Show PRESIDENT WIDTSOE PRAISED BY LONDON JOURNAL A recent lesue issue of tropical lit life a monthly journal edited by harold hamel smith and published in hi london contains a high tribute to president john A widtsoe ot of the university 0 of utah introducing dr widtsoe to his read era by means ot of a ind and a sketch ot of his zito llo work the editor says bays one of the grea greatest teat M that has accrued t us through ongoing interested in the international dry farming fanning congresses congress ea that are held D 4 PR JOHN A WIDTSOE new head of the university of uth utah annually generally in the united stats states but occasionally la in canada has been in its having brought us into touch with dr john AL A widtsoe soe we have been interested in the congresses for or the past four our or five years yeara and have bene fitted im immensely Mensel v by the lessons they havo have taught us on tho the top of 0 which it has placed us on the corresponding list ot of the leading men in the dry ary world among whom dr widtsoe occupies one of 0 the most prominent positions dr widtsoe has always been in fa avor ot of industrial education and has written extensively on the subject as he was waa one ot of the first farmers institute workers la in western america and has had charge of 0 the institute in utah his knowledge Is sound and extensive and so needless to say it has bas always commanded universal attention throughout his career dr widtsoe can be said to have stood upeor up for two maln main ideas first to make education even in the higher and highest branches accessible to all in order that the general level ot of intelligence might be raised and developed and secondly to make full use of newly discovered scientific facts and incite students and workers to discover new ones in order to reclaim and utilize for th the use of men that vast area area of the earths surface over one halt half which receives only a low rainfall all this work has placed dr boo aoe among the dry experts it has made him chairman of 0 the utah state board of horticulture and a monitor member 0 of f other state boards long may ho be remain in the many positions he occupies tor for we benefit enormously by toe the work of such mm mea |