The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-26
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL.

On Sunday last there WAS dire
| threat in the Smoot "Mouth - that
"we are going in a day or so to quote
| to you from his own report, giving his
own words in deploring the detection
OF local teachers and the misfortune it
is to the schools that SO largo number
of the teachers are new each year.
This is referring to 4 supposed report
of tho present editor of Tho Tribune
when he was president of the Board
of Education in this city.
On yesterday morning that paper had
what was no doubt intended to be re-
demption Of this p ledge in the follow
ing words:
That same resctIonary, who would set
the schools back ten years II he had
his way. complained In his favorlte weari-
some manner the other day that teachers
of tho present were leaving tho schools
and going TO other States, where they
could receive decent pay. They are do
Ing nothing of the kind Ninety per cent
Of the Salt Lake teachers this year were
Salt Lake teachers last year. They are
not abandoning the schools. But here
is what happened when Old Crouch, az
those who knew him best called him.
was al the head of the school board. We
quote from the fifth annual report or the
public schools OF Salt Lake CITY, for lhe
year ending June 80, ar 1872 ,r s,,-
LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS:
Ninety have taught one year or less,
Fifty-scyen have taught two years.
Nineteen have taught three years.
Thirty have taught four years.
Twenty-ninc have taught five years.
The above table reveals II degree Of
instability in our schools that Is unior-
I,,,,a W nj nf
OF the city were this year without pre-
vious experience In our schools, cir
cumstancc whose necessary consequence
Is confusion and delay, There can be no
doubt that better work could be done in
the same or shorter time IL at the open
Ing of each year our teachers were fully
plished, and the pupils to be taught THE
EVERY YEAR Or 4 LARGE NUMBER
or TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN IN
THE METHODS HERE EMPLOYED
MUST BE REGARDED AS ~ SERlQuS
LOSS TO THE SCHOOLS. A WASTE
MEANS WITHIN OUR POWER"
Now, one would naturally suppose, in
view of the advance announcement
and of the wording employed, that the
extract quoted was from a report of the
present editor of Tho Tribune when
he was president Of the school board,
as found in the fifth annual report of
the public schools of this city. But it
is absolutely nothing of the kind, Mr..
John r. Dooly of this city was presi-
dent of The school board that year, and
he made the report Of the president of
the board as such. At that time the
present editor of The Tribune was
not n member of the board at all, his
term having expired six months before.
Nor was this matter in Mr.. Dooly's re-
port. 1t was, in fact, a portion of the
tendent of the city schools. Here. then,
is an extract from a report which was
heralded as 4 report made by the editor
of The Tribune as president of the
school board, who was not president of
the school board at that time, nor a
member Of the board. And the quota.
tion was not from tho report of any
president of the board, but from the re
port of the superintendent Of schools.
Aud the editor of The Tribune never
the board, or otherwise. at any
time We think that ought to do.
The complete exposure of that false.
hood ought 10 be sufficient. 1t is not
true, either, that The Tribune the other
day made any complaint about the
teachers of the present leaving the
schools and going TO other States where
they could receive decent pay. The
ouly thing that could possibly give
color TO that was our reference 10 the
complaint of the Board of Education
that its teachers were being mrcd away
by better pay and better prospects. We
have made no allegation lntimation, or
suggestion. Of this on our own account
but merely took what tho board itself
stated in regard go that matter since the
opening of the schools the present fall,
and showed that the reason for the dc.
fection Of the teachers was because
Of their unjust treatment of the teach
ers. The willful lying of the Smoot
Mouth in all this is only matched
by the case with which all Of its lies
are rcfuted.
In tho matter Of tho cold Crouch
which the Mouth seems TO consider
so choice a morscl, We will explain that
tho use Of that was not in connection
with the schools, but arose long after
this writer 5 connection with the
schools had ceased 1t was applied
angrily by a former reporter on The
Tribune who afterward started a paper
here. because of remembrance Of re
peated criticism of his work while he
was with The Tribune. IL was merely
n personal vipdictiveuess, and had no
relation TO any public matter at all.
The Descret News, in lis report last
night of the Second ward American
school meeting, said.
William Nelson OF The Tribune pre-
sided at the Second ward convention. al
though he was not able TO fuinll cher
.5hed hope that lic would again be nom,-
mated for a position on the school board.
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