Show MUSIO MUSIC IN OUR PUBLIO PUBLIC SCHOOLS T was a great surprise surp ribo to the victors lit at the i ie IT cent sunday school convention as indeed it was to many people living here to lical hoai reported at one ol of the sessions that out of the thirteen sunday school tit at the head of sunday schools in uintah stake that only one had had any vocal training and that ten tell could not read music Con confining this thia report further stated I 1 I 1 there never has been it a trained vocal teacher in vernal the academy aims only to give a little band and orchestra work but nothing that will help the wards warda and the sunday schools it in a musical way we do not have a single trained voice in the stake unless it is someone who has just moved here and not a note of music has been taught in the public schools is some private piano teaching going on all the time so that six of the thirteen schools school have organists who have taken lessons in the other seven cases the organists almost commit the songs to memory and play with very indifferent accuracy note or tempo at the conclusion of the doport this wish is expressed that our Pies president ident the bishops and the superintendents could bo be inspired to want some good music and would unite in the effort to secure the machinery necessary to begin training the capable young people of the various wards in this art we need it in the public schools in the uintah academy and we need it in a private teaching capacity daily wo we do not feel that it would be proper to censure too severely tho the county board of education as wo we ate aie reliably informed that the sentiment of the people generally has tit at no time been pronounced in favor of music being taught as one of our studios studies in our public schools while the board itself has felt so we understand that the revenue at theia command would not justify them in adding the expense of it a music music teacher some bouins of course would not wait for sentiment to grow before taking action but would mould it themselves if necessary essaiy di B E A winship of boston than whom there is no more prominent pi eminent educator in this thi countey says emphatically that music music is au educational essential not to be neglected by the teacher because other school activities are mole moie insistent and not to be abandoned because tit the taxpayers pocket squeals music is its as leal in ill its service as tho the multiplication table alt all pic tense to educate without music is like pretend I 1 ing to be rapturously happy while wrinkling the face with scowls and liowns and clogging the voice with blath or liate music is the smile of education justice to the individual consideration for the community appreciation of tho the good of tile the school all demand that music bo ba given full opportunity in school every consideration demands that the conditions of the past shall cease at once with ohve alic tc sentiments the express heartily agrees anil and N e would be glad to hear of tile the county board of education and the academy board taking some step be it ever so limited to show that they are in with this maich forward if there is any assistance the ex can render we can assure the gentlemen composing these boards that we stand eady and willing to render it word has been received of tho the death in england of W jarman for many years known is as the alex ex mormon priest jarman jannan was formerly a member of the Chu church reli after living for some sino time in salt lake ci city jr he went to ell england 0 where lie ho conducted for many years an an ti mormon campaign characterized by considerable sider sid erable ablo scare head literature and a startling volume or two the report states that thu the agitator died iu in great poverty in london A |