Show A reactionary seymour young had on an article in last nights news in 11 which he came out flatly against tile the continuance of the city high school and urged that the pupi pupils Is who now new on eo to that school should be sent to the preparatory department of 0 the expense and cost Is the I 1 cason lie ho urges for or this reactionary pio gramme lie ile says t that hat economy does not DOL seem to have been much con by our present school board the she eliott ing we print elsewhere of comparative para par tive aLive pay of principals and teachers teach cri refutes this and where he claims that lite board has hals made loose E striates clit mates for taxation lei he peaks without knowledge all tho the estimates and levies are arc carefully considered and the needs lec honed it Is mr young who Is loose in this and not tho the board the overdraft he speaks of was mail made in by y reason of the new and ich ic school building in the tenth ward mard and formed no part of the estimates the overdraft will be paid when ihen tile the tax levied for the building Is realized mr young speaks as me ine who has liberal views on educational matters 11 brt it ft lie he said so no one would have bave recognized the tact fact from nil hn letter ke ife inveighs against the he course of study without booming to know nov much about it and lifts his liand land in horror at the vast sums suing of money the ah 0 high school has cost when in an fact act the co coit gt has averaged far below halt half P a mill tax yearly since its establishment mr youngs support of the stale proposition that the high school pupils should go to the tire pre pai Ital atory department of the university does not help that proposition preposition which Is out of 0 all relation to the due progress s of school work that preparatory department part ment was a a temporary mcke makeshift shift in order to furnish the university some needed material students iho because of the lack of home facilities B could not he bo brought to tile entrance but it pi 1 a wrong idea altogether buell it a department lias has no business to be tacked onto ft a university at all much less leas to bo be made a permanent part of it as the addition 0 of f our high school would contemplate the pur pupils ils vho aho ft ho are in it are there from the hie outer parts or of the state jut jurt at it a del lod of their lives when hom homell clife c life fe and home training are niort most essential it Is for them thein a haid trial to be deprived of these find tent beat here to attend tills this school much better in every way would it be tor for them were there high schools near their homes where they cou could id attend this Is the university idea also and it ili ii UlI undoubtedly the correct one and A w ith the home ties provided as aa suggested how I 1 long ons would the state keep up the prep preparatory ara department for the benefit of 0 salt lake not 0 a month nor should it so tar far from trying to concentrate educational advantages in the way sug aug coated every dictate of both expediency antl and wisdom directs that these facilities should be as widely diffused 0 as possible throughout this state and thereby spread as advantageously ua as possible tile bengts to all the people nr mr young finally calls upon all the op opponents of 0 tho the high school to rally to the nominating conventions arid and select 6 c elect lect for or candidate candi datt those who ullo will tareo to abolish the high mahool that tait challenge must bo be answered by the friends of education rallying in strength and putting in nomination these and those only who tue aae known to be firm supporters of the th schools ns is we have them and especially supporters or of the high school as aa their crown arid and glory |