The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-10
The Herald-RepubIiCan Scores
Another Tremendous "SCOop"

The Herald Republican scored anoth-
er big victory over The Tribune Thurs
day morning, The Herald Republican
is the very deuce TO get scoops, don 7
" know? This time the Herald he
publican has the real Peruvian dough,
nut with n hole in 1t IN the way OF
scoops. Every other paper in town
Republican il token of surrender.
The HerAd Republican Thursday
morning printed story on It's first
page that was a regular gee-whlzZer'
1t told the people who mistake the Her
aid Republican for a newspaper that
one-fourth the school population OF san
Lake is in q state of truancy, IS Vlo-
lating the state law relating TO com
pulsory education, and is going TO the
dogs individually and collectively. The
Herald Republican discovered that
1000 of Salt Lake s school children are
not school children at all. but. youth,
full vagrants and vagabonds. beloved
or otherwise. The Herald Republican
sets all this out in Diamond Dick style,
with paragraphs that are calculated 70
hit the nail on the head every whack
and drive it clean home.
-Four thousand children IN Salt
Lake do not attend school! shouts
on TO tell why they don't, and who
said they didn't and how the play
camc up. All this is embellishcd with
n rcd headline, whose scarlet brilliancy
would send any adult toro into a
frenzy, In order that the people might
read the startling information, for
themselves and become thoroughly con-
vinced that the juvenile population of
this town is going to the demnitlon
bow vows without brakes, The Tribune
reproduces the Herald Republican ar
ticle:
Four thousand children in Salt Lake
do not attend school
They are believed TO be working In the
stores and shops OF the city and arc
thereby violating the compulsory educa-
tion laws OF the state.
There are 2l,000 children amenable TO
the compulsory education laws in this
city and the school records show that but
1000 are attending the public schools.
These were the startling ngures
brought before the principals of all the
public schools al meeting at the city
and county building yesterday afternoon
and led TO an agreement between the
principals and Superintendent ID, II
Christensen TO work for child labor laws
in the state OF Utah.
Mrs Adolph Simon appeared before
the meeting. and made a plea Tor tne
children OF Salt Lake: declaring that boys
and girls Of tender years were pelng
forced into the stores and shops. Mrs
Simon pointed out the evils OF child labor
and showed how 1t was having Its effect
In Salt Lake and the rest of Utah.
Mrs. Simon took statistics gathered by
the Salt Lake school authorities TO show
the number OF children OF school age who
are not attending school and have not
complied with the excuses provided IN
the compulsory school attendance law OF
Utah She said there were $1,000 children
OF school age in Salt Lake-the age rang
ing from s TO is years-out OF this NUM-
Der only 1900 were attending public
private and other schools In the city.
This leaves 1000 not accounted Tor, and
lxsay rn1 hn
are at work In stores and other institu-
tons of the city. She said there was a
crying need for child labor laws In Utah
and that the women OF the city ana state
should get together at the next meeting
of the state legislative body and insist
that such laws be placed upon the statute
books. Among other things advocated py
Mrs. Simon were new high school, To
make the west side high school Tor
manual training, and thus provide an
added reason why there, should be no
child labor a detention home for girls,
public Fairgrounds Tor children and more
parks about the city,
Superintendent D, II Christensen made
a short talk. He said the city school
authorities were having trouble enforcing
the compulsory attendance law, partly
through the practice or some physicians
I'm signing certificates showing that the
health OF the child not attending school
Is sufficient 10 afford an excuse. Super
intendent Christensen said that In num-
erous cases 1t had been found that the
children were perfectly wen anu ipie W
attend school but that they had been
kent out by these excuses.
Superintendent Christensen agreed with
Mrs. Simon that there should he child
Ia bor laws on the statute books OF Utah,
and said he hoped many people would
20 before the next Legislature for the pur-
pose OF having such laws drawn and
passed. He said the first step for the
tenefit of the child had been taken when
The Legislature passed the Juvenile court
laws and the compulsory school attend
ance law. but that these were Insult
fcInnt in many instances.
Though no paper was signed. the prn-
"nals went on record in favor OF child
labor law. and will make Il fight for
laws similar tn other states when the
next Utah legislature gets in session,
After reading that, perhaps few