The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-26
OGDEN DEPARTMENT
A Penny-a-Liner Distorts the
Truth About the Schools.
1.-THE RULES ADOPTED ALL RIGHT
death From an Epileptic Fit-First District
Court Notes-A Sparring Match
General Gleanings

The manner in which the Weber county
teachers institute sat down upon the
Times Ogden man yesterday ought to be
enough to convince him that he is not as
big persimmons as he believes himself to be.
In the issue Of the Times of night before
last, and in the Standard of yesterday
morning, Mr. Joel Shoemaker made an
unwarranted attack upon Weber county's
enicient superintendent of county schools,
Joseph S. Peery. From the face of the
article it looks as if the same was formu-
lated to stir up political strife within the
domain of the public schools, where 1t
should never be allowed to enter.
The scribe heads his article the Teach
ing Machine" and grows vehement in his
denunciation of the rules and regulations
adopted by the school trustees of Weber
county and the county superintendent last
Saturday. He says:
During the last campaign it was urged by our
Democratic friends that the present superin-
iendent should be reelected because lac had
inaugurated a system for the governing of dis
u let schools that would place the schools Of
this county on plane above everything IN this
western country. If the rules as published
constitute the system and are upheld by the
Democracy, the sooner We get nd of both the
better for our public schools and teachers
People who know nothing about the teaching
management and disciptining of school children
may set back and dictate with about as much
reason as a common Piute Indian can inform
the President OF the United States how to
select his cabinet officers. l write this in the
interest Of the much abused machine teacher,
OF which class / have been an unwilling mem
Der, and l hope that there are enough men and
women Of the profession TO assert their rights
and in the name of humanity compel a decent
recognition Of their independence, and not be-
come the degraded serfs that official Democracy
would make them by the blue laws OF the
Weber county faIcical school system.
The rules and regulations as adopted by
the trustees are merely fac SinliIe OF
those governing the public schools of east
ern states There is nothing compulsory
about them and as was Mr.. Peery's aim
they enable the superintendent, trustees
and teachers to work hand in hand for the
upbuilding of perfect public school sys-
tenn. Since Mr.. Peery has held the Office
he now occupies, he has strained every
nerve to attain this end. He is introduc-
ing all the modern methods, and no fault
can be found by sane man with any
knowledge of school work with the rules
and regulations adopted. During the last
campaign the people aimed to place the
schools on a level with like institutions in
the east, and to that end they elected Mr.,
Peery.
The rules came up in the institute yes
terday and each section was taken up sep
erately and unanimously adopted by the
teachers.
Profs. Lewis and Page made some vigor
Gus remarks in support of the course laid
down by Mr.. Peery, which surely vindi
Gated him from the slurs of penny-s-liner
writer before the people. The following
are the resolutions unanimously adopted
by the teachers yesterday:
RESOLUTIONS OF SUPPORT.
An article published in. the Ogden Sdnddr,
of August rs ana the Salt Lake Times of Au
gust ~ over the name of Joel Shoemaker, con
demning the rules and regulations adopted b!
the trustees of the various districts of Webe
comfy. in connection with the county superin
tendent of schools:
BE il resolved, That We, as teachers assem-
bled in the county institute for Weber county
believing them TO be conducive of the best in
terests of the schools of Weber county, hereb,
express our approval of said rules and regula
tiOns.
BE it further resolved. That we disapprove o
said article. believing that it is calculated L
create contention and strife where harmon.
should exist; and in great measure to coun
teract the efforts low being made to increaS