Show 4 COMMUNICATION ilU N NE JI E Editor Standard Examiner It If you vou ou will kindly grant me space apace I 1 will try as as ns pos pos- possible possible pos possible sible to ans answer anser er an article In Sun Sun- Sunday Sun Sunday day mornings mornIng s issue Isue dealing dealine with Ith the Iho high school question Of coule comae eT c in the county Is lcd or should be In 11 doing shat will still III be best for tor the gre It will l be c Impossible to please everybody In hr this matter ml as In all other others but those In the mInority should gracefully ton and l not stir up Ul disco discord discoid and dis- dis sention It If I 1 understand l the tho writer coI co co- I he would propose t pr fir three high schools In county second an entire rear rear- rearrangement rearrangement of the thc school s including the kind ot of teachers en- en engaged en engaged the methods ot of o teaching and the things taught I have hate neither time nor In- In In Inclination to answer ms 11 in fn deall deaI all the minor things v he takes a slant slam at as 1 thin think these tl ese two t 0 are enough The board proposed to build and l equip a d mo modem high school at nt a cost of ot not to exceed This would include fuI fu tu I lil futures fixtures WOL and aad reasonable machinery This ivas nas a 0 very Cry rea- rea rea reasonable I estimate and would ha hate ha I given us a school where here nil all the thebo thebo boys bo s and girls of the count county could I have received tho very kind hind of teaching which the writer M liter says tays he hc het I a fi ors on Now NOH vou ou take that money 11 e and attempt to build buld three i schools school and what hat do you vou Ou get First a building which 0 owing Ing to the small mall amount of ot mone money ea- ea ex expended pend t cannot give what hat a largos I building could Second pOOl er erI I equipment especially in the ve y e-y things Mr lr Jones wishes In th Ih I modern VOL khol we ac 1 e do nut not use I the same sarno tools our fathers did dad Instead of making furniture I and evet thing else by han hand l we now hn hase e bind sofas sas jig saws sans Luring boring and mortis mortising I ing macai ic ie all of ol which are arc arcI I absolutely necessary to 0 the lire proper education of o the tho boy If it wo no are I going to a a mechanic of him I Is only one trade le there I is the il tho the mechanical l plumbing heating and ninny many other trades which we ne must I teach If It the theories of my fr I Jones would be ur cure c out Do DOl I you 1 know what this would oulI coat I You must mut L bu prepared to 10 teach I these several se subjects oln ana hae hi good competent n t tit th kind now employed su s nu Jones but gnu enu no first Las ss me who oho ho knot spat th tin tin- 1 I doing In othir words f is C all allmen men In their lines Do you t u know I what hat the tho said laid mechanics get as compared with tin tin-so few rew edu- edu educators edu educators who were sere born with edul s spoons In their mouths I dont don't suppose there Is la a teacher In to any high school in the state slate of ot Utah that makes m-ikes n as much money as ns any foreman carpenter plumber or most of o any other tradesman It would mean an enormous Increase I In the t sunning lunning expense e pen of the school and cona more taxes This is la an age ago of ot concentration and specialization o Wo cannot Ex- Ex Expect ex expect X- X to educate our boys and girls In the waye way we se were educated Our lOur fathers were the rough foun toun- foundation foundation I dation llon stones atones of this state we wo are 0 I the fine tine brick walls and our children chil- chil dron dren must mut be the fino tino polished poll I finishing Inside Now as regards the school board functioning with the people What docs does our friend Mr lr Jones mean by that I re- re remember remember re remember member about a year ago of one of the sections of this county Cr tors close to air Jones Joncs ov n home I meeting with the board and do- do de demanding manding that the school building I be torn do down don n and a new nl site pur pur- purchase pur- pur purchased purchased chased chase and a new building erect erect- erected erected e ed l Contrary to the wishes of these people poo the board remodeled the building and at the time have halo one of ot the host bet s school hool buildings in Ih the state tato of ot Utah and andI andI andI I am told saved sated the people or of orI orthe the count county over Don t Ilou I ou think that I li Is bettel batten than functioning with the people I think the men on the school board boud are arc doing what they can and If It they are aro not It our 0 01 1 I fault tault They work for us for noth noth- nothIng noth- noth nothing nothing ing and put up with t tie e l kicks icks and cuffs cutts of ot the kickers and all the reward re they get Is the tho satis satis- satis satisfaction satisfaction Ithe faction of knowing kno that they have hate done what they 1 1110 el to 10 be right I understand that Ih they held I beI meetings In all the th precincts of the county before the last lut elec elec- election election tion and gave One eL a a chance chanco I to 10 air their views s Ie This looks to tome tome Ime me like they thay were tr trying InK to bo he the tho er of o the The charge that they are extravagant Is with with- without without out h foundation in fact tact They have built schools school In all the PI of the county and we e are still out of o debt I venture to say that no farmer In this count county h a ex- ex exercised ex exercised Inthe better ability In id the management of ot his hie affairs than this same school board hoard I am not the for tor the board nor am f t defending Ih them mIn th-mIn m mIn In anything which which th they y may ha hate lOne done which should mould not have hase been done but hut m merely rely say that the they are only men There a are e non none of us liS but what hat have our pet hobby and wish hh to 10 tide It If K given a chance That makes makl's for tor or difference of opinion and that Is h 1 a II good 00 1 thing thinK By all means menns let us air our opinions and get starl started d one way v ny or th the other but let ct us not try to upset the theold theold old structure until we no know what we arc lire going to do end and let us look at al the matter and fairly and let personal prejudice prejudice prejudice dice not be all allowed 0 ed to enter Per Por Personally Por I am In favor of ot the best high school that we e can afford to build a and nd for tor equipment suit suit- suitable suitable suit suitable able tot for all our requirements I think too that it should b be lo- lo located lo located In Ogden Ogdon City so that cHry everyone one ene In the count county counti can have hase ha e equal opportunity of reel receiving the bene bene- benefits bene- bene benefits benefits fits to be devised derived ed from It It Very Truly Trul HERBERT D s X 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