The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-03-20
PROVO CITY. MARCH 20. 1884
METROPOLITAN POLICY.

The good Herald will pardon us if we
again refer to its article of last Sunday
morning under the caption, "a Vain
Anticipation" So far as we gather
from that article, the Herald agrees
with US that the policy of the legisla-
ture in looping off the normal branch
of the university was perverse, illiberal
pigheaded. Thus far the Hearld runs
neck and neck with US, and our path
ways only bifurcate when we arrive at
the conclusion that though not in
tended, the policy actually throws
great advantage to Provo. Just why
this should stir the bile OF the Herald
we are at a loss to know. Surely if
Salt Lake may not have the normal by
reason of this pigheadedness, there can
be no valid reason why Provo should
not, Nor is the summer normal we are
to have any reason why the state LOr
NAL may not be located here perma-
nently. Is the ambition OF Provo to
become the center of education of the
new state of Utah, in any way un-
worthy, wrong or unjust to Salt Lake
or any other city OF village in the ter
ritory? Now we are perfectly willing
to accord to Salt Lake the excel
lence she claims, but does it therefore
follow that we must debase our own
importance by agreeing with the Her
aid that Provo is not quite up to the
dignity of the state normal or the
school center? VIII the good Herald
say that normal students shut out
from tho raniToraitV shall not NAV not
and ought not to come to Provo? 1t Is
tue the Herald does not actually cay
so in SO many words, but what it does
say is tantamount to this. Public spir-
tied citizens may again step forward
in this emergency and fill the breech
made by the legislature in not provid-
ing for the normal, but it is hardly
likely. Indeed it Is just what they
ought, but it is also just
what they will not do, on account of
the stringency Of the times. This
thing of educating the teachers of Utah
is 50 pressing, so important that it
cannot wait for better times or for the
coming of a more liberal or more in
telligent legislature. In the meantime
Provo's great. academy says: Send along
your normal students, we can and will
do all for them that the university
could have done with the assistance of
the legislature. There is no need to
intermit this great work because cf
the inability on the part of the legisla
ture, or the effects of the pinching times
upon the aforementioned liberal
minded citizens.
But there is one thing quite certain,
that is if Provo gets many or few of
the normal students thus turned adrift,
she will hold on to them and from this
nucleus and the session of the sum-
mer normal will effect start which
will and ought logically to distance
Salt Lake, the university, or any other
city, town or school in Utah.
The Herald makes braYe and cour-
teous fight for the interests of Salt
Lake, out does so under great disad-
vantages. We doubt not that the stu
dents and their parents will appre.
ciste the advantage of placing
their, boys at Provo rather than
subject them to the great temptations
and distractions always present in a
large city. Our green, shady, cultured
and refined little city is just the place
for the permanent normal school,
where the maximum of progress may
be- secured. In Salt Lake they do not
md cannot go beyond the minimum.