Show School a and d Horn Home Home by Dr Daryl aryl J. J McCarty Executive Secretory Secretary Utah Education Association Be energy tightwads In times of grave national crisis leaders have had little litHe trouble arousing the American people to action Until now For many reasons we haven't made madea a lot of headway in dealing with shortages of natural gas oil and electricity Much of the effort has been aimed at finding more of those com com- Utah schools are taking a different tack They're spreading the message of the need to become energy tightwads For example Sixty grade fifth-grade teachers in the Granite School District and 18 from Iron School District have been trained to help students to assist families in the art of being parsimonious parsimonious par par- with power Each student is urged to visit four families The grader fifth-grader asks the family to read a guide on saving energy discuss it and act on the suggestions it contains The State Stale Energy Office was Impressed impressed impressed im Im- im- im pressed enough to fund the another teachers in Salt Lake City Murray Logan Cache and Tooele School Districts The guide talks about ways of saving other kinds of energy in Iq other oter ways was s. s Families that study the guide and put its principles into practice receive a window sticker which shows the world that people who live in this house are trying to do their part But maybe theres there's a way to spur more Utah families into action Its It's based on money First though lets let's consider a success story from back East A school superintendent told the people in his districts district's schools that they'd get 25 cents of every dollar they saved on fuel costs They could use the funds for equipment and supplies of their choosing The district saved in the first seven months With that in mind why not try the same thing in your home home Tell the family you'll split half the savings on heat electricity and power bills bUls equally Maybe you ou wont won't save that quickly but it could be a valuable way to halt waste |