Show M Mil MR 1 COOLEY AT OGDEN Friends o of e education In Utah are arc fortunate to havIn hav have e In th the convention of teachers at nt Ogden eo so distinguished I Ian an educator as ash Mr h E. E G G G. Cooley o of Chicago Mr Ir Coole Cooley Is not only a a. school man but a general He lie not oil only y knows 0 s 's what the schools need but hut he possesses the faculty fac fae- ac of ot getting it It or or at least u a tolerable approach to It If IC he has not won every everything thing for tho the Chicago schools school s that tho the Chicago schools should hould have it may be charged charge d to tho the fact that the tho forces force opposed to him have been s so mighty and to win so near success as he lie has has In In the that city city Is Is a a. good deal of or an achievement It Is a man size e Job And Mr Cooley Couloy Is filling mUng it very happily We Ve are ale glad to have havo him meet with the thu teachers o of oC f Utah Ulah We Vc feel very sure they thoy will get something of or value e from time the association And we are equally sure SUIO that h he c will bo be b the better for the thc meeting Utah Is a young state It has been in the Union little longer lonser than he has beer been u In Chicago Utah c educators have had difficulties as ha hahe has hashe he We Ve b believe h he will discover that these difficulties have hav c been bravely met and measurably conquered Wo We dont don't i know how familiar he is with the West but we know enough of the tine achievements of ut the man as reported by truthful prints to feel assured that he will look f in n I tho the ey eyes of ot the men and the women who have worked d for or the of oC the schools of or Utah and will fin find d them fellows In the best sense of that word He wit will 1 fluid find that they have fought for or the he good as has he an and d that they like they like himself have himself have achieved much And when hen the tho meeting Is ls over we trust Mr Cooke Cooley p will gO back to Chicago with with a a. lip unsealed go back Lac backwith backwith k with an open eye CC and carry this word to lo to the sons of oC men menor or ever ho conies comes to die that Utah has done well that tha the work hero In an educational way could never have hav e been luen done one by slaves or serfs or silly people If he finds flag It Il so 50 we want him to tell teU the people of his big town tow n that the effort here sere is for the best in educational things s and that the result shows a a. measurable degree of oC suc sue success cess cess ess has been achieved We Ve want him to tell the people e that there Is no control of ot the schools b by church o or r politics or a wild west wind Ind but that the thc great machinery y for Cor the education of 01 Utah youth stands on the basis o of f merit and that the improvement it requires is precisely y the tho same ume sort of improvement that is needed In an any y other state of ot the tho Union and not one smothered under unde r so somo mo mysterious and Inexplicable influence In short w we want him bim to say to his people provIding providing pro pro- viding he finds these to be the facts that that that-so so far tar as ae th the e school system of ot the state is concerned Utah concerned Utah Is not a J t community of criminals The Tho New York Times has so characterized the state stale an and the state stale will be glad to have men of the bl biggest calibre help refute the llio slander el elAn An And we wc speak of oC It fl in this connection because Mr Ir Cooley Couley Is a m man manof n- n of that measure |