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Ilse Mot Prosidency oat: Cowbell of the Twelvo chose Lidos, Dovid 0, hileltay aa commissioser of duration for tits Church wit ilieptt.la 3.. Richards as his Mot sad Rkhard It. tyrnatt. to hio end aasistatit, Ors.JulY 1s1. Mk thee three moo assurnost hell h dialed as se esecuttv head of the general Chore IZ board of duration. Coon them. In with the yonoral.Choreh board todaterion roots ti the reoponsibillty of doterrniaing the cduostiosal policy of the Church4 of toostrintoading tho amount and distributioo of Church appropriations for duration. of lotting the Church ochool ouPIt orinteadoet. of approving preaidents. principals sad leathers as r000mmendod by toe-- hoards of education and tho Church school ouporintondont. and of calling sonventions of Clsarth school leochors. Os July 1. MO. Horse If. Cummings. who for thirtoon yoaro had boon supertniondent of ' Church ochools. rotirod from bia position attor having givon to the orrice the boot efforts that a roaean posssibly give. rut commiasionors named as hie succosoor Adam S. Bnnion. who for lb past ton an has boon actively engagod as an derider In this 'tato. tint as an instructor In the L. D. I. high ochool. lator of principal of the Granite high arbool. and finally as assistont Pro fossor in tho dopartmont of tnallsh at ths Viol varsity of Utah. from orhkh position he resigned to arropt tho offico as suporintendont of Church schools. As such bebas bacome the odurational tocutiv of the iommlasion of oducation. boing chargod with the responsibility of peeing that Mcient standard' are maintained In the varioue Church schools. of rerommonding In connection and with 'local boards, prosidesta principals In policy doteachors. of rocommonding chant signod to Improves the standards of the schools and of making regular visits to tho various 'chortle to moo that thoy are ffocting the work for which fluty have boon Institutod. l s , 1 4 I 4 ' I I I i 1 k . .. , , All Mete iii t ., awi I ) . , , ' ' 1 t " . , t a , - -- t '' -- 5; 1,...,,,, 4 tife ; f I 't ' ' 't,t t ' .,:. , 11 4 .,' 9 " 1 II '&.9. ,..., ,r 0 -- ...,,,,o1,-4,--- , .'... - ,400 .0o Te.r. ,.., .0,,,,.,...00, ''''' , 17.1.0-1- . , 4 If .3nIttligtntt":,---2, ,t 0 4 ' i 4...,... ttt 4 ' , '17;o 90 A. Nk. -- , '''''''.1 ' .0 t ' ., 4.007. ,1,04,004 ' . . ' ' , or ,.-- - ,op ', ,t,. ' ,; ' - 'k" ft, 614 kir 1 ..111 4...,it,' ' ' I i ,',,, i 1 ' 1 ' ' ! 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N,4 I ,4 lmht tnnotit : eptech or action and that only come to abide by such a otandard shall be allowed to remain in these inatitution. Theirdotteed 'reaching. A third ideal is th raising of the standarde and content of our theelogical teaching. This work should be made just as thorough. just ae vital as the hest course's offered. The Church schools and the minsionit are the two great ineti- tutions for the Intensive etudy of the principles of the i Of pet. To have full. rich. adequatatheo- logical courses in all the year') of our training given by teachers specially trained to give theois not too high Instructionsuch certainly logical an ideal to establinh for the future achievement The teaching of theology of the Church schools. that shall be attended by a genuine.tentimony of the gospel of Jesus Chrint is the very purpose of Here then is an opportunity these institutions. for perfected service. A fourth ideal involves the social and meral training and aupervielion of our etudents through the twelve months of the year. To direct the ()forte of a boy or girl for eight or nine months only to turn them out for three or four to follow terelesely the prevailing tendencies of a pleasure peeking public is one of the weaknesses from which American echools are suffering most. Along with the supervision of home economies and agriculture which has been so admirably worked out by some of our schools we must give attention to what our students' are doing "when they don't have to do it." Th.e student of a high school should have hie Interests definitely centered in hts school throughout the year. The ideals of his school should he made to 'attend him wherever his bummer vacation may lead him. Consistent. constant growth necessitates the regular inspiration of those who have his development in charge. A scheme, that vided for the etudent to come to the school during the regular school term and for the school to follow the stral.'ent into hie home during the rest of the year will be a very wholesome echeme beneficial alike to the echool. the student and the homethe three great factors in the Mitk.lcig of character. Then too, the schools can to connect more fully with ward, religious, social and civic affairs for the better preparation of its students in community participation and lead- ership. During the year 1919 another change has been made affecting Church school administration the transferring of the responsibility for sem- inery work from the general hoard of Religion commission of ne xt superintendent. oi ai tntthe pi established in dt :i ei s of the high rsscehso oi tPublic oe e I,nu in.theolOgy the public srci ehsoohlsa.v eTioinr,elaelseonffienreetdeenin (01139r) a e been s it tfr, 'a . I , , m I 1 i be:atirion:nlinheetnitrithtflayuldtiohltn4a, tohroaurtrapt:irlestt,ubhdp:i.rinatslattlochama:r1 , one-thir- '1 4, '11 , lf f iolijo ...,. , ,t, Iv ,,11;; ap..brniyalmatanhrtoy . '11r; triatruction ' ics '0 t Lill . ' Enessee ' 'flr , ', it 4 vf Gab GlorH I mon aro school. mon of eliPirt 1., ,,. t of the a Commisslonsr McKay. graduate elms. k 0 46.2..,?-,66SUniversity of Utah. has dovolod the greator part 4 , of his lite to educational ndeavor and his osperionce as principal of the Wohor academy anal, 4,4, SI later.as the president of its board fit him adA 'le 4416 ea' boon has he to dig. davo. ,which rnirably for the position "1.7f)' '''totl . called. Commissioner Richards le a graduate of the ADAM S. BENNION. DAVID O. McKAY. PREST. REBER J. GRANT. DR. RICHARD R. LYMAN. prrErnEN L. RICILtRDs. Chicago law 'school. a successful practitioner and are now been as so attended about 550 persons teaching who had not had prehaving go earlier. Half my correspondence In neelected generally they a lecturer In law at the University of Utah and the other half written in long hand. a per- vious experienie. This number represents the that be brings to tho position a training, a point through the eight grades. Gradually however. formance for which any fourthounand dollar man the academies have withdrawn from the field of in any decent busine.as would be promptly minimum number of new teachers required for din- of view. and a 'Milli of Judgment that will maul charged. that year. This Is of special interest in view of his venires; of vory groat vaius to the schools of district ochool work until now only two.schools. I. "As an worse. bad did to went from prices the one In Canada and the one in Mexico, offer th fact that there were attending normal schools, Last winter I etayed home from the meeting of my the Church. 'learned society' and papered two roome and any work below regular high school standard public and private. in the state only 30.1 students Commissioner Lyman In addition to having painted the kitchen. The amount of money thus It Is true that the Brigham Young university at In both one year and two yea; courses. You will earned on the tilde would astonish you. My one done 'gradual 'work at Chicago and Michigan Provo le to keep the oldent imy in college and the one-haat togan extravagance is Brigham less Young of college this civil than the that number in Cornell D. lee from Cnivorsities, has his Ph. but his bilis are not unusual. an I supporie he le offer work in the grades, hut only because it is not had,6revious experience. of teachers who had broad a besides hie trousers and sperience under the trunk at night. very peessing enginstring featured as training work in connection with the The girl in school makes most of her own clothes. there were 188 "During the year 1918-1as a practical engineer brings to his popition the for courage I keep up my church dues and charities' normal work done at these two institution!. normal students in both one and two year courses on the same principle that I keep my clothes in advantage of I: leans as head of the civil enorder (if for no higher reason). It is bed enough The Brigham Young univereity is at present in the public and private normal Pehools of the of Utah. gineering department of the University to have lost my own self reaped; I don't care to the one mentor college of the Church. offering as the numlose the respect of my friends also. They are not stateconsiderably lets than Supt. Itennion. as Indicated above. briny. ten I t does courses B. to A. know the depths to which I have descended. A. M. toward and of a new ber is degrees. at teachers the Re of his into required beginning position. of expertenc )oars "It is a very intellectual life I lead these days. the anti the Formerly Brigham masYoung the colleg his has of present year." hourrework. mending and care of the baby use Utah, My graduate of the University D. S. university offered elmilar work. but the L. intellect fast. If the repairs on my house and up has and Columbia university. The Sittiatien. ter's degree-frofurnace were in form for publication, they would Church found it both inexpedient and inadvisable his toward an In university some work Chicago dons honorary degree. The intellect-killin- g bring The need then for trained tether a Is imto maintain more than one institution of full colwork of the claneroom is reducedto a minimum. I Ph. D. &egress,. which he plans to pursute in conTwo use my old notes and do not worry about lectures perative! possibilities offer something of a lege grade in a state where there are in addition until the hour strikes: This is a great caving and nection with his present position. 'solution. a state a and state university agricultural college. keeps one fresh for the real work of life. The general board of education with Preal Teachers muEt be offered a compensation Our board le made up largely of burrinese Within the last few years, however, the call men who know how to get the most for their which inakem living a rea1109a compensation in head. wM continue to act 111 for teachers in our own and neighboring .states dent Grant' e money. They don't propone to pay Ch-rin all interims-- for keeping in part Ith the' high 'cbat of every neres- work. And they are right. has become so urgent that the generhl board of the final governing board of the 111 They don't put expensive men on cheap jobs. and city in life and with the wages prevalent in other matters educational. In the interest of greater education ham extended the courses In five of Its that'. right. too. Thatal the reason I'm pressing men the vocations which are bidding an perhaps never is a my pants. The little tailor on the corner institutions through the two ears of junior or eMciency It has delegated to particular more expensive man than I am. Society ham de- before for laborera Arntrica. cannot afford to of detailed administration. normal matters work. These schools are estabcollege Sc more cided hie time wcrth than mine. So that I leave the future of democracy to the teaching of it Is in the Interests of political economy that I lished at Rexburg, Logan, Ogden, Ephraim and To the wisdom of President Brigham Young him his save time. Yet I women. and thus Men relieve and untrained. underpaid school s)sChurch St. George that they may serve geographically is due the Institution of the am not juet sure that this is what our board have of are and mindedness not open "The born Glory did that Loyalty in the es he fullest mind when talk purposes. economy. possible tem. Appreciating they "Of college- - when it .comers to getting high- Out of injustice and beggary. The teacher who God is Intelligence," and that schools are emene Competent Teachers Needed. for work pay. there is no grade no has is 'incompetent place in the American Mound economic objection. It may even be.,,tbat tial to the achimment of that Intelligence. he In thee normal colleges lien one of the very I am our of still democratic think schoolthe the Young laboratory 1875. idealsand regents living the old life. Brigham established October IL for real Church shoo! end that they are now getting for four thousand - F. significant 'possibilities teacher should not be driven out he the (webTwo I later competent at Provo. years fifty-cedollar's what university they formerly got for service. The shortage of competent teachers is real dollars. Business men and even of the profession or made to supplement his bathed a similar institution at Logan, l'tati. thereito become more so. The and known been to make such min- have Alarming throes presidents to to eke out an existence of the tetrttory teaching in an effort i by extending toward both ends takes. Of course a child could nee that this is im- fixed and all too low salaries of The best service. his and the hut boards of before sacrifice Loos.the professional poesible: public are presidents are not chit- r educational facilities. driving succeestul men and women into other dren. If they think they have a teaching and re- from "School and Society" apostablisheI Article Church 1 the conceived was following echool when high searching professor they've furnace-cleaninvocations and are offering little inducement to reallyg got a carpet-beatinacademies throughout various' sections of Utah plies not only to the "poor professor" but to men and wOnien who ought bekitchen-paintin- g those younger of combination teacher and exit traineveryone in the teaching professionaye id the hope of carrying to the people that 1 nurse maidwell. all I can say is, the light has calm of their fitness to become the teachers of in our imtividual to not for tends enlightened dawned. every make taught being would practical. yet ing which future America. The situation may be appreci"I did not start out to beat my board. It was .. schools todayit strikes at the very foundations progress. not until last week that I realized that they are ated In part when we consider that very many 0 .i, ' of American progress: Cburrh Schools. Twenty-on- e , tokntohwe caltmyeelta.w.T1h.oeuy abnedinIgabliekaeteanr:e asnimdptiyhegyubdrenet't counties In our state this year not only were unII " Twboluaidacdcoottinhet ' necessarily anonymous schools have e Church o.n f eNs,s1 able to get specially trained normal graduates of blood out To date twenty-onof a turnip; and you can't l t e squeeee here man check for four thousand fifty-cecan't take been establithed by action of the general Church them out of court. I am a n ordinary professor s one year coursethey were unable eVen to sein for it dollars and cash four thousand dollars' more or le ss s uccessful, and rated at all I am cure high school graduates, 'having in many cases board of education. The names of these instituworth of good Kroceries or good college teaching Up to two or three years worth my coileagues. by enWe . I nodr jugsotomdenatnyatnhdingt.beSocohneaerpeorr to take high school students from RP low as the lions together with their teaching forces and mlaatnerit.ihlelqewdilol inbge ago I led i a blamett faomur, thousand $4.000' i o ars ft year a(sangdettsitnigil second year's training and give into their hands the cheaper work." rolled students appear in the following table: I d I a td those things which, as and professor. A Poor Professor. the training of children. have done and left undone those things ought to Regular Special . which I ought not to have done. .1 could afford teachers. teachers. Students. Name of School. The following letter from the state superinWith a ware that will 'guarantee. to the do this because I was paid for it Ind I was to 1.214 17 ..70 B. Y. university able to pay for such supplies, and services as a tendent's office is striking: teacher, a decent sort of living, the Church nor- - orfiitirn-lv- 730,,nromtiooncoi,o.lOt' hstUadnenets".ti mOattheedrsaht taevnedbaeneci 857 3 36 and his family need. 1 cant ,do this any B. Y. college professor mal 1916-1I school college has a wonderful opportunity. A cam- - . the 97 so do now and follow the prayer book 1 there were year "During 7 more, , ... for and it looks certain that here Is an- Pig Horn academy rhose thing! Which I ought not to do and leave 121 1 stakeseof Zion 7 466 teachers In the grade schools of the state who paign throughout the se'venty-nin- e Cassia academy other field in which the Church can render splen- I ought to do. Specifi- which undone those things 128 3 I for leaders would bring into our schbolshe very had not had preVious experience; 1. e.. who were time Emery academy ('ally. I press my own pants and take the till service. The courses in theology offered In 1 11 , 174 from the preparation of my lectures; for 1 never flower of .Mormondom. 1917-1Fielding academy In then first their year. teaching there Ithe 1 200 10 seminaries are largely the same as the there will allow myself to go unpreased. Of all things Gila academy .. And these young men and women were 495 such teachers outside of Salt Lake City. RS 7 I that ',residents don't like, the man who looks ; , ,.Knight academy is worst. the 2.145 811 13 unprosperous O. Including Salt Lake City. there were -trainedadequately preparedgoing back Into t.,,,Irge can te offered at very much less L. D. S. unicersitv Now not worth mentionwould trifle be this I! 183 expense . 8 their respective localities to render service as tha-Millard academy school work was MO Illterrered During 1918-1- 9 log except as a sample of the many ways in would be involved. in the erection and main. 82 1 8 which my old life is changed. While I was learning leaders and teachers would carry to our homes term with by the epidemic that we did not ol,tain full ,r Murdock scad.emy 275 .. 1$ to press as well as the tailor (It did not take long), hool a Oneida academy the beneficial results of Church school training in preo SOO information regarding the experience of teachers. .. 23 cleaning Iwas gradually betoming a luxury for the if Ricks nOrmal college e d ricsc school work are so to , Uch: added a that manner. most commendable and 285 my .. It accomplishment's. is safe to esy, however. that there acre more 13 ilssow rormal college Cit,roughly encouraging. Loyal and capable lead. my wife and I betweenais get the mending done. 104 1 8 In normal training, then lies one very pe- in their first year of teaching service. 100 than $nowflake academy i used to buy a winter suit every two years and a ers are deriding themselves 94 1 5 St. Johns academy summer suit in the alternate years. By spending unselfishly to, the tential opportunity for service. summer- and even ,up to the present During 73 g ', less time on my classea and more fin my clothes. I Ran Lula acadeenit- 1i(hing of the young men and women of the - 7 the we have 181 time. two teacher . greatest Cbureb last experienced gelmol the Weak. Is what the This ., skipN'd Ulntah academy , parchasep. church. To determine just thesphere of Church !I ' .. 723 i suppose biologiats would call 'adjustment;. 20 Weber normal college shortage in the history of our public schoJts. By In the matteiTh--f general schi-oChurch enhool would call it "response." Some of geographers operations free from rivalry with public actual canvass of superintendents in I convencall it "beating- the game." ,! my friends -training, several Ideals are assuming very definite institutions and free from unwiseAuplicatiotim As living. went 'lip and up, and my salary reportsof the Dixie formal college and tion ef Augustlith-three-weekII the before open.. fonm and while 'hey are not strikingif new they to provide full and unsurpassed her(rrie More and more -- fixed' iexcept for the ,Juarez academy not included in the.above list religious training of schoolstherewere more than' V; teachare fundamentally vital VII making of the to. Ing e tax) thwbelaceeof adjustment went On.. we acedths establishment of their At time the greatest possible number of our future the nursemaid I ,' over and discharged ' . not In took filled. the the til ' 0 grades care of the baby at Ruch odd times as aged to gn,ture leaders of the Lattet,day Saints. timies were, necessarily concerned very larger;r- ing positions leadersto do there things are problems calling 11 - "As already .rated, there were le 1917.1i The stenographer nag, of course, let to research One of these ideals is the matter of scholar- the public schools not work. for delightftil service. s with preparatory 0 All of thee : 1 of -, e : f, ol , -- , Il 11 1 17:7Clit . 1 Midi it to easy to otarlook tlie mortis of th work dori t, lhottiuttotto today Ind lung for terytivotly r000s. 'ith it,.1 old doe- and vihil tolati th ritirkbia aikanrfortitot made In car., lain lines of a. holaatie work. It la still a ganrailY 1,e1ief that in our high &rho, work par. era t lb. Mition at target courses ttrular!), thmughout -that a high aehool au his bortenir terftrie a comeniiint 14,comaa not rourba ihrrailurntly moraine of a delightf.d indulgnce In eocial intr In an eft i d or mates work intereating courao, Not err than, Institutions hs made it east-becorn hag nor of teaching li nty ao. bill much devoid of tho in- undr real m application earate so te attend, genurn tea) bin,. In th yeetto aheae of us, therefore, tholes are In charge of Church echoed administration e - C pro-shou- ld : I low-gnad- ? four-thousa- ,r4 1 i be-rna- , g, pants-pressin- t , . - ) i ace:ha nt i 1 ' I 0; . ; I 1 1 r r ; i ; 1 1 -- properly S t , t ' ...., t ! e.nest ni)rt ...; I 'I N448,101 tils,Jo(t.lhoi onh stseeedaTpi . I , prW-talli- , ., . i I saeh , , , , , -- -- it - - ' - s tiI 1 I - - . -- I . Itli r.- y .1 t 4 '; a to-th- , - ' . ' . - - . - . - - , ' . .r;) . , ' ' , t 1 s..,, , , . 4 - ....-,- ... |