The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
OUR SCHOOLS.

1t is the duty Of the citizens of
Washington to stand by the Board
of Education against thoee who would
destroy our public school system.
The removal of one man from the
public schools, for acts of inSubordi
nation should not cause the people TO
20 into Mysteries. The testimony as
far as it went, in the opinion of The
Bee SuStainS the contention of the
Board of Education and these iniunc-
tion proceedings should be at once
dismissed by the court. If the courts
uphold such SubtcTfuge the public
school system in the city will amount
10 nothing. The present board of
education is one of the best the people
ever had, and so far as Superinten-
dent Chancellor is concerned. he
should be given an opportunity to
show what he can do. 1t is firmly
believed that he will make one of the
best SuperintendentS that has ever
been at the head of our schools. This
talk that the board is not properly
constituted is all Subterfuge. Strange
that il has Just been found out since
the board is investigating a teacher
against whom there are charges of
writing a letter. This recent act
demonstrated weakness of the defense.
1t is not believed that the board in
tended to take snap judgment or not
to give the teacher a fair trial. Ev-
cry indication showed that the board
was fair. President Bird, and indeed
every member of the board declared
if CardOzO proved his innocence that
he would not be removed. Why did
he not then continue and put in his
defense? The board doesn't mean TO
be bulldOzed by any such Subterfuges.
1t is not believed that any member of
the board IS biased. The contention of
the defense is that the present board
of education was not properly created
BY an act of Congress. What Aim-
Sy plea. Congress did give the Judges
of the Supreme Court authority to
appoint a Board of Education. Nine
members were appointed at the time.
Mrs. Brewer declined TO serve. Does
the defense mean to say because one
member was not present that the acts
of the other members of the board
are contrary TO law? No more so
than the acts of the judges of the
Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia or the decision of one Judge
of the police court who acts in the
absence of the other. If the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia IS
properly constituted certainly the
Board of Education is. The Supreme
Court will certainly not nullify its
own act by declaring that the Board
it created is improperly constituted.
If il did, il would revolutionize the
| public school system. The bill of the
defense will not hold and when it is
argued before Justice Clabaugh it
will be seen that the defense saw its
doom. hence this subterfuge. The
defense of Mr.. CardozO will turn
out like the case of Mrs. Taylor,
who applied for a mandamus to COM
pei the Secretary of War to reinstate
her TO her former position after she
had been dismissed for writing arti-
Cles against the President. She car
ried her case to the Supreme Court
of the United States and Mrs. Tay-
lor was a wiser woman after the de-
cision of that court. The Supreme
Court cannot uphold the petition of
the defense. 1t will not declare its
own acts illegal by creating the Board
| of Education. 1t cannot and it will