Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-30
BEFORN SCHOOL
REPORT IS FILED |.
governor spry Now HasFuII Text I.
of Recommendations in
Thomas Case.
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HIS USEFULNESS is ENDED E. Fl!
HIS USEFULNESS is ENDED.
investigators Say Selections Of Officials
should be Made With Extreme
Care to Get Right Men.

-1f1 a. ~ 4. +. s. IL
r. the report of the special commit
zoe appointed by Gov. William spry to
Investigate the charges made against
n II. Thomas, superintendent Of the
state industrial school. is adopted, he
Will be removed. While the report,
which was made public yesterday aft
ernoon at meeting of the board of
trustees. does not condemn him, his
administration is criticised. The pun
,shment he nleted out to some of the
inmates was extreme, but with no
criminal intent. The report recon-
mends that the superintendent Of the
SCHOOL should be a trained and qualified
educator. ~
In the report better salaries are rec
commended for the superintendent and
his assistant. and that separate cot
tases be erected for each one. The Sc
lection of employees, THE report says,
should be done with the utmost care.
The segregation of the school into a
boys and a girls department is heart
lily recommended. A central dining
room and kitchen are also badly need
d ed, the report says. st
In regard to the charges of incom-.
potency, the committee says that the
minutes show that there We're numer-
o,ls resolutions passed by the board
OF trustees which We're never carried
out. If this had been done, the report
says that the investigation would have.
been unnecessary. Mr.. Thomas has
been honest and conscientious in the
discharge of his duties. tho report says,
but intimntes that this investigation
has put am end to his usefulness in the!
school. The report was signed by the
committee consisting of Rabbi Charles
4 ], Freund. a.. c. Nelson, state sllperin-'
tendent of public schools; N. j. Harris,
district attorney OF Weber county, and
DIR. z. g. Gowans, Judge of the Salt
Lake Juvenile court. 81 3
After the report was read in the
meeting Yesterday afternoon it was
laid over until the next meeting which
will probably be held Monday. Gov
Spry would make no statement in re-
gard to the report, saying. that3it would
BeSdiscussed first by the board of trus-
tees.
THE TDXT OF REPORT.
The report in full lis as follows:
Hon. William Spry, Governor, OF the
State of UTAH:
Sir--We, your committee appointed
by your excellency3s to assist the board
of trustees in Investigating the general
conduct Of the state Industrial school,,
and especially to investigate certain
charges filed with you, and preferred
against Supt. II. H. Thomas by citi-
zens' committee of, Ogden, beg leave
to submit the following: 81
after giving careful consideration to
the evidence presented in the case, We
10 not feel it necessary to submit all
extended report, nor to elaborate upon
the different phases Of the testimony
Through our deliberations, which have
been quite extended, We are agreed
that the following will be sufficient to
meet the requirements indicated In the
official notice Of oul. appointment by
You to perform the work assigned us.
1n@making this report the members of
the board of trustees have taken no
part. as they expressed a. desire to
leave this work with the other mem
bers of your committee.
With this report we also submit a,
transcript or the evidence given in full.
The investigation was conducted ac-
cordlng to your instructions, at the
state industrial school, and covered a,
period of two weeks, beginning June
II. 1909, and terminating June 20, 1909.
on which date arguments and briefs
were submitted by counsel for both
sides. The citizens committee, pre-
ferring the charges against Supt. H. H.
Thomas, We're represented by Attys. v.
Gideon and A.W Agee, and Supt. Il.