Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
SCHOOL OUTRAGE
STlRS CITIZENS
GREAT MASS MEETING HELD AT
SIMPSON AUDITORIUM
obstructionists Who Opposed School
Bonds Denounced at Gathering
of Patriotic Residents Seek
ing Means of Relief
JOSEPH H. SCOTT
President of School Board
tContinued from Page One,


Moore, superintendent of schools, who
made an earnest plea for the schools.
Applaud Superintendent
City Superintendent E. c. Moore,
who was greeted with spontaneous ap-
plause which indicated better than
words the confidence in which he is
held by the fathers and mothers of
his charges, explained the difficulties
with which a teacher is beset, and told
of some of the almost impossible
qualifications which a successful
school superintendent should possess.
He said that he never before knew OF
mass meetings being necessary to
arouse interest in the schools
IF the school superintendent is in
competent, get rid of him. advised
the speaker, but don't start to burn
ing down the school houses"
He declared that the discipline of the
schools is necessary to the success Of
a nation; that the best tribute to the
school system here is paid every year.
where children stand in line to go TO
school; that the worst tribute is that
Los Angeles does not provide enough
schools
He said that ten or twelve more ele-
mentary school buildings are needed
and that, by the time these are pro-
vided, we shall need as many more.
Support the school system, and not
any one connected with it," were his
parting words of advice.
Herald Is Commended
In introducing Thomas E. Gibbon.
Mr. Finlayson commended the Herald
for its work for the harbor and the
aqueduct and declared that Mr.. Glib
bon, as editor of The Herald, is today
battling with his pen and his voice
for yet worther object, the preser-
walton of the public school system.
Mr.. Gibbon addressed his audience
as proud citizens of a city of remark
able history and remarkable growth,
a city which, no matter what the need,
always responded and declared that
people outside Of Los Angeles can
hardly credit the conditions which
exist in regard to our schools, in
county which the state board of equali-
zation has said is the richest county
outside of New York. He declared
that the people are not to blame for
this, the most remarkable and serious
thing which ever confronted this COM
munity.
He declared that we should find out why
It Is so and then, disclaiming any personal
feeling in regard to the person who, he de-
FInrG0. IL
exist, he began recital Of facts which
prove cOnclusively that TO the door of City
Auditor Mushet can he laid the blame for
the deplOrable state of affairs which makes
ft necessary to call public meetings Of the
citizens of this city to raise the money
necessary to house their school children.
Three Chapters in Story
There were three chapters in the
arraignment Of the city auditor the
first of which dates back to April.
1908. The city council had been asked
nv the board of education for 81, 443,
900, the smallest amount with which,
IN addition to the state and county
taxes, they could support the schools.
This was scaled down by the council
TO 81. 1893, 900, of $4,000 less than the
amount asked for.
Then followed the Colingword dias-
fer in Ohio, in which almost 200 pupils
were incinerated. and followed a da-
mand by the people that the school
children of Los Angeles be protected
from such a holocaust. The board
with an already depleted exchequer,
was compelled to expend almost S50,000
more to make the wooden buildings
safe.
Mr.. Gibbon declared that the city auditor,
for sOme reason Of his own, had conceived
a dislike to the school board, and that ito
Justify the quarrel stated that the board
had received all it asked for from the city
council and more than they expected from
the state taxes, statements which the
speaker said were false.
In the controversy which followed
In which charges Of mismanagement