Show THE BOARD OF EDUCATION The Board of Education has met and effected an organization on partisan parti-san lines It would have been a gracious graci-ous and proper thing for President Dooly to have given one or two chairmanships chair-manships fo those who were not of his own political faith following in this respect the example of his predecessor Colonel Nelson If the organization of the Board on political lines was for the purpose of more or less donating the schools with politics then it was a pernicious thing and its effect on the schools will be bad in the extreme and tend to deteriorate them If on the other hand it was merely a matter of Board organization and it is not intended in-tended to extend any further then it becomes a matter of little Importance But in any event it Is the duty of the people of the city to jealously watch the management of their school system to see that it is kept up to Its present high standard and that nothing is allowed al-lowed to lower it Nothing could be worse for the schools than the introduction Intro-duction into them of politics and the politics of one party would be as bad as those of another Salt Lake City is justly proud of her system of public schools They rank along with the best in the country They have cost the people a great deal of money but they have not begrudged be-grudged it for it has all been well spent and the results are patent to all in fine school buildings and bettor teaching of the pupils Ever since the inauguration of the present school system sys-tem the School Boards elected at different times have had but one object ob-ject in view that object has been the best interests of the schools and their pupils Their administration of the taxes levied > for the schools has been honest and generally very economical This fact has caused the people to cheerfully bear what has been somewhat some-what of a burden to them In the way of school taxes If there shall be a radical departure from the methods of the former School Boards by the present pres-ent one in the way of introducing politics poli-tics into school matters the people will refuse to longer bear these burdens bur-dens We trust that the fear expressed ex-pressed in some quarters that the Board intends to introduce politics into the schools Is entirely without foundation founda-tion |