| Show TALKS ON MUNICIPAL NEEDS I ADDRESSES AT LADIES LITE HAIlY CLUB Mrs Carleton and Mrs Cownp Speak of Needed Reforms The School Tax Measure A discussion of municipal affairs needed reforms and needed Improvements Improve-ments occupied the attention of the Indies Ulterary club yesterday after ngon Mrs Georgia l S Carleton spoke of Soino Needed Reforms and Raid the Indifference and selfishness of the peo jile shown in the disregard of the duties du-ties of citizenship their failure to support the efforts of the men who honestly try to enforce the laws they were sworn to sustain and to uphold the ofliclals who try to protect the people peo-ple from robbery and jobbery she said wore responsible for the lawlessness on every side flow have the attempts of our Slate Board oC Health to enforce the laws they were bound to obey been met she asked How disastrous the consequences conse-quences will be to tho State Three years ago said Mrs Carle ton Dr MattIe Hughes Cannon In an address before tho romans club gave full particulars of our State law providing pro-viding for lecture courses In every city and village on questions relative to the public hoalth as a part of the educational educa-tional work of this State Had some ot tho school money of this olty been expended ex-pended for this purpose instead of exorbitant rentals for buildings that are a disgrace to the city we probably would have been spared our recent antivaccination legislation and the other health ordinances would not bo tho dead letter l they now arc WOULD BE AN OUTRAGE Speaking of the public school tax I I now pendIng Mrs Carleton said The I question of Increased taxes was submitted sub-mitted to the people of this city last year and they voted no For the Leg islature to take up the question and pass a law that would make i possible for the Board of Education fol to disregard disre-gard the opinion expressed at the polls by 1 tho people whose representatives they professed to be is a highhanded outrage The whole public school system sys-tem had better collapse than to estab I huh such a precedent and to Indirectly 1 educate children to disregard the only safe way to express opinion by the ballot t Mrs Carleton further said that If the law passed and the Board of Education Educa-tion attempted to raise money in disregard disre-gard of the right of the citizens to decide she would bring a test case Some Needed Improvements was the subject of Mrs JoTm F Cowans paper the greater portion of which was devoted to telling 4of municipal affairs In some of the larger cities of the Old World NEED OF A HIGH SCHOOL Mrs Cowan regarded as a pressing need a high school building surrounded by a generous campus Do you all know where our high school Is located lo-cated 7 she asked I faces Plerpont avenue which one might mistake for a common everyday r alley and not a firstclass alloy at that To be sure there is 0 cemont walk along one side of this avenue but It seems to have r coon built to accommodate ore cars tar buckets and various bits of machinery ma-chinery belonging to n mining and smelting supply company In the rear of whose building the high school is Here 750 young people pass the greater part of each school day There Is not one foot of campus not a tree or a blade of grass Nor la this the worst feature of the location of the high school I Is but one block from the main thoroughfare of the town and a number of pupils aro compelled to pass through the busiest blocks In Salt Lake In order to get to schOol Now is it to bewon dcred at that the girls are attracted by the shops on Main street and that the boys loiter around the street corners cor-ners ami drink in all the information of questionable character Salt Lake has In stock These boys and girls are at the most impressionable age In their lives Their characters are so unformed un-formed that every influence with which they come in contact leaves its impression impres-sion sionMrs Mrs Cowan continued Are we going to allow these conditions to continue until the expiration of this ten years lease There arc more than seven 1 years of It left Undoubtedly the boar will have to pay the 4000 per annum rental but might It not be possible to sublet the building for some other purpose pur-pose as wo were told at the time tho lease was made that the rental was reasonable Indeed cheap However that docs not alter our duty toward tho boys and girls of the high school |
