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Show LEWIS JUNIOR HIGH IS DEDICATED IN THE EVENING : Tho new Lewis junior high and grade school was dedicated last night wllh a program of fitting music,1 dramatic reading, singing and speaking. speak-ing. Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent superin-tendent of public Instruction, was the principal speaker of the evening, but short addresses were also made by. Supt. H. C Johnson of the Ogden public pub-lic schools and Principal John W. i Wintlo of the Lewis school district. Students of the oral expression and music departments of tho school furnished fur-nished the other numbers of the program pro-gram and acquitted themselves most ably. Before tho program started and. after Its conclusion visitors inspected1 the new building In detail and ex-, pressed much satisfatcion that Ogden is the possessor of such a splendid school institution. The assembly room at tho school was hardly ado quale to hold tho parents of school pupils and visitors who attended the exercises. Tho program was opened by the school chorus, under direction of Prof, i Mark Robinson, singing "America's ( Message." This was followed byi "U. S. A. Forever." Prof. Robinson, is supervisor of music of the city schools. Miss Zoe Kirkpatrlck, music, Instructor at the Lewis school, accom-; panled the chorus on the piano. Miss I Kirkpatrlck later sang "One Finel Day," the soprano aria from "Madame Butterfly," by Puccini, accompanied ! by Prof. Robinson, with violin obligato I by Prof. Marcellus Smith. This was I one of the most enjoyable numbers of the evening. A mixed chorus of Ten A class sang "How Can I Leave Thee," giving a, splendid demonstration of unaccom-' panied part singing. Miss Kirkpatrlck' directed this song, two others by the' schooK chorus, and a male chorus, "America, tho Beautiful" and "Tent-j inrr H"! , .' 1 . i ... J 1. . i 1 .1 n n .1., were rendered under the direction of Prof. Robinson. j Mixed in with the singing were dra-i matic readings by four students which, won unstinted praise. Clyde Miller de-, livered "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address," Ad-dress," Ada Wright read "Barbara Frietchie," Frances O'Neill read "Columbus." Lucile Purrington read I "The Narao of Old Glory." A tableau) was presented, entitled, "America, the Melting Pot," by ten girls with Miss Corinne Smith reading the principal part, assisted by Conrad Fernelius. Speakers of Evening. Principal John W. Wlntle acted asj chairman of the meeting and intro-i duced Supt. H. C. Johnson as the first' speaker. Superintendent Johnson referred re-ferred to the completion of the new Lewis school, saying that it was a splendid building after being remodeled remodel-ed and the school board was pleased. "The demonstration you have witnessed wit-nessed tonight," he said further, "Is also evidence that we have an excellent excel-lent corps of teachers." "I appreciate tonight the presence of Dr. Gowans, whom you all know! through his six years of residence in ' Ogden, as head of the State Industrial I school and also through his splendid I work as present head of the state system sys-tem of education. I am pleased to introduce in-troduce him to you as the speaker of the evening." Dr. Gowans opened his address by! expressing his pleasure at being pres-i ent. He then said that he was also' glad to have the unexpecleu pleas-J ure of reading Prof. George A. Eaton's i eulogy of Prof. T. B. Lewis, In whose honor the Lewis school had been named. The eulogy was a splendid tribute to the noted educator, well remembered re-membered by older residents of Utah as the territorial superintendent of education and esidents of Ogden as superintendent of the Ogden city schools. When he had concluded the reading, Dr. Gowans paVl a personal tribute to his predecessor in the state office which he occupies, and then handed the record of Prof. Eaton's eulogy-to Mrs. T, B. Lewis, the venerable vener-able widow of the former educator, who was given a Avarm tribute of applause ap-plause as she accepted its return. "T. B. Lewis," Dr. Gowans said, "was a great man because he did the duties that lay before him, in the day thereof, and an expression of that same virtue is now demanded of us. "Wo. as a nation, are now confronted with the most difficult work that has ever been required of any people; the biggest job ever undertaken by any people in history. Democracy is the sum of individual effort and to win the struggle in which we are now engaged every citizen must put forth all his energy. Proud of Utah's Record. Continuing, the speaker said he was proud of the record Utah had already made, in its contribution of men and means, being the second state in the union to furnish its quota of volunteers, volun-teers, the second to subscribe its quota to the first Liberty loan, in more than doubling Its quota of subscriptions sub-scriptions to the Red Cross and almost doubling its quota of second Liberty! loan bonds. "This record is remarkable evidence of patriotism and loyalty and the people of Utah have nothing to be ashamed of in the way it has thus measured up to the required standard of individual responsibility. There were 10,000,000 subscribers to the Liberty Lib-erty loan and these 10,000,000 people are the salt of the earth. They will still furnish more money and more, because they are, that kind of men and women. They have not got the 'next time' habit, like others within the boundaries of our nation, some of whom came from Germany, and some of whom were born here." Dr. Gowans concluded his address with a stirring appeal to his auditors to aid the government in conserving the wheat and meat for the use of tho allies and the American soldiers who are going to the front "On this," be declared, "rests our victory or defeat and an investigation has proven that Utah has not yet attained the desired standard of individual responsibility in regard to it." "From Utah already -1,000 of the finest boys that over lived have gone into the army and should we not sacrifice sac-rifice our meat and wheat to feed these boys? Yes! and more. We should bo ready and willing to do everything the government asks us to do, aye, even before it is asked. There can then be only one finish to this war and that will be when Prussian-ism, Prussian-ism, Kaiserism, Militarism is wiped from the face of the earth. It takes seven people at home to support one soldier in the field' and we must sacrifice sacri-fice everything to do this, so that we can look our boys In the face when they come home and say we did our best for you.' The concluding remarks were made by Principal Wintle, w.ho invited the pnrents to inspect the building and particularly the domestic science and arts room and the art department, where special exhibits were on display. |