Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-21
CITIZENS ACCUSE
HEAD OF SOUTH
ORANGE SCHOOLS
Claim Leftover Soups and
Sandwiches Are Served
to Pupils.

IT am getting tired of having vague
charges brought I'll which almost IN
sinuate that this Is q body of graftefs.
Up to the present time none of the
charges nave been substantiated." Thus
smoke School Trustee G. Clifford Jones,
of South Orange, al a meeting of the
Board Of Education, following a series
of verbal complaints made by residents
of the village affecting members of the
board and the school faculty. The ses-
sion was one of the liveliest held by
the board In years. Every seat in the
meeting room was occupied and the
corridors by parents and children.
The lunch counter in Columbia School
was condemned. The board was
charged with having started Principal
William E. Freeman in the restaurant
business and in a money-maline
scheme. 1t was charged that inferior
food was being sold at the school lunch
counter, causing the illness of a child.
Unjust and partial treatment by teach
ers and members of the school faculty
TO pupils was alleged, and 1t was
charged that a boycott is being led by
members of the faculty against a
nearby store. Principal Freeman was
cdlu " NC Qllul lOI Ills Pcoilloht law
suit threats were made. and 1t was de-
clared by two fathers hat they would
not allow their children to attend CO.
luribia School until conditions change
f'Until all of these charges have been
threshed out and ~substantiated this
bbard will stand by the superintendent,
principal and teachers of the school,
said President Charles G.. Fielding, OF
ALL Tp~-uI - THa.,As~- I1ot1a, will hn
set for hearings by the building and
teachers committee.
Most Of the charges were brought
about through Henry Robinson, OF
Ward place. who said his 14-year-old
son Henry had been told by his teacher
that he would not be graduated this
year. because of his failure to pass a
spelling test. The boy was expelled
last week for a period of five days, ac-
cording to Mr.. Robinson, because he
left the school building and went into
a nearby store for his lunch. This. Mr..
Robinson admitted, was in violation of
the rules of the school, but declared it
insufficient reason for the capital
punishment" he received.
II deinan an apology from the prin-
cipal for acting in such an arbitrary
manner. I intend to fight to the very
end In order to raise my children PROP
erly and hav engaged counsel to help
me do So" said Mr.. Robinson.
The protestant said he had In his
possession a sworn affidavit to the effect
that the food sold at the school lunch
counter is don so in the principals
name. Food, he asserted, Is much more
expensive at the school counter han 1t
can be procured at a restaurant. Let
tuce sandwiches, he averred, were sold
at five cents each and If any are left
over they are sold at a three-cent spe-
cial. Left over soups are sold the next
day, he declared, Inc this, with other
inferior food, which he was informed
was sold, caused a boy to contract
stomach trouble.
Mr.. Robinson charged that a pupil
In Columbia School by the name of
Margaret Lutz, ~ years old, had been
forced by a teacher, despite a protest
to abandon her lessons and wash dishes
at the lunch counter, for which she
receives az sandwich or two or what.
aver Is left over. He said he had an
affidavit taken by his attorney, Nathan
Kussy, to that effect. He said he had
been told by the girl that the teacher
i%nsinuated that she would have the
child sent to reform school unless she
washed the dishes.
Had my son received the usual
tuition he certainly would not be de-
fcient in any subject" Mr.. Robinson
stated.