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Show - SCHOOLS HAVE BIG " YEAR DESPITE 'FLU' Twenty-six Instructors Now Teach Summer Work, t Ball Declares. I Report Outlines General Agricultural Situation in Utah. "Tiu yoar liUS-ht lias boon tho bt'.st i year In I'tah In tho history of ni kailture j In hlj;h sohools. Th!a can be truthfully saiil. notwithstanding the closing of ! sohooTs part of tho time, due to tho epl- ; domic. Twenty-six Instructors are now at work In summer supervision of boys in projects.' t This ls a paragraph from tho annual j report of I. R Pull, state supervisor of j agricultural education in I'tah, to V, S. Taylor, federal agent for agricultural education. edu-cation. Kxcerpts from tho report fol-f fol-f low : "'The general agricultural situation in t'tah is distinct in the following particulars: particu-lars: "The people believe in agricultural education. edu-cation. All hish schools in rural districts laucj-t " agriculture prior to . the Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes act. "All rural hlh schools have attempted to reach the Smith-Hus'ies stantlards by choice and not because of the subsidy. "The I'tah Agricultural college has con-ducted con-ducted for years very active roundups and carried on county agent work in most sections. "The Vniversity of I'tah has been giv-inu giv-inu for five years a course in rural education. edu-cation. "The I,. D. church schools in the last three years have developed a system of t:x months in schools and six months in supervised projects at home. Forced Into Sympathy. "The people of I'tah have been forced into sympathy with vocational training. Irigham Youns; said that education consists con-sists in giving to people the power and the skill to control and modify their environment en-vironment for their welfare and benefit. This idea is widely spread throughout the state with the result that our high schools have had a strong tendency to manual arts and agriculture, although the type has been made to fit into the 4."-minute periods of book work without adeo.ua te laboratory or field excursions. " "Our report will show that this year we expect to qualify about twentv-four high schools in agriculture under Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes standards. This Is more than half of the four-year hih schools in the state. This fact also indicates how sincere sin-cere is the reception accorded to the Smith-Hughes ct in I'tah. "The Agricu! tural coiiege has been interested in-terested in agricultural extension, but to a large extent noncooperative with the ! the benefit of elementary and secondary i . ttac!ieis hi othei- subjects, tlian tin- -ocu- ! tiona! courses. It is also declared th;it a j icat li. dd for development of agrleul- , tural edaration in all stales lies In iho op- ! portiinil t-rt tor provoca t i-aail education. ' an.l mentions cooperation with tho .Smith- ; I l.o or lorrt'S in that i-onnoctmn. i A state caiiii.it'-: n In I 'tail to put into 1 operation the recent educational program . en.iclol hv the legislature is uiel. and it is linked th.it IVrry th Iloli'm, who has already been a isli-.r to I'tah. he as- sh- no. I to t'ii.s state to organize such a campaign. It Is Miowri that fifteen schools, with : an cnrohmeiil of '.'. pumls In ar'etil-' ar'etil-' ture. wore granted todcral anl In l;.lT-l. 1 and that tWent-two, with S:'S enrolled in agriculture out of a total on vol! men t of in those sehooK rcauved le.'eial aid In the school vear just t nd.-d. The j se!u"!s arc ( ;r.uiite, Nephi, Moroni. Ml. I Mi a san I, t M'c o 1 a-noli, A mo Mci n Kur U , l.eiii. IMoasant Crow, ilriuham (Mtv, U:c!imo::d. Ilvnjin, Parowan, Ka vsvlMo. j Jordan, ray.-on, Sramsh l-'ork. Spritii:-I Spritii:-I viilo. I'rovo. ilunni.-ou, IK-h.r cMty, Kam-I Kam-I as and M : can. local hUh sehols. The pro-cot tendenov for moro actiwtv on the pail of tho hk- ' ricultural department In hi-.h wchools seems to he received with suspicion bv the college, but we believe this will work out all risht. "flub work as promoted bv tho Agricultural Agri-cultural cohere has boon fairly active, on account of the assistance given bv the local schools. However, since tho Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes act the club loaders' policy has been to divorce the work from the schools and hook it up with the tarm bureaus. "The Vnivorsitv of I'tah has not made a reiiui: ement of all no rival graduates I that thov shall enroll in the courses In j rural education offei ed there. Tho res-.il I jis that this work is given scant reeognl-i reeognl-i tlon and lias a small enrollment - about ! five at the present time. High Schools Ask Aid. "We have received applications from twenty-seven high scho-ds for fede:al and state aid under the Smil h- 1 1 nc Pes standards stand-ards in the depart 'cents in aricult it re. We expe.'t to qualify twenty-four of these. Ten other public h'ch sobols have this year been teaching agriculture, but not up to Smith-Hughes stamlaids. The reason given is inability to secure qualified quali-fied teachers." The report goes on to point out that greater state aid will open manv opportunities oppor-tunities for development of agricultural vocational educaton, and con li noes: "Hy this, 1 refer to a proposed amendment amend-ment to the constitution to lo voted upon at the general e'eetion in kCO, vhfivhv per capita In the form of stat-1 aid will be distributed to the various counties coun-ties for public education. At tae present time the state aid pins local taxation Is Insufficient for eleven districts t.. qualifv fully under Smith - Huches standards In all the hlirh schools maintained thore'n. The amendment will he enacted into law or the legislature elected at that time will pass an income tax law for inereas d state aid. These Iss'-us will render the re lief now needed, and either one or the other seems assured," The report also declares that the normal nor-mal sehols of I'tah greatly need courses in rural education and rural soeioloqv for |