Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-07-07
THE Next Elimination"

great legal j"cog., gave out the opin-
ion
that the JOURNAL means to say, but don't
say that there is no one in Allegany county
able to fill the position of school examiner,
or to be more exact, that there is no one will
ing to take the position, that is fit for it.
Manifcstly, the tyros of linguistic in
depreciation i'll Cumberland find the
JOURNALS language too ''diplomatic.
They think the JOURNAL means that the
School Board, wanting Il competent exam
liner, should 60 ont of the county for him.
Not so.
In words almost crystalline the Jour
NAL, prcsuming the Board wanted a
competent dcmocr0tjc examiner, suggest
ed that imasmuch as that brand of scho-
laStic is very scarce in the county, he
should be sought outside.
The JOURNAL. still thinks 50, motwith-
standing the Tmcs' guSh to the con
trary.
Then "John y. White" printed i'll
boldface, middle q the line, top q
column. is paradcd somewhat after the
manner of the circus report
The elephant now goes round,
The band begins to play;
The boys who've eft the monkeys cage
Had better keep away.
\ culogy of Mr.. Whit" and his achieve
mcnts follows, which, i'll part. the jour
NAL will elaborate:
"For years this gentleman has done
his work we'll in the highest ranks Of
the department of public education in
this county, although, in the language
of the illegal gentleman, the aforesaid
department" has no "highcSt ranks"
'hc has brought renown to the system. =
notwithstanding "the system is not
and never was endowed with 'renown'
if, indeed, anything less than human
can he SO invested: che has hcapcd
laurelS upon the record of the school
board'-thiS without stating where he
got the ''laurels, or what school board
record has had its alabastcr "fo1rcrd"
'Ni''N't " i''i WI F@I''lI' anu, ltNIl LII
has placed upon the coronct of many Il
scholar that sprig of literary Immortality
that will indeed be potent during life's
struggle here, and perhaps, effectual
hereafter, but where are the 'nauy'
who are sporting ''Sprigs' which have
immortalized them among the sons and
daughters of eruditiOn:
If Mr.. White submits to all that with
ont prOtcst-and it seems he does-his
acquiescence very nearly settles his I'M
fitness for the Office of examiner. 1t
would be too much to say Of him if he
We're dead.
Does the JOURNAL care 10 say or does it
mean that Mr. White is not qualified for the
position of examiner?
That is what it believes and that is
what II means, as will appear further on.
Does the JOURNAL care to advise with Mr..
White aud other Alleganians candidates,
that the school board should go to alien soil
for its examiner?
Is Maryland soil "aiien?" If so, why
was j. w. $. COchranc taken after a
very short residence here:
Or does the Times mean that Pcnnsyl-
vania soil is "alien:' If so, whywas H
G. Wcimcr made examiner and SO held
for fourteen years?
Has it come to pass that Maryland news
paper advocates degradation of Maryland
citizens?
Did the JOURNAL say anything about
going ont of Maryland for an examiner {:
Not IL word.
Nevertheless, where have the laurel
crowned record with John T. White,
coronal dignitary, presiding over the
prodigal diSpensation of scholastic tiaras
where have the school boards gotten
their examiners? Whence came Mckay,
Cochranc, Wcimcr? Not one from Ale
gany.
In this connection it is said that the
people who are rushing White into en-
ployment by the School Board are very
significantly looking outvidc the county
for his successor as principal of the I'M
authorized Cumberland High School-a
way they have, it is feared, of showing
that something yet more mandy -pamby
than "immOrtelleS' is wanted in the
dCyHT curriculum of that establishment
than White can furnish Yet White is
the very man for cXamincr-the very
man to overlook the new man who fills a
place i'll which, presumably, the ovorscer
has failed,
Is that true:
Whether or not, it is pertinent to OBJ
serve that Of eight principals of Frost
burg School-all possible examiners, all
except one are the products of what the
Times calls allen soil, and he acquired
the better part of his education, outside
the State.
The Times slips into advice to the
School Board as though that body had
not already yielded to the dict"m of il
benevolent Cumberland clique known
to be afflicted with the habit of taking
care of some mOdixfr III the realm of
aesthetic learning-at public expense:
Don't go out of the county-JohnT T. White
Is the man for examiner. He is capable; he
has been tried, and he has not been found
wanting; he is the head and front of our
teaching system; he is all that an examiner