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Show FOWLED WRITES ON AMENDMENT School Superintendent Urges 1 Support for Proposed Con stitution Change K.ditor Standard: .:- the election day approaches it seems advisable to call attention to some of the amendments xs well as the names of prominent men on both ticket. The general tendency is to avoid registering a vote for a constitutional amendment or voting no to any and all such on the assumption that oh&nges In the constitution are undesirable. unde-sirable. But there have been eighteen such amendments to the l'nlted Slat I'ori.Mtitutlon Which have .-(lengthened and bettered it SS the majority view the matter. In the election next Tuesday, four rjtate constitutional amendments are offered the voters here in Utah, I Lincoln ,rtM. ' Let the people know the truth and the country Is safe." RONG IKFEREK4 I In two prominent papers recently then appeared u statement regarding Amendment Xo. 2 that gave the inference in-ference that otlng for this amendment would materially increase the farm owners' and home owners' t.'i"Xex. The fact of the matter is that it will increase in-crease the present allotment of mone) for stat'.' district school purposes by Increasing the state taxes, and make possible the lowering of the local tax leyy So that corporate wealth such ax the large mines! smelters, railroads, rail-roads, and other industires will be reepjired to pay a larger and more ; venly distributed portion, and the real estate less in proportion So there I Is evident reason why general prop- 1 ert holders should all veto "Vcs" I to thia amendment. 1 IJ S 1 1T1 I I RPQS1 And even If It does raise- the taxes for state purposes It will be an In- crease on the t mris and not on the 'entire levy for all purposes as w,-Inferred. w,-Inferred. This can be met in the w.-y i Indicated above or from an income lax for state purposes. In no ;. la th re justification for the assumption assump-tion that h win be paid by the general gen-eral property owners. This measure has the endorsement of the Hon. Charles R. Mabev, candidate candi-date for governor on the Republican ticket; Hon T. X. Taylor, for the same office on the Democratic ticket. 8U.pt. I I Aftiir of th'e state schools, the state board of education, the school superintendents of the state; Dr. O-org' Thoma- the republican candidate can-didate for state superintendent of sehoele; the home and school league, and In fact most all of the organiza-tlotlB organiza-tlotlB both civic and ecclesiastic that hae Investigated the merits of the Amendment X". 2. irrespective of politics. poli-tics. It will undoubtedly make for a fair and square deal for all the children of all the stale, eeiui! privileges privi-leges for all stud, ut and place more Of the l.tirden of school expense upon the state instead of so mulch school revenue having to le raised by lor-l taxation. It required Just so much any way to run the schools, and if a larsrer portion of It is raised by state taxation it leaves a smaller proportion propor-tion to be raised by the tuxes on iHiuis and homes as assessed locally. Vote 'yes" for Amendment Xo 2. The slate committee working for the passing of this amendment con-taina con-taina the names of some leading men of the state, as follows: Nephl L. Morris, chairman; E. J Xorion. secretary; Supt o. x. child of Salt Lake; W. Karl Hopkins of Ojrden. Arch Thurmnn. Henry Peter. Bon, K W. Klrkhom. D. '. Jensen L J Xuttall. Jr., H. Claude Lewis' A rtnur Welling. Signed) o. a, KdWLKR, Supt of Weber County Schoola |