The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-27
TEACH TO WRITE
BY new METHOD
Two Public Schools viii Try
Semi-VeriieaI System.
IT WILL BE AN EXPERIMENT
BUSINESS MEN OBJECT TO YER
TICAL MODE NOW USED.

BEGINNING next month a new sys-
d tenn Of penmanship viii be intro
duced in two Of The Salt Lake city
public schools. In. response 20 the OBJ
jections raised BY number OF business
men TO the vertical system i'm vogue
in the LEGAL schools for the last eight
years or more, Superintendent j.. RI
Christensen has decided to try tine semi
vertical system in two of the schools as
an experiment The results thus OBJ
tanned VIII have much 90 Go IN deter
mining whether the vertical system viii
be retained
At present superintendent CHristea-
sen is favorable % the vertical system.
but he Is open To- conviction. IL Los
Angeles the vertical system has recent
Is been abandoned and in other cities
similar steps have been taken A nuT-
Der OF salt Lake business men have ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to tne
system. while others are in favor Of il.
Oppose Vertical System.
"some time ago ] sent 0ut letters To
representative business men asking
their opinions on the vertical system Of
hardBriting SAID Mr. Christensen.
/ The replies were nearly all UufaVor-
able. The objections raised were that
the letters are TOO large that there is
/ not enough individuality III the various
hands, and that there is not sufficient
/ freedom of movement for speed.
Despite these objections. L believe
the vertical system ia gaining ground,
and that. when business men see it ex-
Iemplihed by pupils who have started IN
/ the beginning TO learn il, they are like
/ " to change their views. BY this meth
Cd a larger percentage Of pupils learn
4 TO write. good. legible hands. The po-
sition assumed in writing is more nat
ursl. While it is true there is not great
individuality in the handwriting OF the
/ younger pupils. as they grow older the
I Individuality becomes more marked.
! showing after passing the fourth or
/ fifth grades"
The Los Angeles schools have adopted
/ the business hand. which has the
same slant as the old Spencerian. but
no shading. The semi-verticai is COM
/ promise between the business hand and
the vertical
Favor Semi-Vertica1 Method.
Its friends say it gives individuality
to the chirogTaphy, allows an easy po-
Gitiou in writing, takes less space than
the vertical and permits greater speed.
Ali these advantages are claimed also
for the business hand. which admitted
ily permits greater speed than amy of the
others mentioned.
OF the business men VINO gave AIr.
christensen their views on handWritlns,
+. ". Wilson. cashier Of the CONNER
eial National bank. is heartily IN favor
lof the vertical system. Mr. Wilson was
formerly a ms=ub7r of the board of Cd
Iucation ond is fauilids with the method
Give the vertical system FIVE more
wears. he said, and the objections VIII
be silenced.
Dir. Wilson balie-es the sianiing sys-
tenn is more rapid and is better foi
IbOOkkeeperS and others who must write
continually bus that the teaching Of the
vertical system does the greatest good
to the greatest number This Is On the
ground that d larger percentage of pu-
pills learn thus to write clear, leglble
hands
Does Not Look Neat.
John r. Dooiy favors the vertical sys-
tenn but number of others oppose d.
Among these IS g. J. McNitt, auditor
of the Oregon Short Line.
The vertical system is not natural
does not permit 80 great speed as the
others. and does not look as neat OF
books says 1Ir. McNitt in effect.
/ The semi-vsrtieal system has a num-
Der of friends. VINO argue speed ano
cIearness in its behalf Atr. DcNirt IA
WIS lltt NAA f-k''-tAts 4f----
Cannon, cashier of lions savings Banh
& Trust company. and II. : Young
cashier OF the DeseTet National bank
are opposed 10 the vertical system. II
H. Ross. instructor i'm peumansnip al
the Latter-day Saints university, SAID
both systems are taught in that insti-
tuition.
we get pupils who have already
formed their haoits OF penmansnip,' n
said. and we try merely 70 improV,
them i'll tie system they have already
learned The slaHtiBg system IS easiel
and more rapid, bot the vertical sys