Show UTAH'S SCHOOL I COST REVEALS BIG INCREASE Expert Supervision Needed for Efficiency ncy Says Professor Hall HallIn In eight years embracing the period from 1910 to 1918 1913 the per capita cost of ot elementary and secondary education In Utah was advanced 1166 according to a report submitted yesterday to the state board of ot education by Prof Mosiah Hall state high school inspect tor This annual Increase Is attributed t In part to the remarkable growth In high school attendance Based on the school census tho the per capita cost for elementary and secondary education in 1910 was It s 's s stated by Professor Protessor Protes- Protes sor Hall BaH while in 1918 it was approximately approximately approximately 43 43 The Tho per capital cost based upon actual attendance was respectively respectively and for tor 1910 and 1918 It Is now recognized Professor Hall hail says nays that there Is little hope for tor efficient schools without expert su su- su In 1910 the tho consolidated districts and antI cities paid their superintendents superintendents an average salary of ot 1800 per annum at the same time the consolidated con con- soll count county schools paid an average average aver aver- age salar salary of or only to tho the su superintendents su- su It Is Interesting to note that tho the trustees In the unconsolidated schools received etI four tour times the amount paid to superintendents At present the average salary salar of or the city superintendent dent Is and of ot tho the rual district superintendent 1657 1687 r Pay Criterion In tho the final analysis it Is t he able teacher who wino makes tIne the superior school and since It Is true that In tho the long longrun longrun longrun run wo get et what we pa pay for or then the salar salary paid teachers teacher Is a fair Index of or I Ithe the efficiency of or the schools In 1910 paid paltI to the tho average monthly salary salar elementary and high school teachers was or an annual salar salary of or I based on a school year of ot seven and one half months In 1918 the avi av- av i monthly salary was approximately m 92 or S per annum of ot a little more than eight months The average yearly yearl salary of or high school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers Is the average e paid I hl high school principals 1214 and the I school principals I Professor Protessor Hall lIall reports that th the tho total In 1910 valuation of school property was School School- buildings constituted nearly one half of or this Investment investment In Investment In- In vestment and the thc balance consisted of or school grounds Improvements apparatus apparatus apparatus ap ap- ap- ap and equipment In 1918 the tho I total valuation was of ot w which more moro than one half was represented In InI buildings s. I Consolidation Urged I It Is reasonable to infer Inter Professor Protessor Hall concludes that tho the only hope of the tIne rural schools lies in consolidation The Tho theor theory of or dissipated authority and extreme local control has been tried out and It has haA failed There Thero Is no uso use to try to patch It up It will never work Not the remotest possibility exists exIsts ex ex- of or evolving ol an efficient school system from a a. condl condition of or anarchy such as the old regime represents So long longas as each ench little village e and town Is tho the solo sole arbiter of ot its school fate fato there can bo no unified effort no business administration and no adequate super super- vision O aos rules triumphant Establishment of ot a federal department department department depart depart- I I ment of or education with Its Hs secretary a cabinet officer is advocated b by Professor Protessor Professor Pro Pro- I fessor Hall Unfortunately tho the commissioner commissioner com corn missioner of ot education the report says valuable though his services bo be has no executive authority or Initia Initia- tive tivo Ills His privileges consist largely In Ingathering ingathering gathering and antI disseminating statistics Ho He ought ous-ht to be a cabinet member at least of or equal rank and power with tho the minister of ot war and antI tho the postmaster I genera general I S |