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Show Consolidation of School Districts. A movement la no foot to consolidate thi v&tlouB school districts of Boroldtr ecjnty u tn Weber county and otber couutiej ot the stato. Co. Supt. A E Jensen, appeared at the lnnt meeting of the Board of County Commissioners and requested that the school districts be consolidated. Action was deferred. J 0 Cutler and James Qarbanatl of Hnowville were In .town Wednesday and expressed themselves, nnd the sentiments ot the people of thnt place, aa being op-iiiut op-iiiut to tho cotiio lidtlonmovcment. A petition has been sent from Snow-vllle Snow-vllle to the County Commissioners requesting re-questing them to defer action until the mutter has been thoroughly ventilated. in conversation with a number of our hading citizens we find that tho consoll-iliitlon consoll-iliitlon question, U not thoroughly understood under-stood by( our citizens and many ox-ptessed ox-ptessed themselves that mare I Jxli t on the subject should be given out mid that Commissioners should not be too hasty In granting the request of the Supcrlntcudant. Tho columns of the Globe nro npcu to tho public for mutter on this important topic and wo would be pleased to pub-lixh pub-lixh anything hoh or against the movement move-ment ao thiit our citizens can judge for themselves which is tho best thing for the comity. We, lilio many others, are straddle of the fence and don't know which side to land ou. . Davis county is confronted with the namu proposition and the following from tho Davis County Argus will bo of Inter . vat to our renders: Jf ' -in last week's Argus we puoltshcd a notion to taxpayers and citizens of Davis county signed by Clerk Stable, calling attention to thu petition of E M White-sides White-sides ami tutmly-slx others asking the eomml!jiouer.s of Davis county to consolidate consol-idate thu school districts of the county into a district of thu first class. It Is highly important for the people tn thoroughly understand just what this-nutans this-nutans to thu various districts and to the county as a whole. The fact that the putltion Is "fathered" by a gentleman who Is no familiar with the school Inter-iW Inter-iW nf the county us is Superintendent Whllebldes lends tho average citizen to accept without much doubt tho Idea as being for tho best. The Argus Is fully converted to this belief that onu first class district is much better than it is at present. Hut how to iirilvo at the point of an equitable con-mi con-mi mutton Is tho question that scums bard to determine. There are two large now bchool bonnes in tho county ono at llnuutlful and onu at Kaysvillo, both built largely by local taxation. Now whether this situation will rlgjit itsoif automatically by maintaining local boundary Hues of taxation, or whether the new district is to absorb these new houses and establish a blanket tax for now houses to he built, thus working an unfair condition against those that bavu already built their own school housos. This phas" of tho situation must bo met aud siUl-tfnctorulfj' answered before sane tlou will he given hy the public. ', Another point: Can our commissioners under the ucw law, order a consolidation of tho school dlstrlsts without reference to thu peoplu? Some people say thoy run, but certainly thoy will not order such consolidation without regard to the peoples' wish. According to tho notlco given tho public, pub-lic, one or more persons may appear before be-fore thu board ou .Monday, May SO, 1007, nnd show cause why such au order may not bo filtered. Thus It Is seen a rcry important matter hangs by tho mere cap- rice of a fow people who may be sulU-elent.ly sulU-elent.ly interested to block a good measure meas-ure or, porcbtnee, promote an unfair proposition. The Argus thinks the Commissioners can well afford to give the people a full opportunity to ray just what tboy want to do, aud in tbo mean time give Mr. Whiteside!, and tboao on tho other side, If there shall be any, a betterchar.ee than merely apoearlng before be-fore the board to endorso or protest as tbey may elect. By all means give the piopU a chance to know and say what they want done, and do not use such arbitrary means as tbo new law seems to countenance. |