| Show IlliTERATE FOUND IN N OGDEN I J Supt Hopkins Gives Gins High Praise for Schooling Progress Ogden leads the tho Utah of-Utah ot Uth as successfully eradicated Illiteracy Dr C N Jensen state stall tate superintendent pt of or public Instruction instruction tion to today lay told members rs ot or thi tho Ogden 0 Kiwanis club at their week ly luncheon at the tho Weber club With Superintendent W V Karl Kar Hopkins at the tile head of a 0 state for tho tim total eradicatIon of ot Illiteracy b by by 1930 he h declared declare l will willbe willbe we hope that Ogden's success be extended ded during luring the Intervening four years until there Is not an 11 literate person herO herp male malo or fe- fe female female Ie male foreign or American born Utah ho he declared stands stand I about ninth from the tho top In this thi regard and but 19 l ot or its population tion I is Illiterate PART I TIME TE In Utah at the ono one out of ot 20 children under 11 18 years or of age ago Is not attending school However 20 out ot or our 40 10 school dIstricts are arc trying something that thatIs thatIs thaIs t Is entirely new In the put part nation time education with the teacher go go- go going goins ing Into the tile homes and working I with these children who In former s would have been dropped from the rolla Mr Jensen told tol 1 of at the advance advance- advancement ment In the tho quality ot or teachers In li l Utah during the past five years eus l Five I years ears ago he lie said 1000 out of 0 o teachers did didi not possess a certificate and many had not grad grau from high school Today every teacher is certificated which places the tha state near the he top of the tho Ih list or of states Next ext he said will require require re- re require quire every teacher In high school to have hal hail at Vast lISt one ono year o 0 Of post graduate college work Ho spoke on the th matter of ot re- re numeration for teachers Somo Some of I them he h declared declare l have had four tour and five years year of at college training and are arc receiving but twelve thir- thir thirteen thirteen teen and fourteen h hundred dollars annually The state superintendent declared that It Is not the teach teach- teachers ers era place to ask ack for moro more money lUt it It Is the citizens place to see sec to It that they get IL It It If they dont don't he said they will go elsewhere to teach an J Utah will ivill get Inferior teachers to mold the th character of her chii- chii chil children dren Another phase of the state pro pro- program gram civilian rehabilitation was also discussed by the superintend ont cot who said that during the past five years that department has sue sue- In putting disabled cit cit- citIzens back on the list through rehabilitation contact Superintendent Jensen who is also a member of the tho state indus indus- industrial trial school hoard extends his thanks to Ogden for tor the Support the city Is giving to the school lo- lo rated here A C Matheson assistant state superintendent declared that Utah has been singularly generous with Us its schools and stands lands about third among amone the states of tha tho union lii money spent when the ability to pay Is considered The time lime when a teacher spoke apologetically of his profession Is gone rone he continued and as a re- re re result suIt sult we are getting better instructors tars tors for our children Superintendent W Karl Carl of Ogden Osden city schools told the KI Kl- Kl Ogden and their guests that Og- Og den is spending annually oa on the education of its children We are ar spenders spender ho he said aid and not earners but we do deal In futures and the time long result la is the tho thing thine that counts Boys and are a lot better belter today than they were 20 years ago o when you were leere boys he cd ed Wade M Johnson president of o the Ogden city board of education Introduced the educators and made madea a few comments Constitution week observation next Thursday at Kiwanis lunch lunch- eon con was w s stressed by President W S Paine of the tho club W W Rawson a member ot of the Ogden club addressed the Brigham club at Brigham City to- to today to day Ho was accompanied by Fred Norton |
