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              WOODBURY:
My dear friends: I hardly know where to hegiri and where to end. As way indicated by the chairman, I have been more-or-less associated with Brother Lehi for at least 40 years. I came to Cedar City in '93 as a school teacher in the public school. My job was to teach the three "R's", plus spelling, and I thought I was doing a pretty good joh. I thought I knew about all that was to be known - and they tolerated me for quite a number of years. Finally they got rid of me in the public school. Kow, I had known the Jones family largely through my association with members of the family who attended school and, of course, I knew Mr. and Mrs. Jones pretty well through the school. But, not very much was I acquainted with them otherwise. But, after a few years I was invited by Brother Jones to join a group that was working on the economic problems of the community, and I accepted this invitation and attended a great many meetings with he and his group, who were all practical men - and I soon found nut that I wasn't practical. I soon came to the conclusion that they knew a lot more than I did. Especially ahout building bridges and dams and such. I flatter myself that I had sense enough to recognize the practicability of those men. It depressed me very much. I came to the conclusion that I was very ignorant and that they were very wise. So we got along pretty well. I had kept my mouth shut a well as 1 could, but I was licked 3 . and I knew it. They tolerated me. They treated me fine. I came to admire that group of men, and it was a very large group of practical citizens. I developed a tremendous confidence in them and the confidence is continuous today. I swear by those men, and there were a lot of them, many of whom are not here today. I started to make a list of those men but I abandoned the list because I was sure I could not recall them all. These men today I honor as my friends and my superiors and I take my hat off to them and their descendents. I had quite a lot to do with this particular family and I apprcriate their friendship. I made some notes hut the more I tried the more dissatisfied I became. It just seemed like it was just writing words and I wasn't satisfied with what I wrote. But there were one or two things that I noted down. Here's a quotation I have heard from some source: "The good that men do lives after them, and influences the lives of generations yet unknown." That impresed me. That seem to he the way of our rivilization, the way it has developed. We've prided ourselves that today we are more civilized than were our ancestors. T h e human race is supposed to be more advance, hut we're not. But we do make that saying. And if that is true it is prohhahly because of the facts contained in this quotation that I've just

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

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Description	WOODBURY: My dear friends: I hardly know where to hegiri and where to end. As way indicated by the chairman, I have been more-or-less associated with Brother Lehi for at least 40 years. I came to Cedar City in '93 as a school teacher in the public school. My job was to teach the three "R's", plus spelling, and I thought I was doing a pretty good joh. I thought I knew about all that was to be known - and they tolerated me for quite a number of years. Finally they got rid of me in the public school. Kow, I had known the Jones family largely through my association with members of the family who attended school and, of course, I knew Mr. and Mrs. Jones pretty well through the school. But, not very much was I acquainted with them otherwise. But, after a few years I was invited by Brother Jones to join a group that was working on the economic problems of the community, and I accepted this invitation and attended a great many meetings with he and his group, who were all practical men - and I soon found nut that I wasn't practical. I soon came to the conclusion that they knew a lot more than I did. Especially ahout building bridges and dams and such. I flatter myself that I had sense enough to recognize the practicability of those men. It depressed me very much. I came to the conclusion that I was very ignorant and that they were very wise. So we got along pretty well. I had kept my mouth shut a well as 1 could, but I was licked 3. and I knew it. They tolerated me. They treated me fine. I came to admire that group of men, and it was a very large group of practical citizens. I developed a tremendous confidence in them and the confidence is continuous today. I swear by those men, and there were a lot of them, many of whom are not here today. I started to make a list of those men but I abandoned the list because I was sure I could not recall them all. These men today I honor as my friends and my superiors and I take my hat off to them and their descendents. I had quite a lot to do with this particular family and I apprcriate their friendship. I made some notes hut the more I tried the more dissatisfied I became. It just seemed like it was just writing words and I wasn't satisfied with what I wrote. But there were one or two things that I noted down. Here's a quotation I have heard from some source: "The good that men do lives after them, and influences the lives of generations yet unknown." That impresed me. That seem to he the way of our rivilization, the way it has developed. We've prided ourselves that today we are more civilized than were our ancestors. T h e human race is supposed to be more advance, hut we're not. But we do make that saying. And if that is true it is prohhahly because of the facts contained in this quotation that I've just 238
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1313.pdf

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