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Show EDUCATIONAL ! CAMPAIGN; ! The State Wide educational campaign cam-paign opened in Milford yesterday. U noon guests to the number of r, 3 sat down to a luncheon at the At-kin At-kin Cafe. Harden Reunion, Secretary of State and Chas. A. White, personal person-al representative of President Wil- on not President Woodrow Wilson: hut President Guy C. Wilson of the L. D. S. High School at Salt Lake, i were the especial guests. E. B. Jorgensen, in a very pleasing manner acted as toast master. Prof! White was the first speaker, and in a I more or less humorous vein, told his I hearers of the good to be derived from the new law, which is to be tried ut in the next school year. Mr. Bennion spoke along the same lines. He also spoke of the proposed constitutional amendment which will give $25 per year from the . state funds toward the expense of educating educat-ing each enrolled pupil. Karlton followed by reading the following from Walt Mason, which is right to the point. THE TEACHER The teacher's is the noblest stunt a mortal can pursue; and yet today we see her hunt for something else to do. She loves her high, uplifting trade, and quits it with a sigh, but she can't live on what she's paid, and can't afford to die. For years she' studies night and day, to qualify to teach; and we behold her on her way and say she is a peach. We hand her nosegays when they're cheap, and call her Buttercup, and say the bles sed schoolmarms keep our bulwarks right side up. Without her this enlightened en-lightened age would sadly be bereft; she guards the priceless heritage our n-ell-known fathers left. We .hand her taffey with a spade, but whenshe makes complaint about the measly wage she's paid, we sweat some blood and faint. We may confess to spendthrift spend-thrift ways, hold miser greed a crime but when the schoolmarm asks a raise, we're tightwads, every time. And so she's going from the school to seek some other trade, to carve her way with some new tool, a corkscrew cork-screw or a spade. She cannot thrive on nosegays, sweet, or flourish on hot air, for she must have a prune to eat, and decent fags to wear. Sloan asked concerning the school funds which were derived from the school lands. Mr. Bennion informed him that they were in the charge of the land board and were loaned out for various enterprises mostly agricultural. ag-ricultural. Others who spoke were Baxter, Hanks and Reisner. Those present at the lunch were: Messrs and Mesdames H. T. Hanks, W. J. Burns. H. H. Pitchfarth, C. A. rrington, E. Tanner, W. F. Cottrell, Prof. Bates, S. J. Hanks. Ted Bird. ,W. Cline. Eugene Kirk, DeHickman Mesdames Benson and Degel. Misses Miss-es Worley, Vorrath, Snedden, Hickman, Hick-man, Ardeth Johnson and Louise Poulton. cnn lvi,;tn rj.l -Df-A Sneddon. Ryan, Ingols. Nickols. Mc-Intire, Mc-Intire, Maeser, Lucas, Baxter, Hunter, Hunt-er, Woodbury, Jorgensen and Carlton. Carl-ton. In the interest of the State-Wide Educafj'nna!) Campaign, which has been conducted throughout Utah during the past ten days, Secretary of State Harden Bennion and Mr. White of the L. D. S. University, were in Milford Tuesday. The first meeting cf the day was held in the High School auditorium, at 10:30. While parents and all patrons were invited, few- were present and the speakers addressed themselves principally to the pupils of the school. Sunt. Karl G. Maeser gave a short falk on what an education means fi boys and girls and outlined brief-i brief-i 1y the campaign which is being conducted. con-ducted. Mr. White was the next ; speaker and perhaps the most pop-j pop-j ular with the students, for while his j talk contained facts and figures of i much importance, they were present-! present-! ed in an infretlng manner and within the grasp of all present. I Secretary Bennion's topic was the I present campaign and the proposed ! program for education in Utah. He told of the interest being taken in this campaign throughout the stats; of the prominent men who are leaving leav-ing their work to travel through the State and talk in the interests of education, ed-ucation, and pointed out the fact that with our men and women doing do-ing their part and the boys and girls co-operating to the fullest extent, ex-tent, we should have one of the best educational systems in the country. The evening meeting at the High School auditorium was opened with C. A. Arrington as chairman. The first number was a song by te Senior girls' chorus and was followed fol-lowed by a vocal solo rendered by Mrs. Lucy White. Mr. Bennion was then introduced to the audience and gave a detailed account of the campaign as it is being be-ing conducted; the laws which have recently been placed on the statute books with regard to education, and of the proposed plans for furthering this campaign. Mr. Bennion stated that educational men have conceded that Utah's proposed system for educating edu-cating her boys and girls is the best in the United States. Parts of this plan have already been put into practice and are rapidly rapid-ly proving their value. The part-time part-time schools in Ogden and Salt Lake City have been of denite benefit to boys and girls who are too busy to attend school all day. Employers have been found more than willing to allow their employees to attend these schools and pay them their salary sal-ary while they are there. Mr. Bennion Ben-nion also strongly advocated the promotion of such organizations as the Boy Scouts, Campflre Girls, etc. where boys and girls may receive supervised su-pervised instruction during vacation neriods. His parting message was that we give proper training to our ch'ldren. Mr. White used a chart which has been especially prepared for this work and explained very thoroughly, the facts given on it. The main point in his talk was that, the kiddies kid-dies should be first. Children, he says, are Utah's biggest asset; children chil-dren are the future citizens and it is the people, not the industries that make a state. Education is of nrirne Importance, yet we spend very 1'ttle on education as compared with he amount spent on other things. Hog raising, it would seem, has been given more attention than our children. chil-dren. Teachers have been, and aFe being be-ing under-paid, and are leaving their chosen line of work for lines which pay better salary . The number of emergency teachers has increased from year to year until now one-third one-third of all the teachers in Utah have only an emergency certificate. A constitutional amendment has been prono ed whereby the state will double dou-ble the amount of money it has been giving to public schools, and thus the teachers will receive more money and the pupils have more advantages than they now- have. A revision of school cour-es is being advocated; the idea being to interest the student stu-dent by teaching him subjects in an interesting way. Practical courses are being substituted for the theoretical theo-retical and the college graduate will no longer be the man who "knows a lot. but can't do nothing." A combination of schooled and skilled should make better men and women. Resolutions concerning the carrying carry-ing out of the campaign were read by C. T. Woodbury and unanimously j adopted by those present. The audience, led by Miss Worley. i sang America and the meeting was I adjourned. |