The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-17
.HIL0 PAPER HOT
ON P0PE'S TRIAL
Declares Head Of department Of
Education Has Method in
his Madness.

says,
"when superintendent Of Public In.
stfuetion Pope utterly refused 70 lot
Supervisor Lewis have information
about the salary OF tho public school
teachers, and whom no added that the
salaries were secret, which only the
commissioners Of education must know
there was without doubt great deal Of
method in his madness $3.50
ga comparison Of the secret salary
list and the schedule OF teaehers
salaries, the one showing the salaries
which should be paid, and the other
giving the salaries which are actually
paid, gives tho reaSOn for Pope's un-
precedented desire for secrecy.
"Tho superintendent, quite naturally,
does not wish the publication of the
absolute proof Of the truth Of tho
charges which have been made against
him, which these Documents con-
tain -
ga casual examination OF the figures,
in comparison with the official salary
schedule, will show same extraordinary
things.
cit will show that old teachers, who
have been in the service of the depart
mont for years, some of them for con-
siderably over decade, some Of thom
holding very responsible positions, are
being paid below the schedule.
"And it will show that other teach
ers, who have just entered the service
of the department, are being paid
salaries larger than those to which they
are entitled according 60 the schedule.
And these are, in almost every case,
the imported malihinis with whom Pope
is trying to supplant the veterans in
the service, to whom he gives all the
best positions, thereby depriving the
old employees of the department from
the chances Of promotion to which their
long service should entitle them.
HThese and other plain violations Of
the rules Of the department may be
found by a study OF the information
which Pope wanted kept dark.
And Roast.
Editorially the Tribune, In Tuesday 3
issue, says:
"The answer which Superintendent
Of Public Instruction Pope makes TO
the charges produced by Supervisor
Lewis would be funny, were il not for
the deplo1bleness Of the fact that a
man holding his responsible position,
as the one who should lead in the In
struction Of the Island youth, should
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pudence and recklessness which is
peculiarly foolhardy in view of the fact
that the control of tho public school
system by the counties Is n menace
which is but slumbering, one which
! such indiscretions as are now being
committed by the superintendent may
easily cause to become an exceedingly
live issue.
"'Of course, the Tribune has to take
for granted that Pope has been quoted
correctly in the interviews from him
published by the Honolulu papers.
Pope says that one reason why he
did not give Lewis the information he
wanted was because his Office staff had
not the time to make it out. In view
fof the fact that this staff costs about q
Thousand dollars month, whereas n
few years ago, when the work was not
much greater than it is now, the staff
did not cost one half of that amount,
Pope 3 excuse is a lame one.
"Pope says that it has never been
the policy Of the department to send
out the salaries to any one, except tho
commissioners. This is not true. The
writer of this has, when newspaper
reporter in Honolulu, received such lists
under former administrations of the
department of public instruction.
'fPope says that he viii not give out
information for political purposes. In
80 far us Pope desires to keep the do.
partment of public instruction out of
politics, the Tribune is inclined to agree
with him most heartily. On the other
hand one may carry one's fight for an
ideal 80 far as to ha impractical. II
would seem that in this ease Pope has
done 30, particularly in view Of the
fact that Lewis Is quite likely to be,
within little over year, a member
Of the senate, in which case IL Is more
than probable that Pope, when II comes
to the matter of the confirmation OF
his appointment, will regret that he has
not been just little bit more polite.
However, leaving politics aside,
Lewis would seem to be entitled to the
information In view OF the fact that he
Is member Of the commission, created
by the last legislature, which has been
given the duty 10 act as a safety valve
against extravaganee on the part Of the
department Of public Instruction
FuTihHmoFe, ~ the county has 10 look
after tho school buildings, soma inter
est on IS part in tho other phases Of
the school system seems quite natural
"Pope says, according 70 the Homo
luiu papers, that al the supervising
principals named by tho THbupe last
week we're, with 0Bp exception, up
pointed before be took ollleo, aud thai
they have been drawing tho same
salaries ~ The time The absolute
falulfy II lhis statement, a least, ~
/ ~ ns this ISLAND u concerned, h eyi
dent up until the bennRlng of THE
school term this island bad bat iNl
supervising principles, besides Mlsl
nege, namely hlng an0 NoeluekfY
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