Keep it: In 1951, students at Draper Park Junior High School, which no long exists, raised $800 to buy Norman Rockwell's painting of Ichabod Crane. The painting, which may be worth more than $1 million, now hangs behind locked Plexiglas in the library at Draper Elementary School. Some people argue that children are too young to properly appreciate the painting and that it should be sold to a museum. To that we say, balderdash. The painting should stay where it is so that kids can enjoy it and teachers can introduce young minds to both art and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." It would be good, however, if Jordan School District got an updated appraisal for insurance purposes.

Hands off: In the aftermath of the Florida election meltdown of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act which, in effect, introduced touch-screen voting machines to Utah. Now, Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., wants to help America again, only differently, by requiring that all electronic voting machines leave a permanent paper trail. Utah's voting machines, which cost a bundle, might not qualify because their paper trail, though required by Utah law, may not be permanent enough for Rep. Holt. But this latest fiddling with the nation's polling equipment is unnecessary. Utah's machines work fine, and we just got through the costly shakedown cruise required to change from punch cards.

In it together: We suppose it's sort of comforting to some to know that sliding into bankruptcy has little to do with religion. The more unpleasant message of a study done by two Harvard Law School graduates, both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is that far too many Utahns of all faiths are in financial trouble. The study debunks speculation that Utah's high bankruptcy rate may be traced to the state's high concentration of Mormons who are encouraged to give 10 percent of their income to the church. Finding that slightly fewer Mormons file for bankruptcy in Utah than others doesn't attack the problem, but it might make Mormons feel better.