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Show Education Drive Proves Successful In Gunnison The Slate Educational Drive, which was inaugurated in Sanpete county this week, is going through with a whirlwind success, and the city of Gunnison, which did its portion por-tion towards making the campaign the biggest ever held here", proved no exception to the rule last Tuesday. In anticipation of the coming of the educators who are "putting it across" preparation had been made by Gunnison and the combined forces of both the Public and High schools and the day here proved a gala one from an educational point. With a view to inspiring the citizens citi-zens of the importance of the meeting meet-ing the schools planned a parade which was successfully carried out in the morning. Forming at the High school building, the students marched march-ed to the public school where the forces from that place joined, forming form-ing a procession of more than 250 students. Marching to the lower end of Main street, thence counter marching march-ing to the Gunnison Valley bank, the young students made an impression of their desires for more and better education, most impressively. Thru-out Thru-out the parade were appropriate banners ban-ners carrying inscriptions, some of which were: "Are the Boys and Girls Worth It? Yes. Back us;" "We Want Our Schools Better. Vote the High School Bonds;" "Better Stock or Better Children Which is the Most Important? We Want Both." You Need What We Need. We All Need a High School." "Come On, Get Behind Our Xew High School." Following a brief program of speaking and songs and school cheers a free entertainment whs given at the Casino Theatre under the supervision of the school faculty. Some GO slides, depicting the terrors of the house fly. and the best method of eradicating was pointed out by the lecture which accompanied the slides. In the evening Francis Kirkham, state director of vocational education, educa-tion, and Professor J. H. Paul, professor pro-fessor of natural science at the University Uni-versity of Utah, gave eloquent addresses ad-dresses on better education. The evening ev-ening program was held at the theater the-ater and was largely attended by parents, pupils and all interested in higher education and better schools for the state. The real object of the State Drive is embodied in a set of resolutions which was adopted by the state executive ex-ecutive committee at the meeting hold just prior to opening the ten-day ten-day educational campaign, part of which is as follows: 1. To bring about the universal education of the youths of the state; 2. To do away affectively with the use of tobacco by minors; 3. To promote and preserve the (Concluded on page 8) EDUCATION DRIVE ' PROVES SUCCESSFUL (Continued from page 1) health of all children; 4. To have every boy and girl obtain ob-tain a high school education and as much more as they desire; u. To train the youth through the twelve months of the year for the discharge of those industrial, civil, social and moral duties that make a people happy and a state prosperous and secure; G. To Americanize thoroughly and systematically the foreign born who have come here to live with us; 7. To teach the benefits and the wisdom of thrift; 8. To teach in the public schools the nobility of efficient and skillful work and to offer opportunity to learn a business or trade; 9. To increase the productiveness and earning power of men and women wo-men by a system of part-time and evening schools in cooperation with the federal government, through which they may acquire a knowledge of trades, home making and all useful use-ful things, including business pursuits; pur-suits; 10. To get the greatest possible returns from our ever-increasing investment in-vestment in education in the form of a constantly improving type of manhood man-hood and womanhood; 11. To meet satisfactorily the crisis that confronts us with respect to the need of well trained teachers by securing the proper kind in the shortest possible time and also to provide adequate compensation for them; 12. To bring the school and the home into a reciprocal and cooperative coopera-tive relationship; 13. To interest the men and women wo-men of affairs, both public and private, pri-vate, in the educational problems of the state; 14. To provide more adequately revenues for educational purposes and to see that they are equitably distributed among the counties and districts, so that every child of the state may be given the best possible facilities for acquiringthe best kind of an education; 15. To turn our public school system sys-tem as it never was turned before into a great and effective instrument for making secure to society and the state those principles and institutions that are to survive these trying times and triumph over the forces that are today making for destruction and dissolution in the world. |