Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-06-23

THE trouble with the president of
the Board of School Commissioners
is-he has taken too much upon
himself. lie has accepted the jour
NAILS assaults upon the management
Of our schools as aimed personally at
him.
Nothing could be further from the
truth The JOURNAL has SAID
nothing of him that has not been
sad also Of Everybody who has had
II hand III the current system of pub
lie school management in this coun-
ty. The JOURNAL has spoken Of the
system as designed 10y law to educate
the children, but that it had been
for years run for the benefit of teach
ers, etc. This was the case before
Mr.. McCulloh went into the Board.
We have condemned the apparently
fixed judicial notion that il man, to
be eligible to the Board, must be
either non-patron of the schools or
childless-that he must in some way
be ~h0lly dcr0id Of interest in chil-
dreH. This notion, we have init
mated, has crept down from the
Bench into the Board, who, whenever
they can, appoint trustees of the
same independent character, that is,
independent of sympathy with the
children.
What is the natural result? The
interest Of the true benefciaries of
the system, the children, is the last
and least considered. it could not
be otherwise.
But the Cumberland Times calls
all these statements "shafts of vitu-
pcration' launched at Mr.. McCulloh
Impossible. If Mr.. McCulloh alone
was hit the JOURNAL missed it's
mark-that's all.
The Times continues:
We thought then, and we think now, that
we placed ourselves squarely upon this issue,
drawn under the laws of the State of Mary
land that if there were any really serious
trouble in the Frostburg school that the prop
er place to discuss it was in the rooms of the
county school commissioners and should
they fail in their duty, then might the attack
of the JOURNAL be justified.
All, you poor, little, trustful crea
ture. TO tell you the truth, you
never chIrp dissent anywhere in the
presence Of democratic authority,
real or supposed. lon sometimes
rail at republican administrations,
but never at anything that paints its
complexion with IL democratic cos
metc.
Now, reader, see further:
That we were right in this position, has
been abundantly proven by the action of the
citizens Of FroStburg, through their petition
and representatives before the school board.
in special session yesterday afternoon.
Whether the board would have granted the
requests made in the aforesaid petition is not
pertinent to this article.
Why, then, did the TimeS report
that meeting so fully? If it did not
want the public to know of the
trouble, why did it enlarge the area
Of those sacred "rooms" (plural for
room) to the extent of its circulation d?
If every session of the Board, an
nounced or unannounced, is an eX-
ecutiye session, why this immense
give away last Friday?
This course the citizens of Frostburg no
doubt intended pursuing in their own good
time, as it was their right and privilege to do.
Certainly. 1t was only the JOUR-
NAL that had no business to say or
do anything. Everybody else could
move in their own good time, but the
wv mn a l. SllOulu Sldiu SlOCk SGllI
and see the salvation of Purnell.
But does the Times know that the
time to strike the iron is when it is
hot? Does it know that :'large
bodies move slowly?' Does it know
that we have not too much time, even
now, to find and obtain the man we
want?
But the Times does not know these
things, or any other things, because
it says:
What we objected to was the persecution of
the individual by the JOURNAL. President
McCullOh denies any connivance in the ap-
pointment of Purnell, and we believe him
no matter what the JOURNAL may say.
PrOOfalOnc can convince us that Thomas &.
McCulloh would be guilty of what the jour
NAL charged.
Now, in proof, show the JOURNAL
a line it has published which Mr..
McCulloh can take as wholly reflect
ing upon himself. We will not say
"persecuting," but us even rejecting
wholly upon him? If the Times
will, then we 1cW pI0rc something,
and hU Of L, -