Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-10-04

such work, it does not seem strange
that mistakes should occur, Any ex-
aiming board, however, holds itself
at all timesTeady and willing to rec
tify any errors, and has often made
corrections, as every county superin-
tendent IN the state will attest.
AT the last examination in this
county, Mr. Smith graded reading,
physiology, theory and practice, and
U. S. constitution. Miss Hughes
graded U. S. history, geography,
arithmetic and bookkeeping. Mr.
Tadlock graded grammar, orthogra-
ply, penmanshlp and natural philos-
opby. 1t is common custom for each
examiner to look over his work after
grading to prove 1t and correct any
errors, clerical or otherwise, which
may have been made. This Miss
Hughes and Mr.. Tadlock had done
before turning over their manuscripts.
The HERALD understands from both
Mr., Smith and his clerk, Miss Edna
Daniel, that a number of anxious ap-
plicants were eager to know whether
they had succeeded before they en-
gagged schools; that because of this
hurry large number of the grades
IN theory and practice, and constitu-
ton, were entered on the schedule
before being proven; that afterward,
on regarding, before the certificates
were issued, MIR. Smith made cor
rections in grades of a number of
persons, including Winifred Move
Emerson Shoecraft, Jennie OConnor,
Efie Burlington, Kate Tadlock and a
number of others whose names can
not be given except by reference to
the records, and Mr.. Smith, the GUS
todian of the records, is not in the
city. After the averages were all
computed, the superintendent entered
the grades and names on the blank
certificates, and the examiners then
signed the certificates as prepared by
the superintendent, without any
reference at all to the grades The
superintendent's statement as to his
grades, and to the averages, is GER
tainly good authority.
These are the facts IN NUTSHELL
No attempt has been made at conceal
ment. IL it is wrong to correct errors
in one case 1t is wrong in all cases. If
it is wrong for the county superin-
tendent to correct a clerical error in
his records, why does not the sensa-
ton writer OF the Dispatch find the
page after page of erasures in the
present county clerks records too
awful to be endured?
The HERALD makes the positive
statement that j. M. Tadlock had
nothing whatever to do with the
grades in U. S. constitution or theory
and practice, nor with any changes
that were made on the schedule or
records, and we challenge the Dis
patch or any ono else, to assert that
he did.
The HERALD understands that three
or four inquisitive ''redeemers" went
SO far in their Investigations as to re-
move some Of the records from the
superintendent Office. The Dispatch
editor says Emerson Shoecraft, Clar-
ence Lowe, L. E. Countryman, and
Arthur HARDWOOD were present during
his investigation. II any changes
we're made on the records other than
those authorized by Mr.. Smith, who
knows but some of these would-be i'm
maculates made said changes while
they had the books over in the county
clerks Office. A paper that will de-
liberately lie as the Dispatch has done
might also do other questionable acts.
Come, Mr.. Dispatch, answer, by what
right and by whose authority were
those books taken out Of the superin-
tendents Office in his absence? If
you have any extra affidavits in your
pockets, You may need them to prove
the books were not tempered with
while out Of the superlntendents
Office, in care of certain "redeemers,"
Besides answering this, the Dis
patch must explain why, in its first
great expose (0 it lied SO shamelessly
in reference to the Marvin school dis
trict meeting, before it Is in any con-
dition to pursue this matter further.
Mr.. Smith and Miss Daniel are both
out of the city, but the HERALD has