The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-24

pose OF erecting new high school
ono means OF SO doing would be that
proposed by The Tribune It is plain
at the present OF the location decided
upon TOR the proposed school. many oi
the people residing in sections OF the city
fuse TO vote for the bonds
And now, in the third place, this edi-
torial asserts that The schools are TO be
used as an ''electioDeerine machine and
the, pupils TO he thereby degraded. II
will probably be admitted that ir a bond
election Is TO take place the people must
be made aware Of The fact that it is
truthful means OF acquantins the voters
with the need Of a new high school cN-
ists than that OF asking the boys and
the grades who will soon need the school
TO tell their parents OF that necessity. ii
is not only not degrading for II child
TO sta te at home that there is need of
also the chlld's right and duty: and il
serves the further civic purpose of ac-
quaintinS him with the means adopted
for municipal improvement II the board
OF education and the teachers OF the city
recognize the need of new high school
there can be no valid objection TO their
telling the individuals who sre to use
such a school OF that need. The NOM
hers of tho board will. iii no personal
way. profit from the bond Issue. Nor
Is the size of the compensaiion for which
them Of cupldity. Admittedly the new
high school Will benefit but one class
directly. the pupils IL this be true, then
by all means the pupils are the very
ones who should ask for the bond Is
sue.
And finally. The Tribune asserts that
the school system has sufficient funds
IN It's ordinary resources TO erect a new
high school such a statement is wholly
fallacious. We pay those who mold the
character of our youth fal" less than
those who build the structures In which
this education Is carried on. The income
OF the schools OF Salt Lake, as OF most
cities, in Wow OF the essential civic i'm
portance OF the educational system. is
penurious. From It's infancy the bigh
school has been buffeted from alley 10
by way until it occupies at last tn" cast
off. and condemned buildings OF the old
university The students arc housed in
building too crowded for efficient work,
and which, far from being modern, Is
not even safe. Cursory inspection, of the
high school and its equipment will be
convincing Of the fact that the school
system Is not opulent TIC he more spc-
cihc, the total receipts Of the schools
Irom @ "a all sources Was, for the school year
1907 -0s, 500. 500 a.; for the school year
10oS-02 S902. iIn2T The balance June 20
1907 was S2l,3o@,32; June 80. 1905. $40. =
iIl;71: Juno 20. 1909, S1!5 1t is
nary resources of the schools arc by no
means sufficient for an outlay Of s70o, 600
Tor high school building purposes.
Tho future OF this community rests
with tho school children of today. Great
or civic honesty progress and moro
humane government will come only
through tho proper moral and cultural
education Of the children: tho bitter fac
tional division from which this comDu-
nifty suffers viii be ended only through
the most excellent education obtalna BILE
resulting In great broad -inindedDess
charity and public spirit. and such cdu-
cation depends intimately upon the hearty
moral and financial support OF the school
system by the people. Most important
Of all things To this city arc It's schools,
and the most important thing to the
schools at present Is the erection OF "A
new high school. It is regvettable thai
The Tribune is using lis powers TO
hinder. rather than To promote. n move
mont OF such obvious Importance to the
city. II Is greatly 10 he hoped. that
through its own sense of fairness The
Tribune will recognize the error OF It's
attitude and that IL Will reverse Me