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Show C. OF C. URGES SUPPORT FOR DIXIECOLLEGE Letter Calling Attention to the Many Benefits Accruing Accru-ing K St. George Sent to Business Men of County A letter calling attention to the necessity of united effort in retaining re-taining Pixie Co'.leee. here, has been mailed to business and professional pro-fessional men of the county by W. O. Bentley. chain'tan cf tht ee'.r.i o.tiona! committee cf the chamber of eomunroe. The ce.m-mur.k'ation ce.m-mur.k'ation gives merely the financial fin-ancial significance cf the colleite, and is its follows: To the Business end Professional Men el St. George: Would your patriotism have t be appealed to in ' order to ret you to support a business that paid to the people of St. George $t3.-000 $t3.-000 yearly, and saved another $13,-000.00? $13,-000.00? Or would you say that the m:m who had to be appealed to for his active support cf a business that brought such financial help to i.s was indeed a poor business man? You will probably be interested in knowing thai the Pixie College brings to St. George yearly $53,-000.00. $53,-000.00. A majority of this amount comes from the trustee-in-trust if the church, and the rest comes from outside students who attend the college. Probably not one cent of the above $53,000 would come to Pt-George Pt-George were it not tor the Pixie College and much liHie than half this amount comes to us without any expenditure of money or effort ef-fort on the part cf the people of St. George. That which the outside out-side students spend here roaches our citizens in the payment of rent, board, groceries, clothing, entertainment, en-tertainment, laundry, do. From Uip citizen who first pet.s this miinrr it goes to our business and professional pro-fessional men and to every member mem-ber of the community. Without the college many of the thirty-six Pixie, srudents who attend at-tend It each year would be unable un-able to go away. If they did nt-tend nt-tend other colleges they would lukf lit least J1R.382 of our money to defray their expenses. It is needless, to say Mint lhf . Dixie Colli c.e is one of our greatest great-est sources of revenue. These faots me sent you that you might knovr the immediate linnncinl .significance .signifi-cance of the Pixie College. N appraisement is made of Its cultural cul-tural value, which alter all is the iiHii e inipoi tant . We need to uphold Pixie Oil-li Oil-li re in an iiggi (.; ivr way, so thai we w.ll net only lelain It. bill fuiihri itr. r.rowth. |