Show wildly SCHOOLS SHALL NOT IKE ADis the third district court apa handed down a decision i ing the important prin dral ral that flu I 1 public schools shall not to bo allow allowed ezi to carry on commercialized activities just tor for the sake of competing with private enterprise the court ruling enjoins a group of school officials official or the summit school district from using the public high agh school building for holding motion picture and other entertainments therein not connected with or a part of the school curriculum and for which an admission charge is made and from permitting the transportation equipment of said school district to be used in connection with said en connection i ments to transport tr students itu denis to and from them tree free of charge arid and from permitting said school building to be used for commercial purposes in competition with plaintiffs opera house and irom from using funds delved from taxation to do dor fray costs of maintenance upkeep lighting heating and janitor services or any other expense inbur incurred in holding these entertainments it is not particularly important that this decision dic ision represents the victory of a business man in a long bitter fight with s school ch 0 ol 01 officials IS the details are not significant tho the case might have arisen and been douht through the courts court from a dozen or more different places in the state where the same commercialization of public school buildings has taken place but the principal established Is decidedly just and vital it warns all future school boards not to use tax supported public buildings tor for n t t a the public school rny may be used und as aa a civic center for the benefit of all the people but jt it has no right to usurp the tha functions of commercial theartres theatres the aties atres or of anything else not in keeping with democracy the lesson is significant tor for educational system the salt lako lake telegram |