Show EIGHT AONTHS SCHOOL President Giauque Sees No Other Course EFFECT OF GOVERNORS VETO McCornIck Note Has to Be Paid Some Time School Population Increasing Much Flter Than the Assessed Valuation Val-uation of City Property Coy ttellss veto of the school tax bill Is practically certain to cut down the school year In Salt Lake to eight months The Board ot Education Is short of funds to the extent of 535000 Including the McCornlck note of 30 I nnn Thin unto I Is irfrued cannot be I carried any longer and even It It could there Is no better prospect of paying it next year than this The members o the board can see no way out ofthe dilemma except by cutting down of the school year closing with eight months In May Instead of June The bill as it passed the Legislature and went to the Governor would have added to the school fund from 35000 to 340000 from the Increase In the city tax and from 8000 to 510000 from tho Increase in the county tax This would have out the board on a good footing Discussing the matter yesterday President Pres-ident Giauque ot the Board of Education Educa-tion said Th board has not held a meeting to discuss the situation since the Governors Gov-ernors veto of the bill but I see no way to meet the situation except by closinjr the schools one month earlier than we had Intended Our note of 30000 has now been running for over two years on the understanding that it was to be paid this year and It must be paid We will be in no better position posi-tion to pay it next year than we are now It dont help I us to argue as the VTUVUIIIUI uucs Limi un luioeaacd vniiii Hon of the property of the city Is increasing in-creasing The school population of the city Is now and ha been for years past Increasing much faster than the value of the taxable property This Is what makes the problem such a hard one to solve for unless the tax levy Is Increased we must run farther be hind each year I cannot say what the board will w1 do Some way may be devised t meet the emergency without crippling the schools by an early clo closing but nt present that Is the only solution oC the problem In sight l |