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Show OPPORTUNITY FDR ALL PRESENTED BY THE irasiTy Each of the leading indus'rial nn tions of Europe was forced to begin the study of its neighbor's l.incn.ise 'is a mailr-r of Tool business policy. Proximity to each ther made ;hls especially es-pecially necessary for France, er-manj er-manj anil England in this country, however, we merely aped ihem in - ad of following our own interests and so our schools have studied languages their students would nevor really use and the language was orKoiten as I .loon as the student left school, for Ger-' many and Grance were afar off nd their speech was usen in no commercial commer-cial market Bui al lasl the eves of educators in this country have been opened and a; real effort has been made to provide for the demand wh'ch necessity creat-ed creat-ed It has become apparent to all .hat Spanish is the logical language to be studied in the United States for all our interests are bound ip with those peoples. peo-ples. Of course the demand has been far too great to really meet ac there were not enough teachers to go around ?nd such as there were could seldom speak the Spanish lliey w-re tiyin; to teach. Special petitions were circulated circulat-ed in the high school? of Ogden, for example, and the students, urged by sensible parents, were anxious to take up the study, but no Qualified teacher could be obtained One high scjool in Indiana has 3000 students In its Spanish courses and in the cities along the eastern coast where manufacturing interests are taking advantage of the unllmlnted markets which are found ever the large part of the earth which bpeakfl either Spanish or English, the demand is unprejudiced. Aside from that tact, cultured people peo-ple in all cities have set up a demand lor courses which would give them a knowledge of Spanish literature wnich has now been recognized by critics through out the country to be taking the lead. No work v a fo eign author was ever received With such acclaim as "The Four Hor.-emen of the Apocalypse" Apo-calypse" by Blasco Ibmez; and yet he is only one of the many master writers in modern Spain to worm our great minds have been calling attention for many years past. The greatest of our literary critics stated in 1915: In the field of world fiction, the contempo rary Spanish writers, easily take firs, place, now that the Russians h?ve ceased to lead," and he made it e'ear that he considered the veprrable p 7, Galdos the greatest of all .nodern writers. writ-ers. The keenets of our dramr.tic critics. crit-ics. Brander Matthews. In dijeussinp the French and English drama qualified quali-fied his comment by the statement, thai "Of course Germany never pro duced a really great school of dramatists, dramat-ists, and the world has never known another such a group of proline masters mas-ters as Spain has presented ur. . . ." Of course in America we kept our eyes blind to these real values for :t is not many years ago that we Caught a war with Spain and there was a tendency 10 wonder whether "any good can ceme i.ut of Nazareth" or not. but the values val-ues would evidently not be altered by our attitude. People in Orden have been following il maud an I have asked he University Uni-versity of Utah vo send its professor of Spanish here to ofer courses tnat will keep them abreasi of the rest of the country, and the university has deciied to comply. A choice of the following courses will be offered: History of Spanish literr.ture. Latin American Literature, Commercial and Conversational Spanish, Elementary or ,d.niced Spanish. Professor Russell will met the teachers at the Central Junior high school this afternoon at 4'30. and ary itht rs who desire to lake courses any lime tonight, at the home of Dr. E. I. Rich, 2475 Jefferson avenue There ;ire no restrictions as to who shall tike '.he courses and business men. housewives house-wives or young people ire elig'ble. Some courses may be given al night if s--o demanded, li is stated that the professor pro-fessor will come 10 ()g'!n Tuesday, Friday and Saturday of each week 00 |