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Show WHAT'S THIS CAMPAIGN ALL-ABOUT? MANY ARE ASKING THAT QUESTION-EDUCATIONAL QUESTION-EDUCATIONAL SPEAKER GIVES ANSWER "What's all this Slate Educational Campaign about?" I "Well," r.epllcd Attorney W. H. Recder, one of the spcakors in the campaign, "first of all it is a campaign of reminder. We are out to remind you thai Utah is a forward looking state in the matter of education; that we have laws second to none in the country dealing with' the whole time, part time, high school and higher edu- "cation of our boys and girl's and young men and women. We are out to remind re-mind you that Utah believes a democracy democ-racy i3 .only safe as it is enlightened and we" are bringing before your no-! tlco the following points which ve! beg of you to read, learn ap.d inwardly inward-ly digest." 1. To bring about tho universal education ed-ucation of the youth of t,he state. 2. To do away effectively with the use of tobacco by minors. 3. To promote and preserve the health of all children, 1 4. To have every boy and girl ob-1 ob-1 tain a high school education and as ' much more aa they desire, t o. To train the youth through the .twelve months of the year for the discharge dis-charge of those Industrial, civil, sovial land moral duties that make a people and a state prosperous and secure. I 6. To Americanize thoroughly and Systematically the foreign born who have come here to live with us I 7. To loach the benefits and the wisdom of thrift. S. To leach in (he public school-3 ; tho nobility of efficient and skillful j cork and to ofter opportunity to learn a business or trade, j 9. To increase the productiveness land earning power of men and women by a system of part-time and evening 'schools in cooperation with the fed oral government', through which they may acquire a knowledge of trades, home making and all useful things, including in-cluding business pursuits. 10. To get the greatest possible returns re-turns x from our ever-Increasing invest-, ment In education in the form of a ; constantly improving type of manhood and womanhood. 11. To meet satisfactorily the crisis cri-sis that confronts us with respect to the need of well-trained teachers by securing se-curing the proper kind in the shortest short-est possible time and also to provide1 adequate compensation Tor them. ' 12. To bring tho school and the home Into a reciprocal and cooperative relationship. 13. To Interest the men and women of affairs, both public and private, in the educational problems of the slate. I 14. To provide more adequate revu-j nues for educational purposes and to j sec that they are equitably distributed j among the counlies and districts, so. that every child of the state may'bCi given the best possible facilities for! acquiring the best kind of an education. educa-tion. To turn our public school system as it never was turned berore into a great and effective Instrument for making secure to society and the stnte those principles and institutions that are to survive these trying tlme3 nd i triumph over the forces that are today to-day making for dostructlon and dissolution disso-lution in the world. This we conceive to be Utah's program pro-gram of education, it has the ap-i proval of the state board of education, i ihe leading educators of the state, the, public schools, the teachers, thehigh-' cr institutions of learning within the stale and the people as a whole as far is they have become informed upon ihe mailer. ' |