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Show 'IT TALK TELLS JSCHOJOEEDS. The need of an adequate secondary sec-ondary school system to prepare children for college was stressed by Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, In his annual address to faculty members, mem-bers, Tuesday morning In the John R, Park administration building. Dr. Thomas told faculty members mem-bers they could not expect college material to come up from the grade, and highschools If the Importance Im-portance of basic training Is not stressed to a greater degree. He reviewed the report of the advisory committee on education, submitted to the president of the United State. In 1938, and advised faculty members to read It, Sketches History "The report Is of general Interest to all educator. In the United States," he said, "and I ask that as soon as you have time that you read it." Dr. Thomas sketched the history of the school system In Utah and commented on Its former Inadequacy In-adequacy In teaching facilities. When free schooling was established, estab-lished, however, conditions bettered, bet-tered, he recalled. "Continuously for a number of years there has been a strong and partially successful endeavor to have the state assume more and more of the school burden; the primary purpose being, through wider distribution of taxes, to equalize the education opportunities opportuni-ties and burden, for a better school system," he continued. I'nlformlty Urged He went on to say that under the present school system, however, how-ever, If the principle of giving the children in the nation an opportunity oppor-tunity to get an education is to prevail, some step, must be taken to modify the present system and provide more uniform maintenance. mainte-nance. Dr. Thomas mentioned that President Pres-ident Roosevelt's committee reached the conviction that federal fed-eral aid Is necessary to equality In the school system. Preceding his address, President Thomas Introduced new faculty member, to the group. |