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Show K, UTAH, NATURE'S WONDERLAND THE Utah N. E. A. number of the Utah Educa- tional Review is a sincere and forceful exposi- H tion of Utah's natural, industrial and educa- H tional advantages. It will serve as a text for stu- H dents of Utah geography for years to come. The H cover design arrests the attention with the following H descriptive legends : H Utah, Nature's Wonderland. H Utah, The Daughter of New England. H Utah, An Empire of Undeveloped Resources. H Utah, A Land of Homes, Schools, Churches and Wm Children. Hb ,,, It was printed primarily for educators, but much H of the material is written and illustrated in such an H - f interesting form as to appeal to most any Utah citi- H zen- H : The following concerning the B. A. C. is illustrated H with a cut of the new public school building : H Just above the rim that marks Dixie's boun- H dary, is the Branch Agricultural College, at Ce- H dar City. Tliis school is a state institution di- m rectly connected with the Utah Agricultural H College at Logan. It is splendidly equipped for fl junior college work and comprises a plant now m valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Located m in the center of one of the greatest sheep graz- M 1 ing sections in the West, and the gateway to H t the wonders of Little Zion, Bryce's Canyon and B Cedar Breaks, this school has its special field in B training young people for the extensive livc- B stock industry and the rapidly increasing busi- " I ness of Southern Utah. It is also developing a normal department with the specific aim of training train-ing teachers for rural schools. In this work it has a splendidly equipped graded school in Cedar City for the practice work of the normal students. Of special interest to tourists arc the following-named following-named articles : "The Cliff Dwellers of Utah," by Prof. Levi Edgar Young. "Utah, the Geologist's Paraclisc," by Dr Frederick Freder-ick Pack, and, "America's New-Old Wonderland," by A. L. Mathews. These arc all made more attractive by 'means of pictures of the wild and wonderful places in Utah. Of our immediate locality, Dr. Pack says: Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks are the su-"Brycc su-"Brycc Canyon and Cedar Breaks are the superlative, both in point of beauty and variety of crosional forms. They are perched high up on the rim of the great plateau country, and only within the last five years have they really been called to the attention of the outside world. One could afford to travel from "the ends of the earth" to see Bryce and Cedar Breaks. "Then in the same general vicinity is the incomparable Zion Canyon, itself one of the greatest wonders of the world. The canyon consists of a chasm 3,000 feet deep and at places only a few hundred feet wide. In its upper parts the walls overhang in such a manner that the sky above is concealed, yet even here the canyon maintains its. normal depth." TO BE OR NOT TO BE IF there IS TO BE a County Fair in this city next fall it is time something more were being done about it. If people are expected to produce exhibits ex-hibits to compete for the various prizes, it is time they were advised as to what those prizes are to be, and what they are to be awarded for. The premium lists have been out for thesState Fair for several weeks now, but thus far we have not heard the question of premium list for the County Fair mentioned. Surely Cedar City is not going to let the county fair go by default this year. And if we are going to make any pretense at holding a fair it is time we were busy. Less than three months remain re-main now before the dates on which the fair is usually us-ually held. Six months should have been allowed for advertising and preparations at least. Who is it asleep on his job? DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AS we close our forms on this issue of The Record at the close of voting on candidates atKSan Francisco for the day, the convention is a$ong way from a choice. McAdoo is, leading by tTsdbre or so of votes, with Palmer a close second, h'd two other candidates having more than a hundred votes and many scattering. Cox is credited with 199. As McAdoo has only 289 votes, and it requires approximately approx-imately 708 to nominate, it is plain that no one has a "cinch" on the nomination. In fact it looks very much as if the Bourbons would have to do as the Republicans did sidetrack all the leading candidates and nominate a dark horse who has so far occupied nn inrnnsnicuous rjlace in the race for the presidency. Locally McAdoo is a strong favorite among Democrats, Dem-ocrats, and there were some of them willing to back him against the field when the convention convened, "provided he would accept." There seems to be no trouble about him accepting now if he gets a chance, but the chances for him seem rather slim, as there is strong opposition to the high office being handed down by President Wilson to his son-in-law, since it -would probably mean a perpetuation of the Wilson policies. A rejection of McAdoo may be taken as a discredance of the Wilson regime by the members of his own party, and despite the demonstrations given Wilson by the convention, it seems probable that he will lack influence to put the McAdoo program pro-gram across. And such is the uncertainty of politics 1 HaN . |