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Show TR IT 1 THE OTHER FELLOW'S DOG, WOT ON OUR DOG Editor Standard: From the published pub-lished report of the Heywood banquet ban-quet to the educators Thursday ove-ning, ove-ning, it seems as though that event was vastly more illuminating to the participants than It can ever be to the public. Among other things, are educators favored with a license to be illogical? Whether it bo tho exception ex-ception or the rule, the fact remains that the average man about town can be said to display more logic, if less polish, than some educators- The original half-day school plan that Mr. Mills was willing to "rise or fall with" is knocked into a cocked cock-ed hat , but its fangs are not extracted extract-ed Why this sudden change of heart? Is it due to a former mistaken mistak-en assumption that hard working parents par-ents are less able to tell beans when the bag is open than men supposed to be in touch with educational matters'' mat-ters'' It is significant that child labor, la-bor, the half-day plan and hypnotism are all gradual" processes. Professor Bennion says the mode of living has changed since the pioneers pio-neers educated themselves in spite of a handicap which was not a handicap. We must experiment a little, he says, , and we have been doing so for a good many years. So too have medical quacks It is possible to recover i from a medical "experiment" or de-I de-I part this earth to our reward, but an educational "experiment." such as , withholding the alphabetical keys to the English language, may prove it detrinieut for life. Mr. Glasmann, I fear, has taken the sick child (the school system) to the wrong shop, for educators are agreed only to disagree, and if he got the prescription on paper, or on sand like a verse from the Koran, It would be in a language that neither man nor Allah could understand, but woe to the dog that swallows it. If any one tries It on his "dog," let it be known so T. D. Johnson and the rest of us can dodge In case the victim runs amuck with hydrophobia. Dr. Widstoe evidently believes in vivisection when practiced on our dog. But that should not be laid up against him -for he touches the solution solu-tion when he says," The question of education in other places should not be our concern, but what Is needed in Utah is vital." If we cannot attend to our own af fairs, let us declare ourselves intellectually intel-lectually bankrupt and apply for receivers. re-ceivers. Fulfill Dr. WIdstoe's conception concep-tion of the proper relations between school board, superintendent and people, peo-ple, and the wrong will be righted, for the untrammeled voice of the people peo-ple is the voice of God. The only dovetail fit made by the educators Is made along the line or "making the school fit the child." Industrial In-dustrial pursuits as carried on today, especially In factories, cause the race to deteriorate, and it is said England had to almost disregard hor army standards in order to get enough men to butcher, nd be butchered, in the Boer war, so terrible were the ravages rav-ages of the factory system on human systems. Yes. make the school fit the child of the tired mother. Dress and shape and hew the "raw material" according to specifications for "Little "Lit-tle children to act as cogs in the wheels of industry." Is there a Moses among the educa- tors to lead us out of th,e wilderness? Respectfully, (Signed) EUGENE A. BATTELL |