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Show I HI J, H MILLS DEFENDERS '( Ijl DECEIVED. , For the past few days several men ! II and women have callcd on the Sland" f IK ard editor and said: & Ijl "I cannot understand why the Stand- J fll ard is opposed to Mills half-day plan." i HI The Standard editor decided to give fc Rl his reason for his opposition to the so- k HI called half-day plan of Superintendent 'HI Mills by stating that he considered it Eg an outrage to turn 3000 Ogden chil- W HI dren", between G and 10 years of age, ' put of the public schools a half day ' each day when the state law specif Ic- P ally provides for a full day's schooling i for each child. mb& 11 "Oh, you are mistaken," was the IF HI prompt icsponse of a Mills supporter. ?T Mt "No such thing is contemplated." l "But," we answered, "that is what tV Hff r is now in force. Mr. Mills has only a ' IHl half-day school for the first and second fe IHI ' and third grade children in Ogden." 2 , And it actually required a telephone k nl communication to the school board bear be-ar n lore the Standard editor could con-L"' con-L"' iff vince a Mlllslte that three thousand - children actually were going to school f " Ml only a half day. '111 Again a prominent Ogdenite became m angry and threatened the Standard j, HH with dire disaster, unless we would JIM support Mr. Mills' half-day plan, which &' ' Hi ne sa'd would have made him a much HI better businessman with a better edu- V HI cation, if it had been in force when he 31 was a school boy. Finally the Stand- i I ard asked the businessman to explain tf HI ; what he thought was Mills' half-day jm. , vplan. He responded that he attended W R -, ne of Mills' meetings and heard the ' Ml Superintendent explain it, and here it i ' IS: HJ ' "When a boy does not care for stu- flj dies, they put him to work at manual M , training a half-day to teach him a ' nl trade. Soon the boy finds it necessary . nl to figure out the number of Inches in 7 a board or other material and he dis- 'f'- H covers that he wants to learn aiith- v" iH I - . t Oil " - metic and jumps into his studies and masters arithmetic in half the time. Likewise, clrls are to be taught do. mestic science for a half-day and In a similar way each girl soon longs for book knowledge. Again, Superintendent Superintend-ent Mills proposes to let the boys and girls old enough to work, lake employment em-ployment In stores and factories a half day to help the parents support the family, or to do chores at homo for half a day and so on." Mr. Mills has told his 'parents' classes all the beautiful things that a dreaming mind could conjure up. No wonder the parents' classes think that Mills Is a modern Moses But all this talk by Mills is a subterfuge, sub-terfuge, a puro fake concocted to deceive de-ceive the people. The half-day school plan 'Mr. Mills has forced onto Ogden is the pushing of the small children from 7 to 9, or 10 years old out of the schools a half day each day of the school year. The children of tho first, second and third grade go to school only a half day. Thev are too vounc to be forced to work. They are too young to be forced out on to the streets. They are not too young to be placed a half day at play or in a training school, but where are the playgrounds or training schools for the three grades of 3000 children? AVhy docs Mr. Mills misrepresent this matter? What is the object of this deception? Tho Standard Stand-ard editor saw two men, bosom friends for years, stand up for three hours and quarrel about this matter and call each other prevaricators. The one man said he heard Mr. Mills explain his half-day plan at tho parents' meeting. The other said, "X heard him defend his plan at the tabernacle when tho people voted him down." The one man said he has not turned the first, second sec-ond and third grades out of school a half day. The other said "I know ho has turned the first, second and third grades out of school a half day about three thousand children." "I do not believe it," was the response. re-sponse. Here the Standard editor poured oil on the troubled waters and said, "Gentlemen, Mr Mills has tricked .uu uom. jlook up tnis question for yourselves and you will agree that the quicker Mills gets out of the school system the better for Ogden. Does any one person not prejudiced in Ogden believe that a man like Mills can ever harmonize the conflicting elements In any public school? The school board can be changed every month. There never will bo harmony until Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills is removed, or he voluntarily volun-tarily resigns. Superintendent Mills is the trouble maker He is the trickster trick-ster who has shaken the confidence of the community. |