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Show NEWS ITEMS FROM HIGHLAND BOY. Perhaps the mot interesting event of the season was the Fathers Fa-thers and Sons Banquet held at the Community house at Highland High-land Boy Friday of last week. Miss Fich was in charge of the arrangements and about forty people were present. Mr. Frank Wardlaw was in charge of the program which was carried out. Miss Fich is to be highly compll. mented for the interest taken in these progressive measures. m m m Sixty pupils and teachers of the Highland Boy school visited visit-ed Salt Lake City on the fourth annual tour Thursday of last , week. They were taken in two of , the largest busses and were left ( at the City & County Bldg. At ( the City and County bldg. they ( first visited Judge Morgan's ( court room and the Juvenile Judge gave them an inspirational inspiration-al talk. From here they visited 1 every office of the building un- 1 der the direction of city police 1 Mr. Gardner, who also took them through the County jail and ex- plained the result of criminal I carelessness. They then visited the Municipal baths where they enjoyed that Bingham Forbid. den Luxury. After the bath a few hot dogs were consumed and then they marched to the State Capitol, where they saw all the . session rooms, and State Super- . intendent C. N. Jensen address- ' ed them. Then they lunched, ' and theii shopped, attended the J shows, and missed busses, the last reaching Bingham late in the evening. The writer feels that a trip i like this cannot be undervalued 4 when we stop to think that per- 4 haps only one out of every thous. 4 and people in the state of Utah a have seen our legislative body in session and heard their discussions. dis-cussions. This group tells of the State Senate discussing the bill to change the age of compulsory education from 18 to 16. Since that time the writer has questioned questi-oned and found that most of these children are looking t all bills coming before the houss with a very keen appreciation of what they mean. , The schools should encourage such tours for educational purposes. |