Show j i f FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS I Do not forget about the school conventions tomor tomor- i j. j row Every one shot should d bo ho deeply interested The school board should have a majority of Gentiles The Saints showed their indifference to the public 1 schools They had academies for the c first first families families fam I illes and judging by their acts they did not care a l copper for the rest They had not a decent sanitary j I s schoolhouse in this city or county the they would not L j give a competent teacher a place UI unless such a at t teacher was a member m of the dominant church not r f 1 one in five of their teachers were competent and a alot t l lot t of the stuff taught had no more place in a public school than Gulliver's Travels would havo have in a Sunday school Every Gentile parent should be directly di die interested in this matter The specious plea 0 of the News that the schools should be partisan non-partisan should hould not count for a n minute for the object of the 7 News is to make the schools subject to the dominant domi domi- 1 1 nant church to bring them and hold them under its i I t mildewed wed grasp And d this is not fair to either r Gen Gen- I I I tiles or 01 Mormons for it is a n perversion of the fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental principles on which the tho public school system rests and moreover moreo-er it is taking the control from the hands of those who pay payout out most for the support of the schools The work of extricating the schools from the unnatural clutches that are upon them should begin tomorrow |