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Show The Dixie Owl. St. George, Utah 7 WHAT HAS EDUCATION DONE FOR DIXIE Since the establishment of the high school and college in St. George what has education done for the people of Dixie? In what regards has it been uplifting? Has it made for better citizenship? Is there less rowdyism, less drunkenness ? Is there greater appreciation for music, art, and literature? Has the moral standard kept pace with the intellectual advancement? Do the people have better health are the children healthier and stronger? Is there greater civic pride, more sanitary surroundings, better homes? Is the spirit of cooperation stronger? Are we better neighbors and kinder friends ? Have we more opportunities than formerly? Are we more efficient, more prosperous, thriftier and wiser? Have we higher ideals and greater culture? If most of the questions can be answered in the affirmative, and 1 believe that they can, education has done much for this people. Ideals and Culture There are still some whittlers and tobacco chewers who adorn our streets following the shadows by summer and the sunny spots by winter. Their numbers are sadly declining, however, and there is left only a corporals guard of what was once a valiant company. As education enters idealism and culture follow at her heels, and the people take on a new spirit which does not countenance loafing, street corner swagger, and other rural barbarisms. People are busier, they have no time for soap box gossip, they read more, think more, look farther ahead, aim higher, are more optimistic, and enjoy better things. The street loafers are always knockers, while their fellows who have been immunized by a moderate dose of education can see tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and The loafers who line our sidewalks, good in everything. sitting in front of our store windows, invariably look down and spit between their feet. As they draw figures on the sidewalk with a stick or cross an ant in its busy path, their |