Show AM ERICA'S SCHOOLS In the course of or a ver very able ablo article on the lie subject of or the time public schools of or time the United States Stales tho the Portland Oregonian Oregonian Ore Ore- gonian sa says S 'S Our higher education Is borrowed both In tn method and mah material but In respect to primary schools we are arc pioneers pioneers pio plo and originators and other nations borrow of or us use Wc e have seen bodies bottle o of the teachers from England traversing country countr to stud study our common schools and ond Germany has sent a committee to todo todo todo do the same In establishing her SS tern tm em of secular primary education France ranee has had hall America distinctly In mind and our methods have furnished her ler with an inspiration and model Students of current history foresee that hat Spain will follow the same path before a great while That Is a gratifying sort of reflection And AmI it Is especially gratifying to a n. resident resident resi- resi dent o of Utah to know that the schools or of f this state stan stand stan l third In the tIme list of nil 11 in the Union in absolute effective effective- ness ess It is even evon more pleasing to know now that lat the schools of oC Salt Lake have been so 0 well managed In the time past that the they rank ank with the vcr very best In time the country country- They hey won a gold medal and a silver sliver medal at the St St. Louis worlds world's fair fall in 1904 and two sol gold at Portland lii in 1 1 1905 They have been especially well veli handled hand hand- led ed The results are excellent The rho teaching caching force collected from every part art of the country and employed d on the 10 sole eole basis of superior teaching ablit It t probably Is not excelled by the tIme tImet thet t t caching l-I l go any other ther city of il like ike size Ize In the time nation If the matter of literacy is an any test and and it certainly should be so regard regard- the ed-the d the schools of or this city and this state late have done the very ery best work that tat Is recorded for fOl any schools no matteL where they timey may be There Is to be an nn election on Wed Wed- ed of this this' week at which mem- mem bers ers of the school board will be lie elected hero Thero are arc Iwo sets of candidates One set et Is nominated b by the citizens of Salt Lal Lake c and amI chosen equally from the I membership of both the political paries partIes part part- IC Ies es that thal have a national recognition The other othel ticket Is put Jut fo forward by hy the Salt SaiL alt Lake Tribune with the time theowell vowed owell purpose of giving tho time clans ians the control of the time schools Most of or f the candidates nominated by bylie he lie Tribune are men of or good character But nut they should bo be beaten because heir campaign Is based on tho time dangerous dangerous dan llan- demand that thal politics shall be made to govern the public schools We Ve think It Is better beller for the people of or all parties to tp h have he e control of or the schools and to carefully keep politics out of or them We Ye know the work of the time people In the past years has resulted well and we think It would be le better better bet bet- ter tel to continue this good work than to make experiments with polities politics In Inthe Inthe inthe the schools It Ills is charged by the time Tribune that th time the schools are under control of the Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- lol mons More ore than eighty per pcr cent of or the teachers are non non- non Mormons today Tho Thu charge Is not true Let Lel us urge every er e citizen of oC Salt Stilt Lake to take the trouble of or voting yoUng next next Wednesday And vote the nonpartisan non non- partisan ticket because it would be bo a disaster If Jf the partisan political methods methods meth meth- of oC the Tribune should be applied In Inthe Inthe inthe the conduct of or the schools of or this timis ci city ty V |