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Show State Educator Urges Competency "No matter how excellent a field gun you may have," said C. N. Jen-son, Jen-son, state superintendent of public instruction, "you have to have pi v-dcr v-dcr and shell before you can do mi eh with it. It is the same with schools. No matter how excellent the building, build-ing, you must have a good teacher; and the teacher's personality 1 consider con-sider of more importance than the question of whether an old school building shall be made to do for n year or so longer, or whether the district dis-trict shall strain its financial resources re-sources and increase its taxes to erect a now building. This Is a .c.ond it ion which I believe has sometimes been lost to view in Ulnh in tho par.t. "I have before me today a petition from a number of residents of a rail-" road town. .It was forwardnd by a high official of Hie railroad, which has to pay a heavy share of taxeH in the county represented. The petition protests against any attempt to continue con-tinue an ungraded school in t lie community com-munity with thirty-five pupils and asks for a new building. While I have not investigated fully. It. appears ap-pears at first sight that it the petition peti-tion were to the hoard of education for an additional $100 or $299 a year that the school might have, the bwl teacher obtainable, the community might get along without an (nU'i-tional (nU'i-tional building at present." Bait Lake Tribune. |