Show CANNOT THE SCHOOL BOYS SEE FLEET the salt lake telegram says A friend who has two boys gives us an idea the battleship fleet will be in sin san francisco next month it if the ilie program is carried miscarried out it will reach there on the fifth and it is expected to have tho the great parade of the atlantic and the pacific fleets on the eighth this ffriend friend says he is too busy and too poor to take his boys to see the greatest sight of their lives but says if the railroads all would make a special rate for school chil children dreir and thear teachers and put on special trains with tourist cars he be could afford to pay tor for his boys and his proportion of the fares of the teachers he thinks too that for children whose parents cannot afford to send them the needed amount on special rates could easily be raised here ho he thinks fifty men each one of whom would send from three to ten boya each it Ts a fino fine idea we believe it will appeal to the roads A vision of that great fleet to an enthusiastic enthus lastic boy might start the germ of patriotism in his breast a germ that has been lying dormant from birth it will expand tho the ideas of p jb lioy hov I 1 inland bred who never luida had a glimpse of tho the sea or of the craft that sail the seas it will open a now world to him and when he be realizes that thai they aro are but another evidence evide ace of tile the possessions possession of nativo land it will bo be I 1 with a higher appreciation that he be will begin to comprehend end what our country is and what it is to bo be a citizen of this great republic tho The school terms will be nearly over by that time and any way the seeing of tho the fleet will bo be more to an ardent enthusiastic boy than a years schooling I 1 for it is but a little portion i of a by boys education that is obtained in a confined schoolroom the great book of the iho world has at a thousand thou gand lessons where the schoolroom has bas but one and a journey to see sec the fleet with all that would be taken in on n the way going and coming and while at the bay would be the beginning of a post graduate course for the children and every lesson of it would bo be impressed tn on hearts and fixed as a glorious memory as long as a life will last |