| Show SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS wednesday december 3 taxpayers of richfield will tain go to the polls this time to elect a member of the hoard board of education of the sevier school dietrict to represent our city on the hoard board we are arc glad to notice that this years school board election will differ quite considerably from elections in previous pi evious years when only a handful of voters expressed their choice by means of the ballot this year four candidates are in the field and the voters are displaying a lively interest in the outcome this is as it should be because the position of md member m of the school board implies some of the most important duties not only has the Ri richfield clifield member of the board to cooperate with his co leagues in working out the best plan of educating our children but at the s same ame time to do it at teh least possible expense without handicapping or deteriorating the education program of the district tho the sevier school district is looked upon as one of the best administered in the state thanks for this condition are due to the fact that we have here a superintendent in who is counted among the best school men and educators in utah and that the board for many years past has been composed of men who had at heart both the welfare of the children chil dien and the pocketbook of the taxpayers in spite of the present good condition in our school system however nobody will deny that improvement pro can be had bad and should be had the entire education system not only here but all over the united states is at the present time in a period of transition upheaval and experimentation obsolete principles and old maxims are being thrown overboard and new things are being tried out they might or might not be successful success in this case means two things first ameliorating the methods of study as well as the curricula and second to get better results without adding new burdens to those who have to pay for it and if possible to obtain such results at a reduced cost this will require the best thoughts and consequently the best men luckily the for candidates in the field are all good men substantial taxpayers and successful in their respective trades business or professions it should therefore not make much difference which of them will come out victorious in the battle not of the bullets but of the ballots and right here a word of consolation can be offered to those who will be defeated this word comes to us from one who was a prominent member of the board of education himself and who repeatedly tasted victory as well as defeat that man of many a hard bard fought election battle judge henr henry v N hayes who in a letter to the reaper says after more than thircy five years experience in politics I 1 am brought to conclude that the really worthwhile worth while things bilings that one does for the community are belittled or forgotten when he asks for a favor from the electorate while the little insignificant things he has done or has failed to do are magnified at such times by those who do not agree with him but such is life and I 1 presume that the world will remain as it is until there is a different kind end of people in it I 1 am not at all predicting anything as to the result of the coming election but I 1 merely wanted to say that in my opinion the results shown by the ballot box are no criterion by which to judge how a man is esteemed by the community in which he lives |
