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Show THE DIXIE OWL Dixie as an Ideal School Center When nature builded Utahs Dixie with its rugged hills, its areas of desert lands, and its almost inaccessibility she doubt-less- s had in mind the law of compensation, and to offset these apparent disadvantages she gave to it the sunny climate of southern California minus Californias fogs and dampness. Utahs early settlers discover- ed this balmy land and sent to reclaim it some of the sturdiest etock and best blood of the Church, and in spite of adverse circumstances they made it blossom as the rose. Today the sunny south is one of the most desirable portions of the state. The center of Dixies population, and the largest settlement, is at St. George, where in 1910 was established a church high-schowhich in ten years has developed into the Dixie Normal College with full state recognition. This year the enrollment is four hundred and fifty stu- ol dents. From many viewpoints no ter place bet- could have been chosen for a Church school site. First, 'it is so situated that it is easily accessable to practically all of Washington county students, many of whom would otherwise be denied the advantages of any form of higher education. Not only are Dixies boys and girls being benefitted by the D. N. C., but it accommodates students from the farthest corners of our own state and from a number of our sister states. The climate has been capitalized by the trifty, and from March until November, St. George is a veritable garden of roses. The mild winters draw people from less favored places, and they likewise make it possible to cary on track and field work uninterrupted throughout the entire year ; which cannot be said of any other place in the state. The Normal school division from a very small beginning has grown until it has come to be the biggest department of the school. The theoritical work in methods is made practical by actual practice work in the Woodward Training school. This year there are twenty college students enrolled in the training work who will go out into our public schools with thorough and efficient preparation to teach our children. Former Supt. Muir characterized the D. N. C. as one of the virile schools in the state and its chorus as one of the best he had ever heard. This year the Mus- Department presented the opera Boccaccio, with a chorus of seventy-fiv- e students, and made a tour of all the larger settlements of southern Utah. True, Dixie is remote from the big centers of the state, and is about ninety miles from the railroad ; but her very isolation pays a tribute to the progress she has made. Likewise it is the best argument for the existence of a ic normal college here. The road to Dixie is rough but the reward at the end of the journey pays for the trip. an added inducement to make St. George a desirable winter home, there is the temple which offers opportunity to the entire southern part of the As state. at its to increase and standard present its capacity for service requires the combined interest and efforts of Washington countys people. Send your boys and girls to the college and thereby benefit them, the school, yourselves, your community, and your state. To keep the D. N. C. A FEW SERIOUS THOUGHTS OF SCHOOL LIFE Karl : What would you say if Id kiss you ? Katharine: I wouldnt be in a position to speak. Mr. Tanner finished a long lecture on married life by saying, Take heed boys, Im telling you this for your own good, Im just trying to save you. Better go slow then answered Wyatt, The world has always crucified its Saviours and prob- ably always will. The effect never proceeds the cause, began Mr. Woodbury. What about a man pushing a. wheelbarow? asked Ken. Cannon. With all Lous faults, I love her still, We heard her Wyatt say. He had no chance to love her still, She never got that way. A man is never older than he declared Mr. Nicholes, feels Now I am 34 and 1 feel as fresh old as a two-yeHorse or egg? asked Henry ar Miles. Pa, said Mr. Tanners oldest, If the baby were to eat tadpoles would it give him a big bass voice like a frog? Heavens no, they would kill him ejaculated his parent. They didnt. The students day is eighteen hours And then the lazy oaf Does nothing else but eat and sleep And sit around and loaf. I often drive a mile a minute said Mr. Reid, in my Ford, is What your best time Mr. McAllister? I have kept no record, answered Mr. Me., But the party I took out joy riding last evening all said the telephone poles looked like a fine tooth comb. |