The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-13
WILL THE BOARD EXPLAIN.

| Al it's meeting on, Tuesday evening,
the Salt Lake City Board of Education
set Saturday. January Goth. as election
day on tho question of asking the tax
payers of this city to authorize the is.
sue of 100000 bonds in this school dis.
trict in order TO build new school houses
and especially new high school. A.
good deal of cunning is displayed in
the matter of setting the date and cs
tablishing the polling places. showing
distrust of a certain class of property
owners here. and the polling places are
so limited in number, being only Que
in each municipal ward. ms to seriously
cripple tho freedom of expression on
tho subject submitted. There should
he. in some Of The wards al least, moro
than one polling place. and probably in
order 10 give full opportunities of OK
preston there ought TO be an average
Of three polling places in each ward.
city which ordinarily has fifty-four
polling places surely ought on a propo-
sition Of this kind TO have more than
five. To be sure, nothing like the vote
is TO be expected on a question where
property qualification is required TO cas-.
that vote as is cast on the average vote
al general or municipal election. Still,
there should not be such vast dispro-
portion as this. And the Board is act
ing unwisely in limiting the opportuni-
ties of the taxpayers TO vote on this
question without Inconvenience,
There is no doubt of the need Of the
high school as we have said hereto
fore. There is no doubt thai the pco-
pie of this city would naturally do cv-
erything possible to advance the inter
ests of the schools and increase their
effectiveness. But it is not unreason
able 10 expect that the Board should
tell the taxpayers what II proposes to
do with their money. There are many
rumors afloat such as that there is TO
be but one high school, after ALL which
may be on The northeast corner of the
present high school block, or may
be somewhere on the cast side; if on
the east side, that the present high
school is to he used exclusively as a
manual training school for high school
pupils; and if the new building is to
be put on the cast side nobody knows
where the Board intends TO put ii. All
these matters are Of vital interest to
the taxpayers. There is not the least
doubt but that VIC should have two high
schools. There is ample material for
two, and it Will only he a few years
until the two VIII both be crowded Any
effort to limit the high school facilities
of Salt Lake City to one school is un-
Just to the public and to the school
system,
1t has been customary in Salt Lake
City heretofore, when issues Of bonds
were sought, to have a public statement
as To what was proposed and involved
in the question. The present school
board has shown no disposition hereto.
fore to make any statement as to these
so as TO settle the question in
the public mind and enable the tax
payer TO form his. Judgment and decide
on the points involved. 1t is clearly
the property owners right TO have this
information. Let lis hope that before
the day of the election, the school
board may change its mind, and let
the taxpayers of Salt Lake City know
what is to be done with the money in
case they vote it,