Show i AD pRESS TO VOTERS T Issued by the Board of Education Edu-cation NEED FOR LOAN SET FORTH t Members of the Board Sign a Statement j State-ment of the Reasons for Calling the ElectionCost of the Maintenance J of the Schools StatedWhat the Effect Would he of the Failure of the People to Authorize the Bor k lowing of Twenty Thousand Dollars j Dol-lars The Board of Education has Issued the following address relative to the election to be held tomorrow on the question borrowing 20000 the sum needed to continue the schools through nine months fo the Citizens and Taxpayers of Salt Lake City The undersigned the jjicinbeiH of your Board ot Education deem It proper that they should In a public manner set forth the facts Avhlcli make it necessary for them to call a social I election for the purpose of empowering them to borrow the sum 4 of twenty thousand l0000 dollars for the support and maintenance of the schools for the ninth school month of this year The law which operates I upon the Board of Education as well as upon other municipal corporations k forbids us from Incurring any indebtedness indebt-edness In excess of the amount of the cu llcn Income derived from State and municipal taxation Every check drawn by the clerk and paid by the treasurer of our hoard bears a certl llcate to the eiTect that the expenditure Ji within the debt limIt Accordingly y when we have reached the limit of expenditure ex-penditure 1 I permitted I by statute there r are but two alternate The first Is to close the schools and thereby limit our expense tin 01 her Is to appeal to you for permission to exceed by a given I amount the debt limit We are of the opinion that it is i not your wish that the school I year be shortened and we are also of the opinion that when the i facts are properly given and understood t > under-stood the permission requested will be L cheerfully given The schools arc maintained main-tained for yourselves and your children I S chil-dren and for no private benefit of our p own and we therefore have no hesitation f hesita-tion in placing 1 1 before you a full statement state-ment of the emergency which confronts U COST OF THE SCHOOLS I The expenditures connected with the maintenance of our schools have r Increased yearly as our school population popula-tion has Increased The assessment roll of Salt Lake City indicates the amount of our income the amount allowed i al-lowed to be assessed being limited bylaw I by-law This for the year 1S9S1S99 was I 31y01152 The assessment roll for the current year Is 30690201 showing a decrease of 1310053 Our income was thereby decreased the sum of 130r > SS2 J Jn addition to this falling off of revenue the increase of enrollment to wit J7fl entails additional expenditure 1 expendi-ture The average cost of each pupil in the schools Is 170 making ft total additional cost for the year of 5GSOQ Our wish revenue is thus about 19800 less than last ycari L < h Yhae reason to believe and do believe that In the future the assessed valuation wlH be increased and that our revenues will never at any future lime fall to so low a figure I EFFECT OF CLOSING AS already Indicated the only thing l that we can do Is to close the schools 7 when our funds have been exhausted f From our personal estimates If we do r p v not get permission to borrow the 20000 which we ask I of you It will bis necessary i neces-sary for us to still further shoton our ii 1 school year which is already too short by closing the schools at the end of the j eighth month We arc confident that you will agree with us that this ought by all means to be averted It would be a calamity for many reasons The Mhool work has been planned upon the basis of nine full months of school To close the sohools so long before the expiration ex-piration of the time necessary to do the work outlijKd will involve loss to the pupils which cannot be made up and fUI whjch there will be no compensation compensa-tion Failure to complete the work will result In no promotion It docs not now appear that graduation from cither the eighth grade or the high school will be practicable at the close of the year All classes will carry over into next year and thus the work of the corning year will be embarrassed by the misfortune of the present one Under ordinary conditions the schools arc crowded but If pupils arc not graduated greater congestion will result re-sult and additional expense The summer sum-mer vacation will be four months In duration a long period of idleness which all parents will deplore This Is not a proposition to bond the school district We propose but a temporary loan which under the arrangement ar-rangement with our treasurer will bear no interest E W WILSON r E B CR1TCJILOW M IT WALKER A G GIAUQUE r T WM J NEWMAN OSCAlt W MOYLE B S YOUNGV V IT P HENDERSON > W A NELDEN SIMON BAMBERGER Members of th Board of Education 4 Mr Moyle qualifies his indorsement V V of the address by I adding that he does not agree with the statement Failure to complete the work will result In no promotion V I I HE DEFIED THE POLICEMAN Distributor of Pennies Causes Him V self to be Arrested R Peters an advertising man Who attracts attention by casting handfuls I of pennies l I lo children on the street I got himself Into trouble yesterday afternoon af-ternoon for obstructing the sidewalk on Main and First South streets While plying his vocation of casting pennies to crowds of urchins that many might be attracted lo read an advertisement pinned to his buck Peters caught a greedy urchin In the act oC pilfering some coin from his pockels He at once collared tho youth and turned him over to Olllcer Parry with the inJuiiKiou that the V latter was to lock the boy UII However Parry duuhlud upon a different dif-ferent course of action gave the boa bo-a lecture and let him go Here vliat did you let that boy go fqr T dumandod the advertiser Youre neglecting youre duty Ill just take I your number down and report you The advertising man noted with a xnilU > that a largi crowd was gathering gather-ing and whvn Parry tofu him to move Oil ho broke out afresh nun me In Why you cant do anything any-thing of the I kind Ill just daru you to I I do It UlUioul further udo the ofllccr collared col-lared his man and marched him to po 1 llcf headquarters where he was booked for blockading the sidewalk Ills ball was llxld at 510 which he furnished I |