| Show iW1TliE SCHOOLS BE CLOSED The prospect of closed schools in Salt Lake county Is not pleasant to contemplate contem-plate But they cannot be kept open without funds These beLig exhausted some of the school districts there Is only one of two things to do Get the needful money for expenses or dismiss i the schools In those districts There is a considerable sum owing i to the school districts by the county The money is not in the treasury The borrowing power of the county has been overrun But if the proposed bonds are issued the old debts can and will all be paid including the amount due to the school districts Which is the better way To issue the bonds and reduce the interest now i being paid from S to 5 per cent and keep the schools open or to vote against the bonds keep up the high rate of Interest on warrants and close the schools that are out of funds Tins is a question for the taxpayers to consider Prejudice goes a great way still In the popular mind There is a reasonable prejudice when the proposition Is to run Into heavy debt by the bonding process It Ig not so reasonable rea-sonable when as In this case the debt has already been Incurred and the purpose In view is to reduce the interest inter-est upon it The schools ought not to be closed With the prospects of money from the sale of bonds the county court can give such assurances of the payment of the amounts due to the school districts dis-tricts that they can be kept open This may be done either by the acceptance by teachers and others of the obligations obliga-tions of the trustees backed by the agreement of the county court or by the trustees obtaining loans which will run but for a short time and be paid as soon as the county is in funds Let the voters of this county weigh well the situation and the responsibilities responsibil-ities resting upon them in deciding the l important question upon which they will have to cast their ballots on the fifteenth day of the present month I |
