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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Short-Changing the Kids It is obvious that most of the opposition to be If the kids are “Utah’s Best Crop”, given Utah’s Best Care. they should Nursery Schools and Child Care Centers in Salt Lake City originates in the reluctance of Mr. Individual employers, labor organizations and other groups have protested against the drive of Jed F. Woolley, member of the City Board of Woolley and his group to approve any proposal, however beneficial to Salt Lake children, lest that proposal might become a permanent part of Education, and others, to discontinue Child Care Utah’s education system. Centers in Salt Lake City. For a quarter of a century the Utah Tax Dodgers Association has tried to exercise what it calls “‘tax control” —i. e., the elimination of every The CIO entered its formal protest Thursday against closing the Nursery Schools, and the AFL is expected to take a similar stand in a few days. The CIO letter to the Board of Education reads: Beard Salt of Education Lake City, Utah Gentlemen: possible item from tax budgets regardless of merit. The Tax Dodgers complex. Emergency that should continue to do so. We also believe that the experience gained and the beneficial results to children and parents arising from the work done in Child Care Centers should ing discontinued. not be lost now by be- Indeed, we are sure that many admirable features of the Nursery Schools might well be incorporated into our system of educa, tion. Our CIO organizations feel that Nursery Schools and Child Care Centers are necessary, and the efforts of all groups should be directed toward improving the facilities rather than permit them to be discontinued. We, therefore, urge the Board of Education to hold in abeyance any move to curtail operations of the Nursery Schools until has put up fight after fight against changes in Utah’s education system that might be expected to lead to increased taxation regardless of the character of the changes sought. Utah Power & Light Company, owner of Utah Light & Traction Company, Mr. Woolley’s em- Our organizations have noted with real concern that a move is under way to curtail or discontinue Nursery Schools and Day Nurseries in Salt Lake City. We are perturbed by those reports. We feel that Nursery Schools and Day Nurseries have done a splendid job so far in the War and Association ployer, pays Association $1,000 a year to the Tax Dodgers as a contribution to “tax control”. Naturally Mr. Woolley has a typical Tax Dodger might He is unalterably opposed to any course some day cost Traction and Utah Power & Light a few dimes. By means of charts, graphs, statistics, irresist- ible logic and “reports”, Mr. Woolley is able to “prove” that Nursery Schools are a waste of tax payers money—are unnecessary, unwarranted, and ill-advised. He is certain that the kids should be kept at home where it won’t cost Utah Light cf “Traction Company any money. The “tax control” ideas of the kilowatt fraternity are applied similarly toward nearly all public expenditures—even though it is the bus rider and the user of electricity who actually pay all of the taxes of the two utilities. The Searchlight believes that any improvement in our scholastic system is worthwhile even though the expenditures necessary for the first few all groups that are interested can have time to investigate and make proper recommen- years seem disproportionately high. dations child a better start in his school years—a fact that hardly any observer will deny—then that train- to your Beard. Respectfully UTAH yours, STATE INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL Clarence L. Palmer Presicent If Nursery Schools give preliminary training that gives the ing should be available, regardless of whether penny-pinching tax dodgers approve. If the kids are “Utah's best Crop”—and they are—they should have Utah’s Best Care. |