Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-13 | Page 8 | Board of Education Plans to Improve the Schools

BOARD OF EDUCATION PLANS TO IMPROVE THE SCHOOLS Attorney Wade Johnson of the city-board city-board of education stated today, in reply to an inquiry, that the school board is keenly desirous of starling, as soon as practicable, the program of improvement of the school buildings, making all of them modern and adequate ade-quate in every respect, but the work has been held in abeyance mainly on account of the extraordinary cost of all building materials and supplies. Mr. Johnson was keenly Interested in the statement in a Standard interview inter-view by Chief Henry S. Graves of the United States forestry bureau, that a great era of reconstruction in Furope may be expected immediately aftei the war. with a tremendous boom in the production and sale of building supplies Mr lohnson expressed a wish that thr high cost of building materials ma-terials will hi- continuous during the next ten years. Mr Johnson and other members of Ihe school board hae been assured that the people are ready to vote favorably fa-vorably on a bond issue for the adequate ade-quate improvement of all of the schools and attention was called to the fact that the improvement of the schools was made one of the first demands de-mands in the proposal betterment program pro-gram of the Taxpavers" league, organized organ-ized last Friday night Mr. Johnson said the school board undoubtedly would be pVaxd to at lend any meeting ofl th league when tin- question is to b- considered Superintendent Henr C Johnson h is written from Aberdeen, S. f., stating stat-ing that he is winding up his affairs there and will return to Ogden, ready for work, on April 1.