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Show no .HOOTING OVER A SCHOOL ROW East evening M J. Christensen. 30 f v.rs or age, principal of the Uintah oh shot and dangerously wounded Lloyd Bybee. 18 years of age. The chool teacher, in piving his side of j the affair, said he was being waylaid by three bcy and fired In self-de ' lease. The attack is said to have had lt in reption in a reprimand which it wasj necessary for the principal to pronounce pro-nounce against Orville Bybee. , It years of ago, and a brother of the wounded DO . The reprimand was resented and the l'.yhee boys threat enedfthe teacher In order to maintain discipline in our schools, it is necessary that ih authority or those in control be respected. re-spected. If every time a teacher in- ists on nbodlence or respect, the students, stu-dents, are permitted to raise a storm of objection, our schools will be destroyed de-stroyed Had the principal, when he met the boys on the highway, allowed himself io have been beaten, he would have lost his usefulness, and yet it is most lepiretlable that the teacher found it necessary to shoot in self protection. This comment is based on the as sumption that Principal Christensen'o B -'ury of the occurrence is true. H When the quarrel was developing, it B might have been good policy on the part of the school authorities to have H transferred the principal, although to B have done so would have tended lo j discredit the system, unless the trans Hl er waa made with great tact. |