Show !S Z STUDENT LITE tack even their best friends and delight m a malicious triumph We were surprised at the attitude assumed by a local newspaper which recently declared that “President Kerr in the recent fight for the Agricultural College was opposed by every big Democrat in the State of It proceeds then to show Utah that he does not stand in well with the big Republicans Then the editor draws this conclusion: “If he has no strength with the Democrats and the Republicans are against him how can he be of service to the Agricultural College?” Argumcntum ad populum! Consider again the newspaper man's line of reasoning If President Kerr in the earnest and conscientious prosecution of his duties as an educational leader has ignored party lines and has thereby lost favor with a few disgruntled politicians he is no longer fit to stand at the head of an institution of learning The base assertion that President Kerr tried to employ coercive measures with members of the faculty in order to secure for Mr Moyle their influence and is entirely suffrage groundless Some one in the opposition is for the statement that President Kerr is bringing professors and instructors from the East to fill positions that should be given to Utah men Or to use their own language “He is discriminating against local talent because he finds the imported professors more easily subjected to bis tyrannical will’’ We have the temerity to resent re-stxms- ible the imputation as an unjust and unwarrantable attack upon the administrative policy of the president Other things being equal the Utah applicant has always been given preference I’ut here again the element of superior qualification has governed the choice Sometimes this manner of unfortunately choosing has compelled the recommendation of an Eastern man The argument also advanced that President Kerr is unpopular in the school itself was killed by the reception tendered him at chapel Friday morning in the presence of four of the trustees The previous day a local paper had suggested that an attempt would be made to remove President Kerr and within four hours after the paper appeared every student in the institution had signed a petition asking the board to retain the present executive Put it is argued that if W J Kerr be retained all public revenues will be through his influence diverted to the channels of education and that other public interests will suffer from lack of financial support As if he (who has no influence with Democrats nor Republicans) could exercise dictatorial powers in the state legislature and control the apportionment of the state funds To guard against the danger of the state being robbed in the future they would place a deadhead in the president’s elixir who doesn’t care whether “we still live” or not That is a typical example of the logic used by the |