Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-11-21
FRIDAY, NOV. Fl, 1919.

"Miss Wilma Burton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Burton, is now
in Cedar City attending the b. A. C.
This is the first student from Paro-
wan to enter Iron County's famous
college this year. Parowan Times.
In the light of many facts this frank
admission on the part of our Parowan
contemporary is certainly remarkable
and cannot be passed without comment.
1t is remarkable for the following
reasons:
l. Because Parowan IS the county
seat and second city of Iron county in
which the State has magnanimously
established one of its three standard
educational institutions-th Branch
Agricultural College-and is main
tanning it ut state of efficiency COM
parable with any other institution in
the state for the work it covers--the
senior high and junior college courses
and at no inconsiderable expense.
2. 1t is surprising in the light of
n certain agreement entered into by
an accredited committee of Parowan
people in consideration of junior
high school being established there to
Support the Branch Agricultural
College in liberal and whole hearted
manner with the students graduating
from the second year of high school,"
Is this, then, the liberal, whole-hearted
support agreed upon.
3. 1t is remarkable, on account of
the short-sighted policy which it re-
fleets. There has been for many years
threat on the part of legislators
from other parts of the state to with
draw state support from the southern
institution, unless the people of this
district showed more appreciation and
gave more liberal patronage. Is the
B. A. c. then a matter of Indifference
to the people of Parowan? Are their
interests entirely centered within the
corporate limits of their town and
do they care nothing for that which
benefits their entire county and the
southern portion of the state? Are
they so jealous of anything that
rebounds to the good of Cedar City,
that they would "cut off their own
. nose to spite our face /" Do they re-
ally not care, or even apparently take
comfort in contemplating a condition
which might jeapordize the splendid
institution conceded to southern Utah
by the State, when they are conspicu-
ously responsible for it? Let's go a
little further and suppose that a con-
dition should develop which should re-
suit in the state Institution being
abolished and turned over to Iron Co.
for use as high school, where do YOU
think that high school would be To-
Gated. And with the entire burden of
furnishing education for our young
people devolving upon us, would Par
owan fare as well is it now does in the
matter of education in the high school
courses.
+ A. 1t is surprising from the news
papers point of view, that an admis-
sion so humiliating as this should be
to residents of the county seat, should
be so blatantly made in their own
newspaper, and that, too, with an APP
parent tone of eXultation and attempt
at RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1t seems to either
signify that the paper approves the
attitude toward the school or that It
is totally lacking in influence in it's
community
AS "A still further index into the at
titude of the Parowan people toward
the state institution which should be
dear to every resident of the southern
counties, and doubly dear to those of
Iron county, we call attention to the
attempt to camoutlage the two years
high school established by the school
district at Parowan as a full-hedged
four year high school There has been
no concealment of this fact. The
school at that place has been adyer-
tised as such in small publication
issued by the school 1t has been pro,
claimed as such by teachers in the
institution, and we have no doubt that
it has been the means of keeping on
many young people ,y-,o ought to be
now in higher institutions of learning,
institutions having the equipment
faculty and authority to issue recog-
nizcd credits for the worl, performed
IN its final analysis, who is the great.
est loser by such a short sighted pol
icy? From every viewpoint it is the
{ people of Parowan themselves
young people who are practically