Show I I I I The Open Forum Forum A A. A bat lira It M pire can n b be s' s n letter letters 13 la lal Ih department writers rIler nI must most confine Dnn e ii I to GI O ar r SOO O words Uele-s Uele tb they y l JI ite ns us tl frill nh rumen name nod and nd ai lre ej J letters ii Ii not vc lie c No 0 u u ml manuscript rl t Will III bo return the tho writer ends end pot so for tor that par par- ar Tb TIe vIews I s MID r J ma may mar or in 7 COt col reflect the tho opinion of or The Tuc Herald ANTS TO KAOW E Editor Herald I nm am told City School Superintendent U. U O. O Smith t told ld I to seventh ee grade teachers Senators Lodge Borah and Smoot were pol and ond that It If the they tau taught ht hl history his lii- tor tory right In the schools the children would lau laugh h them at oft off tho stage e Is I fair pia play SUBSCRIBER SCORES S nil DIU SMITH Editor Editor H Herald Herald- Declaring Declaring- President Woodrow 1 Wilson the greatest character charac charac- ter In American history foremost statesman of the world and lauding his diplomatic blunders as acts of ot marvelous marvelous mar mar- achievements which mako him the greatest man of oC tho day Dr l Era Era- rn- rn c est t A. A Smith city superintendent ent of or public schools under pretext of oC an address on history subjected teachers teachers teach teach- ers at the Institute Tuc Tuesday da to lo a partisan par par- eulogy At thle time when hen It Il Is a question In tho the minds of a great mun many American citizens as to whether or not Mr Ir Wilson Wil Wil- 11 son has s attempted tf to sa sacrifice c Am Amer- Amer r- r I ua II zur lOr IL a dOUbtfUl ideal local Lr yr Smiths Smith's address lauding President Wilson v and hl his actions dl was as lag to many o of or the teachers teacher who were cr er compelled to listen to him If that Is the kind of oC history that I Is to be taught In the Salt Lake Lako public pub lic tic schools I dont don't want to teach it It i was tho the expression of ot more moro than on one who sat at through the tho termed so-termed address on his his- tory I Dr Smiths Smith's lecture was partisan and It was plain he desired to make It l Known to tho the teachers It W was wa their dut duty In teaching history in the public pub pub- lic lie schools to Impress on tho the pupils the greatness of or Mr W Wilson lson It is a question In m my mind whether or not oO Wilson lIson should be bo made an Ideal before the school children of oC the thc country at Country at least I see sec no reason for tor using him In place of or George WashIngton Wash Wash- ington Abraham Lincoln and other great men who have hac furnished the Ideals In our school da day histories at nt least IN until such time as he has pro en his theories I do not think it Is the j delli 4 taxpayers of oC Salt Lake to lo have teach teach- em ers erR and the city superintendent of or schools use uso their influence among the youngsters In the school houses housos to place Woodrow Wilson on a pedestal us ns the great shining light of Americas America's his history tor an and I believe It I Is time limo now that the war is o overt over r. r that the tho board hoard of ot education take some action to lo curb Dr Smith and this propaganda I am for Cor cleaner and better hetter education without taint of oC politics SCHOOL lI or n TEACHER ACHER I |