Show THE UNIVERSITY for an early termination of H HOPES the University of Utah controversy contro contro- ve versy veny appear t to be contingent upon n the alumni committee of twenty five Originally selected as a committee for agitation its membership is rumored as Its eager cager to constitute it a committee for mediation In this circumstance I ma may be found tho the desired happy happ solution SOlli tion of the university problem N No o more useful service ice could be rendered the university ni and mid the state itself than the closing of this silly squabble Opinions as to the gravity of tho situation on will differ but the malcontents in the the- faculty have given their supporters supporters' little iitti reason to s suppose suppose sup sup- l- l pose them actuated by anything that e excuses cu es th tho 9 am began pegan D D. D tails tails as to Tio ost n nand and repression ha have have- been curiously lacking from the b beginning rh The withdrawing instructors have havo steadily refused jo to become more noro than vague although friends and antagonists aliko alike have havo beseeched them to present something sufficiently tilly definite and amI serious to warrant their actions An entire community and state has S been set by tho the ears to correct evils vils nobody describes to inaugurate reforms re re- re forms farms nobody suggests and to replace with justice injustices nobody will de de- de- de fine T The e only spokesman n for the agitators who seemed to have a clear idea of what was wanted demanded a boon the university charter forbids President Kingsbury and the regents have hac been unable unab e to make categorical cal explanation of categorical categorical- accusations accusations accusations because the latter havo have not been m made de except in a single instance that amazed the p public by its ab ab- ab- ab Public opinion will indorse whatever whatever what what- the committee of ever eyer twenty five may do to mediate if it be within i 1 r reason The Thc compromise however t must necessarily l bo 10 without surrender I o of principle The fundamental es esS essential essential essential es- es S that the board of regents through the president shall control I J university policies and md methods is so well grounded in in law and in public demand it cannot be waived In all frankness it cannot be waived if the tho thoI I institution is to exist There must be he order system and authority and anti the theS S control of all these must be with the agents of the taxpayers who I maintain the university After all the turmoil and turbulence turbulence I lence nce the university controversy contro has trav traveled lcd in a a. cir circle le lc to its point of origin It has accomplished nothing that anybody can discern because it began with an impossible o objective Pr Progress to its goal goal the the teaching and inculcation of partisan political and sectarian religious doctrines at the Uni university university-is c it-is it is blocked by state law lawand lawand lawand and by the common sense of the people people peo peo- pie of the s state tate Bound up with it itis itis itis is the associate desire lesire that thc thc control con con- of the thc university shall be he delivered ered int into the hands of the thc faculty members who shall attend atten to ever every ever thing except the sordid hut but ut necessary nece- nece sary task of p paying ng the bills Since nothing can be accomplished inasmuch there there- i is as aR nothing to accomplish accomplish ac cc- the me mediation plan should bo be furthered at all nIl possible speed Already incalculable harm has been done clone to loathe the city an anti and the state slate Utah again figures in S disagreeable way wayon on oil the front pages ageS of the tho great reat news news- papers As a sample ample of the distasteful distaste distaste- ful fiti publicity Utah has been in lug the I through university quarrel is H cited the the following which appeared on n nth the first firt ft p g the San Fr Fran Fran- n- n dSt l last Saturday last st Saturday t morn morn- rl Ping i g under d df f the tho 5 caption ig I Utah Utah h p Unable ab e S T T v w 22 j t 1 S Chain Uni Uni University t Pill Vacant College Appeals peals to States State's Congressional Delegation to Help Get GetTen S Ten Teachers hers c l Dispatch to The Th The Examiner rt SALT LAKE rAKE CITY Utah April 9 Utah Utah representatives at Washington Washington Wash Wash- In ington ton have havo been App appealed led to for aid In filling tho the vacancies at ot the University of ot Utah c caused b by tho the dismissal 1 of four professors b by Pr President J. J T. T Kingsbury and the tho resignation of or seventeen Sc others In prot protest sl to tho presidents president's action This Till action was vas found necessary despite the fact that th tho the regents of of the university In an n open letter assured tho the people of ot Utah that t It would bo be easy to till fill tho the vacancies The search for tor successors has become so 80 difficult that the ad administration administration ad- ad ministration Is looking looking- to Europe for Cor men Letters LoUers received In Salt lIt Lake L. to today today today to- to day by some somo of ot the tho resigned professors pro- pro state that President Kingsbury Kings Kings- bur bury has hos appealed to eastern uni- uni for tor men The presidents of ot Michigan and Chicago university sit sity have refused to send teachers to Utah In face taco of ot tho situation which thoy they consider grave accordInG accordIng according accord accord- ing to the tho letters Prof ProC A A. 4 O. O Lo of ot Johns John Hopkins university who was sent to Utah b by the tho American Association Association Association tion of College Professors to In InvestIgate Investigate In- In tho the local trouble loft len to toda today today to- to da day for tor tho the cast east lie He refused to tomake tomake tomake make known what his report would be but intimated that It would not favor the tho administration The story above first appeared in ina inn a n Salt Lake afternoon newspaper substantially as it is herewith printed It was of course courso not true and was i quickly denied by everybody connected connected con con- ne with it President Kingsbury has repeatedly announced th that t he has scores of applications on file yet the word vord goes 3 forth to the world that I Ithe the University Uni of Utah is in such ill repute that it must send sd to Europe where it is unknown to recruit its fa faculty cult The Tho facts in the tho case are arc that one of the withdrawing professors sors recommended as his successor a personal friend a n German interned in England From this slender troth was woven wo a tissue of falsehoods that has been scattered broadcast throughout through through- hout h- h out tho the country to the detriment of the state There can of course be no criticism cism of the San Francisco newspaper which printed the above abo untruth It received the stOl story from the Salt Lake journal that printed it it and was jus ins justified justified in jn assuming it to be true When hen the local newspapers foul the city and the state to which they the owe their existence the press beyond state lines cannot be censured Outside newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers have ha no rio interest in Utah and the more Thore unflattering tho reports the they receive e the more likely they arc are to display them theta conspicuously |