Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rollamo Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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I once visited a young Japanese statesman at his coun- try home near Tokio. He proudly took me into a beautiful garden where he suddenly stopped and said, On this spot my grandfather planted a tree. It was a wonderful tree, but recently 1 cut it down. Knowing the Japanese ancestral worship, I understood what it meant to him to undo the work of a forefather. But, look, he exclaimed. See the view made possible by cutting away that tree!” There, stretching forth for miles, was a gorgeous vista of one of the most marvelous valleys in the world. It was worth while! The engineer is engaged in bringing all the forces and resources of nature to greater service and usefulness of mankind. He tears down the old and builds up the new . . . but always with the ideal in mind that he is making the world a better place in which to live. He only destroys in order to build something more beautiful, more useful to humanity. I would wish for our Missouri engineers, whose work is known on all the continents of the world, that this ideal be constantly before them. Thus they will continue to jus - tify the faith and the pride that we, as teachers, feel in them. WALTER WILLIAMS

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Walter Williams, LUX President of University of Missouri THE PRES S B Walter Williams, our President, as a pioneer in journalism, one of the newer branches of educa- tion, has made his impress upon the world with his superior ability in that particular field. Coming from the ranks as a country editor, Dr. Williams has advanced through every phase of his profession until today practically every country in the world has been his host while he traveled as a disciple of his profession, preaching and teaching higher ideals on the part of those who dispense the news upon which we so largely govern our daily lives. The sincerity and truth in the news of today, in contrast with that of earlier history in America, can be attributed in no small part to the influence of Dr. Williams. His interest in the School of Mines has at all times been unfailing. Proud of his achievements, and as the President of our great University, we, the students of the School of Mines, thus greet him. 18

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t H i: i o :t 4 Charles Herman Fulton Dirrctor, Missouri School of Mint ' s D,5n. Thera Delia Chi, Sigma Xi, Tan Bela Vu Phi Kappa Phi, Thela Tau. TO THE STUDENTS OF M. S. M; I suggest that you carefully preserve this Holla for the coming years to hand down to your descendants, as coming from the time of the Great Depression ' the recurrence of which you and coming sons of M. 3. M. will have made a thing of the past. It is becom- ing more apparent as the years go that the solution of the world ' s problems will be under- taken and accomplished by those train ed in hard, scientific thinking, namely, the scientists and the engineers. But remember, in order to da this the engineer must broaden his out- look, must widen his vision and become ac- quainted with the humanity of the past in order to do for the humanity of the future. Your education is in your own hands. Make the most of it. CHARLES H. FULTON 20