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Show THE DIXIE NEWS Work is the essential thing physicand mentally. ally Published by the is absolutely necessary that we It students of the Dixie Normal College. that those lay such a focndation whom we come in contact with will EDITORIAL STAFF know that we are dependable. LaRue Snow Editor The true spirit of the gospel is culBusiness Mgr Juanita Davis Karl Snow tural and refining. Alumni Letha Taylor Literary The world needs religion more Ruth Walker than it needs anything else. Devotional Gems Helena Graham Society & Locals There are plenty of places at the " Gertrude McGregor top for men of brains and character. Snow William Exchange Wise and Otherwise.. ..Conrey Bryson The secret of success is work. Karl Winsor Do something keep going. Ezra Tobler Calendar Have a purpose and drive towards Special Reporters it, dont flounder around. Verna Cox Vernon Church Pearl Christian Irma Nelson Lillian Atkin Conrey Bryson THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW DIXIE COLLEGE PROGRESS I am the Spirit of the New Dixie College. He who has not the spirit of his The I am the faith of the present. age, has all the misery of it. And the hope of generations yet unProspirit of the age is progress. born. gress is the law of life and it is to this law that we are the debtors for I am the fulfillment of prophecies. what officially occurred in Devotional I am the result of tears and toils Tuesday, April 24. The organiation Of the Mormon Pioneers. of the Board of Trustees was an- I am clothed in the whiteness nounced, and the Dixie College was of the D on yonder mountain. officially begun. What was said there I am bathed with the rains of heaven, will soon be forgotten but what was And adorned with the flowers of wrought there can never be forgotten. earth, To be consistant with yourselves Oh, I am the Spirit of the New Dixie and the spirit of intellectual freedom College. can you, particularly you High School I have waited years for this moment. Graduates, be content to drop the Men dreamed, and I was the rope you have already grasped? The world as always, is calling for St. George Academy the youth to solve its problems; cal- Visions had they then, and ' ling for skill, and intelligence. It is I was the Dixie Normal College. also offering the unskilled places in But men dreamed and had visions its heterogeneous mass. Which call And wept and worked and prayed, is the most persistant; which call de- And today, I am the Spirit of the New Dixie College. mands the most effort; which call offers the greatest rewards; and which I have watched for the day call are you going to answer. When power should be given me. D. J. R.. It has come and my work shall go forth. Men and women shall be made here. DEVOTIONAL Men who will guide the destinies of Perhaps the thing which has the humanity, most influence upon our lives as stu- And women who will teach the ways dents is our devotional exercises. of God. The music which we hear is truly I am the Spirit of the New Dixie Colwonderful; much more so than we lege. know how to appreciate. It is in I will keep the faith of the pioneers, devotional that our influence upon I shall not die. each other and the facultys influence upon us is most felt. If we can learn My eternity commenced to appreciate what these exercises do When the first few graduates were for us we will know that they are the Instilled with my influence. most important factors of our school I will conquer all for I commune with God. life. May the spirit of these exercisI am the Spirit of the New Dixie Oh, es ever characterize our lives. THE DIXIE NEWS semi-month- ly C. B. College. Annie Atkin Tanner. DEVOTIONAL GEMS Institutions are the length of men shadows. Thots are real things in the world. What makes life weary is want of motive. Heaven cannot help you if you will not help yourself. The greatest charity in the world is to help a person find his place of greatest usefulness. Tfiere is no defeat except from within. Youre not here in college for the purpose of making marks and credits. THE TIGER BEETLE ( CICIXDELIDAE ) OF UTAH The beetles of our state have beeq collected in a rather hit or miss manner ever since the Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Captain Howard Stansbury in 1850. Very little, as a result, has been done to make a careful study of any group or family. Collectors have paid very little atten-- i tion to distribution of the species iq the state; to habits; to life history; and economic importance. Therefore we have a meager knowledge of many of our interesting beetle groups. breeding cage and they seemed to prefer alphids, ants, and leafhoppers. The larvae have been in the breeding cage eight months and seem to be growing normally. From the above observations I been reported as occurring in Utah, have decided that Cicindela chihuaand also to give some interesting huae is decidedly beneficial, especialhabits of Cicindela punctulata Var. ly in this region where it inhabits almost exclusively the fields. chihuahuae. The following species and varieties Vasco M. Tanner, have been collected in Utah and arej Dixie College Bioglogical Laboratory, found in the insect collection of the Dixie College: Cicindela chihuahuae Bates, THE SEASONS IN DIXIE micans Fab. Spring nigroccerulea Lee. Theres a veil of green in the cottonecho Casey, wood trees; oregona Lee. Lush grasses crowding the waters maricopa Leng. brim ; arizonae Wickham, The golden gleam of the daffodils; obliquata Dej. for joy in the morning Dancing denverensis Csy. breeze. graminea Schaupp. Audubohii Lee. Theres a thousand bees in the alcimarrona Lee. mond bloom, hirticollis Say. Powdered with gold and spangled lemniscanta Lee. with dew; The iris unfurling her silken sails; imperfecta Lee. The lilac waving her purple plume. tenuisignata Lee. montana Lee. Theres a breath of perfume scenting owena Fall. the air; The following nine species of the For the orchard is decked in bridal above list are not reported in Lengs white, Catalogue of Coleoptera of North And roses riot on garden walls, America, 1921; or in the List of And hyacinths vie with the lilies fair. North America Cicindelidae in the a flash of Theres Harris collection 1911, as occurring wings of the skys own blue; in Utah. The following are therefore A burst of song from the woodbine new Cicindela for this state: glade; Cicindela owena Fall. A rapturous trill in meadow and Cicindela chihuahuae Bates. field ; Cicindela micans Fab. A chorus of ecstacy thrilling and Cicindela nigrocoerules Lee. new. Cicindela maricopa Leng. Cicindela obliquata Dej. Theres a glow in the sky that the Cicindela denverensis Csy. sunbeams bring; Cicindela cimarrona Lee. Earth overflows with the joy of life; Cicindela lemniscanta Lee. A kiss in the breeze, a caress in the The Tiger beetles are generally winds considered to be neither beneficial or Whispers the secret this is the detrimental as they feed upon both spring. harmful and useful insects. During Summer the past summer observations were No breath of wind to stir the fading made, in the field and laboratory, which have led me to conclude that No roses; gentle rain to bless the withering Cicindela chihuahuae is very useful. flowers; About forty of these insects were No dewy even when the night discloscaptured and placed in a large wire es breeding cage Many hours were A pulseless dome of blue that spans spent in observing the adult beetles the towers. after a large catch of insects from the alfalfa fields were placed in the The birds seek shelter neath the listless leaves; cage. It was found that the beetles The locust shrills a melancholy lay; invariably pounced upon the larvae of the sulphur butterfly, cabbage The lilies droop upon a yellowing stem, butterfly, and cutworms before at-tacking any Hemiptera. This lead And dying dream again of life and May. me to spend several hours at different Autumn days observing the insects in the fields. Only five were found feeding Jeweled, fragrant vineyards; orchard Two of these were feeding on the lar- bows hung low; vae of the sulphur butterfly (Eury-mus- ), The lazy drone of bees; one on a Jassidae, one on the A brilliant sky; the rainbow tinted abdomen of a white butterfly, Pieri- hills; dae, and the fifth one was feding on A rose bower laden breeze. what appeared to be the larva of A scarf of frost across the some beetle. The beetles in the cage ; dawn lived an average of 55 days. One A male lived 92 days. During all this A breath from ice bound lays; blaze of color in the fields and time these insects showed their pret- woods; erence for the larvae of the Lepid-opterBlue skies and balmy days. Four or five days after the beetles A boisterous wind, low hanging leaden clouds; were placed in the breeding cage the females were observed ovopositing. The steady drip of rain; These eggs hatched in about four A burst of sunshine in a radiant sky; The larvae were found to be And lo! tis spring again! days. feeding on the insects placed in the Olive M. Nicholes. Space will not permit of a discussion of these problems in connection with the Cicindelidae of the state, but the writer desires to call attention to several species of this family which, so far as he knows, has never a. |