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Show V ZEN Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEF8KI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, luding postage six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal .50 per year. -- lty "fte Mt. Pleasant Pyramid takes the stand that the proposed tutional amendment, known as House Resolution No. 4, 1001 would establish a state equalization school fund, increas-prese$25 per child to $70, giving as a chief reason that Jtahs children should enjoy equal advantages, would no fund for isolated districts, but (provide a big political CJ lis the money going to come from? ,Jie Pyramid is for the bill. We are against it. We also believe that Utah should have better schools than Yale and Harvard, but belief is all we have. The Utah school question has already gotten away from our rernment and the people appear to have very little to say reading the matter. jis too bad that every child in this country cannot be giveno highest college degree and then we could import the foreign-tdo our labor. It is too bad that our boys and girls have to to work. We should give them all an excellent education, then (them make their debuts in society and all become social lead-Even7 child is deserving. Then there arc millions of chilli in foreign lands who should be taken care of. It would not right to confine super education to this country only. There jHat least be a university of Utah or an agricultural college county of the stale. Why should Salt Lake county have jbig scholastic institution? Or why should a young man or iai be compelled to go East and to Europe to complete her nt L iy K&tion? after we dream about all this benevolent education, we iriably forget whos to pay the bill until the tax collector raps 00r aild is prepared to take your hard earned money or But li i the roof over your head. the school tax was remodelled a few years ago, the 'm?s were told that they might just as well have fine schools iHp the people living in the big cities would pay for it, but j&x time came around these farmers found that their taxes HRien 013 9409 911-12- 19 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah a Bldj t Phone Wasatch SCHOOL HOUSE 4 I. Payments should be made by Check,. Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Cltisen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 9, 1879. has made a fight against the new school book. It may have merit and the book may not, but we must have the new style book and the school hoods are held at the very highest cost. The farmers boy has as much right to an education as the city boy, but no one can intelligently argue that our best schools ought to be placed where there are but a handful of people. Like big business the big school house seeks the center of population where it can be supported properly. Again, the center of population cannot support as expensive a system in every hamlet of the state. There is no argument that all should receive a good education, but there is a limit to the cost for an education. The rich mans son completes his education in Europe. The poor man is entitled to the same rights and privileges, but his purse strings wont allow it. It is easy to build large and expensive school houses and hire expensive professors and teachers. There is no limit to the research work which may be installed for the benefit of the pupils, but it costs money and the few people who live in this state cannot make enough money to pay what our school boards want. We often wonder if our law makers ever take into account that the first voting precinct of this city casts more votes than the combined vote of Davis, Morgan, Box Elder and Cache counties to the north of us, and that there are more votes in the first precinct than there are votes in all of the counties south of Utah county. This county already pays about fifty per cent of all the tax collected in the state. We are for good schools and a good education, but we have not vet come to the conclusion that there should be a modern col-lege for every 100 of our population. 1 considerably increased. ,n nlled and the SUNDAY CLOSING In Georgia several people were arrested recently for playing golf on Sunday. Some one revived a forgotten law enacted sin during the early Colonial days when it was even considered a to to cook a mearon Sunday. These obsolete laws are allowed remain upon the statute books year in and year out and are a big factor in bringing about disrespect for the law. In this state we have been more liberal, but nevertheless an attempt is being made by our legislature to pass just as Evidently the bug has not outside districts are still infected with the be-- 0 they can get something for nothing. We have to pay for ything we get in this 0 ff and you cannot raise the tax of world, n sill Ujjjj without affecting your neighbor. M lat we do need in this state is a revision of our present P11 it back into politics or return to the private i for everything but f.Scll00ls were taken out of politics, but there is no radical a law and bring about a closed Sunday state that plays the game any harder or more suc-- y church going. . a law that we m sense much as and which would be just There passing tax our of money, bulk the takes already w prions S must all be Mormons, or all Catholics, or all Mohammedans, pictures painted during sessions of the what Sunday political campaigns, makes all of us fall an easy as it would be that we must go to church. Thats is closing really means. Any laws enacted' for Sunday dosing to Zlfl ihnieqUClltly schl cost instruction is advancing by leaps an 110110 roundabout way to force people against their will a is. end only us the know where $ .uji Conars l1lVG been spent in this state on substitute attend church, and all such legislation is contrary to the flolb01 intent. school books are not good enough for stitution of the United States, or its yars & neif i student. We have never heard of a school board that If laws would make all people religious, we would have no 0 r legisla-L'ijurin- |