Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-07

in the Cumberland Times made an
exaggerated reply to the following
quotation from the JOURNAL:
All the leading teachers and many of the
secondary class are immigrants from other
States and counties. We have even drafted a
Garrett county quota into our service. 1t
will be an immense advantage to have
another importation-to rccoup partly our
losses under the policy ofdepresson.
This week William Dando, of this
place, plies the JOURNAL with sew
eral inquiries touching the same
subject.
In the outset the JOURNAL wants
it understood that it stands by its
statement lis quoted, though that
statement should have been more
fully quoted, The two sentences
which Immediately precede it are:
And the people are watching the entire
crowd from the president of the school board
down to the lay trustee who Is neither chair
man or secretary. All they ask is-the prop
er effort to secure a principal who knows
more about schools, methods of training the
young, ETC., and who has record of success
to recommend him-who knows more in that
direction, we repeat, than anyone now living
in Allegany county.
Hence, Mr.. Dando is unfortunate
in quoting tie JOURNAL as desiring
"more of the same class" meaning
that we want a reinforcement of in
compctents. The JOURNAL never
published an article that could fairly
be so construed, 1t has invited for
the principal of our school in the
selt-same article which from Mr..
Dando has quoted
A principal who knows more about schools
methods of training the young, etc, and who
has a record for success to recommend him,
etc, than anybody now living in Allegany
county.
Now, if Mr.. Dando's questions,
based upon misreading of our
article, are to the point, are we at
liberty to ask him whether, being
able to get such Il teacher us describ-
ed, we should prefer the home grown
article? 1t so, does he buy his goods
that way, and does he select his pas
tor by the same rule?
No. Mr.. Dando, like rybody
else, seeks the best article his money
will buy, no matter where developed,
at home or abroad-in the latter case
if the home market cannot supply
his wants either in quantity or
quality.
In the column next to the quota
tions above given is the following
from The same issue of this paper,
June %:
In addition to the tirst-clasS principal want
ed at No, the JOURNAL in behalf of the
people, insists on corps of assistants who,
in their several spheres, shall measure up to
the highest standard of competency and ef-
ficiency. The principal should not be bur-
dened with room. He should be an timer
ant-a teacher of teachers well as pupils.
If the trustees and commissioners will give
us what we want as indicated here and else
where in these columns, we will have school
the next scholastic year that will challenge
comparison with anv of equal grade any
where. They can do it if they will.
Do "a Native Teacher" and Mr..
Dando want less? Will they have
less if all be available?
Our plan, of which Mr.. Dando
wants to know, is to secure the best
teaching talent that our money will
buy-at home if we can abroad if
we must.
The "money question" is out Of
the consideration. ga Native Teach
er's" complaint about the money 60
ing away is an echo of wall over a
matter that he or she never thought
of in his or her life when he or she
bought a coat or a dress. But in
the greater affair, the incalculable
concern of popular education, ac-
cording to "a Native Teacher" we
must sacrifice great part of our
great object-in order to spend the
money at home we must do W tn
poor teaching, inferior schools and
scholarless puplls-to keep the money
at home.
Hence, it is not education we are
buying with our taxes it is mere
purchase of the opportunity to dis
burse money to those teachers lucky
enough to be born reared and ''edu,
Gated" at home.
The salary of the postmaster in
Frostburg has been raised from
$1,000 to $1,000. When it is con-