The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-21
JOSEPH F. Smith IS
BOSS OF Schools
Hierarch Dominates the Public
School System Of Salt
Lake.
MORMON CONTROLS THE
PRESENT SCHOOL BOARD
Manner in Which Hierarchy
Hclds Sway Shown by
Facts and Figures.

Mormons and Jack -Mormons, who are
| dccrying the entrance of the American
| party into the campaign for the elec.
| ton Of members of the board of edu
cation, and who pretend to believe that
neither politics nor religion should er
| ter into the selection of board members,
| ignore the fact that religion is the dom.
| mating force in the schools now, and
that Joseph F Smith is the boss Of
Salt Lakes public school system.
Church Controls Present Board.
The Mormon church controls the pres
ent school board Arnold G. Giauaue
is Mormon bishop. c. s. Martin and
William Newman are bishops' coun.
sellors. Oscar w. Moyle, president OF
the board, is a Mormon and is the SON
in.aw of w. B. Preston, presiding bish.
op Of the Mormon church, Mathoni-
hah Thomas is Mormon elder, rec
ognIzed as fanatical member OF the
church, and is head of the Young Mems
Mutual Improvement organization of
the church.
T. H, Ellerbeck claims to be an apos
tate Mormon. He was chosen to ell a
vacancy on the board upon the recon-
mendation of Elder Mathonihah Thom
as, the other member from his ward
Byron Cummings is q Jack-Mormon OF
purest ray serene.
Thus, out OF ten members Of the
present board. the Mormon church con-
trolls seven Of them. This control has
been exhibited in various ways. o,
W. Moyle, a Mormon elder, has re-
peatedly been elected president of the
board, and is now serving in that ca
DacItv. The superintendent of build
ings is Mormon, The storekeeper IS
a Mormon.
Mormon Teachers Preferred.
But the most iagrant instance of
fact that the committee on teachers
and school work, the committee which
practically dictates the selection Of
teachers in the schools, is, with one eZ-
ceptlon, made up of Mormons or mem
bers whom the church controls. The
only straightout Gentle member Of
that committee is Judge II. P. Hen
comes TO the selection of teachers.
1t is notorious in Utah that the Nor
mon church, whenever possible. will
slip tithe-paying adherents into public
position, high or low. BY controlling
the committee on teachers and school
work, therefore, the hierarchy is able
to dictate the selection Of teachers,
to those teachers who will pay ten
per cent of their monthly. earnings into
the Golfers of the church.
The three real Gentle members of the
Board of Education are Judge Hender.
son, Joseph Oberndorfer and NJ J.
Cheesman. All three of these gentle
men have minority committee assign
ments. Every committee Of which they
are members is stacked with enough
Mormons or Jack-Mormons to render
them helpless, Elder Moyle, who pre-.
sides over the deliberations of the
board took care of that in selecting the
committees, and ii is significant fact
that Messrs. Henderson, Oberndorfer
and Cheesman, knowing what they were
up against, voted against his reelection
at the last organization of the board.
Bishop Arnold G. Giauoue has been
set apart by the church to act as chair
man of the buildings and grounds com
mittee of the board. He virtually con
trolls that committee. Every dollar
which is spent in new buildings or
other improvements must pass through
his hands, and, as a loyal follower of
the polygamous prophet, he takes care
of the brethren.
The control of the teachers and school
work committee by Bishop Giauque,
and the domination of the teachers aud
school work committee by the hierarchy
merely furnish examples of the ramih-
cation OF Mormon control of the school
board, Every board committee, every
act of the board diseloses the hand of
the hierarchy. and no important action
can be taken without the consent OF the
church authorities.
One of the strongest indications of
favoritism to Mormons is shown IN the
selection of principals. The principals
of the Lafayette, Lowell. Jackson, Sum
ner and Union schoois-6ve Of the larg-
est and most important schools Of the
city-are tithe-paylng members OF the
Mormon church.
Two grade upervjsors-Parratt of
the manual training department and
Fairbanks of the drawing department.
are devout Mormons.
Lucian p. Judd, the JackMormon
secretary of the Board OF Education. is
brother.in Law of Byron Cummings.
the Jack Mormon member who is seek"
ing reelection from the First ward: His
salary, as result of ecclesiastical fa-
voritism, has been raised from time to
time until now it is $500 a year-equal
to that paid TO the Mayor of Salt Lake
City. In order TO give Mr. Judd his
| berth, a GENTLE secretary Of the board,
who had served acceptably for years,
was ousted from his position.
The decapita tion of this Gentle Sec
! retarv-J b. Moreton--was agreed up
| on In secret meeting OF the board, as
secret as 2 Mormon priesthood meeting.
In the present campaign Mr. Judd ie
eXertipg every effort to help the Nor
mon church retain Its control OF the
board. because he believes that the cleo.
tion Of board of Americans would
| mean that a real American would be
| olonte5 RI s1lccpe0 him.