| Show WIDTSOE PRAISED BY LONDON JOURNAL 1 A recent issue of t tropical tropic life a iKo athly journal edited by harold 61 and published la in lon aea a high tribute to fres john jobs A wiltsee of tee tx se ottri ueail 0 4 i I 1 I 1 I 1 DR JOHN A WIDTSOE new head of the th university of Utah we have been interested in the congresses for ahe th past pait four or five beirs and nd ha hate me im immensely Immen ensely tely by the lessons they hive have taught us on oa the tp of which it has placed us ui on oa tho the nt of men in the dry world among whom dr widtsoe occupies one of at thi the p dr has always been in fator of at industrial education and aad has baa written extensively oa 02 the subject as ae was one ot at the me first tanner farmers ineal I 1 tute workers la in western america and has had charge of the institute la in uth utah his knowledge is sound and an d extensive audgo u nc edlena to say it has always commanded universal attention throughout his career dr cn can be said to have stood up tor for two main ideas first to make education even in the hither and highest branches accessible to all in erder that the general level of intelligence might be raised and developed deYa loped and secondly to make full use of newly discovered scientific and sand incite students and workers to discover fi scover new ones in order to reclaim and utilize for th uve of at men that vast area of th the earths surface over one halt half which receives rec elyes only a low rainfall all this work has placed dr the awl d experts it has made him chair chairman man of the utah state board of horticulture and a member of f other state boards long lone may he ha remain in the many position he be oc 00 aples for fer we benefit enormously by work ot at much aa ex |
