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Show I Support Southern Utah Schools, H The following article contributed to The Rec- H ord should cause every citizen of this part of the H state, who has a son or daughter that has finished H ' the eighth grade of the public schools and intends H to pursue the acquirement of an education still H further, to think sciously before sending such H child to the schools in the north part of thp state. H It is the support accorded it that makes any H school a success, and its success is measured ac- H " cording to the degree of public support it receives, H cgauged by the number of students enrolled. If H the people of the southern part of the state con- H tinue to send hundreds of students to the schools H of the north part, how can the schools in this por- H tion grow and attain the position and prestige H which they deserve to enjoy, in view of the vast H territory served by them. H It is said by the school officers that the first H day's attendance at the opening of the Branch H Agricultural College last Monday was the largest H of any opening day since the school as branch of H the Normal was located here. ThiR is as it should be, and the growth should H be correspondingly greater with each following H year. No school south of Provo has the equip-H equip-H men t for imparting either a practical or scien-H scien-H tific education equal .to that of the school located H here. The entire school fund of the state is be-H be-H hind the local school, its equipment is as good as H money can buy, and it is in a position to supply H every improvement that may be of advantage in H better teaching the various subjects, or any of L- them. j "In laboring in the interests of education in T Southern Utah, some very faulty ideas are found m ,to exist in our communities. Some- of these are: M ' 1. "'My child has already a better education " tliwrrKavirT"iravcriivear "WiijnflffrriiB?"1 B 2. U'U I am to send my child to school at all H I may as well send him where he can get benefits H out of school as well as in. He shall go North.'" H 3. '"I cannot afford to send my child to H school.'" H "A word to the wise is sufficient, and on each H of these objections a sermon may be preached in m a few words: M 1. Our parents were educated in the school of B- necessity. They fought a new country and won. H It is safe to deny that the children today are edu- H cated as well as their parents are along their line. H And then we face a new world and must meet it H with new'weapons. Education is the weapon of H the world today and if we cannot meet it with H that weapon we are out'of the fight as surely as a H soldier with a flintlock musket is out of modern H battle. Scratching bread and butter from the sur-H sur-H face of the soil while under the roof our parents M have built for us and all regardless of the genera- M tions to come has neither the merit nor the flavor H that the same bread and buttter would have had half a century ago. H 2. If Southern Utah continues to furnish the H brain and brawn for Northern Ulah when may H Southern Utah boast of the same advantages as H Northern Utah? Is a child of the high school age B , adolescent periodthrown into the atmosphere, M excitement and congestion of a large city and H school, and removed far from parental counsel and H care under circumstances where he will be able to H develop the best'physically, mentally, or morally? H 3. What does the parent and child value most? H There is a way in this generation, as there 'always H has been, to get the thing we value most. Exam- M t ine your ideals and see if you do not have what H seems to you the most necessary. No one goes H without an education for lack of .means. It is m merely lack of desire. H Southern Utah has excellent educational insti- M tutions where not only high school development in H its fullest sense is furnished, but parctice is se- M cured in self government; appearing before the H public in various forms of vocal, mental, and H physical tests are encouraged; and the comunity H life and public spirit ofthe group is attained. H To send your children to your .homo institu- H ' tions costs less, builds up your country, keeps the H Southern Utah youth in Southern Utah, and gives H a much more careful training because the student Hj and teacher can come in more intimate contact ' v with each other than where larger crowds are assembled. Think twice before the boy or girl goes North to school. "" |