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Show WILBUR FAVORS CHANGE IN EDUCATION METHODS Washington, D. C "Here in America," said Secretary Wilbur recently in addressing the Committee Com-mittee on the School Child of the White House Conference on Child Health and protection, "we do a rather shabby job for our best students. We devote much of our energy to those who have to be whipped into line. We develop too little technique to take care of the moer promising students, that they may be pushed out in front and may be helped to go forward. We should make progress, pro-gress, and I think we are making progress, towards so directing education that it will confine our best students. Though some people peo-ple may hold to the opposite theory, I am convinced that doing just that is democracy. I am inclined in-clined to believe that democracy cannot approach perfection until it gives the greatest scope to the best. "In our thought for children we have long adhered to the herd's spirit of following the leader. lea-der. We have been sheep As 1 grow older the animal ' that I have come to admire most, I believe, be-lieve, is the goat. Nobody ever saw a goat with his tail between his legs. He turns his front end to the world and fights. It is up to us in Btudying this vital problem prob-lem of the child to change our tactics and imitate the goats. We must establish a new and aggressive aggress-ive policy for the futture which above all else looks to the care of the body, mind, character and morals of the best individuals a-mong a-mong our youngsters for it is they who are destined to lead the rest." The 100th Aniversary of the L D. S. church is expected to bring more people to Salt Lake City than ever before in conference confer-ence history, according to church officials, and preparations are under way to entertain in every way possible the visitors who trek to the Mormon capital in time for ihe opening meeting, Sunday, April 6. Throngs at the conference are anticipated to be so large that admission to the Priesthood Meeting Meet-ing at ten o'clock Sunday morning, morn-ing, and also to the pageant, "The Message of the Ages," which will be presented nightly beginning April 6th at eight o'clock, o'-clock, will be by tickets only, Church officials state. - Members may secure tickets from their Bishop or their Stake President without charge, it is asserted. Reports indicate further that within the next few days "The Mormon Century Book", which is issued in commemoration of Mormonism's Hundredth birthday, birth-day, will be distributed throughout through-out the membership of the church said elsewhere as a means of stimulating local and national interest in-terest in what a century of Mor-monism Mor-monism has accomplished. This publication will contain feature articles by Church leaders and other important writers of our Western country, it is stated. |