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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT. Editor GRADUATES EMBARK ON NEW JOURNEY DOWN LIFE'S ROAD Beginning Sunday evening and continuing through the first four nights of this week, several young people received" diplomas and certificates of graduation from various Seminaries Sem-inaries and high schools in the Uintah Basin . . . They had completed the prescribed course of study and filled the requirements as set up by scholarship committees, faculties fac-ulties and boards of educations. Sunday evening ceremonies were in honor of those young people who had affiliated themselves with the Seminary Sem-inary program as carried on by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Varied themes had been chosen and programs arranged to' coincide with them. Each ceremony was impressive, in that the graduates were admonished to live close to the teachings of the Savior and those early and latter day prophets whose lives were examples of love, charity and hope. . . The talent demonstrated by the grad- uates was remarkable and showed clearly that each had received a fine start down life's perilous roads that they were fortified with a Christian philosophy that should make their journey through an uncertain life easier and less hazardous. Beginning on Monday and continuing through the next four nights, the four high schools in Duchesne County and the Roosevelt area, and one junior high, planned and carried car-ried out to a very successful conclusion graduation programs pro-grams that gave hope and promise to' the young people who have now completed their work. It was my privilege to attend some of these exercises, and never have I received a greater thrill than that which I enjoyed as the fine, young people carried their assign- ments on their respective commencement programs through il to a successful conclusion. . . Each graduate did honor unto i himself and brought glory and distinction to his school, the faculties and to his parents and friends. . . Each is fortified for-tified with a fine training that should carry them successfully success-fully on their way over the road of life. Many fine words of encouragement and advice were directed toward the graduates from faculty and board of education representatives, which, if accepted and followed, , will assist in showing them the way. . . Citations and scholarships were presented those who had been selected for special honors Each is added encouragement' to the young men and women who are nffw stepping out into a new world a man's world which can be cruel and unkind, un-kind, unless they retain faith in God and their fellowman, and live as they have been taught in the schools and seminaries. "We all join in extending best wishes to the graduates of the Uintah Basin on their significant achievements, and hope and pray that they will remain firm and true to the high standards portrayed in the graduation themes and programs that have brought them to a new cross road in life. Those who constitute the faculties of -the various schools and seminaries can justly feel proud that each single member mem-ber has contributed some little thing to' the lives of the graduates that can make him a better citizen. v E v WEAR A POPPY . . . AMERICA'S SILENT TRIBUTE TO HER HEROES .... Twenty-five million Memorial Poppies worn over loyal American hearts on Poppy Day in remembrance and gratitude! grati-tude! Two million million dollars contributed in one royal gesture by a compassionate and generous America, to the unselfish welfare program of the American Legion and its Auxiliary! What a memorial tribute to America's dead and disabled heroes of the World Wars! These poppies, blooming in hospital wards throughout the long, stormy winter months, will come forth on Poppy 1 Day to wing their three-fold message of Remembrance, " Helpfulness and Service, straight to the heart of an understanding under-standing America, as it listens to the voice of the poppy as it rests over every loyal heart. Quoting the voice of the poppy: "I am not just a tag , flower, offered by the American Legion Auxiliary. I am the living, throbbing symbol of the obligations and sacrifices sacri-fices required of all good citizens in binding up the wounds of a nation's disabled and I represent your contribution to that cause. "In remembrance of America's heoric dead, and in helpfulness to her living disabled and dependents, wear me, on Poppy Day!" POPPY DAY - SATURDAY, MAY 23rd No man goes before his time unless the boss leaves i early. . v E v |