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Show COLLEGE SITUATION SITUA-TION AS IT IS.. Tribune Correspondent a Rank Prevaricator. I Clippings From Paper Replied to. One of the strangest pails or this A) school tight Is that the citizens of Lo-'$ Lo-'$ gan forget that the Agricultural Col- 2jCreK0 was placed where It Is for the benefit of the state, and not for the benefit of Logan. This Is one of the foulest misrepresentations misrepre-sentations ever perpetrated on a public which looks to newspapers for truth. The Agricultural College of Utah was given to Logan In trust and the citizens of the city would be recreant re-creant to that trust It they did not raise their voice against Its spoliation by Individuals with pcisonal grievances, griev-ances, politicians with ambitions, and souls too sordid to permit their admiration ad-miration for success to over come their feelings of Jealousy and spite. In the first place the Agricultural College was gien to Logan for no other reason on earth than that no 1 other place would have it. At the I time the various public Institutions I were located over the state the Agri- cultural College was considered of i little consequence, and It was bandied H about, kicked hither and thither and 1 finally thrown into Cache county where it was fully cxpectec It would I soon become a thing o the past or at least rise Into only a puny weakling. y Now that this rejected stone has bc- 1 come the keystone of the arch, there i Is a disposition to trim it, cripple it, a and drag it down to the level it once n - occupied where It was kicked and 3 "7 banded about as a thing of no con-I con-I sequence. The people of this state must neccs- j sarily believe that Logan has a per- . 1 -- sonal Interest In the maintenance of the school at Logan, of course, but the light of Logan is also the light of and forthcpeoploof the whole state of Utah. The people of this state must understand that there is back of this light orginally the State University Uni-versity people who naturally see in this ifistltutlon a rival in the hearts of the people a formidable rival, for it Is today giving the boys and girls practical education. They must understand un-derstand that in this state there are big men who, being professional politician, poli-tician, seek to handle all strings possible pos-sible to promote party adantage and necessarily their own, and have now begun to exercise their political power pow-er in college matters. They see in Pres. Kerr a successful executive, a shrewd man drawing W,rou a year, and ho being objectionable to them politically they say there should be a another drawing that salary. It helps build an organization. The public must undcistand that there are back of this light individual J churchmen who have sought to use I that peculiar influence to accomplish I certain designs; they must understand , I that others Interested hae pcisonal I ambitions that cause them to fall In line In this light because higher peo- I MvPle politically and smaller people In a I Prchurch way have decreed It this Is fi self confessed; they must understand 1 that the governor of the state of Utah I has been misled by two dissenting I professors and friends Into a situation H where he Is no longer guided In an 1 unprejudiced way. The people of the state must under-9 under-9 stand that Logan people know these I things and that we light to protect I their Interests and the Interests of H the college. The people here want B nothing but a square deal and are en-H en-H titled to that. They do not ask that the (iovurnor and the people of this H state take the assertions of friends H until they have heard thoso opposed H to the situation, and they certainly HE have a right to demand that Its H friends bo heard bororo tho assertions H of those opposed are accepted. What- H ever chaiges there are, lot them be H brought up and Investlgated-chargcs Ji against Kerr, Morrill, Widtsoe, the Bh trustees or anyone else concerned. H That this allalr shall bo bull-dozed through by politician, churchmen V who wink without authority, relatives who refuse to listen to reason and cor- HE respondents sent here to doa dirty flfjusWwork should not go. JMC The people must understand that iffljl this present light Is but a portion of HfK bigger one and that In order to win the bigger this present one must bo settled properly. As previously stated. Thk Kkitiii.Tcan Is with the Bepub-llcan Bepub-llcan party In advocating Its accepted polUies, but is decidedly against politicians poli-ticians in either party making of the schools or Utah a link In an.v political oiganlatlon When the 'limelight of Investigation has been turned upon him, he has cleverl) managed to make the situa-tion situa-tion look as though the Interests of the college weie being attacked, and not himself aione In danger " Tiik I.k.'ihmcan- stands on the gmind that the time has about arrived arriv-ed when Hie limelight should not only be tinned on 1'iesldent Kerr but on vaiiousof those gentlemen who arc his bltteicst opponents today. There has been so much crimination and ie-elimination ie-elimination that Justice in any instance in-stance can hardly le served unless a glailng light is thrown In various dlieciloiis. Let I'resdent Kerr's re-eon!, re-eon!, liN books. those ciiminal charges hinted al. Ills private and public life be Investigated to the limit. If there is that revealed that places him at a disadvantage as the head of the Agii-cultural Agii-cultural College then Tun IIkpuiili-can IIkpuiili-can will join in the crusade to have ifim removed. Let, the same tigld examination ex-amination extend to the public and private life of. I M Tanner, and let his connection with this picscnl muddle mud-dle be set out clearly and fearlessly. Let this examination of Tannei extend ex-tend to his administration at the college. col-lege. Investigate the private and public life or Prof. L. A. Merrill and I)r..lolm A Widtsoe. Some wonderful tilings have been suggested recently, and It would be well that these in-vestallons in-vestallons go clear back through the Tanneradmlnlstiation. Let the lime light be turned on that which Is back of the movements of various local poisons poi-sons opposed to Mr. Ken at tho pie-.-ent time. It is said that the church is not in favor of politlclal or church interfeience in the public school s.vs-tern s.vs-tern of the state, and the Guvcrnoi has expressed emphatically such a sentiment. Then let the movements of certain churchmen who have made certain pictensions be investigated with the rest. Thcic's wonderful room for Investigation here and it should haully be one sided. If others than Kerr would not come up missing In this, we'll miss our guess. Only two students out of the whole of Utah will receive degiees In agil-cultural agil-cultural this vear. Can Pres. Kerr or the faculty drag bovs Into the agricultural department, make them take the work and then make them come, to school until they graduatcV Various professors have testified time and again that recog-Inzlng recog-Inzlng many boys' unfitness for their ovvirdepaitment they have sent them to the department of agricultural much against their will. If this school were giving only the agricultural agricul-tural course, would that department have 115 students, would the boys come here, would their parents let them come? The answer Is "no!" most emphatically. Then again would the remaining 010 students go to Salt Lake city to school? Not one-third one-third of them would go. If llieeduca-tlon llieeduca-tlon ol the masses rather than the classes Is considered would there not be three medulm schools In this state rather than one great university In Salt Lake as Is the hope and design? It Is a notorious fact that the college col-lege has not stood strong for agricultural agricul-tural dining the administration or Kerr. Tills Is easily disproved by liguies siovvlng tho increase of students In the various departments in live years. Five years ago there were 10 students In agriculture. During the past year there weie 115, the greatest percent of increase In any of tho departments. Pres. Kerr's sympathies with this de-pal de-pal tment has enabled Its head to make the work sufficiently attractive to increase Its numbers more than 1000 per cent. In live years. Knowing young men's aversion to taking agricultural agri-cultural courses, doesn't this look like something had been emphasled very decidedly? |
