Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-28
THE VOTERS OPPORTUNITY.

acter of the old boards. Recent!
the present board received a com
munication from a local man inquir
ing about some vases he presented
to the Board of Education for Tho
high school lawn-some time ago. The
communication called attention tt
the fact that one of the vases wal
then adjoining the front yard of on,
of the citizens of the city. An inves
tigation was made and it was founC
that the vase was in the possession
of George Moore, a. former school
commissioner. When MFR. Moore was
asked about it he said that he had
been presented with the vase by
another school commissioner while
he was a member of the school board.
1t seems the vases were placed in
the basement of the school building
for a time while alterations were
made to the grounds outside. They
never made their appearance on the
lawn again.
Naturally, the person who present
ed the vases to the Board of Educa-
ton was indignant that the gifts
had been treated in this manner.
The present board took the matter
up with Mr.. Moore with the result
that the vase was returned to the
school building and in the spring
both of them will appear on the lawn
where they belong. This instance
only leads up to the question, how
many other things belonging to the
schools have been presented" to the
different commissioners who have
held office under the old system?
But last year the people decided
to abolish the old ward representa-
ton in the school board and to
choose the members from the city at
large instead. Until the people could
hold an election to select the men to
serve under the new system, the
Board of Aldermen, last winter,
nine men to act until the next
election should be held. In doing
this the aldermen, realizing the pub
lie feeling, picked the highest class
men available from both political
parties. Men were selected who
have not been affiliated with politics
and who were thoroughly capable of
managing the schools for the great
est good to all concerned.
Who are the men that were
named?
John K. sheehy,
Charles r. Fletcher,
Edward L, Gridley,
Carl G. Christensen, go"
julius Klein,
Louis M. Rossi,
James j. Harrigan.
Henry w. Jones,
Frank X. Urbanski.
Can anyone bring any charge
against any of them? Can anyone
give any real reason why any one of
them should not preside over our
public schools?
For what reason, then. would you
turn them down at the coming cleo
ton? Why would you Dust them
before they have even served one
year?
Because they are not straight re-
publieans? Aye, but four of them
are republicans, so straight that an
effort was made by the republican
city committee TO get one of them to
accept the nomination for mayor ON
the straight republican ticket when
the slate was being made up.
For what reason, then, would you
turn them out of office? Hav< they
not made good in every particular?
Are they not thoroughly up-to-date
in everything they do? Do they not
devote much of their valuable time
to the school affairs?
We have already told of the dill
gence of one of the members in
watching the building of a wall at
| one of the schools and of being ae-
cused of having the contract himself
because of the close attention he was
giving to the job. Are not they the
kind Of men we want in public Office
in Perth Amboy?
These men are not in politics.
They are known as a non-partisan
board. When the appointments were