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Show PEOPLE DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT That Tc What Sunt Mills Savs Bent the Bond Election For a Gym The SSeSed $25 Paid By the State of Utah For Eac h Ogden High School Student Would More Than Pay the Interest or, the Bonds-Mr. Milte Shows How the Taxes Will Be Increased By NotHavmg a Gymnasium For the People of Ogden-An Interview Worth Reading - I Yesterday a Standard reporter, met Superintendent John M Mills of the Ogden City schools, and noting lth.it the usually pleasant smile was 'missing. Bald "Superintendent, tell u who It was that bent the bond issue for the Ogd ll gymnasium " ! Why." said the Superintendent, was tbS small property owner who voted against the bond issue." He said . By the way. you Standard people stated the other' day that the state I paid the Ogden board of education I,-,, ,-; , !, high st boot student in Ogden You were iust $l too low! on that Our board of education has received $21,000 for the past two years from the state or $2'-. for each student The Ogden high school undoubtedly un-doubtedly will lose some students on account of not having s gymnasium 'n,u we lll fail to get other students .who have never been with us In the nasi I rigure that our hieh school next year wil lose fully two hundred; ! students on at ouhl of bai Ing no I gymnasium. i figure sre will lose, fulls one hundred of our pr si al sin dentfl and that another hundred stu- , ! dents who would come to us, if we had b gymnasium will not come, which Will cause the Ogden board of educ 'ion to lose $5ooo per year, which we would get from the state if we bad the gymnasium The interest in-terest on the $75,000 bonds would amount to Just a little over half of ' that, and I li ive been thinking that I the small property bolder actually ac-tually has been voting against j his own D6S1 interests Whether we bave two hundred pupils more or less in the high school the expenses of ' running the high school will be USl the same Under, 'he laws of the mate of Utah Ogden Is entitled to i be paid by the state approximated oc frr oneh student -How Is the small property holder to get any benefil by paying 15000 per year, which we would get from the Mate, when It would have cost only about VM In interest had thej voted for the bonds. That is not all. Tf we had the gymnasium, we would dra additional students from the outside and we would gc" BtiU more mono from the I'tato We could have n couple bun drcd more stunents in m im& -!.., without any additional expense Again it has been told around that W could not increase the taxes. That is a mistake A couple of years ago .be board of education was up to the t x limit but during the last two years the taxer, have been reduced almost one mill, or. to be exact, seven-tenths of one mill. The board could restore this tax and raise $10,000 a j-ear in taxes and build a gymnasium by piece meal, and I belicr the gym-! gym-! caelum will have to be built though it may be after Ogden loses her higi schooi prestige, and after having paid the deficient for a year or two. Continuing. Mr Mills aid "I believe if the small property holders could understand Just exactly exact-ly what it moans in dollars and cent to vote the bond issue and build the gymnasium, they would themselves I petition the board for a new elec- t4C-'Of course," said Mr. Mills "as su- , rcrtnfomlent of the school 1 musl abide by the result of the election Having been turned down, it would not look well for us to ask tor ' a recond election, yet I feel that the people did not understand this bond election or they would have voted for It The new lnw. which gives the Ogden board of education $25 for eat h student in the hiSh rchool. v. Ill draw enough pupils to the high school so that the state of Dtah would pay the interest on our $75,000 bonds instead of the peopl:- of Ogfden paying II 'Then again, the board of education ad decided to hive the gymnasium open in the evening? to make It the boys and Slrls' club room That would bave been a great benefit to our young people, who have no place to go, and alone should have carried I tbo bonds 1 am sure w.iu uir w k dent, "that the people could not have understood what the gymnasium would have meant for Ogden. I also feel that the newspapers, and I Itt-I Itt-I elude both of tho Ogden newspapers wnen I sny thet, did not explain the I matter to the public Both newspapers wore ai'.ent on tb- question which of itself might hav caused many to hesitate in voting and een some to vote against it 1 would like to have the two newspapers newspa-pers investigate this question and reach a conclusion as to whether it Is advisable and beneficial as well as profitable for Ogden iiy to have a gymnasium fur the Hiuh school and the rhildren generally in the city The Standard invites replies to the foregoing interview with Mr Mills If, as Mr Mills says. Ogden receives from the state $25 for each Ogden High school and the increase and th-? retention of students if a gymnasium is built, would pay the Interest on the bonds, lh ii The Standard WOllW willingly sign a petition Tor a new election ,,. li the board of education will pass resolutions to the effect that the people peo-ple Of Ogden shall have the gym for a bovs and girls club, when not used hi the schools, that, of course, will win many otes Suppose Mr Mills calls a meeting at Labor ban giving a weeks notice. Just to see what such meeting would develop our recollection is that the former meetings were held in the High school building here on n few hours'- notic bv telephone and the small proper' holder was not present The former action in calllnc the election wai ther hasty and the promise tor I one of the gym' by the public ws never put in such form to cor. vie anybod) that It would become n boj and girls club We suggest to Mr Mills that be take the small pro,!. ; holder, of which you are one u, ! his confident e If you can show him that the additional ?25 for ench stu ! dent to be paid bv the note will i lp pa) the interest on the bonds. I then Tho Standard will K ' l -iniie safe in saying Ogden will have ft "gym" and a blc one. too. |