Show ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL when the pioneers located in this theu haste and forbidding valley one of the first things they did was to establish a school where the children might be taught the arts and sciences with the facilities at hand that same spirit has been possessed by the generations that have come after and the result is that today utah scarcely has a superior in the matter of educational facilities one of the great wise men has said in all thy getting get wisdom and so we commend the good people of tremonton Tre monton and garland for their desire to increase their school facilities and bring closer to them a high school fully equipped and prepared to care tor for all the students that will ever be produced in the section tributary to those cities but neighbors do you really think the establishing ot of a high school out in the valley no matter at what place would be a step in the right direction at this time are you acquainted with the tact fact that cache county had five high schools and the board of education recently cut the number to two that down in utah county they have more than one high school and the institutions are going on the rocks that the same condition practically prevails down in san pete and sevier counties not because high schools are not the proper thing but simply because with the present population and financial resources those bounties are unable to maintain more than one high school as it should be and hence they all suffer and gradually get lower and lower in standard until finally some of them have to be discontinued and the investment ot of all the buildings and equipment Is practically lost together with the time which has been spent in the experiment the present box elder high school is capable of comfortably taking care of more than a hundred students above the present enrollment and for that small army but one equipment in each of the departments is necessary each year the graduating class is larger so that hy by the yearly elimination process it will be a great many years before the present facilities tor for high school work will be inadequate to properly care tor for the students ol of box elder county by establishing another high school thousands of dollars must first be paid out tor for a building and equipment then the regular maintenance expenses are something tremendous and if one would stop to figure a little he would readily see that it would be an utter impossibility for the county to maintain two schools as they should be maintained in order to be up to standard and come within the provision of tile the state appropriation for instance the present building cost something like the equipment and mind you that has to be added to right along cost well up in the neighborhood of SS the monthly pay roll alone amounts to over 2000 or nearly for tile the school vear thon mh all 11 th tho incidentals that naturally come along make the grand total a sum that almost staggers one and keep in a mind the tha school is not fully equipped yet nel ther is it patronized to its capacity another item the board of education pays out per month to students living north ot of brigham beyond the distance prescribed by the board or for the school year which makes it ft possible for students living out in the county to attend high school and actually save money for their parents in the matter ot of board it actually costs the parents of these students less money than it costs the parents of brigham city students to attend the big county school the enrollment at the high school last year was this year the total Is a trifle more out of the number enrolled this year the cities and towns that would be affected by the placing of another high school out in the valley are represented in the student body as follows bothwell 2 elwood 15 fielding 2 garland 7 riverside 9 tremonton Tre monton 6 making a total of 41 students who would very naturally be expected to form the nucleus ot of the student body for another school that many taken from the enrollment of the high school would be a serious loss to the fast institution 1 tut 1 0 n and would not be enough to justify the tremendous expenditure necessary to erect and equip another school we believe that sentiment generally will be against the dividing of our energies for high school work until s cb time as the situation will ill actually demand increased facilities at the present time and for a good many years to come the present high school will be able to provide for all the students in this county as fast as they are prepared to take up the work and we believe that the good people out in the valley will see the point it if they will but consider the matter thorough ly and carefully one big school can do many times more effectual work than any number of smaller and less I 1 thoroughly equipped institutions lots lets make one great big box elder high school and maintain it ii in the proper manner until we are compelled by the increase in population to install another then lets make two big ones or as many more as we need at present box elder is pointed to as having the most nearly ideal school system including the high school in the state counties which have a number of high high schools are all struggling to approach our condition let us not make the blunder which they have made and from which they are trying so desperately to extricate themselves |