The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-01-02


our desires are far from doing them
! injustice. In fact we take the state
ment made by the superintendent as
| to how the appropriations are made
as fact. The methods Whereby they
arrive at their conclusions are per.
| haps more potential in the case at
issue than the mere fact of decision
| itself. Now we all know that the
members who make up the General
| Board of Education are busy men,
engaged in the daily affairs of life,
preaching the Gospel, and looking af'
ter many matters of public nature, all
save the superintendent himself who
is likewise busy man. but who Ia
supposed TO devote all his time to the
work of the schools. II is he who tab
ulates the estimates, studies the
needs, and makes the recommends.
tons for the general board to pass
upon.
We believe the General Board to
| be all that the superintendent claims
| for them, in fact we know they want
to be fair and do the right thing. We
| likewise believe the General Board
has implicit confidence in the super.
intendent, and when he submits Te.
concentrations we cannot help but
| believe that the board gladly APP
proves them. At least when there are
changes we believe 1t is applied to all
| alike so that the result Is the same.
| A change wherein one school is af
| fected against another we believe to
| he the rare exception. Inded II the
superintendent does not hold this
! position in respect to the general
board We think it high time he was
passing to private life.
by this time il Will be seen that we
are going to let our former editorial
| stand for what IL is worth, and IL
! the results are such that the Brigham
Young College has been hampered
during the present school year on
account of not getting fair per cap
| tia appropriation we propose to hold
the superintendent primarily respons'
! ible. While he does not cast the votes
he makes the recommendation he Isl
on the job, and is supposed TO know,
and Is the general upon whose should
eTs the board has placed the respons-,
ibility. In other words we do not pro.
pose that the superintendent shall
shift the responsibility and hide he.
hind the General Board.
W 'ill admit that we may be SEN
sitive in this matter, and in fact our
people may be sensitive, all due To
conditions incident to the many chan.
ges in our educational institutions.
l We win also admit, there Is no use
i tying to get away from Il, hat in
our opinion the superintendent his
not shown by acts performed that he
his the interests of the b. Y. Coh eeeI
as much at heart as he has so'da of
the other institutions over while he
presides. This feeling we are conv'n.
,,d is extant In our midst, AMI hasI
b.. fITd It's way into the scaupi itself.
I ~ this particular we shou'd be glad
It We do him injustice, but 'se fear itI
is TOO true This Instance, the matter
of per capita cost for the present
school year, is only one incident that
has prompted us in our conclusions.
Now we cannot conceive why there
should be so much difference as the
| figures reveal, and the superinten,
cents explanation does not satisfy US |
/ He says The article in the DeseTot |
/ News from which you got the figures |
used was designed only to give the
/ general reader a general idea OF the
| number of schools,
tud the cost Of maintaining then ~
We are not mistaken there are thous'
Gnds of patrons of the b. Y. COLLEGE
and readers of the Deseret News who
should like TO be classed as Special
Readers in this particular, and should
like some specific ideas on the cues
IIi-a again these general r71ders'
are wondering II some "specHc
ldr5s" would change the figures, and
II he figures do not mean VIVA, 'hov
say why use them at all even in r.
general way?
Note that the superintendent says
your school IS classed With the -four
drawing the high per capita appro
priation from the General Board,'
Even tseu according 10 the figures
we are far below the other three al
so Murdoch, Snow and Kicks But
the superintendent draws % fine dis
tinctiou here Fl win be noted, Tie in
] tim0tce that Wa do NOT charge pe