Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-09
President Dlscourses on Subject to
California CoIleglans.
TRAINING is NECESSARY.
The Ideal one 10 file Who Can re-
spond 20 Ills Country's Call as
~sA Did the Wen of,eI,

BeleB at CLOCK TINS hlltTnOon' lhc
enthusiastic welcome that has greeted
him at every stopping place within the
boundaries Of California reached a oll-
max when the presidential train drew
In at La Grande station.
The presidential train left Riverside
this morning at o'clock, at which
carly hour thousands of people turned
out to bid the president goodbye, On
the way over the Santa Fe, a half
hours stop was made at Claremont,
where the president spoke TO the stu
dents of Pomona college. the president
OF which, John d. Gates, Is an old-time
friend OF President Roosevelt.
The president was introduced by
President Gates and spoke as follows
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS,
Mr.. President, Men and Women;--
Even in a distinctly college and school
gathering | know you VIII not grudge
my saying my first word Of greeting
70 those whom, before all others. we
honor for what they did, to those be-
cause Of whom we have country, a
president or any method OF moving for
ward along the path Of greatness 1.-The
men OF the Grand Army ] always
envy you men Of the Grand Army be-
cause you do not have to preach--yon
practised All we have got TO do Is to
try to come up to the standard in peace
which YOU set alike In war and In
peace.
III is a very good combination TO have
the red with the white and blue. You
ran see over there that Harvard, which
Is my college, has the red and then
comes the blue and white OF yours, II
cid me good to get into a circle Of the
higher education and listening 10 you
thought at once Of football.
My friends and fellow citizens, It is
such a pleasure to be In this college
town today SO wonderful a thing TO
look at the country through which
have come, TO realize that the site OF
this college, but a few short years ago,
was exactly as the rest Of the plain
Was, to realize that all Of the cultiya-
tlcn that 1 see. all OF the agricultural
work that has been done, that has so
completely changed the face OF the
country has been done within this brief
space Of time. 70 see. the two things
together and TO realize thai You people
Of California are laying broad and deep
by your industry and intelligence the
foundation Of material prosperity.
"Of course, we have to have material
property, as underlying our life. The
first thing that the Individual man has
TO do is TO pull his own weight to earn
his own way, not TO be q drag on the
community And the individual who
wants to do a tremendous amount IN
life, but who VIII not start TO earn his
own way In life is not apt 10 be OF
much use In the world. He Is akin TO
those admirable people from 81 10 '65
VINO were willing to begin as brigadier-
generals"
In speaking Of the activities Of col
lege life and the necessity for physical
training. the president said;
There IL not much need Of educating
the body " one pursues certain occupa-
tons, but the minute that you come TO
people who pursue a sedentary life
there is a great need for educating the
body All OF us recognize thar II we
como 10 think OF IT, The man that is
the ideal good citizen is the man who,
IN the event OF trial, In the event OF a
call from his country, can respond to
that call as you responded IN the great
war When that call comes you need
not only fiery enthusiasm, but YOU need
the body containing that fiery enthusi-
assn TO be sufficiently hardy to bear II
up, to bear It up on the march. to bear
II up in the camp, to bear ii into bat
Ito; you need sound mind then you
need sound body and a trained mind.
"of course there has got 20 be a ca
raclty for intellectual development
there to train, but II is a great error
and an error into which In the past
as Q nation we began TO fall, TO believe
that you can trust to that intellectual
capacity without training You can
not There are wholly exceptional peo-
plo who viii make the greatest sue
cess with Insufficient training We
cannot judge by those wholly eyoep-
ticnal people
Every college should aim from its
Intellectual side, from the intellectual
standpoint. TO add 10 the sum Of pro-
ducuve scholarship Of the nation. and
trust that this college, that all col
leses Ike this. IN those great new
states VIII add to the purely American
scholarship by purely American. |
don't mean that you should self-con-
sclously strive In your scholarships to
have little points OF unimportant diff
ferenoes. / moan that you should turn
your attention TO the things that you
fnd naturally at hand. or to which
your minds naturally turn, and try In
dealing with that TO deal in so fresh
a way that the net income shall be an
addition 10 the worlds stock OF Wis
dom and knowledge And every col
lege should strive 70 bring to develop
ment among the students the capacity
90 DO good, original work That Is i'm
portant Even more important. how
ever, than anything YOU can do for your
intellect or anything that can be done
for the intellect IN the schools the
children whom ] see over there Is
what can be done for that which
counts for more than body. for more
than mind for character That Is what
ultimately counts.
II hail the chance OF having been met
by such a gathering as this because II
IL u good augury for the republic to see
In this mighty western state this typi-
cally American state, the things Of the
body and things Of the soul equally car
ed for. greet and thank you"
MASSACRE OF FOREIGNERS.