Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1913-09-26
Support Southern Utah Schools.

The following article contributed to The Rec
ord should cause every citizen of this part of the
state who has son or daughter that has finished
the eighth grade of the public schools and intends
to pursue the requirement of an education still
further, to think seriously before sending such
child to the schools in the north part of the state
1t is the support accorded it that makes any
school success and its success is measured ac-
cording to the degree of public support it receives,
s,gauged by the number of students enrolled. If
the people of the southern part of the state con.
TRUE to send hundreds of students to the schools
of the north part how can the schools in this por-
tion grow and attain the position and prestige
which they deserve to enjoy, in view of the vast
territory served by them.
1t is said by the school officers that the first
days attendance at the opening of the Branch
Agricultural College last Monday was the largest
of any opening day since the school as branch of
the Normal was located here.
This is as it should be, and the growth should
be CORRESPONDENCE greater with each following
year. No school south of Provo has the equip
ment for imparting either practical or sclen-
tifc education equal to that of the school located
here. The entire school fund of the state is be-
hind the local school, its equipment is as good as
money can buy. and it is in position to supply
every Improvement that may be of advantage in
better teaching the various subjects, or any of
them.
In aboripg in the interests of education in
Southern Utah, some very faulty ideas are found
to exist in our communities. Some of these are: =
i. "My child has already better education
than have. have lived; Why can't herr
2. t"[f | am to send my child to school at all
| may as well send him where he can get benefits
out of school as well as in. He shall go North. 20
g. '"I cannot afford to send my child to
school,"
"a word to the wise is sufficient, and on each
of these objections sermon may be preached in
a few words:
l. Our parents were educated in the school of
necessity. They fought new country and won
It is safe to deny that the children today are edu
Gated as well as their parents are along their line
And then we face new world and must meet it
with new weapons. Education is the weapon of
the world today and if we cannot meet it with
that weapon we are out of the fight as surely as
soldier with f1intlock musket is out of modern
battle. Scratching bread and butter from the sur
face of the soil while under the roof our parents
have built for us and all regardless of the genera
tions to come has neither the merit nor the flavor
that the same bread and butter would have had
half century ago.
2. If Southern Utah continues to furnish the
brain and Drawn for Northern Utah when may
Southern Utah boast of the same advantages as
Northern Utah? Is a child of the high school age
--adolescent period-thrown into the atmosphere
excitement and congestion of large city and
school, and removed far from parental counsel and
under circumstances where he will be able to
develop the bestsphysically, mentally, morally?
3. What does the parent and child value most /?
There is way in this generation. as there always
has been. to get the thing we value most. Exam
inc your ideals and see if you do not have what
seems to you the most necessary. No one goes
without an education for lack of means 1t is
merely lack of desire.
Southern Utah has excellent educational insti-
tutions where not only high school development in
its fullest sense is furnished, but parctice is Sc
cured in self government; appearing before the
public in various forms of vocal. mental, and
physical tests encouraged; and the community
life and public spirit of.the group is attained
To send your children to your home institu-
tions costs less. builds up your country keeps the
Southern Utah youth in Southern Utah. and gives
much more careful training because the student
and teacher can come in more intimate contact