Show AGE OF individualism CHANGING the utah education association believes that the ago of selfish in ism Is rapidly changing and evolving into an ago of organized cooperation the new nat national lonal policy and the new deal program of recovery fully recognize this trend we believe in a wholehearted whole hearted support of the public ys adem teni as ab an institution that hat should ire I 1 I 1 it cannot be main wo we concede to all tho the requests lit ic those clamoring for reduction irrespective of vital yotal dam ago to even tho best that society has developed in the words of governor gifford even in those these difficult times we must see isoo to it that children shall ahall not become victims ot of a mismanaged society or the mistakes wove weve nil all made is the soundest social insurance th that at can be employed and the nation that neglects it Is a inviting disaster the association does not intend to stand by and allow the deduc zionists to cripple the schools by their insistent demands tor for economy there Is A point beyond which I 1 economy to Is no longer good business I 1 or in any desirable some economies have been effected most of them by the aid of school folks themselves we want constructive and not destructive practices in 1830 1930 the national bureau of economic research reported a national income of while the schools received an and I 1 spent aGGI or less than a 3 per cent the people of this nation can spend a little more tor for schools and possibly somewhat leos legs for certain non and III luxuries x we are asking tor for a satisfactory contract ft a full school year ot of nine months safeguarded tenure und a teacher holding an appropriate certificate in every class clasa classroom room paid B n salary tot or each teacher to 11 be a elble me to p maintain 1 tile the american standard of living B A fowler secretary utah education association AM as boat bast investment an editorial taken from tho the was washington h inato ni herald feral d of dec 13 1933 has hag this to say under the above heading the long record of extraordinary progress qa in the united states has taught us ua that the soundest investment a nation can make Is in its young toting people As compared with the deterioration deter lorn of our educational system other costs of the he de depression dep presson seem slight blight in attempts or of and governments govern menta to readjust their bud gets to depression conditions it to vitally vt illy important that they should not disturb the very foundations of american greatness unequaled liberality in our ex turea tures on universal education through the decodes decades la Is largely ro ra spon for the extraordinary tact that though in the united states we have only six per cent of the worlds population we recede each year more than forty per cent nt nf the worlds income to make a backward move in the matter ot of popular education would donld be to invite a lot down in our IN I 1 ing standards toward tile tho lower I 1 level prevailing in other countries education can bo be financed without making additional calls on the overburdened taxpayers by I 1 ajai ell eliminating in a tt n g economic waste in lo 10 cal government including tile tho disgrace of continuing unnecessary jobs joba rind and unneeded unno eded overlapping fornis of government I 1 no othor other pro bolm ni before tile the american people clamors so intensely for or attention |