Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-24
The High School Bond Issue.

The following appeal has been issued,
in tho matter of tho school bond Issue,
by the Utah Federation of Women's
clubs, through Its civic committee:
Tho men and women of Salt Lake
City must do their duty by the young
people of the city next Saturday by
voting for the bond Issue. II any one
doubts the need of a high school build
ing let him visit one high school and
see for himself. There can be no argu-
ment on that point to the informed.
The opponents to the bonds are
criticising the board of education. We
can not approach this question in the
spirit OF partisanshlp. 1t Is too vital
1t means too much to the young peo-
pie whose destlnles are in our hands.
No one party or faction or church has
a copyright on all the good mon nor
all the scamps either for that matter
There are many good honorable busi-
ness men in all districts of the city
who can be trusted to administer the
school funds. There are good men on
the school board and to them the peo-
pie are under many obligations. If
all the members of the school board
are not ectuated by high standards
of conduct the remedy lies within the
hands of the people. We can not shirk
our responsibility to these children by
such fimsy pretext. The different
school boards that have served the
people have handled a great deal more
money than these bonds call for. We
have as a result a system of beautiful
grade school buildings that any city
might be proud of. AS a cap sheaf to
these grade schools let us have a high
school building that win provide for
the 1900 children already in the high
school and many more-the children of
the Greater Salt Lake.
CIVIC COMMITTEE.
Utah Federation Women's clubs.
The plea of the civic committee or
the Federation of Women's Clubs or
Utah, asking qualified citizens to make
the effort to get out a vote for the
bonds for the new Salt Lake high
school next Saturday, is not addressed
to that portion of our population con-
sisting of the fathers and mothers of
the boys and girls who now attend the
high school They do not need urging
They know all about the absolute in
adequacy of the buildings, the antiqui-
ty of the arrangements In the main
building, both from the standpoint of
equipment and sanitation. You can't
tell them anything about the rickety
Stairways, the wobbly floors or the
overcrowding. They, no doubt. often
send up petitions to Divine Providence
that Jack or Jill be permitted to return
home without a broken head or worse.
Rather Is this plea from women who
know, made to the general public,
which does not and could not know,
the real conditions. However, II there
doubters, let them visit any grade
school in the city, then take their lives
IN their hands and go through the main
high school building. The contrast will
be convincing.
Through constant contact with many
generations of vigorous young hands
and feet, the steps are worn down to the
disappearing point, the banisters SIM
ply holding on by the skin of their
teeth, And there are four flights of
| these stairs. These same decades OF
bouncing youth have produced a teetery
! type of floor which would make the
| stout person vince.
! Leaving the beauty of construc-
tlon and decoration which should be
| in evidence in the interior OF all such
institutions entirely out of the question,
| and combining ourselves to mereSt ne
| cessities, let US get the factsarrau IN
The enrolment of the high school in
| 1900 was 400. In 1910 it is 1.e30.
The normal capacity Of the old build
| ing is 450; of the Science building, 300:
of the Union building. $50 Total ca
pacity is LOO: excess of capacity $50
Present conditions make changing
and shifting of classes from building
to building absolutely imperative. The
distance from the Union to the Science
building Is one block, the time for
changing classes from five to seven
minutes. These changes have to be
made several times a day often, in all