The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-25
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(Continued from First Page) having reason to complain of their treatment the New Haven girls were shown a decided preference. Counting the chance to make the normal appoint ment list and then if not, on that to get into the schools by proving their worth in other places, they had a double chance. and if they failed to get posi- tions here then it was their own fault. He said that in the selection of the first twenty a number of girls from out of town who had made better records at the normal school were skipped in favor of the New Haven girls and he declared they would practically all de- sire appointments here even at the low salaries paid if they could get them
 Colonel Ullman then scored the bas- in@ of merit on the stand made at the normal school. T am not at all sure" said he, ''that this method of stand Is not all theory. Some municipalities re- . 9uire their employees to be citizens or at least residents, and the rule works well As large employer of labor I have often been surprised by the work
 
 uDrecommended.'
 Colonel Ullman favored the appoint { Ing of all New Haven girls to flll va cancies, going as far down the list of normal school graduates each year as possible. instead of drawing the line at the first half. T believe that New Haven taxpayers. who pay for the schools, desire this, and you can't man. age anything for long without the good will of the public"
 '"Then you believe in being more lib- eral," said MT. Moran, Gin appointments and more strict in wedding out those who prove unfit?" Colonel Ullman an- swered in the affirmative. There are some teachers in your schools to-day who are not competent to teach'
 That class comes from appointing the ragged edge list, remarked MT. Jackson.
 T don't think so" was the coloners reply. T am in favor of giving New Haven teachers an opportunity to make good, and where they areAincompetent teachers they should be retired, no mat tr how long they have taught, and good
 
 are in the second half of the list in many instances teachers who, if given chance, would make good as quickly as those in the first half"
 Colonel Ullman said he agreed in the making of the first appointments as he could think of no better way of do- ing it. but that New Haven girls who receive diplomas from the normal school should be used down to the bot tom of the list to fill vacancies occur ring during the year instead of getting out side teachers. If they have a di- plcma from the normal school it is either good or no good. If girl has a normal school diploma it should be evidence that she is qualified to teach. I don't think those who have failed to make good there should be comGelled to plough the dust of country roads,"
 Reply to this was made by the school committee that some girls were quali- fed to teach in country schools who would not come up to the requirements of the city schools.
 Bids were opened last night for the of two room school on Quin- nipiac avenue, The bids were not very complete nor well itemized, and were referred to the committee on buildings with these alternatives, either to reject and re-advertise for bids or to go to the board of finance, and if the sum needed could be appropriated to ac- cept. Bids for building the structure complete ranged from that of Gibburd & lAugur with Kelly and Thalberg, $7,6S2; Fogarty and Kelly, $7,7S1, and B. H. Clark, with the work of Kelly and Thalberg, $S,S25.
 A communication from the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, advocat- ing the salary schedule asked for by the teachers, was read and referred to the committee on schools