Show INCREASED COST IN EDUCATION no a country has risen to great influence flu clIce jut iut lie ho world unless led by educational efficiency said dr john A widtsoe soe soc president ot of the university of utah in an address in salt lalic lake the sound condition ot of the tha state slate ot of utah may well bo be measured ed by the condition of 0 the institutions a 0 learning within its boundaries because oe canuso the educational system is part pari I 1 arid parcel ot of the thoughts worlds hopes and tue the ions oft he people ot of the state education is the peoples peO DIOs concern and it should not be the teachers worry if tile the people will learn to know the work ot of the schools they will be kindly disposed toward them and their just needs need will tie be diet t education on trial the cost ot of education has iacre increased asell ased dr widtsoe said paid there are five real causes of 0 the increased cost of 0 education anil these should bo be understood in these days when education as it were is on trial he sald said first the present generation of fathers and mothers has tasted of the benefits of education and are dc cd that their children shall have every educational advantage van toge consee consequently bently the schools Is are arc crowded crowde 1 I beyond tile the prophecies of tho the wisest this increased attendance tan dance la Is the first cause of lie increased cost of education second second the well equipped well named and well lualla managed ged high schools send graduates tp to the he co colleges I 1 whose minds are mado made up as t to a their future careers they have determined before they r omo come to the to become lawyers doctors engineers business mail inen scientists teachers housekeepers house keepers or some other of the many modern professions and to lwy lay out at once a course of study loading leading to tho the technical perfection which they have in mind wark simple arn tn earlier days students were placed in relatively largo classes ii 11 1 subjects demanding little if any laboratory work it was inexpensive instruction now wo we must provide work in laboratories shops studios stu dlos accounting rooms kitchens ail and d S so 0 on such instruction is expensive third everything connected with schools lias has gone up in price our teachers underpaid in the old days are today on a starvation wage age men who have not been obliged to invest long years ot of study arid and thousands of dollars in their preparation in even the humblest walks of life are arc today paid more than the average teacher in a college or university this condition cannot continuo to teach property properly according to tl the d demands inanda of oc tho the people well wall qualified teachers teachers must li ile obtained the present wage scale for teachers will drive all really competent school workers into other pursuits and tho the country which after all depends for its full upon general proper education cation will suffer immeasurably it if our children are to 10 lie taught thoY must be taught hy by well trained teachers who are kept in iho he ordinary comforts ot at life alto 0 service b I 1 fourth Fourt li tho the mature of 0 our day demands service cervice from the schools schools to keep abreast with the tam times c s in in his daily walk and in his bis business the demand for ei extension tension work ivor proper i as it is la Is adding addin g to ib the e cost of operating educational institutions eions PI fifth f th education is 19 a producer of 0 wealth in a large sense which leads 6 to prosperity which in tua turn leads to a high civilization the only I 1 Y way to 0 produce wealth is to know tile the resources of the earth and learn the us use of them the universities 3 fifley are asked to lead put 0 ut in the discoe ery aal and teaching of truth concerning natures nature secrets Be crets which will contribute to the moral mental m and mata material we welfare cifare of 0 the human race really all that pat nn an educational institution is for is to discover use a and n d teach truth education aids state utah Is yet practically undiscovered it Is a fundamental duly fy ot of the educational institutions especially y those of 0 higher ecail learning n g to a discover resources and the eternal relations of forces that will enable alan man to win the wealth upon which civilization lon rests must lie h 0 fost fostered erad already the fruits of such investigations even in in our own state slate institutions have fa largely r gely paid in material mateef it returns for all ali that the iho state his has invested in higher onea education ea it oll noto that all those these cau causes caus s of abb be increased cost of education havo come as a demand from the people and not because of the zeal of 0 tho the schoolmaster dr widtsoe Vidt soe told his bear hearers era that they hey were as stockholders in tb the university U 1 I 1 of utah ulan the university needs many things teachers equipment and buildings these we shall get little by little our great need now is to obtain a small additional appropriation to place our present activities on a safe basis so that wo a may avoid tile the necessity of reorganizing our work with a view to eliminating some a of fit I 1 our work and excluding students that which has been beell huilt should ho be maintained t lluise increase shown the volume of business done at t tho h 0 ulav university erdity of utah has grown tremendously in the last few years du during r the last half decade the attendance of students of collegiate grade those these who have finished their mill high school work has increased more than 70 per cent that is from about 1000 four years ago to nearly asoo today with tile tho attendance still growing grow liK tile the number of regularly registered register rd extension students has increased 10 during tile the same half decade nea neaily y fourfold tour fold that Is from shout about lo io nearly 2500 we e served last boar through ic iq tures lures aud similar activities at lej icat citizens of 0 tile the state of atsa uti tile tho summer school the tha schools school and tile the other divisions of e university of utah have aavo all sho sn substantial growth series 4 es of S ioas JS diio T dio university 0 al utah otters ys ts services th through roligh a of school ono one organized to meet the ali and demands of a large and wall arto cont nied on last page INCREASED COST IN EDUCATION I 1 from first page I 1 lined group the school of arts and sciences sc ances tile the largest and most generalized is intended chiefly for bior those who have not decided upon their life careers or who are able to lay a f broad general educational foundation i I 1 lefore undertaking the special preparation 1 for technical pursuits thel the schools of roll mines I 1 ies and engineering for the training of engineers are now nov I 1 growing rapidly T we vi e should have in salt sail lake i and I 1 believe we will have tile the most I 1 notable ro lable school of mines in the world I 1 localism localise lo calise no other institution is local dl d so favorably with respect to i nea 3 smelters shelters sm elters other mining enterprises find and geological phenomena thes chool of commerce and 11 finance illa to help train prospective men inen the tha infant of the ivern item about two or three years ago ag kas grown so rapidly that it broms proms to become one of the largest of the university by state law a training tor for teaching under tate state r at ai spices must lie be done at the scho of education of the univ university erdity there are no state normal elsewhere in the state in that r we are unique and it la Is cot col ively a most economical mot met od of providing teacher work the school of law hilgh gra era ind sound round concerns itself with tl it training of lawyers the school medicine gives one half of the cour leading to an M D degree arid and at vork in pharmacy nursing health le alth and in general is a directs influence in disseminating the I 1 formation that properly used it 1 t the foundation of physical we feng I 1 eng in short we are attempt lr to train especially the youth of th state tor for he life pursuits especial required fred in this state hll standard attained the university of utah is in a le of standard quality lecog razed the world over as haviar hav lii andard aldard requirements for entrance and graduation and it has stan dan letchos ot of instruction leading to tc ardad results it if we may work tan landard dard people the other day one of our citizens wrote to the harvard law school to squire inquire it if the A B degree from the university of utah would be accept d for entrance to the law school it if that degree had been w won on with some r bedits edits for corresPondence tv vork tile the I 1 answer was prompt and decisive the utah A D B entitled the man mail to citra uce irrespective of the detailed bourse that led the university to confer it the university of utah lives strictly within its income we have no deficits for maintenance nor do we propose to create def deficits tells when the state of utah gives the university S ty less than we need for good service we will cut our cloth accordingly and tile the state will receive just juat as ai much as may lie be done with the money granted pr anted built for during the war certain buildings building bere iere required for the use of tile he stu dents army raining c corps orp 4 the governor held wisely that instead of erecting temporary shacks the aboney should be put I 1 nto into the dounda i tion walls and roots roofs of permanent mil buildings dings to le e used permanently after the war for regular instruction about three fourths of the sost cost ot of these buildings has been paid but a sum of must be mo me by the state by bonds or by direct 1 appropriation to clear off thee these debts for maintenance there la Is no fio i deficit 1 the university of utah der derives iv 01 its chief support from participation in n the property tax or of tile the state I 1 rec receives elies from this source about it per cent of that part of the pr proper tax which goes to the state for legit mate disbursement which maahs moans tor for instance that about 1 per cell cen 0 of f the property tax paid in salt li la ki I 1 county Is used tor for maintaining university the university does not parti ct ate in any other of the taxes receil d by the state the fees paid b and the interest from vic the linda derived fl from florn orn the sale of pub ill ic C lauds lands granted by congress jai entered statehood aro are tile the ofil ther appreciable soul sources cesi of anco income r hi income diconze conze limited during the last 11 half lif decade characterized by high costs in he university of utah has liaa under one a large unexpected growth till the iconic has barely kept pace with the ill nerease in college students tho the in fit rease has not been proportional tt ti lie ho total volume of business alifi ahr i during these strenuous years ill 1 er capita cost has remained I 1 ally as it was before the great war rid nd in ill view of the expansion of th the per capita cost ila ha cally diminished naturally till las been done at tile the sacrifice 0 many things and conditions ess entla to the best progress |