| Show li Praise 1 Yom Front Dr Klik J i In the tho November November number of oC the Utah tab Educational Review Is the fol tel towing letter from Dr Jno R R. Kirk resident president of the tho Normal School nt at Mo Dr Kirk was in Utah tah a few weeks ago and spoke to teachers and at high schools in vat HIS us ills parts of or the state My Mv purpose In hh speaking before y our high schools was to encourage and nd stimulate as much as aJ possible your our very promising generation of young oung high school stud students and to tf open pen their eyes to tho the tremendous witch the tho fut taints future re has for those lose young men and young women who ho ho will learn capabilities gain Eon trot rol of or themselves and an loarn Data something some some- thing hing of the material and spiritual corona of or the world In addressing the large audience IlC 1 of f teachers my purpose was pr professional profess profess- ess- ess ional onal and sail somewhat specific with aview a aview view lew to immediate service I enjoyed especially me meeting t that vigorous and group of men and nd woman constituting tho the 60 teachers eachers o of Salt Lake City Anti AnA what a wonderful city apt t state you 1 aYe aye avel I 9 rath rather r spend a week In n Utah than read the best book on sociology ever written I k 1 like b best t those hose remarkable pe people pl who constitute con con- the lh pioneers of Utah They have made a mark marl that the world will some day reco recognize I think m mv my studies and ami observations al all ng with some few years of experienc I ena lp me to to look a high school boy In the theace face ace and know something Qt what h hhas he has back gi Ms his ll countenance I F studied Intently the features of your high school boys out there thero theron in in n the tle south end of Salt and ancl n in nome ome some half dozen high schoula b In tn Utah county Judging J. from their clear countenances their upright manly looks and their frankness in ex expression I do not think l llave have lave ever seen quite so cloan minded and clean clean- bodied a lot of high school boys as I saw out there in those two counties of the Jordan Jorda valley I wonder oll how bow long the simple plain living and the high and clean thinking Chinking of your present ent sturdy community community community com com- loaders leaders will hold out I won wor der whether your marvelously rich n state now Slow being so rapidly will another generation fro from m this time have as clean blooded an and minded clean-minded high school boys as you youhao u have hao now v. I do not discredit th the e Missouri l boys whom I meet dally daily But I believe myself to be In contac t with some problems of social life me tha that t be the dais dally daily have ha not yet come to y problems of the schoolmaster in Utah Uta where the community Ideals have hav e anticipated those problems Here Hero i ithe In Inthe Inthe n the middle west and all over the t the school men are ure puzzled with th the e the problem of better community UteVa life Ute We Va never have an nn important educe lional convention without a debate debat e over sex hygiene Your community y leaders who have given Utah it its s great start have solved tho the problem of social life better bettor than the people e of any other state of our Union Unto Your recreation centers In or nea near r your churches where whore the old and th the e young commingle and rejoice together together together to to- gether are superior to what we wo havIn havin hav have e In other states slates You have got a athe atho at tn t tho the sox sex hygiene pr problem blem better than tha n we ha have e done and that without muc much mention of ItI it itI it I did not overlook the high choo hool hool girls many hundreds of whom wheal I saw in your high schools They Ther seem to tomo tomo tomo mo fully the equal of your boys boya I hardly think they are more healthy or more buoyant or moro wholesome In thought manner and attitude than our high school of the middle west But But the older community community com com- while protecting its pretty well has to an u unfortunate fortunato extent extent ex ex- tent lost control of the freshman I hl high h school boy and th thereby reby In Inn cnn measure lost control l of the mental activities the tho attitudes of mind and the habits of the boys through the high school period in about all of those smaller and medium medi medi- um urn sized high schools of ol your you state that I saw there were 33 no tinny boys as ns girls That Is a thID thing which we seldom seo see In the older states The girls far tar outnumbering the boys born In most of our older high hight schools I Tile Tho visit to your stale state was to me i a vacation vacatIon vacatIon-an an outing it was highly enjoyable I hore hoj 9 I 1 may yet have the good fortune to visit my friends In Utah many times And If It I any of them then ever come com this way my latch atch string Is always et Q j antI and cas easy to reach reach |
