The Washington herald., 1907-11-19
FACES MANY CHARGES
DR.. Chancellor Must Stand
Trial Next Saturday.
FORMAL ACTION TO GUST HIM
Secretary of the Board of Education
serves the Superintendent of the
Schools with Copy of Complaint
and Notice Of Hearing-Mandnmus
May BE Invoked If He Is Removed.

After several days of preliminary skirm |
ishing IN which many verbal hot shots
were exchanged and the lists Of the
sorely wounded grew daily. the battle
between Or. William Z. Chancellor. su-
perintendent Of schools in the District Of
Columbia, and the board OF education, has
been postponed.
But the pOstponement is only the lull
before the storm. because at 3 o'clock
Saturday afternoon next, DR.. William T.
Chancellor will so before the board of
education to face a list OF charges pre-
pared by that boards attorney, Stuart
Mcnamara. and filed yesterday with the
secretary of this decapitating machine.
the board Of education.
Under the act OF Congress. passed IN
1895. regulating the schools Of the DIS
trict, there was provision which runs
right merrily in this fashion:
"The board shall have power to remove
the superintendent at any time for ade-
Quate cause affecting his character and
efficiency as superintendent"
VIII Hear Charges Read
Therefore. the board Of education. which
appointed DIR. Chancellor, win either dis
charge him or retain him with skirts
cleaned. The board preferred the charges
through its special counsel 1t is now
going TO take the trouble to go up TO
the Franklin school and hear them read
to Or. Chancellor, and after he or his
attorney has answered them as best they
may. the board Of education will decide
what shall be done.
The charges against Or. Chancellor.
which were submitted to the secretary
Of the board Of education yesterday morn
ing by fits attorney, were served on Dr,
Chancellor in tho afternoon by this sec
retary. The attorneys for DIT. Chancellor
Will be Leckie Pulton, and Cox. AS these
attorneys have not received n copy OF
the charges, II IS not known what defense
viii be made by them.
Although Congress. in the act men
toned, seems 10 most people TO have
gone a long ways toward the bestowal
| Of executive, judicial. and a few other
| powers on this board OF education, IL is
not considered that the action Of that
board viii be az all final. provided Dr.
/ William Z. Chancellor, whose official
head seems to be hanging by very thin
| thread, decides TO continue the fight In
case he IS ordered out after the meeting
| OF Saturday afternoon
An attorney, who would not be quoted.
! said yesterday there IS no question that
any court would grant a writ of man
/ damus to DR.. Chancellor, requiring the
| board Of education 10 show cause why
/ he has been dismissed. II such action is
/ taken. AS DIT. Chancellor has proclaimed
! his intention to 70 on with this night
/ IS O1aar fra
viii. after the hearing Of Saturday. resort
20 a court OF law.
Burden of the Proof
The burden of the proof of these
charges against DR.. Chancellor, accord
/ ing 10 this attorney. VIII rest with the
board Of education, but at the same time
/ the burden. or. possibly, relief, Of dis
/ charging the doctor will also rest with
that board. Although on few occasions
only 1t has been found necessary to
make hearing OF the nature Of the
one Of Saturday one Of record, it IS not
known now whether this VIII be done
or not As the evidence TO be given.
however. before the board on Saturday
may be OF great use in case an appeal
is taken to the courts, such procedure
is possible.
The charges fled yesterday cover a
large amount Of time and hit DR.. Chan
ceIor IN about every visible place. The
first IS that OF incompetency and inef-
| fciency as superintendent. Under A.
this says DR.. Chancellor, In substance, is
suffering from neurasthenia and "con-
scientiousness," and a few more diseases
OF long words.
His tendency 10 denounce the school
board is mentioned also under this head
The charge is wound up with the saying
that, suffering with all these aGtectives,
4 personal pronouns, and verbs, Dr. Chan
cellor Is unfit 20 be superintendent Of
Il schools. because he can't discharge the
duties thereof. "B" OF this charge says
Il DR.. Chancellor has gained the an
tagOnism of the board Of education, OF
officers, teachers. and others, so that life
. isn't anything like a dream in educa-
tional circles in the District For this
reason he should be removed, says the
paper.
In paragraph &C" under this same
, heading, the doctor is politely but volumi-
nously told that he prevaricated to that
lsedate body, the board Of education. about
the organization Of an advisory commit
tee. 1t Is alleged in this paragraph that
! the duties which DR.. Chancellor delegated
to this committee, belonged to himself
In 1907 the indictment says, the board OF
education found out about this commit
tee, called the doctor before ii, and he
It is alleged, straightway denied any par
ticipation IN the affair.
Short and Sweet.
Paragraph ID" is short but exceedingly
sweet It says DR.. Chancellor needlessly
and wastefully discarded about $1,000 text
books. The next paragraph tells how
DR.. Chancellor tried to juggle the studies
in the eighth and seventh grades, in an
attempt to switch 10 German and Latin