| Show m IN I IN SCHOOLS A friend trl nd of lit th lima Yews Newa polls calla our ati at Rt attention i tendon to 10 unanimous decision of oC the supreme ourt c of oC s to he the that a II public Ih 00 I teacher who trio re te pat tho the Lords and add one of lit the minus A as a II morning exe IM In ached without making say any 1111 co or remarks li is not A form forni Con Conor of or worship and therefore not lIot violating tile the state lwi lava In rela 1111 tn a that matter Th The case rase ae IH Is thought to 10 b 11 be ot of f loins om Interest to I Utah tali fm fo the reason that our laws lawn referring to tn religion rell lolI In n schools are similar to toI I those thoM of 1 a The roB rann waa taken Into Inlo tho the district t court of cf county count when a Imy was nun from the for tor tile ells the flues lie The plaintiff asked ed edIt t ih It the court tn to romi l the board boan of ot edu edul du l to the IK Io J and Inti made tin III that ono ont of ot the teachers t ch dully violated the Ih l law w h h n r igloos W In n Kho etho i and that tit thi bey 11 Y Will was niKl ly Iy opposed to this and ant th n fore tore II In int t tt r tho the rule rull requiring pupils to preserve Order during that pi stet that lee It 11 was wan IM shown during the tho t tHal that none of oC the pupils Merc ere compelled to bo be pr only that If It they were pren pres prescot ont cot they the must pre preserve ervo order It wn was shown hown that the tho tit recital woe made nad for tor forthe the thi th e of or quieting the children down after their play outside oU anti and thus better belter prepare them then for tor their general On this gnawing a 1 decision tree Mart rendered In III favor of ot the tho board of education and tho the teacher The ease caso was Willi appealed and the supreme court unanimously n r mod the judgment of ot tho the lower court The rhe rh almost superstitious tent fear of ot tho the In tho I ho schools manifest In III title country ID is really strange There Is III tio nn Christian sect list hal t does not claim to hn founded on tho the III Ill ble tie Why then should iv n t Method Methodist let lut object to Ills his children hearing the read In school even oen It If the render reader Is a n Baptist t n a Jew or an nn Infidel II a K long lonu as its tho reader only rends mid does docs not attempt an nn exegesis Or why should a 1 object Or 01 a U Or Orn Ora n a Lutheran Can lIn any of ot these Imagine that his the children would l he morally In Injured Injured by hy hearing i to passage from the Scriptures tan can have no M valid objection for tor they thoy must mURt admit that as nR asa asa a n literary w worl tho Is III unsurpassed 1 In the tho loftiness of Its and acid tho mho beauty and strength of ot style Jow might object to their thell children hearing anything front from the Nr v Testament bit oven even they thy are f so o broad broadminded broadminded minded tint that many of it thorn them are studying the tho sayings of ot Jesus and JIh Ills life lito as no nothey they thoy are arc studying the anti ami history or oC He the most of lit their race It Is Impossible to why people should fear the tho rending of ot the tho In h tiny on suitable place Hut But perhaps decisions lute Ilka this wilt will IUd aid the tho public In seeing tho the folly toll of or the general attitude altitude In this matter It I IH Is true enough that In this coun roun country try state stale anti and church chulch lira are 01 find and should remain BO so but It Is III also trite truo that sessions luIIS of ot Congress and nd slate legisla legislatures tires tures are uro opened with prayer That ThatIs Is 18 distinctively American Wh Why tho the public school should necessarily be ho mi tor American In this respect U Is not clear clar The rite luck lack of ot of ot the Is I openly deplored by lending landing educators Is le there thore no remedy That question Is t becoming of ot general Interest |
