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Show The Dixie Owl, St. George, Utah 2:. WHITE AND BLUE DEBATING CLUB The success of an institution depends largely upon the success of its various departments.- What is the Debating department doing to insure the success of Dixies school We can not be reported as unwise for year for 1919-20- ? saying nothing, because we have been planning in silence. Although we have not been heard from often, we have been busy in making certain that the remaining portion of the year will be most successful in the line of Debating. We hope to make the year a banner year in this field of activity. To make real this hope the School has thus far scheduled a debate with the B. Y. University. The question, Resolved: That the right of laborers to bargain collectively through their chosen representatives should be recognized by the employers, will be debated at St. George, on the first Friday in March. Dixie has her choice of sides. Let us hopethat she will not only make a favorable choice, but also a favorable impression on the Judges. A college debate is being scheduled with the B. A. College, to be held here in the near future. At this writing, neither question nor time has been decided upon. A debate with the University of Utah, to be held in Salt Lake is likewise under consideration. The High School debating work is being worked out under the supervision of the State Debating League. Our interclass debates will be started immediately. The department in scheduling these debates, asks the students to keep in mind, that the success of our debates largely depends upon the unfailing effort of the students. As a school we owe much of our prestige to the success of our past debators. An activity so broadening and cultural as debating should unite the interest of all who are gifted along this line, and should be supported with a mental vigor as intense as we use physical vigor in supporting basket ball. We can not the value debating has in making an institution known and honored among her sister institutions. Debating has done more than any other thing to advertise our school. If the over-estima- te |