The Green Forest tribune., 1894-01-18
PROF. CRAWFORD REjOIAs.
HE FEELS ENTITLED 10 TIE RIGHT OF CLOS
ING TIE DISCUSSION BRIEFLY,
confining His Remarks to Matters Relating to
the Teachers and tne Library Associations

Special Correspondence to TIE TRIBUNE.
We do not desire to weary the public
with personal discussion, bat since
Prof. Clarke has seen fit to get as an
cry as small school boy and descend
to calling names, l wish to offer a
good-humored reply anG submit few
facts. l will not take advantage of a
slip of the pen, naming one month for
another, but continue to assert, as the
record will show, that the Carrollton
Association did instruct the President
to call meeting, III March perhaps in
stead Of February, bat meeting never
theless.
Why it was not called then has not
been told. Because the program COM
mittee failed in their duty was no ex-
euse for faiinre on the part of the Pres
ident. We might have formed an i'm
promptu program as was done at the
first meeting. Why the Association
was not called in June when more than
sixty teachers, most of them
members, were present, is not
yet explained although Prof.
Clarke gives extended reasons for not
calling a especial meeting" IN May when
nobody Would expect one.
He says, 81 asked, through the coun-
ty newspapers, that meeting be held
on the day succeeding the teachers ex-
animation in September" Yet when
the teachers assembled for that exam
ination the subject was not referred to
by the President and the general un-
derstanding among them was that no
meeting was to be held.
Why this wonderful change of inter-
est go soon | well remember the
meeting at Green Forest, where We
were SO kindly treated, with IS mem
bers present and that the boast was
loudly made that we had the best as
sociation in the State and Prof. Barnett
told us of the compliments passed on
our former work by State Superintend-
ent Shinn. Prof. Clarke was present.
Why did he not say to us all, as he did
in his "answer," :" THAT assumption is
not warranted by the facts and call
the whole association ''egotistical'
ard "preyericators" as he did me? |
only quoted their words as | believed
(and still believed them to be true.
Regarding the library matter, Prof.
G. S. Barnett selected the set purch ased
and we raised about $40 at q single
meeting, while nothiI has been done
now for over one year. Prof Clarke
SAYS, "Doubtless the association will
raise means at its neXtmeeting to hqui-
date all just claims against it," When
will its next meeting be? If no time
was found "edvisable" in 1898, will the
year 1894 prove better?
If the beautiful sentiments expressed
in the latter part of his article with
regard to teachers associations, had
been put into practice we would have
had four profitable meetings last year
instead of none. I sincerely hope that
this discussion, though not beneficial
to the participants, may arouse to ac-
ton the teachers of the county and
that at call of the President we may
have a grand meeting soon.
To the various charges of "untruth, y
prevericator, egotistical, ""spleen'
and ignorance" / can only say that
the facts prove the truth Of every asser-
ton made in either Of my articles. No
true teacher will ever use such coarse
language and vituperation in a public
journal. With hope that our further
writing NAV all be in the line Of encour-
agement to teachers, am,
Respectfully,
w, d. CRAWFORD.
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