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Show e pcuse of running the school the otbe two-thirds would be equally shared c I nearly so, by the railroads and th people. Now, note, cun the people u e Millard County afford to lose thre e third of benefit, because they are ui " willing to pay oue third of the ea ptnae? A tax of two mills Is nior d than enough to run a county nig e Hchool; and such a tax means that 1 1 one's property 1h assessed at $500, on y pays one dollar toward running tin il school. It Ih clear that the ta: Y amounts to practically nothing. Reasons Why a High School Should Be Established in Millard County. Millard County Is a large county; li is growing rapidly on both sides. At present there Is a school population of high school age in the fount y to support four high schools, each having two hundred or more students enrolled. enroll-ed. All of these, of course, would not attend high school If they had a chance lo attend, but a great many of them would embrace with eagerness an opportunity op-portunity to obtain higher education. And it must, be remembered that, the tfp?rfr;T'Weatten county only after high schools have been established. For example, compare com-pare the public sentiment educatlon-uiy educatlon-uiy at Hinckley and the surrounding towns with what It was before building build-ing the Millard Stake Academy. An education is the birthright of 'very American boy and girl, and It Is in American and Immoral to deny to l:em thai light. Active competition uakes It necessary that the boy and ;iii ol today have a better education ban their fathers hud. Opportunities if making a living without education ure fewer now than formerly. Jvery argument In favor of education ;enerally might be mentioned: Its erect er-ect on the moral life of the child, the ncreased Joy he would get out of life, iif usefulness to the community. Fducatlon is the chief problem of the ige, the problem around which every ither social problem revolves. Why 10 we want public parks In our large ities, or smaller ones for that matter? I Is to Improve the Hie of the people, ir in other words, to educate them, 'or the same reason we demand gjiod oads, clean walks, Inviting yards, pro-ilbltion, pro-ilbltion, public libraries, gymnasiums, lollce regulations, and In fact, every nstltutlon or thing that has for Its urHise the betterment of society, or n other words, the education of socl-ty. socl-ty. The churches exist for no other rea-on rea-on than to save, that Is to educate the hlldren of God on earth. "No man an be saved in ignorance" Is a state-ii-nt held to be sacredly true by ev-ry ev-ry intelligent Mormon. If the road 11 salvation is Intelligence, then the chools are the most vital Instrument i Ood's hand to save mankind. The lormon people so love the black isl-nders isl-nders of the south seas, or the peas-n peas-n try ot Germany that they keep about so thousand missionaries in the field II of the time to teach the nations of lie earth. It Is inconceivable - that liey do Dot care enough about their wn and their neighbors' children to ole a high school for their benefit, 'he Mormon church authorities au-mrUed au-mrUed Prof. Hail of the University ( Utah, to tell the people of Millard ounty that It was their wish that a igh school be established on the Fast de of Millard County, and that the ! tlon be In Fillmore. It has ben objected that the taxes Mild be burdensome This I not so. two-mill tax will yield over $'.mmi. he State will furnish 12'. a head lor very student enrolled la the school. !tis V will pay ore third of the ex- |