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Show OFFICE OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT HACK INTO POLITICS Prof. Karl Hopkins wns called Into Salt Lake City Wednesday to meet with tho educational commlttco having hav-ing In chnrgo tho matter of taking thu office of stato superintendent of public Instruction out of politics. Professor Hopkins was chairman of a big committee of leading educators who had designed making the state superintendent's selection a nou-pur-tlsan affair. Three men, however, assumed as-sumed nil tho power of making the choice and by tuclr arbitrary actions placed tho olllco more in politics than It has ever been boforo with the lead-lug lead-lug educators largely arrayed against thu "non-partisan" selection made. The statement of tho committee officials offi-cials was published In tho Thursday papers. A. C. Mathlson, tho present incumbent, will probably be Dr. Cowan's Cow-an's opponent. |