Show c 1 RAILROAD HERE would help salt lake aty ghigli tribute paid dixie by salt lake evening telegram those people who are goina to st george to the fruit festival ought to have the time of their ines the people down that way are noted for their hospitality and then st george as described to us Is not like any other place in utah it is a remote isolated place on the very verge of the frontier but it is not a frontier town it was originally settled by the best stock of men and women in utah they establishing a community which looked first to their religion but with an appreciation of what is needed in society to mike it the place of true men and women they drew around it a simple dignity self respect and a sense of justice which commanded order and a respect for law from the first and out of it has grown and become fixed an idea that isolated communities must not deteriorate that the standard of manhood and womanhood must be kept at the highest and whatever may be lacking of the glitter and veneer of the cities the one thing that must be kept high and true is the character of the people that while aliey might always remain poor and in one benac unpolished they must keep their self re and never forget lifes ties so while they have lived and studied and moved in their own circle it has been a sacred circle to them and they have dept their lives ghigli and true so when tho salt lakers reach there they will give them hearty welcome and tender their gifts with a grace all their own and before an hour the strangers will understand that labile st george people are for the time cup bearers for them it is because they know what hospitality calls for and are performing their duties as they have been taught from the first to perform them not through any policy not through any hope or desire of reward but simply to satisfy their own self re and of right we hope that the company that goes down will be of our best people our best and most discerning people and that the visit wll mark the first step toward closer relations with the people 0 tho southern there should iw direct railroad connections between st george and this city it would help us it would make of st george a world famous sanitarium in a few years for the air is always soft there and comes to the cheek and lungs like a caress and not knowing who is going down from here wo caution the men of st george who have grapes and figs or keep dairies or bees that inasmuch as these visitors arc going to st george it may bo well for the st george people to read the thirteenth chapter of numbers and especially the twenty third verse and make their own arrangements lest when the visitors start on their vay home the people of the south country may be bereft of their grapes and figs and pomegranates for that is the land of dixie wine and it is said that some men when they drink enough of it become irresponsible for four days and if they know what they are doing will not admit it state horticultural inspector J edward taylor left monday for the settlements up the river to inspect orchard conditions he was accompanied compa nied by bupt supt atkin of the I 1 experiment station |