Show STATE ASSISTANCE FOR HIGH Petition From Prominent Educators Educators Edu Edu- to Governor and Legislature FAVORED BY ASSOCIATION Pedagogues o es Favor Separate Sepa n i-n to Consideration Consider Consider- Ution of or Measure Made Mado Legal Ical at nt r Last st General Elc Election tl D State assistance in th the maintenance nce of ot high schools In tho various arlous counties count counties coun coun- t ties tle of or tho the state is contemplated In Ina Ina Ina a communication a addressed to Governor Gov Coy S Arnor John C C. Cutler by the high school and college section o of the the tho tate State tato Teachers Teachers' association Tho The communication con com com I was waR delivered oll to Governor Cutler Cutter yesterday e tra b by L. L E. E E Eggertsen chairman nn and superintendent of ot Utah county schools It is intended for tor the tho eyes ces of or the Jegl legislators to whom It will lil be he sent and antI I Is a as follows oos Whereas herens in view of or the fact that th the of or Utah In amending time the constitution of the the state have havu t expressed ex- ex x- x pressed se themselves in favor of oC public High schools In view of tho f ct that the tho present school Cun mind fund Is lt insufficient dent cleat to maintain such schools in addition addition addi addi- tion lion to our om present school system therefore We Wa petition his excellency nc tho the go gov governor of or Utah rind and the thc honorable the members of ot the seventh legislature to encourage the establishment and aid the maintenance of such sueh public high schools and further the educational Interests In Interests In- In of this state by First First-Continuing First Continuing the present three three- mill tax for tho maintenance of oC the primary mary and grammar g schools Second Second Appropriating Appropriating one half mill more or less Joss from the general fund for forthe the tho maintenance of public high schools 1 Third Third Appropriating Appropriating a a. sp specific tax ora or ora orS S a certain per cent on the tho taxable property prop erty of tho the state for or tho the maintenance of state Institutions of or higher ton don Respectfully submitted by tho the under tinder signed a committee appointed by the high school and college section of or the State Teachers Teachers' association of or Utah Signed I. I E E. Eggertsen chairman superintendent ent of Utah county schools 1 L. L At A secretary Logan Logon Agricultural Agricultural tural college A A. C. C Nelson superintendent dent public In instruction G. G N. N Child Lehi III High h school J. J r B. B Forbes Amerlan American Amen Ameri can an Fork High school D. D II 11 Adams Ogden D. D H. H Robinson Mantl MantI III High h Working Hurd Superintendent Er Eggertsen ono one of the most prominent school workers Inthe in tho the state stale and an unflinching friend of or high schools I is' is Is working hard for tor forthe forthe the enactment of or a law Jaw a that will embrace em em- brace hrace tho time propositions set sot forth Inthe inthe in the tho communication The question was discussed s ll fully at tho the state teachers' teachers Convention Com at Ogden an and Mr Eggertsen Eggert Eggert- sen soil read rend a paper on the proposition The hf hl high h schools o of the tha state are not properly tal taken en care of or he lie says They are arc maintained by local taxa- taxa tion anti and In only a 0 few portions of oC the state stalo do they exist at alII all alI 1 I rr r clatl elation wants Walt the state i to i r- r u. 1 ta tax mi on th t ent nt lads hut but to give to the public high schools a sufficient Icv levy to maintain main maln- tam tain them thorn where they are needed At present mt students who imo graduate graduato front from tho ho grammar grael grades go to the AgriCultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural college or the lie Un University of oC Utah The association wants these two vo n institutions to do away with high school work or work similar to that given iven in n regularly guJar accredited high schools Jg Dullen Drafting Bill Hill Senator Bullen Builen is now drafting drafting- a abill lull hill on th the high school question which practically refers to the work In tho the two colleges It is not tho the intention of or tho State Teachers Teachers' association to get Into Inlo that controversy The association association asso asso- elation wants Its proposition J considered considered considered consid consid- ered separately from the question affecting the two colleges The voters at la last t Novembers November's election elec elec- tion Lion decided in favor of or the tho state ap ap apportioning apportioning portioning a n part parl o of the state slate school funs funds toward the ti-ic maintenance of oC high schools in the tho state The Tho state is In great need o of leg leg- I providing for or public high s schools said Superintendent Eggert- Eggert S sen en y yesterday y A Ami It Is now there a arc re only a few ew high in the s tate state and n thc they are maintained by l local ocal ta taxation alfon If It In some omo parts of t the tho he state there are arc boys and girls who want to lo go to 11 high school they are arc forced f to go to the university or the tho Agricultural college where they get t tho he work work- thoy they should gut gel at tho the high s schools On the other hand if IC they dont don't go fo to either cither of these institutions t the they hey g to another high school If lt the they h have hc c none non at nt home homo and it costs them tuition and more expense le th than t. t it should |