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Show DERN VETOES BILL " HI SPEECH AYS PROPOSED LAW WOULD THROTTLE FREE SPEECH AND LEAN TOWARD TYRANNY Tho Governor Holds That the Bill If Restriction of Free Speech, Which ii The Safety Valve cf Government Kalr i.uUn Cliy.- Oov-ror (;-orn! U. Ii.rn i; it Tu.-. il.i, vi tn.-il the liill providing for III.- n-iil.itioll of teach-t-rH' ri-i lllli uli-M, ri-'iiiriiiK mi oath of alli-Klanre. Tin: kovi-i nor hold.-) Hint Km bill It a restriction of fn-i: Knei-i.h vililrli In Hm Hufi-ty valve of Kovi-rn-iiiitiI. mill to atlcinpt to muzzle oriti-lnin oriti-lnin It a Bti-i toward traiiny. Tim vri-lo mi-n;in.--. which In addressed to K--r.-lary of Slat.) II. K. ''rockett, fol low: "I uiii IransinittiiiK herewith with-j with-j u I my approval Ikjiihh bill No. C2, by Mr. Kowlcs, .-milled 'An act relating re-lating to teachers' certificates, re-QiiiriiiK re-QiiiriiiK mi oath of allegiance for touchers' pruhlbllliiK disloyalty on the part of teachers and providing for tlm revoeat Ion of certificates.' "In substance, tho bill provides that any public or private Hchool or educational educa-tional institution who has ridiculed, miokcii, or acted with disrespect toward to-ward the conHtitution of the govern-inenl govern-inenl of the United States or of the Hi ate of Utah, or who has failed to take an oath of allegiance, shall thereafter there-after be diHiiualilli'd from teaching and shall have his certificate revoked. "A part of the Intent of the bill cannot bo accomplished because teachers teach-ers In private schools are not required to be licensed by any state authority, hence the penalty of revocation of certificate could not 'oe Invoked. The bill 1h therefore futile so far as private pri-vate schools ure concerned. "Moreover, from such Information as I have at my disposal, I conclude that this legislation Is unnecessary for I can find no condition In our public pub-lic school system which would justify the enactment of such a measure. I am upprehensive that approval of the bill would be a false advertisement advertise-ment of conditions In Utah. |