| Show New West High School Needed o 0 0 fill 0 0 o 0 0 J fill 0 0 Old School Considered Menace 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 lAll All Students Take Up jp fight I r a ens' ens ensI I Are oil f Campaign w With a tremendous confidence in the people of Salt Lal Lake e the West est High school has started a campaign for so- so curing a modern and adequate school building for the west side students Forced by conditions the students are crying their needs to toI I the tho taxpayers of the city Knowing that hat city an state offIcials business businessmen men and social leaders school authorities ties and members of the board of edu- edu I I Gation cation are not only In favor of relieving Ing the needs but unhesitatingly voice their approval the students realize that it Is the taxpayers to whom they must finaly submit their plea it Is the taxpayers who can alleviate the absolute absolute lute necessity it is they who can sweep avay away all obstacles and it Is they who as In all other cases of vital need will supply the wants In the year car 1850 about two arid and a half years subsequent to the settlement settle settle- ment of Utah and when It was still a aI territory the legislative of I the government passed an act on the of February incorporating incorporating rating the University of the State of Deseret This same university was opened for the reception of students the following November with an attendance attendance at- at totaling the first year SCHOOL FALLS HEIR HEIR The The university building bunt built a few years later stands today and and forms one of a group groan of four buildings which are for the most part relics of the early da days das s In Utah when the Indians still stalked the country The University University sity of Deseret now the University of Utah moved Into the far eastern section section sec sec- tion of the city and the Salt ake High I school moved Into the discarded build build- Ings Later a gymnasium building anda and a manual arts building were added The school population at last expanded to such proportions that a modern and andIn andin In all wise vise splendid structure was erected and called the East Hl High h school Meanwhile In spite of the division the attendance at the West est HIgh school has vastly outgrown Its domin- domin ions There Is not a room rom not a hall hali not an attic which does not serve some purpose The past year yeal has seen the erection of some portable buildings commonly called refrigerators or and coops heated by separate stoves used as classrooms and for forthe forthe the repair department should be beIn bein In the technical building BIG ATTENDANCE The expansion of the West vest High school has increased in atten attendance ance per cent and In housing facilities only per cent The gymnasium cannot rIghtly be called a classroom less than one half of the technical building can be vote devoted to classes I It has been stated that an appropriation appropriation reaching Into the hundreds of thousands was made for a new West Vest school pr preceding the Involvement of the United Stat States s In the war but which was perverted to other uses It I will be remembered by a number of students that at a certain meeting in inthe the assembly last year a picture of a anew anew I new hIgh school building was flashed upon the temporary motion picture screen Despite these appropriations despite the many proposed plans despite despite de- de spite commendable hopes despite cInema reproductions nothIng has as asI asyet yet materialized and nothing will until I the matter Is brought before the peo peo- I pIe CLASSES CROWDED The necessity Is too flagrant to be given but tL a passing thought The system I tem of first come coma first served has hasI r I been in vogue for the past few years Those appl applying for admittance to certain certain I tain classes ha have necessarily been re- re fused The classrooms can hold just so many and no more and if a student ent be one of the more he Is denied The next few years will see pupils from classrooms lass class turned away not merely rooms but from the school altogether Under the most favorable conditions it would take several years ears to plan and construct a building and have It needs ready for occupation The urgent could be more quickly relieved b dl- dl legIslation The staff West est of the Red al and d Black has been assured by the princIpal principal pal of the High school and by a number number num- num ber of the city's le leaders ders that the time I Is not premature contrarily so and that in conducting the campaign the plan Is not onlY sanctioned but heartIly heartily heart heart- I Ily In indorsed and seconded The rhe staff plans plaits to appeal directly to the taxpayers Irs ers of or orthe the city through the columns of the Red and Black through The Telegram Telegram Tele- Tele by means of f students themselves and gram by bv such propaganda methods m as s can properly and decently be brought to bear GOVERNOR FAVORA FAVORABLE LE Governor Go Simon Bamberger urges the erection of the new building as soon as possible He declares Your arguments concerning the inadequacy in- in adequacy of the building of the West Westi i HIS HIS' is students would be trapped by flames should fire j attack the West Side Nigh school which has been pro pro- flounced a menace YN ry i Sv S Sa a |
