| Show Hansen Flays State Stag Educational A utoca r UTAH SCHOOL BOARD RING RIND BALKED AS PET tT LAW MEETS D DEFEAT T i Representative Scores Three I 1 R Aristocrats Aristocrats' for Asking ing handed High Privileges With Children Peoples People's e e r liERE is growing up in Utah an n educational aristocracy and it appears I v J. J to be treason to say aught against any measure that this aristocracy and members of or the House it must be sat upon proposes but bul Mr Ir Speaker This This was the tho declaration mado by R Representative in m the yesterday morning when he be spoke in opposition to the tho House bill which was later defeated extending the term of office of the thc members of or the boards of education one year if indeed it might not have been construed by expert lawyers to mean menn ten years The source must bo he removed continued ed Mr rr Ir Hanson Under the provisions of this bill it would he be almost impossible to remove a n member of ut a board of education There will be no opportunity no chance for a n. voter to effect a change in any district It will perpetuate an autocracy so that in tn no DO district can there be any change in school officers I There Is a n. ring rint formed ormed on every move In school matters and It removes remove farther arther and farther away awny every en matter matter matter mat mat- ter that pertains to the tho public schools The school boards say to you ho declared furnish us ug the money and children and we will do tho the rest The electors are arc kept farther away from tating ro-tating the school boards all tho the time The rhe ro rotating ro- ro tating of or officers every years ears isa Isa Is Isu a u dangerous proposition Then followed a a. long debate In w which the matters pertaining to gumshoeIng gumshoe Ing lug upon the part of ot members of or t the e various school boards were aired 1 Representative e R. R E E. Currie of or Salt Lake Lako was vas vehement In his opposition to the tho extending of the terms of or the tho members of or the tho boards of education In In Salt Lake county count stated the Salt lake count county representative there thero Is Isa isa a a. tremendous amount of ot gumshoeing This Increase In the term of ot office of or members of ot tho the school boards or boards of education docs does not come from the I people but it docs does come from men who I hope to perpetuate themselves in oCi of- of i Tho The law as it now is s not to be bo changed bad as It Is When asked by Representative Cardon Cardon Car Car- don to name the men who thus would i remain in In inoff office ice indefinitely Mr r. r Curria Cur- Cur rio ria declined s saying that this was a leading Heading question Constitutional Majority Ila Lacking There were others who took the tho i came view Mr Ir Currie advocated and same the debate grew warm warm The Tho In tho bill tU to designate ono one polling place in a district for tor the choosing bf be school officials brou brought ht ou out t the fact fart I I that in one district in Uintah county count it it was sixty miles long and almost as wide therefore there were somo some voters In the count county who could not reach the polling place in time timo to record their vote rotc on the day of oC election should they desire Several amendments were of- of j and adopted and when the roll was iwas called on tho the passage of or tho the billI bill btU I lit it was lost Jost a a. constitutional majority having having- failed to vote The vote was 20 I vot ayes aye 17 nays nas 10 absent and not Dot vot- vot As ono one member pointed out oat that In inthe 1 tho the Jobb lobby of or the house sat at a n. member of or tho the state board of education who apparently was keeping tab on legislators legislators legis legis- s opposing the measure and that when the appropriation bill bm came beV before be be- V fore toro the House that this school official I cial iclal might not only find himself out any appropriation to continue continuo his department but ut ho he might find rind himself himself him him- self el without a n. Job I r have havo not agreed with Represent Representative t Hansen on many matters con- con this member but I 1 am getting llred of oC the espionage o put over o mo me by hc he tic men who arc are in the office of ot the State superintendent of ot public instruction tion and who arc are supposed to bo be paid for Cor working in that office instead of of t sitting In the hall or of the and I keeping tab on us In this assembly Jt because we wo have hae the courage to cx- cx press our convictions on matters per per- I ex-I to the schools school of oC the state 4 |
