Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-09 | Page 4 | Teaching 'Em Young

TEACHING EM El YOUNG JAYOR LOUIS MARCUS told the teachers MAYOR the other day that children in the schools should be taught the functions of municipal gov government so that when they reach the voting age they will be amply equipped with a knowledge of what it is all about They should be taught too the pitfalls of municipal government and administration It should be a part of their education t to know that the spoils system still is tolerated in Salt Lake that are given n jobs for political service and not because of any special cial knowledge The rhe he mayors mayor's criticism that too many people are elected to office without proper foundation for the service to which they are arec c called is 15 founded in fact but the example set setin in Salt Lake is not calculated to stimulate Y RI-Y any great amount of pride among the youngsters youngsters youngsters young young- as they learn the truth LAs As As they go on in their search for knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge about municipal affairs the school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children must naturally acquire a distrust of an any system under which plundering of the treasury may go on unmolested for fifteen years youthful ideals are suffused with the blush of patriotism When knowledge comes that municipal government here as elsewhere elsewhere else else- w where ere is made unbearably expensive be because because because be- be cause of graft and favoritism those ideals a are bound to suffer