The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-15
SAYS SCHOOLS
PAY DIVIDENDS
DR.. A. E. Winship Lectures on Edu-
cation as an Investment.
RETURNS FROM CHILDREN
COMMUNITY MAKES MONEY BY
SPREADING ENLIGHTENMENT.

7 AX-PAYERS. tax-dOdgers and tax
gatherers might all have found en-
tertainment and instruction at the
lecture given last evening by DR.. A T.
Winship at the Assembly hall Not only
did the speaker seek TO shOTy the tax
payer how to get out of the heaviest
taxes. but to show him how 10 set the
best returns on his taxes.
Dr.. Winship took for his subject The
Schools as an Investment and ne
handled it in such a manner as TO show
the financial values of the school SyS-
tenn and of the schools As 4 whole He
said. in part
--CoWper. in The Task said over 200
years ago. Your best asset il your
( boys The same is true today, only
your asset has Increased I'D value The
man who fails to recognize the differ
ence between the best assets and IN
vestments and the ordinary expenses is I
not the business man of modern tunes
/ The investment that viii pay the big
gest returns is always the best invest
ment. Unless "A man or community
VIII put into an investment all that Its
worth demands. il will not be a paying
/ investment. But the school system de
mandS support through taxes. and the
whole Of history goes TO show that the
( people i'm general dislike TO pay taxes
1t Is only when they see the returns for
.
! Pay them. and sometimes not then
Favors Good Pay For Teachers.
/ a city must have a tax list II must
/ pay for the privilege Of being city IN
/ this way. A certain proportion OF its
/ income from taxation must 60 TO main
( tain its water system its streets. its Of
hceTS. its weak and wicked classes ana
! its schools Whenever demand u
made for higher salaries for the people
] who ia Se CHARGE Of the hest assets
/ haS-itS teachers-SOme one objects to
; the increase in taxes In SOmmeTV1Ile-
Mass a few years ago the women
I teachers of the city asked for an in
/ crease in salary of $50 a year apiece A
! school board of fourteen men voted
] twelve to two not to increase the sal
/ aries. The matter was taken up in the
3 press and figured out to mean that If
/ this increase were made it would mean
{ Tor man with $1,000 to tax the SacrI-
. hcinS Of one cigar a year. For man
( paying taxes on $4,000 fl meant the loss
/ of one night at the theatre to take
/ either his Wife or some other woman.
/ I asked i'm my paper that any man who
! begTudged this amount to the women
: teachers OF Our.City come forward and
/ enroll his name for publication In two
months time the same board, BIZ the
/ same majority. voted the increase And
/ there was not an editorial against ii,
nor an anonymous communication from
Z q Constant Reader An Old Sub
scriber' or any one else against it.
Schools Best investment.
The schools throughout their entire
/ course are the best money investment
OF any city Take the boys VINO have
/ only a four years course. as compared
I with those who have an eight years
course The four extra years Will cost
| approximately SI20 if il is in q large
/ school. The difference in the earning
| capacity between the two boys viii be
] more than twice as much a year as the
I difference In the cost of the two edu-
3 cations The High school course COM
/ pared to the other is the same in ma
[ ture. You viii say that the taxpayer
! pays the cost and the boy gets the
dividend. But the taxes are also paid
i'm the great majority of cases by the
man who had the better education of
his time. L know you think of the many
exceptions They seem many. but in
reality there are less than 1000 men in
the millions In the United States who
are conspicuous examples of success full
men who are ignorant or who had the
minimum schooling of their day You
viii say there are educated trampS, but
/ [ have never Yet found the man who
was willing to back UP the statement
that we are overedUcated by producing
the goods
Drunkenness Tax.
Ct can show TO YOU by figures that
drunkenness and degradation are IN eE-
! cess i'm the people of lower education.
] can show you that the families of
4 such people cost the government more
( every year in money by three times
1 than they pay taxes.
Go with me into the slums of any
large city and find the families that live
in one room Educate those children
TO love nature and to love growing
plants and you viii find that their chill
dren viii be peOpling the great unculti-
| waited lands in this country and paying
! taxes to their country instead OF cost
I ing it taxes for the care OF criminals
and the care OF weakness
The school cost should be regarded
ever as an investment. not an expense
| Wherever / have wdSed this campaign
for the higher pay for teachers and the
/ bettermeut Of school conditions, ] have
| made no plea for the poor Uuderpaid
> ! teacher 7 have never advised the
| teacher to wear her hat for three sea o.
sons to show her poverty TO the school
board l have made all this plea for
/ the boys and girls. I have asked thar
/ you be valued more highly that they
. may be better cared TOR and better
taught And 1 want to say to YOU now
that il is the new things that pay the
biggest interest.
Dividends From Boys and Girls.
'Tf YOU teach your girls art so that
| they become the best Of millinerS- YOU
! Will get big returns on your money.
Teach your boys art till they become
fine craftsmen and they VIII yield
YOU profits.
France said nineteen years ago that
she could not afford 70 have a French
child grow up who did not love grow
ing things. and hence she paid a high
premium on school gardens. Has il
paid2 Yes. 100 per cent
Dr. Winship closed with a description
of the growth of school gardens in
Joliet and made an earnest plea for the
real assets, the boys and girls.
A chorus composed of some voices
from eight Of the city schools, under
the leadership of Professor w A
, Wetzell. furnished the music. singing
three chOruses from the Cantata al
. the Year Around" A meeting viii
be held this morning in Barratt hall
! and the music viii be furnished by the
: county schools
NEW POSTMASTER.