em-phatically is not what wil enable America to achieve tis own development de-velopment and to play its great, predestined part in world affairs." af-fairs." "One is impressed these critic cal days with the fact that American Amer-ican youth face the greatest opportunity op-portunity and the severest test ever faced by a' generation none other than to replace the millions of youth of Europe now being destroyed, in the industrial indus-trial and cultural eadership of not only our own hemisphere, which itself is a huge task and for which we are now very illy prepared, but measurably of Europe Eu-rope and the Orient. The nations now being destroyed and demoralized demor-alized can never be restored to their former place. Long-range planning an the discipline of our best minds is America's duty and privilege," President Peterson averred. "The colleges of America are not only one of America's major instruments of defense they are veritably the hope of the peace which will follow the present pres-ent carnage because they must provide the efficiency and the enlightened en-lightened social , indebtedness which will replace the false conceptions con-ceptions which have led the world into this devastating, so-called so-called .peace which preveded it," he concluded. |