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Show 0 Ifs Your Duty to Vote Nov. 2nd 7 Vote as You Please J2- - cor vt v Possibly the ial election in ihe hii. zy u: Utah will be decided by vjIji next Tuesday during rr.erai elections. In add.tion to the rejl3 slate of federal ana at".-- '..t, ; islative ca.idi.htC3 ar.d ,.:dicofficers, voters will elect ial candidates and sia'o a..cl local school board merrbrrs. 'Three "red hot" iirv.es c? before the voters for lim' d"dsion, includ ng an amendment n-o- - o the state's constitution, and referendum propositions. and Garland Democrat Arthur Warren Hyde sheriff; former Box Elder County School a.1 J. Board president, is a candidate Tol 0or the slate school board, op oeldom have valors had a Grant clerk; Posts County ..'han.ee to get their fingers in so (II.) and Fred L. posed by Victor Rasmussen, of "wq incumbent County Cum man Burke assessor. Petersen many election pies. Logan. missior.ers are seeking R. S. Evans ion. Lewis Voters in Precinct Two (GarWight, Margaret Congressional Race They are A challenging race for U. S. BEAR RIVER THE SERVING Republican, seeking a 4 year and Ruth O. Hunsaker (D.), land and north) will cast votes VALLEY Representative from Utah looms post, and George H. Davis. Dem. recorder; George L. Johnson for county school board member. between former representative Volume 32 and E. Emery Wight Warren E. Hansen is the only Number 4 ocrat. seeking election for Thursday. October 28, 1954 Walter K. Granger, Democrat, two year term. Their opponents Dd. treairer; O. Dee Lund candidate for the four year term. cr.d Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, and Omer J. Call (D.), North Box Elder County's are Stanley A. May and MaurJudicial Ballot Douglas R. Strin'gfellow after he L. Reeder. ice to Utah Republican. bombshell the attorney. a Legislature delegate A Supreme Court Justice and vIitical exploded e School Posts Other countv contests are be Dixon ntered the campaign by admitting he faked a spy will be decided between Kleon a district Judge will be selected Leonard Claire tween incumbent Garland, from a non (H.) Bishop, Huggins agd Jverr, Republican replacing incumbent candidate record. partican ballot. Incumbent Justice George W. Worthen is opposed by Delbert REFERENDUM OF SENATE BILL 39 M. Draper. 3S (CIIAPIER 24. LAWS OF UTAH FIRST SPECIAL SESSION) PROFOSED BALLOT TITLE IN REFERENDUM OF SENATE HILL. Incumbent Judge Lewis Jones and M.gjC. Harris are candidates state ued as Snow, and Weber Junior Colleges for the judgeship of First Judicn asYdeems proper consideringV saving to fc. state in being relieved of their option. ial District. Reapportionment FOR An amendment to the state's AGAINST constitution, which was passed byterian C4; Southern Baptist 47; dent of Texas Christian University, by the legislature, must have the ' Baptist 39: Lutheran 37- Protes in his address at President of the should vote AGAINST old age assistance and other forms property and income to only those vote of the public before it is People tant Episcopal 16; Disciples of Associatioi. of American Colleges: Weber, Snow and Dixie of relief and social security, the people who are memeffective. Christ 15; beventh Day Adventists "As I see it, the full solution abandoning - and transfering state spent more than 20 times bers of Uie church. g Business and junior colleges 12; Society of Friends 11; and EvThe measure would revise rethis of problem of higher eduthem to the LDS Church. what it spent for these four junior industry, utilities, mines, privutely angelical Lutheran 10, and many cation involves a complete conin in Utah's legislatthe For owned corporations and all the presentation same,-yea- r. The entire subject should be re- colleges others. version, a new direction, a reton to state the so mgnways owned to ferred ure back the would on a them basis 1949-5spends by legislature property 0 In there were 1210 pri patterned after turn to vital religion as the focal that there fifteen times as much annually as escape paying any part of their the may be made a comple Federal vately controlled colleges and uni based on center of ALL sound education. system, it does to these schools. a good foundation fo operate ksupport under such a transfer. versities, as compared with only It will not suffice to have re study to alaymuch both area and shown have in Surveys consistently population. meeting larger problem 641 publicly controlled As all Benefit from educaa ratio of ligion merely as one stone in the education which wifl con- that the per capita cost to the state tion, so people all should help pay the two private institutions to one total educational building. It higher Weber at the are lowest of College Colege Transfers front the state and its people costs. As all business and industry must be the public. Massachusetts, always re beam, the state any by colleges within several operated next the years. bils discontinuing four benefits from the higher skills and the focalizing center, the percognized as a grea seat of Ameriand all costs of operating these advances ' in can education, has 25 private colUtah technology by produced Junior colleges as state meating spirit, the uniting force HASTY, ILL CONSIDERED junior colleges are not out of line education, so all business and induswhich gives meaning and signileges and universities compared ACTION when institutions measured and transferring student by output to 9 public. New York has 49 pritry jhould help pay the costs. It is ficance to all subjects and ALL The action taken separating with the senior colleges or with neitner fair nor just that the state three of them back to the vate colleges ana universities and courses. If God is the ultimate of other states. The Utah should 7 public In contrast, Utah has pass these costs on to the Church of Jesus Christ of and controlling reality of life, these schools from the public col- colleges foundation' in a recent report more limited and was done univerlege plant hastily ability ofthe LDS only 3 private colleges and learning is obviously inadequate Saints were passed y without any consideration of the showed that in 1950 state and local people co pay all the cos of these sities (B. Y. U., Westminster, and unless it does confess Him as cost ner onlv $280 student support recent the educational the state. of needs while junior the legislature. St. Mary's of the Wasatch) as collegef Foundation." its larger for higher education in Urfh where 9 But Yet within the nexV several as the As we set it, this spiritual trainpart of taxable wealth escapes. compared with 7 public (Univernational was public petitions succeeded $437. average sity of Utah, Utah State Agricul- ing is desirable for all students, years Utah will face the problem in placing the issue in refer- Utah's costs for higher education TRANSFER UJFAft TO tural College, College of Southern and it has been the policy of that of increased output from its high NON-LD'ndum form before the public schools as a result of the war and are not burdensome. Through eduPEOPLE Utah, Weber, Dixie. Snow and Church to admit to its institutiotis Carbon Junior Colleges).. Further of higher learning members of all post-wa- r increase in birth rate. cation we increase the income of on the ballot. There can be no question but these three private institutions religious faiths. Within fourteen years this will our people, supply help for our that main-tn LDS Church would the If the public votes for the have an enrollment of less than amount to 178 percent of the pre- growing industry which calls for a high standard of education two e stusent number in the state as a whole greater mastery of tools and skills in these 4,000 regular the laws will referendums, FACULTY. STUDENT BODY, and schools if transferred to and in the Weber College area in it manpower. Through educa them. Hut it is unfair dents, as compared with approxiCURRICULUM POLICIES be in If effect. voters turn the' to more we tion build manhood and woman daymately 11,000 regular thea; will be two for every one hood than 60,000 as The line thumbs our down on will living first and or both, people transfer either also a assure major the seven, time , students at now moving out of high school into the Weber college area to force the institutions. faculty, probably an college. By all accepted tests these of defense against revolutionary in is Compared high-clarevoked. legislation and destructive ideology, reaction- them to Bend their children to an with the national ratio this is a enlarged student body, and an enyouth will require education beyond Dixie, Snow and Weber Jun. the riched curriculm.. ary isms and world conflicts which LDS operated school, or paysendserious imbalance. the high school level. financial in to The heavy penalties threaten American our ion. anFirst has the Colleges would be returned destroy Presidency Should the voters approve These facts raise many questions life. Our public school sys- ing their children away to school, to their former nounced its intention, if the transof way transfer, the private institutions, fer owners, the LDS as to how they can be provided tem has made the have their children do without is approved, to operate these greatest of con or which would then number six, not the are of which least and Carbon College an be education. for, would It to the success of our peoequally Church, would still have less than 6,000 colleges "with a well qualified costs and ability ox the state to tributions to unfair LDS our that to expect the .and to of 'America would be educa meet ple, wherebuilding faculty competent abolished, if the pube students, pay, the types of schools to be the continuation of our way of life. people would receive kindly such intional needs of their respective as the remaining lic votes yes. provided, the number and quality Education is the producer and not an enforced choice were these stitutions would still have more communities." This is significant of the teaching staff and the total the consumer of wealth. be operated by the to schools to who those remember stue that Weber than 9,000 Catholic Church or some other equipment needed to turn our youth dents. But Utah would have a bet- College, for example, when operaout from school fitted for vocation-a- f . JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE ted as a religious denomination. Church school, had at its ter balance than now exists beemployment and for successful CULTURAL CENTERS tween private and public institu- head President David O. McKay living in oar complex society. ONE PACKAGE DEAL fjNFAIR ana on its- faculty such distin' tions of higher learning. These junior colleges have beNo one answers has L. as educators given any Ernest colShould it be objected that the guished the three come cultural Lumping centers of large junior to these questions. The entire subL. D. S. Church would have con- Wilkinsonnow President of Brie- areas and big segments of our pop- leges of Weber, Snow and Dixie out these of ham Ad and closing colleges ject Young the six of of University trol four Weber College Berves an into one lot to be transferred to as part of our public plant was ulation. institutions, the answer is ministrator of the entire L.D.S. area of more than 124,000 or ap- the LDS Church is unwise and unin decided less two hours at than Church School System; Dr. Henry that the Mormon population of 16 percent of the fair. Either all three must be Tremonton civic cLubs are a secret caucus. It was a Pearl proximately Aldous Dixon, now President of Utah is 74 of the total. these state. Of more than 50,000 abandoned by the state and transHarbor type of attack made withUtah State Agricultural College; ferred or none. There may be good mapping special projects to enNo are not members of the L. D. S. and out any advance warning. NO STATE RESPONSIBILITY Dr. Leroy Cowles. former President reason why one or courage citizens to cast their TO CONTINUE THESE JUNIOR of the University of Utah; Dr. A. chance was given for the people Church. In the 1952-5- 3 school year more sufficient these schools should be of this enrolled 4,797 college people to be heard, no thought given to COLLEGES jj. winsor, now Director of Edu turned over by the state but there votes on election day, according in whom various courses its of whether these very schools would The State of Utah has properly cation at Cornell University, and is no possibility for each school to to officers of the organizations. be required to me.t our present more than 2,700 were in evening be assumed the responsibility of pro- dozens of other men and women and judged on its own merits.. more were classes Tremonton than 1,000 Jaycees, under and future needs for education. viding elementary who have been recognized by other full contritime students. Its day of educational Ted Danger-fiel- d, for institutions their to close the schools chairmanship and secondary CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION butions to the educational advance MORE STUDY NEEDED. homes of your young boys and girls. educational contributions. Dixie and are ment planning to .use sound and the enjoyment of a richer Grave doubts have been raised This entire question should be life extended But it has never assumed nor can it Snow as Church colleges also to unnumbered more trucks, signs and posters to recompetent legal authority be expected to assume the respon- numbered on their faculties men given the most serious study by a thousands through Weber, Morgan, by law constitutional whether is the mind have citizens who to vote on Tuesattained high standing properly constituted commission in Davis and Box Elder Counties on the sibility of placing the transfer that grounds order that some blue prints may Nov. 2. colleges or universities in the back- in education elsewhere. lecgiven preference to one particular day, be drawn to handle the educational through immunity concerts, Also, it is not unlikely that college yard of every Bear River Valley Kiwanis tures, community theatres, choir, religious body. If a majority of Until man and woman. There are 16 cit- Church operation of the colleges, such made are problem. plans band and The ths' voters next November fail to Club is also orchestral groups. now which almost draw all their ies ia Utah having a population it is a very dangerous step to educational and cultural level of considering ways to vote AGAINST the law. the act comfrom students their where state cut and than either the that respective propose Ephraim, up a larger whole communities has been lifted. will probably be tested in the promote good turnout of votSnow College is located, or St munities, will result in a more rid of so large a part of its get courts. Pending the outcome of ers, according to Leland Hansen, student JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE George, where Dixie College is lo- diversified and enlargedworld-widcollege system. that test, serious damage would be president. e cated. At the present time Utah body. The Church is a These junior colleges with their VOCATIONAL CENTERS done to these colleges caused by and Louisiana are the only states institution and has student drawing emphasis on vocational courses The have which entirely support junior col- power not possessed by the State. junior colleges grown them being left in uncertain status short of four years of study, may into centers is as evidenced both with neither the state nor the the 'the for of fact by training leges out of state taxes. Weber well become the keystone of the church finally in control. eduof its stuadult and in vocational youth College lies midway between the 15.Y.U draws over 60 plant the state will require to meet cation. State fuuds are used to schools dents from outside Utah. two largest larger enrollment. Ihe Commission support vocational schools at Provo REFER SUBJECT BACK FOR in the State and less than 50 miles on Higher Education appointed by STUDY AND FAIRNESS those schools from eithercertainly not a proPresident of the United States and toSalt Lake. What the CONSTITUTIONALITY is Weber are their College areas, hibitive distance to expect a maIn twenty-odd the made a report in 1947 in which it years these The local florists are uniting ture student to go for higher eduheld that the junior colleges, or to its area and to some extent schools have been supported by It should finally be emphasized Dixie aud Snow are to the regions the state, they have grown to becation. And again let it be empha- that the return of the junior colto observe National Flower or vocational community colleges sized that the transfer of these leges will in no sense be a gift they scire. Here the great empha- come an accepted part of our pub- week from Oct. 31 to schools, by whatever name they sis Nov 6th. is on for employment lic school system. They have grown schools to Church operation would of any property to the Church. may oe called, offer the most pro in those training those industries will to the flowers the to become the heart centers of jobs, They not mean their loss to the public. As to lands which the Church present mismg means of meeting the post- which are established in the com- areas they serve providing educato and for which of mother the State war the baby born in the conveyed surge for expansion of college munities. ADEQUACY OF REMAINING tion and culture which have lifted the State paid nothing, they will, education. Valley hospital PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS during the week, our of of of course, revert to the Church large segments During the war Weber College the levels and plan to place flowers in EDUCATION A PUBLIC Neither would the proposed trans as a matter of law, without any trained thousands of people in people. RESPONSIBILITY fer cripple our program of public payment therefor. That is only Utah is emerging into an induspublic buildings for the enjoyspecial skills for jobs at the war in state with new industries ment of everyone, trial higher education. Even in the im- proper. "As to lands which have the made It area. is The education plants Ogden that principle during the possible event that every student been acquired and buildings built a state function operated by the a big contribution to the war effort locating here, each industry requir- week. now in the three junior colleges at the expense of thePtaxpayers skills adin the manpower ing special people and for all the doodIb re as well as to the vocational were to leave and enroll in a of Utah since the three colleges race or creed is deeply vancement of the people. For it employs, each needing some of gardless U.,-of were conveyed to the State , the public institution (U. imbedded in our American tradi- many years it has conducted facility to training of its manS. A. C. or the Collere of South first Presidency has given the train- power. We here are. developing a tions. Our pioneer forbearerg and special courses j,r ern Utah) their number would not assurance that "the Church is willin industries. D. dynamic economy which is placing ing the L. S. leaders the of great push total enrollment at these .in ing to pa: whatever price is fair who foundet our Utah comChurch The farmer has his college at the the state in competition with its stitutions ar high as it actually and equitable." This magnanimous neighbors. We must wrote monwealth Into state the college, the business industrialized agriculture was after World War II. Then, position removes any charge of unwith our Bchools it that edway a constitution keep colthat and man has his requirement professional these three colleges together en- fairness and eliminates any ques institutions and advancing public ucation be of an mu3t obligation lege at the university. The college rolled approximately 15,500 regular tion of constitutionalify. In any to serve our expanding empire. conthe from free of sectarian the skilled state, the man, laboring Hav.time students. Last Tear thev event, the constitutional question trol or domination. This tradition, artisan oi tradesman is in the These facts, these considerations had a combined enrollment of only properly rests with the courts and this constitutional mandate should junior colleges and in the voca- justify more than a two hour study e 1 0 1 0 ,0 need not concern the voters. approximately not be so lightly handled that it tional schools. in a secret caucus behind closed students. On that basis, they could can be thrown two aside doors after for deciding the future of only e CONSIDERED DECISION accomodate ar.other 4,500 JUNIOR COLLEGES REDUCE hours deliberation by a small group education. The safe way, the students. The figure is nearly two With the coming of cold, The decision to be made Is of is to refer the The reasonable twenty-od- d BARRIERS TO people. EDUCATION years way the times total and regular not a sudden one. It wa: proposed of money, labor and planning which back whole to legisthe subject e Without e the costs to wintry weather and freezing enrollment last to the lature by voting AGAINST this temperatures, the incidence o Legislature four years ago went into the building of these the state, Increasing these of three the colleges junior colleges junior year and has been the subject of discolleges as part of oar public make it possible to avoid heavy law. Let us plan the future of in question. cussion frequently since then. It schools justifies more serious study. financial penalties which would be higher education carefully and well new polio cases is expected to Furthermore, they could easily has now been before the people Utah needs before taking any such drastic step decrease abruptly, officials said no such dictatorial imposed on be enlarged to handle many more for over 8 months. parents in sending chil- as methods to deal with is educational dren planned by this law. to school and this week. do To so if away bring they necessary. students, It is a decision we can make system. The people are entitled two of and would be much less expensive than with college complete years The polio epidemic season is full confidence that the future to some voice in dealing with their vocational courses within the reach providing separate campuses, build of all education in Utah, elemenI, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secaffairs. public usually of thousands who would not other- retary of State of the State of during the late summer ings, and faculties for small stu tary, secondary, and higher, will educabe wise to able afford this and dent bodies. CERTIFY early autumn months, but JUNIOR COLLEGES Utah, DO HEREBY be brighter when the transfer is d tion. Surveys shov that nearly the foregoing is a full, correct ceases with frosty weather. that ECONOMICALLY SOUND made. GREATER SPIRITUAL more high school graduates and true copy of the argument In addition to several polio EMPHASIS What has happened to our state attend colleges in those communiI, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secagainst the transfer of Weber, cases in the State of of of State finances? found The the state located where and are retary ties colleges Snow and Dixie Junior Colleges, Brigham City area The of Church DO HEREBY CERTIFY means of supporting and building the difference is largely accounted as filed the "Junior administration would mean, of Utah, there by College including one fatal case THAT the foregoing is a full, corthese schools during all the depres- for among those In poore. families. Action Committee," as of course, a greater emphasis on the rect and true appears cases of in the have been four North, argument sion years. Now with. the income Under state control, these colleges record In my office. copy spiritual side of education. Re for transfer of Weber, Snow and of our times as great can have no barriers against any sum. people Elder this Box ern eight County of denomination, religious gardless Dixie Junior Colleges, as filed by must we cry proverty and bank- race, sect or creed but are herd I IN WITNESS in need education vital WHEREOF, a is me this the Committee For The Return of ruptcy and close out these co- open to alL and is a modern trend we have Junior have hereunto set my hand and The cases have been scattered Colleges, lleges? watched mth approval. In a world COLLEGE JUNIOR TRANSFER affixed the Great Seal of the State in 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, In Utah we spent 60 times as Honeyville, Howell, ColHn-sto- n, threatened by godless Communism, have TO this UNFAIR LDS Lake Utah CHURCH and of hand Salt hereunto set at City, much my and for alcoholic beverages courses emphasizing the Christian and Tremonton. All the the great seal of the state tobacco in 1952 as was spent by the If these colleges were to be main- 28th day of September, 1954. concept o the diamity and primacy affixed cases have been young people. of Lake this Utah at Salt City, state for operating the four junior tained to present standards under of the individual as opposed to the F. TORONTO LAMONT 1954. of 28th A LDS control then state September, For the the mother is among the of day young Church, indiscolleges. maintaining supremacy of the state are LAMONT F. TORONTO prison, juvenile courts, reforma- any transfer of them would merely Secretary of State polk) patients from the pensable to the proper training of tories and correctional institutions, transfer the costs from all taxable (SEAL) Secretary of State college students. This was emphaCity area. sized by D.'. M. E. Sadler, Presi (SEAL) two SECOND SECTION j D. !'.. DvaiCapener. iD.-inc- ), C)1m$ Olsen. (I)), R.-inc- .) (D.-inc- ), re-elec- t- (R.-in- j : co-'nt- r. ) (R.-inc- .) j j j :--o - An Act providing that Dixie (R.-inc- ZoSXZ ' The voters. !n the highest tradi tion of will make an important choice in November whether to return Weber, Snow and Dixie Junior Colleges to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints, or to leave the burden Of operating these colleges on the taxpayers. This statement represents the view of a group, non-partis- some Republicans, some Democrats, some Mormons, some all of whom believe the cause of education will be best served by voting for the transfer. ' HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ISSUE These colleges are historically Church institutions. Snow College was founded by the Church in 1888, Weber College in 1889. and Dixie College in 1910. Snow and Weber were operated by the Church for over 40 years, Dixie for over 20 years. In the early 1930's the Church voluntarily deeded the property and buildings owned by these colleges to the State on condition that, if the State ever ceased to operate them as junior colleges, they would revert to the Church.. In 19o0, faced with a State financial crisis, the Governor asked the First Presidency what the Church would do should the State no longer operate these colleges. The First Presidency replied tha under the conditions of the deeds, they would revert to and be oper-- , ated by the Church. The Governor then recommended they be discontinued as State institutions. Four years later, the Legislature in a Special Session approved the Governor's recommendation. In this historical setting, their proposed transfer would merely be to their original founder, which has always served the cause of education well. SAVING TO TAXPAYERS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST TO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH The transfer of these colleges , will save taxpayers millions of dol-- s lars. Their operation already costs s the State approximately one dollars annually, which, with normal growth, could be increased ' twofold, and require additional ; millions for capital improvements. J These millions are badly needed , for other educational expenses. Ev- ery school district is struggling with its budget. Many have been to raise teachers salaries. ; unable Almost all are behind in school-- I building programs. Every elemen- tary school in Granite District, forexample, is operating on a twoshifts-a-da- y basis. The superinten- dent advises he sees no end to this i unfortunate condition for at least j 10 years. With elementary and high school I enrollment expected to almost dou-- ! ble within the next decade so that I the need for additional funds will I be desperate, and taxes already I near the breaking point, the ques-- 1 tion is whether the State can af-- I ford to spend one to two million dollars annually operating these 1 colleges which coul. be operated i equally as well, if not better, with-- i out cost to the State. I This question is sharpened by J fact that their transfer will no additional burden upon I members of the L. D. S. I Church. That is because tithing, unlike Sate taxes, is voluntary and represents only 10 of one's income. Consequently the Church use of tithing for the operation of junior colleges, rather than for other purposes, will impose no additional burden on any member. This is in contrast to power of the State to impose and collect more and more taxes without any 107c mil-lio- ne im-Ipo- se tax-payi- limitation. Further, the Church's ability to 1 finance these colleges is resolved by the statement of the First Presidency to the Governor that they will "be pleased to have Weber, Snow and Dixie Colleges returned to the Church, which is in position to operate them in a manner, scholastically and otherwise.' Indeed, we are advised that should the Church operate these colleges, the percentage of its annual income which it will spend on education will not be more than it has often spent in the past. first-clas- s THE TRANSFER WILL GIVE UTAH A BETTER BALANCED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF HIGHER LEARNING Utahns often fail to remember ttat historically the very heart of Ligher education in America has ftten the private and the church college. We forget that such great institutions as Stanford. Harvard, cad YiJe, were founded for religious purposes. Many are unaware in 1950 there were at least C12 church-relate- d colleges and raiversities in the TJ. S. Roman Catholic 226; Methodist 89; Pres. fat .) 53 LYe - tithe-payin- To over-reachi- Lat-terd- ay S in-sta- te day-tim- in-sta- te non-LD- S ed ss te day-tim- in-sta- te day-tim- Clubs lo Sponsor Drives to Get Out Voters - ed . able-bodi- ed Florists Mark Flower Week tax-suppor- Polio Cases Expected To Decline day-tim- day-tim- one-ha- lf full-tim- day-tim- . one-thir- Erim |