Show Six Church hurch College Teachers I At L Logan gan Are Reported ed to BeOn Be BeOn BeOn On City Public School Payroll Members of Other Creeds Protest Against I I Policy of Permitting Schools I to Operate at Expense of State in Maintaining Faculty I OGAN i I. I March 19 A A Rotary club committee investigating L LOGAN Logan city schools w will ll have its attention called to the fact that six teachers in the Brigham Young college training of the board of education school here are arc on the payroll city I it was announced today Protestants against this practise II express the opinion that under no I conceivable circumstances should I I I the faculty of any church school be a charge against the public I schools and point out that schools I conducted by other religious d d- d nominations here have haloe been given no such consideration by bythe the school board Catholic Presbyterian I Seventh Seventh-d Seventh day y Adventists and Lat Lat- ter-day ter Saint schools are maintained main maln- I tamed in this community To each eachor of or these children of ot the ages legally legal legal- ly compelled to school attendance attendance- e are arc sent by parents desirous of I having their youngsters educated under a sectarian Influence The Brigham Young college It is said Is the largest most Influential and richest of these Institutions but ItIs it itIs itis Is the only one to derive any monetary aid from the school fund built up by local and state taxes and from federal resources OPPOSED AS PERMANENT School officials Interrogated on onI the subject declared that they would I oppose the practise becoming a permanent permanent permanent per per- manent arrangement and defend the temporary subsidy of Brigham Young college on the grounds of I expediency Board of education pa payrolls rolls show that Phoebe Harding I Preston Maughn Barbara Maughn Myrtle My Jacques Mabel Nelson and I DIantha Hammond regular members members mem mem- bers of the training school faculty of the coll college ge ire are re monthly checks of each from the city schools As the school year ear is figured fig figured fig fig- in ten months that means an I annual outlay of or of public I funds to maintain this private in institution institution In- In I it is protested But school i officials Insist that by this temporary temporary tempo tempo- temporary arrangements at least has been saved Logan taxpayers Orson R Ryan an superintendent of city schools is authority for tor the statement that this payment of salaries salaries salaries sal sal- aries to members of the college faculty faculty fac tac- Is for this year jear ear only ony OFFERS NORMAL COURSE C The Brigham Yc In college Is maintained as one of ui of tie the le schools inthe In Inthe Inthe the educational system of the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon church In addition to a full grade school and a high school schools It offers a year 2 normal course upon completion of or which a graduate Is granted a state schol certificate as elementary Instructor These normal normal normal nor nor- mal school students receive their pedagogic training by assisting the regular faculty members In conductIng conducting conducting conduct conduct- ing grade school classes in the trainIng training training train train- ing school branch That method Is said to be generally In use in the best beat normal schools so that the training school classes are an essential essential essential essen essen- adjunct to the normal school courses if the normal graduates are areto areto areto to be fully equipped for tor the state certificate In this training school it Is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that children of grade school age are in regular attendance That has been approximately the average attendance for tor several years ears past These children pay a 6 entrance fee to the college each year because of parental preference for a church school as against the school public Prior to this year any deficit between the revenue de deI derived derived de- de rived from these grade school entrance entrance en en- I trance fees and from the normal school tuition has been made up from front church funds It Is said IN SCHOOL CENSUS Although Logan city has enumerated enumerated enumerated these children in its school census and collected the 25 per capita allowed by the state for tor each school child no provision has ever been made for tor their accommodation in the public schools of the city because it was known they would attend the tho church school Likewise state revenue has been collected on children of school age attending the I academies conducted by other re religious religious religious re- re denominations Last year according to Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Ryan the Logan city school board was notified by the college authorities that the training school there would be suspended during the current schol year ear The reason given was it is said that thai the college intended experimenting in a junior college como coute and would have no funds available for the Continued on page 4 4 SIX CHURCH Continued from pago page 1 1 1 training school department Whether er or not this tills abandonment of ot tho the training school would affect the normal school standards was wan not emphasized it i is said sald but It Jt was pointed out that suspension of or ot the training school would throw back backon on tho the public funds for educational accommodations the grade grado school students whose religious preferences had led them previously ouy to attend the church school It I was also brought into the discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis that the tle entire entre state benefited benefited bene bene- fied from the tile normal school pro production pro production of ot teachers MATTER IS EXPLAINED EXPLAINED Superintendent Ryans Ryan's office figures fig fig- ures ules that it costs Logan city 60 per school child per year to maintain main main- tain tan the tho tho educational establishment That is is an a additional outlay of ot would bo required during the current year car to equip and in instruct instruct In- In these training school stu stu- dents And then if i the Junior college college col col- col- col lege proved pro successful the college expressed tho the opinion that the school might be reopened At After r some discussion of ot the problems Drob- Drob lems involved the board of ot education education tion Is said aid to have hit upon the plan of ot paying the training school salaries up to the amount of ot the deficit Incurred to the college conegO budget te by the Junior college So o o. o six aix eachers teachers of ot the college were transferred from tho the church P payroll I to that of ot the city board and yrol the problem of ot students Is solved according to tho the explanation given taxpayers who havo have protested the tho subsidy |