The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-13

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when the discovery was made. The
Sepia Theodorensis is, figuratively
speaking, our meat, though We know,
of course, that a mollusk can have
neither flesh nor blood.
We remarked the other day that
Commissioner mcfarland was an
adept at setting up men of straw, but
our evening contemporary can give
the Commissioner cards and spades
at this game, and yet win out. When
cornered, it deliberately ignores the
real issue and sets up one of its own
making. 1t attempts to do this in the
school scandal"
No one has cast any reflections
upon the body of school teachers, as
the ''Star" asserts On the contrary,
we have always said, and we say so
now, that a finer body of men and
women. morally and intellectually.
does not exist anywhere. Yet, like
everything human, it is subject to
shortcomings. A black sheep exists
in every flock. The healthiest organ
ism is subject, at times, to humors.
We would correct that, but in doing
so it is not necessary for us to as
sumo that the whole body is diseased.
We, certainly, do not. The Star
asserts, in order to divert attention
from its nefarious activity, that we
do It is playing the part of a cuttle-
fish.
No one ever thought of charging
''criminality" to anyone connected
with the school organization. The
Star" says that criminality was
charged. In saying so it says what
it probably knows to be untrue. The
charge, if charge it can be called, was
'indiscretion" The 'indiscretion
was admitted-was admitted jby the
school trustee to Commissioner Mac
fariand In the face of this admitted
"indiscretion," however, the Commits
sioners find that the charges are dis
proved" How did they, we ask,
manage to persuade themselves that
admitted facts are, or can be. dis
proved. except, indeed, upon the hy-
pothesis that the confession was
made in a trance? Answer US that,
oh learned Theban! And, again, we
say that, in accusing The Times of
having charged "criminality'' to any
one, the Star is playing the part OF
a cuttlefish.
We understand, of course-and
everybody who has taken the trouble
to investigate this unsavory subject
understandable but for certain in
fuences brought to bear upon Com
missioner mcfarland this whole mat
ter would have been disposed Of
and disposed of in the right way
long ago. Our present concern is to
ascertain what those influences were
and who it was that set them in mo-
ton. The fact that some one is at
tempting to raise false issues--set-
ting up. for instance, as a defender Of
school teachers, when, God knows
they do not require any defender
and TO darken the mire. in which he
is aimlessly fioundering about, still
further by ejecting, cuttlefish fashion
copious quantities of ink, lays himself
open to the suspicion that he has
something to hide which cannot af-
ford to see the light of day.
Yes, the discovery of new speci-
men of cephalopod 'ih our midst" is
an important event. How the man
ayers of that greatest show on
EARTH" which left us a few days ago
must gnash their teeth when they
shall learn that only a few hours sep
arated them from the chance of &C.
curing an attraction, compared witt
which the human ostrich" and the
''Circassian Beauty would have look
ed like penny-in-the-slot machines
placed in front of the Treasury of the
United States. But he is ours. now
ours. Wen stay by him, we stick Il
him. And long may he live, the new
Sepia Theodorensis!