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Show THE Page Two 'flic -- ONI Sun-AdvocaNEWSPAPER. te ONI ONI COST" COVIRAOI. General Excellence Honorable Mention 1940 E cellence in Typography Plaque, 1950, National Editorial Association General Excellence Plaques 1946, 1947 and 194H Utah State Press Association Issued Evert Thursday By The CARBON COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered at the post office at Price, Utah, as second class matter under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate $3. yearly in Utah; (3. yearly outside itate. leader in turnout, never ranking lower than in turnous, never eighth, and ranking either first or second from 1940. Here is what the record shows: Number Of Thursday, October 23, 1952 SUN-ADVOCA- By ART BEEMAN THOSE WERE THE DAYS lIHOSEj WERE THE National I I USTEN TO THIS JOKE HEARD ONE MAN SAYS, 'DO SOU PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT? THE OTHER MAN SAYS.'VO-S- VT ZVBGOTA 6RANDFATFER WHO FIDDLES WITH HIS WHISKERS0 WO ytoi HA HA HAH TODAY DAYS' . h-- SO SAYS TO THIS GUY WHAT INSTRUMENT DO SOU PLAY?' AN' HE SAYS DON'T PLAY NONE , BUT MY &RANDPAW CAN FIDDLE WITH HIS WHISKERS" 'I " YAK SAKI YAK cr t&WW Hal G. MacKnicht. Publishes Alex Gene. Jr., News Editor Mrs. Helen Smith, Society Editor CORRESPONDENTS Mary Ellen Davis Ruth Davis Josephine Houghton Agnes S. Jeffs Elizabeth Hanson.... Lou Jean Jensen.... Spring Glen Hiawatha Castle Gate ... Sunnyslde-Sunnyda- .... Ethel Hillabrant Dora Van Natta Kenilworth ................Spring Canyan ...Wattia Rains .....Wellington Dragerton Wanda Peterson..... Bessie Roberts UI4H le ASSOCIATION STATE CDITOtlAl NATIONAL s3,c5,2m gamra LETS STAY PROUD Utah will have a proud tradition to maintain November 4. That tradition is the outstanding record the state has established at the polls. In each presidential election from 1920 through 1948, Utah has ranked the out has been downward in the past two elections. This has been true not only in Utah but also in most other states. On a national basis, 59.3 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls in 1940, 57.1 per cent in 1944, and only 51.4 per cent slightly over half in 1948. The danger in the trend toward smaller election turnouts, is that the bread of democracy is the vote a meager but vital crumb frm the magnificent fare which freedom affords us. The sustenance of democracy, its staff of life, is the suffrage of the people. To men who love liberty, those who starve the ballot box are no less despicable than those who stuff it. Small elections are big opportunities for those who are incompetent and for those who are corrupt. The final result, however, can only be the decay and death of democracy. We, in Utah, have not starved the ballot box. We can be proud of our voting record. Lets stay proud November 4. President of College Answers Editorial The , There are some statements in your editorial entitled, Education and Politics," in The of October 16, which I should like to challenge. You state that the teachers were on leave from their duties at public expense. This is untrue. In the first place, the teachers were not on leave. Most boards of cation and administrators generally feel that these meetings have a real value in making of better teachers for the youth of the e: te U. S. Rock Wool Guaranteed Work FREE ESTIMATES CALL 494 Wallace G. Grange Price, Utah state. In the second place, teachers have to teach the required number of days each year, regardless or holidays of any vacations they may have. The state law requires a certain number of days of actual school and I think you will find that all districts hold such a number of days unless the schools are closed over long periods for contagious diseases or other serious emergency. You mention the educators in your second paragraph. In my opinion neither I nor any teacher I know has been tax supported. I feel that I have always earned whatever money I have received from my teaching services, and any person who earns his salary is not supported by anyone but himself. If all people who receive income from tax dollars are tax supported, then you and your company are tax supported, for I have personally paid your company many hundreds of tax dollars for work you have done for Carbon College, and I am sure that Carbon County School District, Carbon county and Price city have paid you even as Dr. Fuller made. While I do question the fitness or appropriateness of political remarks at educational or other nonpolitical meetings, I am thankful that in America a speaker has the right to say what he pleases, whether we like it or not. Sincerely yours, AARON E. JONES, President, Carbon College. to political harangues. In fact, we have serious doubt that any board of education has the legal right to "require attendance at state educational meetings on pain of loss of pay at all. Dr. Jones states that "newspapers of the state were anxious to get a law passed requiring the school districts to publish their financial statements. This particular statute was passed long before Editors note : The foregoing let- our time and also Dr. Jones, so ter written by Dr. Aaron Jones is neither of us are actually In a posprinted with his permission. Sel- ition to pass on the anxiety of dom have we found that there, are those (not necessarily publishers) not two sides to every question. who might have originally sponsorHowever, there are some observa- ed the law. It is possible that tions we would like to make. the motivating Influence was to The first contention of Dr. inform the people on expenditures Jones is to our statement that of school funds to whom and "teachers were on leave at the what for. public expense. He then explains Various school districts have that Most boards of education re- tried to ignore this law, and the quire teachers to attend meetings, school people have tried to get it and if they do not do so, would repealed, though the cost annually suifer a deduction in pay." Ac- is only a couple of hundred dol cording to the clerk of the Carbon lars, very little as school costs county board of education, teach- go. This law was contested by ers are paid during the days spent the Carbon county school district at the convention and while the) in 1921 in the Seventh district schools are closed. Then at whose court and upheld, and it was later expense is this? upheld by the Utah supreme We do not question that great court. The real objection to the good may be derived by teachers school financial statement is not attending such conventions. We do the cost, but publication of indivobject to a principal speaker talc- idual teachers salaries, which is ing sides in local or national poli- objected to as an invasion of tics. If such practice were contin- personal privacy. This can be apued, educational conventions could preciated. The law, however, must have become merely political confabs, where speakers orate and connive merit besides any selfish motives for or against this or that party or of publishers and in spite of strong individual for the sole purpose of opposition by school people. There Influencing votes of those in at- has never been more than one or tendance. As a member of society two and many times no publishers who helps pay for the support of serving in Utah legislatures m the the schools while taking a calcula- past thirty years. Passed in 1917, ted risk in a private business en- it has never been repealed, yet. Dr. Jones objection to our use terprise, we believe it is not imeducaproper to object to methods of of the term spending these tax dollars one of tors, draws a fine line. Certainwhich is paid time spent listening ly, we did not mean that the edu more. I notice, too, that the newspapers of the state were anxious to get a law requiring school districts to publish their financial statements, and one wonders if the law was not inspired so that the papers could get some more of the tax dollars. As I see it, both you and I and most other teachers are it makes no difference for whom we work. But what counts is how we work. About the wisdom or lack of it on Dr. Fullers part, I am unable to say. I am sure, however, that what he said had little or no effect on those present. Those who had already made up their minds in harmony with what he said applauded. Those whose minds wore otherwise resented what he said. I think you will find that teachers are not so fickle as to be swayed to one cause or another by statements made at political rallies, in newspapers, or at conventions; so I think there isnt much cause to take alarm over such statements d, cators were supported wjthout '.ike it or not," certainly should earning or working for their pay. be qualified. There are appropAll expenses of the schools salar- riate times and places for most ies, supplies, rents, construction everything, and this includes talks n must come from taxes collected made by a propagandist for nona at interests from the people. In fact, every partisan cent of income taxes paid by in- partisan meeting. dividuals to the state of Utah goes to the schools, and 67 per cent of all property taxes in Carbon county goes to the schools. Are these not tax dollars? This newspaper docs not particularly think it important that Mr. Fuller attacked Governor Lee, but It is important that he used the rostrum of the Utah Education association for partisan poli- "tax-support- ccr-ai- . tics. We disagree with Dr. Jones in his statement that teachers have already made up their minds. They are the same as the rest of us, and a good many people have not made up their minds, or hadn't that was the main motive of the group who allowed Mr. Fuller to release his remarks. A classic example of how late votes may be changed is the "whistle-sto- p tour around the country by President Truman, in 1948. Political ts and even the president himself acknowledged that this late effort turned the election. Results even confused the pollsters. 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