The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-11
MIR. IRWIN REPLIES.
His Compliments to the Lake
town Taxpayer.
How the School and SchoolhOuse Are Con-
Quoted, With Some Other Remarks Di-
rectly to the Point.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.

Dy bue COURTESY OIL OUR mutudl lIiOhu,
HERALD Agent Schultz, of Meadowville, l
had the privilege of perusing communi-
cation in your daily, headed, almost In
human" etc. Upon first sight [ involun-
tarily glanced at the top of the
page, to be assured that | had
not been handed copy of the
Tribune, so much does it's style resemble
that of the correspondence published by
your unesteemed contemporary. The delight
of this would-be regulator must be much
more in mischieyious fiction than in justice
and facts. l am sorry that it becomes my
duty to the community, unpleasant though
it be, to reply thereto Personally, would
prefer to treat it with the silence it merits.
''TaXpayer'' will find no solace by compar-
ing the school register, under the old sys-
TEN, with the present record Of attendance,
unless he should select isolated and sum-
mer terms. While l admit that we have
never never had quite so large a school,
there has been an attendance OF as many
except a very few. My only object IN
noticing this is, that think he by inuendo,
purposed rejecting upon the management
under 1.-THE old system"
1t would be difficult task for the gentle
man to successfully establish his assertion
that, to many of its patrons, the govern
ment of the school is unsatisfactory.
School officers will, however, agree that a
teacher would be superhuman who would
please all as soon as he commenced to
teach. Regarding the arbitrary rules"
about which your "citizen" wakes so
wroth, must confess as a trustee, that l
fail to perceive in them the element OF
tyranny. Until reading it in your esteemed
paper, L had heard nothing OF the deSlgna
ton OF tardy pupils as "olack sheep" or,
that any parents excuse for his child's
hardness had been treated with aught put
respect. MIR. Rex, our principal, informs
US that the house has not been closed on
any day, full hour for dinner recess. l
do not deny that the ORDER to close the
house during dinner time was given by the
board. Had not some eStoppage been
placed upon the reckless disregard of ward
and public property rights by some who
appeared to believe that free school,
meant unrestrained license TO jump upon
desks and do as they pIease, goodness
} only knows how little school furniture
weuld have remained intact TO date.
There is a very small minority Of the
pupils who live out Of town, Il, e. who
could not easily reach home in from three
to ten minutes). They couli have had good
facilities for comfortable dining quarters,
had they not been prompted, By stubborn
ness, to choose rather Of any did, to eat
their meal In the winter air.
Much ado about filth" and "outhouses'
is made by the Taxpayer" Relative to
the first, | will say that man acts as
janitor daily and cleans out, warns and
makes the school-rooms comfortable. On
that and the clubhouse question fnuch is said
for effect, and very little in recognition of
the facts in the case.
With these the correspondent should
be well familiar. Thew are l.
r n ha
, house or any part of 1t, but I0G the
, very small sum of $40 per aDnum, rent it
from the ward bishop, who, OF course,
holds the trustees responsi0 e for the house
during the schools occupancy. THAT
lumber in this region is very scarce, and
having to depend on mill men, who make
lumber when they can 40 little else,
the building OF any kind of houses
does not go on with boom. He must
be aware that the ward people have
been working toward the erection of such
houses for sometime past, and that before
any of our people knew OF bis rushing into
print on the subject, and as soon as the
!, lumber came, a pOssee Of men were out
, making the, by all aGreed-neccssary im
provements. Bless your soul. Mr.. Editor
, doesn't he and all know that in these
country towns, everything can't be done at
once!
l would confidently refer your readers to
any disinterested person, who is acquainted
: with the school Standing OF Lake Town,
to endorse my assertion, taGt it is unex-
celled by any in the county in its educa
tional record, or for school appurtenances
etc.
l have never ascertained whether 15C
yards interviewed betW cen the meeting
house and Pedagogue ReY's boarding house
;. neither have [ shifted any OF his smoking
: viands, nor could l on oath, declare TIE
- temperature of the room III which he is
: won't to dine, as I consider it utterly for.
y eign to the issue, if, in truth, it can be dig
nifed by that nomination. That "3reaking
of slaten phase should have found snug
f quarters in the waste basket DIS so mucf
n tinsel, put in for show, and for show only
4 so should the scribbe that the slaUt
breaker was branded as rogue and
criminal" 1t is safe to say that no such
language was used by the trustees or thost
, I'm authority" Whomsoevcr that might IN
+ dictate. 1t was just merely designed tt
give tone and color to very poorly cham
pioned and groundless charge.
\ Considerable soreness attaches to thu
correspondent by reason Of certain thom
talk'' (Which. until better Informed l pre-
sumo, must have been heard eXclusivel,
around his own heartily if he voices hi
sentiments there with as little regard L
the decencies of civilization and the fact
in the case, as when he writes over a non
de plume, what wonder that his 'hom
talk'' aygravates rather than cures, an
that sits influence is lost on the fragra,
air." The public protest" cam
too late for any glory in rem
edying the almost inhunan' evil
on which he became so proliicauy talkative
The houses are going up, aud several day
ago the trustees arranged with the teacher
u to have half an hour instead of an hou
D recess, and for them to remain with tn
{. school from a. m. to .. IN.
70 All of which was done in the denses
u ignorance of the too previous "citizen an
taxpayer "public protest.
Dear sir, | will not in way claim perfet
j, ton for our school board Will remar
:. that we are always trying to watch the il
~ terests OF the district, and have ever Ter
~ that may be reported to US. But, pei
u haps, because we did not come dow
like thousand of bricks and create
n crash Of worlds, said citizen and taxpaye
thought 1t wise to come out of school an
OF tell tales He is welcome to all the com fol
n 1t brings him, or the disaster it may caus
~ to befall US. | conclude by saying that L
Ia trustee has ever, to my knowledge. +
h ceived cent compensation in this distric
ne and by observing, over my very plain nam
# that if your correspondent (whoeyar /
IA may be) will ever do as much for the pui
in lie as the several Lake Town school boarc
,d have done, without any earthly rewar
Iv and with very little thanks, it will vel
"a agreeably surprise, JOSEPH IRWIN.
LAKLTowN, Rich Co, Jan. 20.