The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-06-07

betHeF Win tHe removal OF TWO mem
bers OF the university faculty who's
only fault seems to have been loyalt
to DR.. Brannon. has stirred the peopl
of the state and a demand Is made fo
an investigation under the belief tina
the educational system OF the state 1
being sacrificed for political advantag
by the governor and ibis board OF edu
cation The Miner has referred t.
this deplorable condition, as have nu
merous other papers throughout tn
state. The Boise Statesman Of Ma,
70 has this leading editorial
What's Going On.
The people of the United States ar,
In earnest this year. and they are nov
united people working for tn,
country and cooperating with thos,
who are charged with safeguarding II
regardless of politics. 1t would b.
wise for the politicians to take notice
and to forego for the present, the
pleasure of playing politics. Whoever
disregards this. from president down
will feel the lash Of public disapproval
There are rumors that someone IL
playing politics with our educational
institutions in Idaho, and If that is
true 1t is crime If 1t is not true the
truth should be proclaimed in simple
Justice to those whose names may be
besmirched with fales charges.
THE retiring president OF our state
university Is quoted with having said
In public address at weiser on We'd
nesday:
ing that events are TRANSFERRING to
work in Idaho politics. I saw. at the
state capitol last week resolution
which | do not dare to describe to
YOU
Evan Evans. chairman of the state
board of education, when asked by
telegraph concerning the reasons for
the dismissal of George d. Ayers, dean
Of the university law school, replied
by wire
ut is necessary that | taboo the
subject
Another member of the board WAL
ter 5. Bruce, resigns and refuses to
give to the people of the state any
reason for his action, beyond intimat-
"A pernicious force Is now at
which he will not be party
George Black, for many years head
of the state normal school at Lewis
ton, resigned last fall because he
louhu conditions intoerable. DR..
Melville A. Bannon has resigned from
the presidency of the state university. |
Dr. r.. @. Sisson, state commissioner
or education, has resigned because "of
the impossibillty of further harmon !,
ious and mutually profitable relations '
with the board" and "embarrassments
and distractions Astounding with re-
gard to my work as commissioner"
Dean Ayers has been dismissed with
out announced cause and as result /
of this high handed action, Git was
followed by Mr. Bruce's resignation
after he had protested), the state
will probably lose It's MEM
bership in the American association
OF law schools. Dean C. Fl. Shattuck
Of the college of letter has likewise
been summarily ousted.
Why? No one knows except men,
'ers OF the board and the state COM
missioner Miss Redfeld and Mr..
Sruce took stands in opposition to
VI OF these actions, but they will not
Xplain. DR.. Sisson declines to ex-
lain. The majority members of the
oard will say nothing, and the min
ties give no clue.
the Statesman Is barred from let
ing the people Of Idaho know what
going on because the board has a,
cen holding secret sessions. Last
ear the question of executive meet
'gs OF the school board came up and =
he members went on record as OPP :,
psed TO having any of them in the
'ture; yet only last week there were :.
'veral sessions to which reporters
'nld not gain access, and no mem q,
Ar OF the bord would afterward dis
ISIS what had transpired. =.
"All that the public is permitted TO
low Is that the two deans have been
that DR.. Sisson has resigned ~,
result of things done and things
aimed. and in that Mr.. Bruce who
lied against the majority, has also 49,
signed for similar reasons.
why this secrecy? If these men
no have been entrusted with the
re or our educational institutions
ow of anything that tends to injur
their usefulness IL is their duty to
Ike the facts public. Nc
If any one or any group is playing
litics with our schools they should c
exposed On the other hand. IL all ho,
changes being made are for the do,
81 interests of the institutions of the inc
ne, and are made with no political En-
'tives 1t is. then the duty of these az
n to so state.
Scandal is a cut worm. We want 1,,a
hos educational plant to make a
llthy growth" A.
abb
he Standpoint Review does not hes A
te to charge the governor and his Gel,
'rd of education with political pur- ed
les in handling the educational in h