The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-24
DR.. Small and DR.. Hall.

The quarrel between DIR. Sam Small and
DR.. Wesley Hall is taking up good deal of
space in the newspapers, and there doesn't
appear to be very much to quarrel about.
DIR. Sam Small is president of Utah Uni
versity at Ogden, Utah, and DIR. Wesley
Hall is secretary of the university. The
university isn't very big institution yet,
and it may never amount to great deal.
1t has site, which was probably donated,
but it has no buildings. DR.. Sam Small is
lecturing for the purpose of getting money
with which to erect buildings, and he has
his headquarters in Philadelphia DR.. Yves
ley Hall is at Ogden, and is expected to
take care of the cash which DR.. Sam Small
earns.
But DIR. Wesley Hall has got tired of
waiting for DR.. Sam Small to forward him
cash, and has begun circulating stories to
the effect that DR.. Sam Small is putting all
the money he gets into his pocket and keep
ing it there. In view Of the fact that Dr.
Sam Small is Methodist preacher, this is
very grave charge for DR.. Wesley Hall to
bring against him, particularly as Dr. Yves
ley Hall is also a preacher of good standing
in the Methodist church.
DR.. Sam Small says that his conscience is
clear, and that his books are open for in-
spection. He admits that he has built for
himself a brownstone house in the city
Of brotherly love and that he has fur
nished it comfortably, but he declares that
the money with which the house was built
and furnished was not the proceeds of his
lectures. 1t was obtained, according to his
story, from the sale of property owned by
his wife in Atlanta, Ga.
But why should DIR. Wesley Hall call DR.
Sam Small names which are calculated to
bring DR.. Sam Small into disrepute! Is
DIR. Wesley Hall in bad humor because DR..
Sam Small will not divide the proceeds of
his lectures with him! 1t seems that this is
the whole cause Of the trouble between
them. As DR.. Sam Small earns the money
which DIR. Wesley Hall wants turned
over to the Utah university it
would seem as if DR.. Sam Small
should be permitted to spend as
much of it as he needs for his personal ex-
pensss, and it would not be surprise if he
needs pretty nearly all of it, 1t is true that
DIR. Wesley Hall ought to be paid for his
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also go on the lecture platform3 He seems
to think that he owns DIR. Sam Small He
says that he had DR.. Sam Small elected
president of the Utah university and also
got him his degree of D. D. Doubtless DIR.
Sam Small is duly grateful for these favors,
but they don't justify DR.. Wesley Hall in
continually nagging Dr. Sam Small.
And the honor Of being President of
Utah university is not such a very desira-
BILE one in view Of the fact that there is no
such university yet except in name, and
will not be in all likeihoo until DIR. Sam
Small earns the money to build it and if
what DR.. Wesley Hall says is true DIR. Sam
Small will not put DR.. Wesley Hall in
possession of enough TO build it during this
century. The wisest thing for DR.. Sam
Small and DR.. Wesley Hall to do is to
make up their quarrel because if they con-
tinue it few will care to hear DIR. Sam
Small lecture, and then the university may
never be built.