The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-06-21

/ OF the board; they necessarily felt
their way cautiously but courageous
ly Decisions were made without re-
gard to rewarding friends Furnishing
enemies, or to any sort of political OF
party reaction as such. 1t was a BIZ
partisan board. its executive entire
ly removed from the influence or
having any knowledge of pre- existing
partisanships that VIGOROUSLY had
honeycombed the school policies of
the state.
They Got" Sisson.
As more enlightened policies began
to- take shape; as economics and con-
solidatiOn and progressive develop
ments were planned and executed.
those old interests and conditions.
considered as vested rights. were of
course disturbed, and for the first
time in the history of our state, these
interests. political in their nature. OBJ
served a definite administrative CEN
ire where the white light of public at
tention could concentrate it's heat In
the language of the street. they dis
covered a goat and with i'll considered
zeal. proceeded to wish on him-the
single outstanding executive figure,
the chief officer of the new board. the
embodiment of the Idaho System
all their past and present sins of omis-
sion and commission, preparatory to
driving him into the wilderness. They
got" SissOn. He was banished. The
system itself escaped for the time.
The fierce heat of resentment and
condemnation formerly expanding it
self against a scattered objective in
which it was being perceived that the
ObjectOr himself was the victim: that
ne was paying for his own mistakes
now became focused on the single
outstanding shining mark-the COM
missioner of education. need not
dwell further except to say that the
impelling destructive activity now
aroused, when challenged by the peo-
pie, was alleged to be personal: a
new executive of superior attainments,
if he could be found, would be the SOL /
vent for alleged developed ills. where
by the system might really be estab- |
lished in the confidence and affections |
Of the people. The board yielded in !
made easy by the resigna-
ton of its officer. and our present |
great commissioner, Dry f. A. Bryan
was enticed from our neighboring |
state of Washington. where in mature
and ripening years he had concluded |
a continuous service as president at
Pullman college-twenty-t three years
rs a builder and educator
Tribute to Dr.. Bryan.
Six years, plus, the state of Idaho
mas received the seasoned expert SER
vice of this great scholar and uncom-
non executive. No one could have
spent himself with less limit of self
ess devotion to the cause he loved.
I pay this tribute to the man be-
,ause it is otherwise impossible to re-
ute for your information any part of
he outstanding accomplishments of
he idaho" system whose every detail
,arries some mark of his genius, as he
orged to a cutting edge the progress
We policies planned or authorized by
he board Under his administration,
and continuously sup
ported by a changing personnel in the
,oard occasioned by term expirations
nd designations, efficiency with econ
my has led every advanced step TAX
n, and advancing standards thus set
n motion are in evidence from the
school up through the univer
ity which not unlike all notable
are finally accepted by
he busy world as commonplace fac
ors arising in the orderly work of the
ay.
Exactly as a great railroad or in
ustrial executive. after counselling
With his directors, disposes his ad-
department heads as
igns, recasts and develops policies in
tep with current progress of the
our, so the commissioner of educa-
ion, under the guidance of the board,
ounsels, directs and decides, as the
nal arbiter, the multitudinous ques-
ions arising out of a complex organ
sation involved in the exclusive ad-
of our six secondary ed
cational institutions, containing more
han 5000 students and more than 500
aculty Over 200 high schools with
heir 10000 students, classified in COM
ION, rural and independent high be-
lg also legatees of the development
f the notable improvement in their
tandards and curriculae, as well as
larked improvements in standards of
for teaching in the public
chools, as these are initiated and ma
lred under the sympathetic coopera-
on of the state board of education; I
! addition to all this, giving when T
allied upon the matured counsel and \
dvice frequently required by our able
lperintendent of public instruction, !
member ex-officio of the state board, 7
! her administration of the tremend- I
us responsibility involved in the de- ,