Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
SCHOOL HOUSE AT PRICE, CARBON COUNTY.

plan. and taxation for the support of
the schools In a county is equally dis
tributed. The advantages of purchas-
ing text books and apparatus In larger
lots enables the board to purchase AZ
! lesser cost, and the schools are run on
q higher standard of excellence and on
! while school room accommodations are
better and improved sanitary conditions
| prevail.
SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
"A number of the schools of the
state have ayailed themselves Of the
means Tor providing themselves with
4 more economical basis than otherwise.
libraries. The state legislature OF 1907
provided for X of a 1-mill tax levy FOR
the equipment and maintenance of pub
lie school libraries In each school dis
trict. the fund so realized to be expend-
ed under the direction of the state board
OF education for books for school IL
brary purposes. The state board of ed
ucation. consisting OF the state superin-
tcndent. j. L. Kingsbury. president OF
the universityi J. A Widtsoe. presi-
dent OF the Agricultural college; Carl
r. Marcusen of Price, and D H Chris
tcnSen, superintendent of Salt Lake
City public schools. carefully examined
a large number OF books calculated to
furnish instructive and interesting
reading matter for the children of the
grades In all, $50 books were thus Sc
lected for the libraries so installed by
the schools, but tho books are pur-
chased in lots to suit the district re-
quring them. and may be had In great
er or lesser quantities as required
Among the schools which have already
established libraries are those of Eure-
ka, Mercur. Mammoth Fillmore, Mt
Pleasant, Manti, CoalVille, Spring City,
Woodside. Summit county, and Lincoln
district, in Utah county. which has just
expended $500 in library books
The operation of the teachers re-
tirement plan has worked wonders
with the teachers. and the outlook for
many who have spent the hest part of
their lives in the cause OF educating
the young is no longer of gloomy ma
ture. and they are able to put more heart
and soul into their work. They look
forward with hope instead of despair.
to the time when they shall reach the |
age of retirement. secure in the knowl-
edge that their last days shall not be |
spent In pcnury and want. They do not |
feel, either, that the sum they receive |
on retirement is a charity. for they |
have furnished a great portion of it |
and they further feel that |
the state. which furnishes some portion
of the fund, has at last come TO appre-
ciate the labors of the teachers who
have without question for years been
sadly underpaid The effect of the plan
is to keep teachers IN the vocation
when they are able to do their best
work, and in other ways brightens the
future and reacts for the benefit of
the school.
SCHOOL ADDITIONS.
During the year two large additions
20 school buildings have been COM
pleted, and III each case the capacity
Jf the school so enlarged has been
doubled. The Wasatch annex contains
L3 fine new class rooms. including the
room, giving "A rooms in
Ill. The Riverside annex has given
this building 13 new class rooms where
here were only eight in the original
Both buildings contain book
ooIns, teachers rooms, etc, In addition.
THE new Jefferson school will be
right after Christmas 1t Is
absolutely hrcproof, as nearly sanitary
Is it Is possible TO make. and perfect
y lighted and heated. There are 20
'ooms In the building. with u special
manual training room, which is now
| part of school architecture built sep
lrately from the remainder of the
structure.
Among the schools projected for the
.uture the board has two well-dehned
dcas in view, the construction of
,ommodious high school building on the
.ast side of the city. and the conver-
sion of the present high school building
nto a school for technical training.
Both are necessary and when the idea
caches the point where It's practical
may be judged it VIII be
found that Salt Lake City VIII be !