Show LET US FACE conditions OF TODAY we agree with emerson who said As long as our civilization is essentially one of property of fences of exclusiveness it will be mocked by delusions our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter and our wine will burn our mouth only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open and which serves all men therefore let us face the conditions of today and try to do something to overcome them if the rising t generation is to amount to something for be it remembered we teach by example we offer some truthful statements taken from recent issues of progressive opinion which are food for thought millions are going about with bodies that are mere ghosts of the noble forms that they might be and with minds and souls warped and degraded yes these millions are thus deformed and go about polluting the race because a few men are shutting them off from the more abundant life by restrict restricting irig their access to proper food medical attention and environment even though one has no sympathy at all he should be interested in keeping the race from suffering the terrible penalties that will be inflicted upon it in this way should the race pay this penalty that a few may have ave wealth president Roosevel ts susceptibility to colds comes from his excessive smoking of cigarettes if the cigarette can do this to a strong man what will it not do to the millions of boys and girls just out of the cradle who have been taught to smoke in order that the tobacco company may have I 1 profits whatever of hero there was in gene tunney vanished in the minds of many when he became salesman for the liquor interests much of the good work of schools and churches is nullified by that desolating scourge the liquor traffic the american tobacco company had a net profit last I 1 year of over while the farmers on tobacco road just eked out a bare and for the most part miserable existence on some of the lowest incomes in the nation the gulf between these extremes is going to be the nations undoing t if some american process of eduali equalizing zin g this status is not found immediately the total gross income from liquor sold in utah last year amounted to about 10 for every man woman and child in utah the word of wisdom state progressive opinion the above references are in keeping with the splendid talks made by leaders during the conference last week they were selected however without knowledge know lede of the stress being laid on the dangers to our young people in this fast chari changing ging world it is timely that those in active leadership call attention to the conditions which surround the coming generation and admonish parents to train their children to respect the nation and to live in closer harmony with divine law since the young people of today will be the leaders of tomorrow and unless a complete turnabout is made very soon it will be too late to save the nation from utter destruction A more intense study of conditions plus the effort to correct them will do much toward establishing the kingdom of heaven on earth and we know of no better place to begin than in this mormon I 1 state which was settled by the forefathers f athers of the present I 1 generation of its inhabitants in accord with divine guidance based on the principle of right living I 1 the root of all our di difficulties f is a lack of the sense I 1 of the presence of god emmett fox |