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Show THE DIXIE NEWS THE DIXIE NEWS by the Published students o the Dixie Normal College. MORE AGRICULTURE STUDENTS NEEDED EXTRACTS FROM MISS FARNSWORTHS SPEECH EDITORIAD STAFF LaRue Snow. Editor Juanita Davis Business Mgr Karl Snow Alumni Letha Taylor Literary Ruth Walker Devotional Gems Helena Graham Society & Locals Gertrude McGregor William Snow Exchange Wise and Otherwise... .Conrey Bryson Karl Winsor Ezra Tobler Calendar Special Reporters Vernon Church Verna Cox Irma Nelson Pearl Christian Lillian Atkin Conrey Bryson OUR BASKET BALL BOYS The Dixie basket ball boys have returned from the state tournament glorously victorious. Throughout the year they have represented us well. Our appreciation for them cannot be fully expressed in words. Our hope is that they may know the gratitude which we feel. We know, too, that they will play the game of life as hard and as successfully as they have this played the game of basket-ba- ll year. OUR CHALLENGE The past lived for us; we must live for the future . The future Dixie College demands a better track, a cleaner campus, more beautiful surroundings, and a whiter D. D day is our opportunity to begin to satisfy these demands. We can here express our appreciation for what the school is doing for us. We can brighten our emblem, clean our surroundings, and build a bigger track. Let there be no sluffers when our challenge is so evident. OUR MUSIC DEPARTMENT Fate may give; The best is thine To nobly live. , Of all the memories of the past, Those of school are the ones that last. The work of our Music Department is excellent. Daily we are privileged to hear compositions of the masters and study characteristics of good ihusic. Then, too, our concerts are of superior quality. We are proud of our Music Department. Do we really appreciate this opportunity to live in the classic? The power of appreciation is a most wonderful accomplishment. It must be cultivated just as any other power. Ours is the opportunity to listen thoughtfully to music that will ele- Until time shall "be no more, will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and virtue, be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal Washington. Emerging splendid from the dust and tumult of those great conflicts in which he played the principal part, Washington, as a man has passed into obscurity, but his character, like the sun shining through vapors comes anew to us. May it ever be freshly remembered by American hearts! May it ever reawaken in them the filial veneration for his memory, ever rekindle the fires of patriotic regard for the Country which he loved so well. Our ideal of patriotism is mot national selfishness, it is universal commonwealth and brotherhood. Washington stands the noblest leader ever entrusted with his Countrys life. His patience under provocation, his calmness in danger, lofty courage when all others despaired, his prudent delays when delay was best, his magnanimity to detainers, generosity to his foes, his ambition for his Country and unselfishness for himself, his sole desire for freedom and independence for America, have combined to make him the foremost figure in all history. GIRLS DAY is coming! We believe that the liberties which the heroes of old won with blood and GEMS OF THOUGHT sacrifice are ours to keep with labor and service. The path to school is a royal road, High in the firmament of human 'Tis the kings highway of youth destiny are set the stars of faith in That leadeth on to the hall of fame, mankind, unselfish courage and loyAnd to light and life and truth. alty to an ideal, and while they shine A towering intellect presupposes a the Americanism of Washington and sound education just as a towering his patriots shall never die. building presupposes a sound foundaTHE THINKER tion. It matters not what Knowledge is the only jewel that will not decay. OLD AND NEW FRIENDS Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver; these are gold. New made friends, like new-mawine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test, Time and change, are surely best. Brow may wrinkle, hair turn gray, Friendship never owns decay; vate our souls. For mid old friends, kind and true, We once more our youth renew. BIGGER DIXIE But, alas! old friends must die: New friends must their place supThe most prominent spirit now ply, permeating the heart of every student in your is that of a bigger Dixie College. For Then cherish friendship breast; some time this spirit has been growNew is good, but old is best. ing. Make new friends, but keep the old; Colus. to Our Students, its up Those are silver, these are gold. lege is what we make it. We must Henry Van Dyke. live for the future Dixie. Our efforts must be spent in creating a bigger, better institution. To know Our minimum of college students That which before us lies in daily is already set at 100. Lets get in life and fulfill the prophecy. Is the prime wisdom. Utahs Biological Anomaly the St. speaking Biologically George region holds a unique position in Utah. This is largely because it is the only region in the state where the Lower Sonoran Life Zone is found. This life zone which is next above the Tropical Zone, is characterized by its hot valleys and many typical plants and animals. Some of the and plants are the creosote, live-oamesquite bushes, the Spanish bayonets (Yucca filamentosa) and many kinds of cactus. Our animal life is represented by such interesting species as the Gila Monster, our only poisonous lizard, the Banded Gecho, a small lizard some times mistaken for the young Gila Monster, the mocking bird, road runner, vermilion flycatcher, and the phainopepla, the four-toe- d kangaroo rat and the spotted skunk. There are also many odd and interesting insects which are found near the streams and on the native vegetation. About twenty miles to the north of St. George towers the Pine Valley Mountains, the highest, 10,040 feet, and the most beautiful mountains in our county. These are very acces-sabl- e and offer to the student unlimited material as he journeys from the Lower Sonoran Zone, about St. George, up through the Upper Sonoran, the Transition, and into the Canadian Zone. The biology of this region remains to be carefully studied, as it has only been skimmed over. The Dixie College is located in the heart of this region and affords many opportunities for training in the Natural Sciences. In fact, in many respects. it is not surpassed by any other institution in our state. This being the case, why not make Dixie so attractive she will pull into her shadow the promising youths of this southland and thereby build lives equal to the life about us? Vasco M. Tanner, March 8th, 1923. Dixie, semi-month- ly More extensive courses in agriculture should be included in the curriculum of our school. We live in a community whore the great majority of the people make a living by farming, or poultry and stock raising. But if our boys know nothing of agriculture and learn only those things that will help them to get positions at business pursuits, school teaching, etc., how can we expect them to stay here. They cannot. They will have to go where they can get employment at their different trades or occupations. If they were taught agriculture a great many of them who are now preparing to leave, would stay here. All first year boys should be required to take a course, in some phase of agriculture. They may not like it at first, but if they take some course in it they may become interested in it If they never and pursue it farther. take it they undoubtedly will never interested in it and will become eventually follow some other line that will take them to some other community. We need them here; therefore, let us include in the school curriculum more agricultural studies. C. W. McAllister. SCIENCE NEWS Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshops clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel! The drudge may fret and tinker Or labor with dusty blows, But back of him stands the Thinker, man who knows; The clear-eye- d For into each plow or saber, Each piece and part and whole, Must go the brains of the labor. Which gives the work a soul! Back of the motors humming, Back of the belts that sing, Back of the hammers drumming, Back of the cranes that swing, There is the eye which scans them stress and Watching through strain, There is the Mind which plans them Back of the brawn, the Brain! Might of the roaring boiler, Force of the engines thrust. Strength of the sweating toiler, Greatly in these we trust. But back of them stands the Schemer, The thinker who drives things k, DEVOTIONAL GEMS Religion should concern itself in getting heaven into men, instead of men into heaven; and primarily in getting hell out of men instead of men out of hell. There is too much sacrificing of the other fellows rights for our own in this world. The parts you and I plav are assigned to us through our own choice. You can send a boy to college, you can't make him think. but ' Schools are an opportunity which young people may grasp after they wake up. What we need in the world is more people who will accept the challenge of what is to be done. of one Less than per cent of the men and women who study ever make a worthy contribution to the worlds knowledge. through; Back of the Job the Dreamer When land and goods are gone and Whos making the dream come spent, true! Then learning is most excellent. Good literature is a friend forever. The Kid. |
