Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30
PULL FOR PEACE.

is every reason that these TWO POI
tentlal forces should be yoked together
as team mates IN the days Immediate
Iy ahpad OF the splendid institution OF
learning a; Logan, from which PROT
Kerr has just resigned with the con"
fldence ard respect of so many pco'
pie. and to which Prof Widtsoc sue,
ceeds with The faith and good viii of
countless Others. There has been too
much strife already. Charge ana coun-
ter-charge have come dangerously near
to working serious harm. The time
has arrived when that sort Of business
should he stopped The Keynote to
success Is harmouy--h rmony within
the board; harmony in the faculty. ana
harmony In the college itself. Let ibis
note be but struck and maintained
and progress Will mark every move
mont made for it's good There is
an old ana forccful saying that. Peace
rules this day when reason rules ihe
mind" SO, ladies and gentlemen OF tire
board, let reason wisdom and loyalty
chara cterlze your official conduct, aus
the Deseret News believes you Will,
This paper has newer encouraged or
credited the claims SO eStravagantlS
and recklcssy made during the recent
and rather unpleasant campaign FOR
and against consolidation, TO the Ct
feet that the spirit aud genius of the
institution had been wholly trans
formed We do not deny that
managerial and executive pride have
made II a center of ranlified courses of
study and cosmopolitan education. But
| thai the dissemination Of knowledge
concerning the science OF the soil ana
the various activities that grow pnt
j of that pursuit, have been neglected.
or that the organic law has been Ia
tentionaIly violated or departed FROM
we have no reason TO De-
lieye. Ocular demonstrations rise
ND innumerably about the col.
lego TO dsprove that contention If
with the wisdom and experience OF tn"
President. shall find that the 'univer-
sity idea" as II has been called, has
been carried to excess In the policy
OF making the college seat OF wider
and higher learning then Its duty is
plain The severely technical and ad-
vanced scientific courses Will have 10
be pursued elsewhere as they should
be. But 1t win be well not to say too
much about that. Let bygOnes be by
cones. The past cannot be recalled
No good can come from rakng among
its emhers. A live coal may be found Ia
the ashes and the wind of criticism
and faulttlnding might fan II INTO
consuming ard destructive flame IIie
retiring president has proved himself
a most efficient and fOrceful Official
Whatever there may be said OF him IN
unklnely criticism. II cannot be charged
that he was Incompetent or that ne
lacked affirmative qualities. Rather IS
ne the RECONCILIATION OF the successful
college president. He has persistently
and consistently pursued WHAT nc
thought was the best policy As to
HIS successor he Is a man OF ripe
and able scholarship, His attachments
ara beyond question, Already no has
served the people Of the state well as
director OF the government experiment
station, and IN other capacities In the
different lines OF agriculture he Is an
/ eypert Ia all that that term implies
| The public trusts him and under his
guidance the college should experience
no rotrosrade movement. Its face, ike
the faces OF those at the helm. should
be toward the rising sun of a better
dag. President Kerr's dIsnclination 10
say anything IN the way of adverse
comment and Tho boards ann ounced
purpose to not crIticise hts conduct
their agreement to assist each other
lis an encouraging ausury Let no
cloud he driven across the sky. Forces
not now seen may enlarge VI and a
storm break Let calm reign, peace
prevail let an pull together.
And while on the subject OF tbs AS
rcultuEal College we desire to say a
word In appreciation OF the conspicuous
public service OF President W. s, Me-
Colnlck of the board on trustees. who
FOR seventeen years has watched over
the financial and material welfare OF
lltt lllnAAAlAabAi VIVA lAN N|A' NNlANNAA' N'''
sollcltude that any parent could 6estow
upon child, He commenced aIs pres
dental career with the college when
| II WAS In its swaddllng clothes. He
helped II on 10 it's feet and steadiod It's
stops until II could stand alone and
now that II has become a power Tor
good in the educational field OF the IN,
termountGin country he can look hack
upon his work and call II good. even as
do the people Thcy owo Mr. McCor-
nick a debt Of gratitude and are not
SLOW To express "
Following In his footsteps now comes
Younger man, MI, Lorenzo stohl, but
ono who Is not without ability. nor yet
without eSDerIcnee IN matters OF