| Show Anderson Airs Views J Editor of Messenger r Would you ou kindly allow mo me to to td express a few thoughts thru the columns of ot your valued paper I read in The Tribune that tho citizens of ot Fayette Utah have haye met and appointed a committee to aP aPpeal aPpeal appeal peal to Our Board Board of Education If to ermit their children to ha have hath th the privilege of at attending school Ithome it home There are some 72 who are arr being transported daily dally to at Gunnison I will ask why this tai cannot cannot cannot can can- not be done not that it concerns mo me except in the interest of or Justice I have been at one time a member mem meni- ber of that I Board oard and will say sar I wa was not in aCcord with the method of instructing our ott youth and Ito it seems that the U. U E. E A A. A is getting gotting farther away from the vital issue In their convention held in Salt Lake last fall a resolution along with Hh others was passed which reads Any In Interference tn- tn either financial or other I wise with the maln maintenance 01 of and ana anu improvements of education is 19 a n threat to national defense This sounds elevating and patriotic but when you ou scan the columns of or the news papers what do we note The highest aim of our different schools I lg ts to select a team of tho rho strongest I and huskiest to over tho the basketball and whoever of or these Isable is isable able to batter and bruise an opponent opponent opponent ent is hailed as a hero Now immense im im- immense mense menso sums are Brent on this and other sports called recreation There are a few contests among amon the weaker sex to L' t L' t the they are arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged so that It cau causes es a spirit of oC vanity among the leaders Well Vell I have havo drifted from rom lom the original subject sub sub- Sect but will say y that a little of ot this sq squander ed money could bf ba used to teach tho those small children tit at homo home If the question is asked Why do dowe dowe we wo educate our Youth 1 The answer an an- would be That They be Better Better Better Bet Bet- ter able to cope with the problems of life Ufe and what are arc these problems lems The girls who are arc allowed tc follow and yield to the instincts o oi nature will in time become mothers and the boys bos will assume the stronger strong strong- er realities of life lire for the support of their beloved offspring Why not arrange the course of study so that it t would materially be of real assistance assistance as as- life JOHN ANDERSON Sterling Utah Uw-h. |
