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Show FURTHER PROGRESS I'i UTAH URGED By ; WHIP 1 " I Mayor Frank Francis presided over! a largely attended meeting at the Og-. den tabernacle last night as the com-' mencement of the Utah state edua- tional campaign at which the princi-; pal speaker was Dr. K. A. Winship of Boston, editor of the Journal of Education. Edu-cation. He lauded Utah as being one of the most foresighted of all thi states of America in the matter of co-ordinated education and the welfare of youth. Musical numbers were glvn by Miss Mildred Ware, vocalist, Miss Mary Fisher, violinist, and Sam Whit-aker, Whit-aker, organist. In the course of his address Dr. Winship said Utah came behind none, but rathor lod the way in wnicu other1 states would have 10 lollow in the mat-j ter or careful, efficient training of Hum child at school through the grades, the I junior highs, the high school, and sojj built up its program as to care for th J j hours or le.surc as well as for the hours oT study, ho producing an cduca- I lional system whicn accounted for th! j child from the sixtli year of- his ago to his eighteenth year.,. -He reminded his hearers that liere are states when; a child is not compelled to. attend school after the fittn grade and that nothing" so seriously Interferes with a democracy's forward march as this laggard educational ideal which has no' part in the life of Utah. Not satisfied with the present standard of higlr at tainmcnt, he said, Utah, in this edu-1 catiohal campaign, meant to impress upon the public the needs of the schol ars, the needs of the teachers, the-needs the-needs of the country in the matter uf -education so that a well informed pub-' lie would be at the back of- every lor-' ward step taken by the educators of the state. Ho complimented the citizens of' Utah that part time education was an established fact in the curriculum of! the schools here, and on me insistence I or an education Tor every child tljat lakes him to the eighth grade. "There are stales in this land of 1 the irei; which do not call for a ninc-j month year, or a twelve month year, I out which are satisfied li the general' body of their school children gel lh-c , or at most six months in school," lie said. "Utah is in the icad In this mai-l ter also." I Dr. Winship concluded his address' by staling that lie had known tins state for -15 years and he had seen it grow in the luve of real education ami he bade the clta-nis to go iorward. . "Yoa hn.'e Hi the lamp 01' o.luca- J tional progress here; let it nut ue :-liuguisitcu, :-liuguisitcu, ' he -said. -00 |