The Coos Bay times., May 21, 1910, EVENING EDITION, Page 3, Image 3

THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910 EVENING EDITION
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BAKING YOUR OWN BREAD IN THE GAS RANGE IS ONE CONVENIENT WAY OF
REDUCING LIVING EXPENSES. THE BEST BREAD IN THE WORLD, WHETHER IT
COMES FROM THE BAKER OR IS MADE AT HOME. 13 BAKED WITH GAS. IT IS
NOT NECESSARY TO HEAT UP THE ROOM. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HEAT THE
OVEN IN ADVANCE. YOUR BREAD IS BAKED EVENLY AND QUICKLY, TOP, BOT
TOM, SIDES AND CENTER.
Gas Rasiges Are Now Priced Within
CHILDREN CAN PLAY AROUND A GAS RANGE BECAUSE THERE IS NO
DIRT; NO SOOT; NO ASHES; NO HEAT EXCEPT WHEN YOU WANT IT
NO GREATER AID TO COMFORT IN THE HOME THAN.THE GAS RANGE WAS EVER
INVENTED. GAS IS CHEAP; GAS RANGES ARE CHEAP AND GAS PIPING IS CHEAP. '
THE WOMEN THAT HAVE GAS RANGES IN THEIR HOMES ARE ALL PRAYING FOR
THE GAS CO. IT NEEDS THEIR PRAYERS THE WOMEN WHO HAVEN'T THEM
ALSO NEED THEM NOT THE PRAYERS BUT THE GAS RANGES.
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EDITOR TIMES:
i So much has been said and done,
recently, relating to my connection
with the schools, evidently said and
done to mislead the public, that I
deem an explanation from me neces
sary. At the outset, I wish inost em
phatically to disclaim any intention
of wishing to appear as begging
for the position I have occupied so
many years. I have yet the first time
ever to apply for the position, and I
certainly would not do so now, and
under existing conditions. However,
after giving the best years of my life
to this work, trying several times
during these years to get out of the 1
schools, I object most strenuously to
the methods adopted by the board to
let me out. If it could be shown that
my work had been inefficient, or that
I am incapable (when given a
chance) of doing the work satlsfac
trviiv nn word of nrotest would I
ever have offered. When, however,
it comes to charging to me most of
the blemishes of character flesh is
heir to, and representing to Incom
ing strangers that some of the worst
crimes known to the criminal code
are chargeable to me, it is time to
speak, and to speak in no faltering
tongue. These slanderous falsehoods
have emanated from such irresponsi
ble sources that their authors can
not be held legally responsible, and
all that remains is to give them the
stamp of emphatic denial. I would
treat them with the silent contempt
thev merit only for the fact that my
many friends have advised mo that
such a course, while the most digni
fied and fitting, might be construed
into acquiescence.
First, I am accused by Mr. Shan
non of infidelity. Strange, isn't it
that it took nearly twenty-six years
for the people to find this out! Pass
ing strange that an infidel could have
been confirmed a member of the
Church of the Annunciation (Epis
copal) in New Orleans, and since
that time have been taken into full
fellowship with the Masons, Knights
of Pythias, and other fraternal ord
ers! But the strangest feature of all
about this 'ridiculous charge is that
it was trumped up Just at the mo
ment the school board wore anxious
to put the public mind into a condi
tion that would Induce them to ac
cept without too great protest, the
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action about to be taken in dropping
me from the superintendency of the
schools. Another Unaccountable fea
ture of this accusition is that when
friends of mine Interviewed Mr.
Shannon about the matter, he admit
ted to them that he had found out
after making the charge that he had
been misinformed, yet he did not
show the manhood and Christian
spirit that would prompt a fair mind
ed man to retract the charge as pub
licly and as emphatically as he had
made It The result is, I am told,
there- are people here today among
the new citizens who believe the
charge to be true. Why, In the writ
ing up of Mr. Shannon's sermons,
were his slanders of me framed up
in a conspicuous panel at the head
of the column among scores of
personalities, the solitary instance
made prominent while charges of a
religious nature against another
prominent teacher in the corps were
minimized by printing them in an
obscure part of the paper, little read?
The answer is too self evident to re
quire discussion, and shows the ani
mus of the whole affair. Drunken
ness, gambling, even robbery havo
been charged to me; some of these,
I am Informed, emanating from mem
bers of the board, but, I am sorry to
say, in so indirect a manner that they
cannot be held responsible . The only
harm, of course, that can come from
nich Innuendoes is the prejudicing of
the minds of strangers against me,
but even among these, sensible peo
ple will think twice before they con
demn. I ask only that such scurril
ous reports be traced to their source,
nn.i thnt. a critical comparison of
the under-surface character of the
accusers and the accused bo made.
One gentleman (?) Is reported as
saying I "went bankrupt in business,
and then had to take tho school to
I make a living." It would hardljl
seem necessary to Inform this man,
and "others of his ilk, that when I
came to Coos Bay, twenty-six years
ago, I resigned an educational posi
tion In New Orleans paying a salary
of $2,000.00, to assume n drug busi
ness that had been established by my
fathor yoars before But I was,
against my own wlshos ar Inclina
tions, Induced to take tho sohool, re
signed after a yjear, agalj),WiW..lmoot
lorceu into mo vuwui, auu m mnu
time this occurred. Then, for fif
teen years, I supervised the whole
school, and nlonc conducted all the
classes of practically a three-year
high school course, and at a salary
$435.00 a year less than is now paid
to the principal of tho high school
alone. Meantime, owing to my close
confinement in the school, my busi
ness, worth more as an income than
four times that derived from tha
school, was going to the dogs. That
was my reward for faithfully serv
ing the public!
Nearly twenty years have now been
given to the school work, and during
all these years, every inch of progress
in the schools has been fought for,
inch by inch. It was a long and hard
fight to get the four-year high school.
Two years ago, when I presented tho
eighth grade diplomas to the gradu
ating class on the rostrum In the as
sembly hall of the old school house( I
expressed the hope and belief that that
class would be the first to start on
tho regular four years' work. Dr.
McCormac, then a member ot tho
board of directors of tho schools,
publicly and on the same rostrum op
posed tho four years course for
Marshfleld because the town was
"too small to afford such a school."
Forced into the position by public
opinibn, however, ho suddenly
jumped into the forefront of 'the
high school advocates, and now
modestly accepts tho plaudits of tho
public for1 "building up our splendid
high school." No less n fight did I
havo to make to get domestic science
put into tho school, and had I re
mained at tho head of tho schools,
I had made up my mind to make an
equnlly strong effort to get manual
training for tho boys, Including bench
work, lathe work, and mechfLnlcal
drawing, together with other forms
of tho "new education," as tho next
step In tho progress.
It has been my contsant effort to
Improve the salaries paid tho teach
ers, realizing as I havo had to, tho
difficulty of securing good teachers
at tho old rates. Little by llttlo thoy
havo been Improved, till now thoy are
Just beginning to reach respectabil
ity. It has been a thankless taBk to
secure good teachers. Tho responsi
bility has rested on tho superintend
ent, where It properly belongs; but If
as has occasionally occurred, a good
teacher had been engaged, but who,
owing to the low salary paid, was
ablo to better her oondltlou at the
last minute before the opeulug of the
schools, ami the superintendent was
fo'reed to accept a poorer substitute,
he was roundly abused for "putting
In poor teachors." Now that tho
work Is raised to a more Interesting
plane, and salaries are better, the
board finds that there are Interests to
be consulted, friends to bo provided
for. Of course to accomplish this,
excuses must be offered. But that is
easy. After two years' experiment
ing, they discovered that they wero
illegally paying a superintendent, be
cause tho law doesnot say that a
second class district must employ
one. Strange, isn't it, that so many
second class districts in tho state are
permitted to violate the law! Scarce
ly a second class district in tho stato
with more than, one school building
does not employ a superintendent.
Certnlnly most of these superintend-,
ents tench one or more classes In tho
high school,' just as he does here.
Beside my supervisory duties, I am
teaching today, four periods in tho
high school, which is considerably
moro than Is done by tho averago
superintendent in the state. As a
test of tho reliability of tho board's
Interpretation of tho law, I sub
mit tho ofllcinl opinion of Stato
Superintendent J. II. Ackerman,
rendered by letter under dato of
April 7th. After quoting the law nt
length from different sections, and
comparing them, he says: "If a
school district board of tho second
class finds that it will bo for the
benefit of tho schools to employ a
superintendent, in my opinion they
have authority to do so." Who could
havo been tho board's legal advisor
to render such reliable (?) advice?
It certainly was not Judgo John P.
Hall, for although a lawyer and a
clerk of tho board, his opinion was
not even consulted. Simply one moro
effort to hand tho public an excuse
for tho action thoy wero taking to
provido the place for another.
In this connection, comos tho an
nouncement of tho board, with a
grand flourish of trumpots, of the
now schome for tho management of
tho schools, far surpassing that in
voguo In loss oplightened parts of the
United States; viz, a Board of Con
trol" composed of tho three princi
pals, Miss Montgomery, Mrs. Rood,
and Miss Malonoy. Thoro has al
ready boon complaint of too nuiuch
offominancy In our schools. How Is
this for an Improvement? Lot It
be distinctly understood, I am not
saying anythlns agalust thes,- Indlis
as teachers. Tbev are all go d teH ti
ers, but It Is the JiMiwovHM'iir '' l!l '
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