Show I 1 PILL FILL THE SCHOOLS 1 the lecture by y jaup up App cilc 1 all educations education which we published in in our last issue contains some startling start lifs statistics regarding 0 the schools of this county the figures a ato aio not indicative dica tive of that he healthy allay educational condition which should be there is something ethin a wrong according c to lo the estimate 0 given colvell in tile leec lecture there wis was 61 per cent of tile hie children in this county who were not lot attendants of schools last year there are doubtless various causes for this extraordinary sho shooing aug the standard of excellence which our schools should show may be laking lacking tile parents of children in many instances ins may not earnestly sense tile the of sending 0 their children to EIl ool whatever the t fc ause may he it il certainly cannot lie be for a want of teaching aching tc from the platform or tile the press for education lias hn s been encouraged cou raged a lit in this county by the representative resent etive citizens for a number of years past there is a fault somewhere it should be discovered ami i remedied the people of this valley ire arc better prepared to educate their children than A similar number found aiyu here rise else in ill the united states I 1 or in the old world the majority of them have their licar own homes they have plenty of food and generally g genc rally are well supplied with the necessary necess nry the teachers who I 1 are arc alimi engaged ed in the work of instruction in ill tin this s county compare favorably in qualifications w with ith teachers elsea here it is true that in some cases tene teachers liers have too loo many pupils this is not tile case when oi lien the average 0 I 1 is taken tile the teaching talent engaged enaa 0 aa ell in this county comity today to day coll could instruct numbers of stude students tits more than they have under tinder their care at 1 I the present time while tile the taa fact is tha that utah in edu I 1 rational actu cat annl ional matters is far ahead of some I 1 of the stales in tile the union yet it remains el evident ident in ill view of what should be that there is ninth to be done in I 1 I 1 this region 0 yet when a citi citizen fell rc t the he shortness of life and contemplates the future before his children it should stimulate him to do 10 something for them that will enable tanin to better batt battle lewith with life and to become useful and honorable members of society it is ia lucli better for a child to be left a 0 good practical moral education than to ila haic c wealth it seems that what is required is a careful determination en ell the part of parents to send their children to school asia they can all do so at least until a common schoot education is I 1 obtained it will be foul found ll that many extravagances ances are arc indulged oed in ill by many of those who to claim poverty lit lct these be curtailed and let taw bright spirits nakli abich god has sent into tile the neild receive receive 1 a I training is trat that sill hill do them their parents 11 II and their coul country itry honor another year should witness a different report from the county superintendent it is to lie be hoped that it will I 1 I 1 fill ill up the schools employ wore teachers and build more school houses if necessary and future ety will be benefited thereby |