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Show I EDUCATION IN UTAH. ' Jn education, Utah is taking high ranks, and, as the. test of real progress is education, Utah is receiving much favorable comment because be-cause of its attention to educational facilities. At a meeting of school superintendents of Massachusetts on Friday, Fri-day, Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, director of the Russell Sage Foundation, made this statement: "Up to ten years ago, Massachusetts ranked highest in school attendance, money spent for public schools and equipment and teachers' teach-ers' salaries,' ' Dr. Ayres said. "In 1918 the state went into ninth place. Montana leads the country. Western states, such as Utah, California and Arizona, have jumped ahead. New Jersey is the only eastern state that shows an advance in the public school system in forty years." Utah, in legislation, stands foremost among the states. Ten years from now, Utah should be ahead of all states in Educational results. That is the highest attainment to' which a. people may aspire. as-pire. 6 |