Show WANT SCHOOLS UNIFIED I County Superintendent to Advocate New Law HOW GOOD TEACHERS PASS Plan Is to Do Away With District Trustees and Have Board of Education Edu-cation in Each County Discussion of Another Plan to Have Teachers Examined by Stato Examining Board Revealed That Superintendents Superintend-ents Used Wide Latitude of Discretion Discre-tion in Their Markings The county superintendents of schools in Utah will go into the lawmaking law-making business next winter with a determination that will be hard to resist re-sist Their main object Is I to secure the unification of the schools In the i various counties This means that they will do away with the present district trustees and have a board of education In each county to look ufter the affairs of all the schools In the county At a meeting yesterday that consumed con-sumed the entire afternoon the superintendents super-intendents organized themselves Into a committee to work upon the members of the Legislature to be elected this fall to convert them to their way of thinking on this Important subject But they did not rest there They appointed ap-pointed State Superintendent A C Nelson B YV Ashton of Salt Lake E M Whltcsldcs of Davis J L Brawn < of Utah and Walter Boydon of Summit as a special committee to look after the matter of legislation ndxt Inter The Idea Is that the superintendents of the different counties are to work on the legislators until they get to Salt Lake Then the special committee Is to take l them in churge draft a bill for them and see that It Is enacted Into law This matter was thoroughly discussed at the meeting yesterday There were present E M 1 Whltesldes of Duls Seth Allen of Emery A Mol neux of Grand George TV Decker of Iron Oliver Christensen of Juab Mrs Marinda Huh llday of Kane Joseph Flnlinson of Mll laid B W Ashton of Salt Lake A L Larson of Sanpete Jacob Magleby of Sevler Walter Boyden oC Summit Alonzo Stookey of Tooelc J L Brown of Utah Atlewall Woolen of Wagjitch J T Woodbury of Washington J A Roblson of Wuync and W B Wilson of Weber TO SAVE TAXES The light for the unification of the counties uns led by B W Ashton of Salt Lake He argued that to dispense with the present district trustees and place the school system of the entire county under the supervision of a board of education would save 20 per cent of the State school tax It would dispense with much of the confusion that now exists and It would add greatly to the efficiency of the schools This seemed to express the sentiment of all present but there was a difference as to how the superintendents should go about It to secure this end Il wfia argued that many of the trustees would oppose the reform because they desired to hold their Jobs others would oppose It for poll teal reasqns Finally big bluff Oliver Christensen got to his feet and said the only point to decide was Is the unit system right He said he was satisfied that It was and that he purposed to work for It whether anybody liked It or not His resolution passed without a dissenting dis-senting vote and the committees named above were appointed In this same connection It was urged that the State constitution should be amended so that the taxing limit for schood purposes pur-poses 1 could be raised and It was mutually mu-tually agreed that the committees would work to this end also GOOD TEACHERS ALWAYS PASS There was another subject that gave rise to much hotter debate and one that uas not settled so smoothly It came up nt the meeting of the day before be-fore and was carried over The proposition prop-osition was to take the power of pass InS on the examination papers of can didates for teachers certificates away from the county school superintendents and place It In the hands of a hoard of education created for that purpose this board to act lot tIme entire State It was clearly established that there Is now no uniformity In the marking of I examination papers The questions are the same In all nssthey nra furnished fur-nished by the State Board of Examines Examin-es but some of the superintendents mark ho much more closely than others oth-ers than an applicant might pans a good examination In one county and fall miserably In another In the discussion of this subject seine decidedly Interesting disclosures vcre made as to how examInations arc hold and how papers arc marked One of the leading supcrlntondcnts fald that in his county no good teacher aver failed In getting a certificate The meaning of the word good an used here could not be explained without a Hfeslzid diagram of the wink that went with It What this really meant wns that no good teacher ever failed to I get a certificate to teach whether ho I or she could answer thc examination questions or not Arguing along thc same line he wild there were boys and girls Just out of school who could answer an-swer all the questions and they Invariably Invar-iably failed to got certificates because tjfioy know nothing whatever about teaching teachingNO NO BOARD OF APPEAL Just hero Is where the knife Is on the nerve There are applicants all over the State who have been turned down and they are making Rome howl with the charge that they have boon discriminated I criminated against It was to quiet their clamor that the proposition for a Slate board to pass upon the papers wns put forth It HIS voted down Then lime the proportion for a board of appeal By this was meant a board to whom these unsuccessful candidates might appeal when they are turned down In the counties The matter was batted about all the afternoon and finally laid on the table leaving the examining ex-amining system Just as It Is at present The resolution of which The Tribune spoke yesterday morning In regard to the appeal to bo made by 1 the superintendents superin-tendents to the Supreme court of the State on the textbook proposition was tabled They were submitted by Superintendents Su-perintendents Ashton and Brown and were discussed at length The object was to push forward thc textbook case as rapidly as possible tQ remove the uncertainly that now exists Somn of the superintendents did not concur In the movement and the whole matter was finally laid upon the table END OF CONVENTION D H Christensen President of Association Asso-ciation for Next Year After the most largely attended and successful sessions over held by the Utah Slate Teachers association tho ninth annual convention of the association associ-ation yesterday adjourned for one year The principal matter disposed of was the election of officers which took place In the morning and the following chosen for the various offices for the ensuing year D H Christensen Salt Lake City president W S Rawllngs Provo first vice Hresldent A M Merrill Logan second vice president Miss Etta Powers6alt Lake City secretary Miss Ida Coon1bfl I Payson assistant secretary B W Ashton Salt Lake City treasurer treas-urer J H Paul Salt Lake City A N Brown Provo and Miss Maud May Babcock directors After the election M officers the report re-port of the committee on resolutions Including Dr KIngsbury J L Brown and J H Paul was read In which the hearty thanks of the association were extended to the city and county school boards and the teachers of Salt Laic City and county for their efforts 1 In making the convention the success that It was to the authorities of the Mormon Mor-mon church for the use of the Tabernacle Taber-nacle and Assembly hall to the Latter I Day Saints university and the Unlvcr alty of Utah for the use of their bulld Ins to the Deonlc of the city for the hospitality extended the visiting teachers teach-ers to Prof Search and Dr Hushes for their able lectures and to the musicians mu-sicians of the city who furnished the music The report also endorsed the change of time of meeting of the association as-sociation approved the method of conducting con-ducting the work and expressed the thank of the association to the retiring retir-ing officers FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION After the adoption of the report of the committee President Kerr oC the Agrlcultura collejrc reported his labors la-bors as the representative of the Stute at the last annual meeting of the National Na-tional Educational association and urged the adoption of a resolution look Ing to tho securing of the 1001 mooting of the conventIon In this city A resolution res-olution was adopted as suggested with the proviso thai falling to secure the convention of 1901 an effort bo made to secure the convention of l05 Amendments Id the constitution of the association providing for the establishment es-tablishment of departments of music elocution and physical training were adopted at the business meeting In retiring from the chair Prof William Wil-liam M Stewart thanked the teachers for the very hearty cooperation given him during the past year After the discussion matters pertaining to the welfare of thc ass c1atlon the meeting adjourned Preceding the business session of yesterday morning Dr James L Hughes gave the closing lecture before the convention His subject was of more than ordinary Interest to the members of the association for It dealt with tho Ideal Teacher Ho presented present-ed his Ideas and arguments In a clear and logical way The Ideal teacher In the estimation of Dr Hushes must possess the following qualifications ATHLETIC TEACHERS WANTED Physically the teacher should be strong healthy vigorous graceful and free Women as well as men should be fond of sports and should run Jump row swim and play basketball Socially the teacher should bo on a high plane and by this ho said he did not mean what Is commonly regarded as society lie praised the social atmosphere at-mosphere of the schools of this region and said that a social bond Is formed among sChool chIldren that holds them together for all tlmo Intellectually said Dr Hughes the teacher should be alert selfactive > original and broad the latter being a most valuabje trait of character lIe argued that conventionality should be cast aside and windows ot the soul opened to now thQught and new revelations reve-lations I Morally the teacher must be Just jolly and sympathetic with the children chil-dren They should also bo reverent have faith In the rleht and the triumph tri-umph of the right faith In self to help bring about the right faith In the child as tho greatest agency for advancing civilization faith In the teachers profession and finally faith In God for more abundant light |