Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-10
SUPERINTENDENT Of
MUTE SCHOOL REPLIES
Places the Blame for Charges of Mis-.
management Upon Il. Il. VinsOn,
Whom He Claims Is IrrespOn.
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With statements that Il. Il. Vinson,
who has made charges derogatory to
the management Of the Oregon School
for Deaf Mutes is disgrunted because
he has not been recommended for re-
instatement in Gallaudet College, from
which he is said to have been dis
charged for misconduct, and because
he was refused a position in the Ore
gon school on account of his record,
Superintendent e. S. Tillnghast re-
plies to the statements made by Vim
son, in recent newspaper articles.
Superintendent Tillinghast says
ut Is a satisfaction to have revealed
the real source Of the covert and SLAM
derous attacks which have been made
upon the management of the state
school for deaf The source, it ap-
pears, is b. E, Vinson, who graduated
from the Oregon school in 1906, five
months before the present superin-
'tendent took charge of the school.
"Vinsons record in school was bad.
The following fall he entered Galludet
college, Washington, d. c. In his
second year he was expelled for mis-
conduct, upon petition of his fellow
students. He asked me to plead for
his reinstatement, which | could not
conscientiously do. Later still he
asked me for a position as super
visor and teacher Of printing. This
was compelled to deny him on his rec
ord. One reason for this was that he
intimated to a present teacher in the
school that he had to get out Of Van
couver, B. c., because the police were
after him as a gambler.
Having no reputation to lose, Vim
son can easily afford to take advant-
age Of an opportunity to make charges
against a public official. Naturally
such a gentleman does not think Of
teaching the deaf gardening and farm
ing and agricultural pursuits, the
opinion Of the great majority Of lead
ing educators Of the deaf, to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. But in other
trades, including Woodworking, sew
ing, cooking, leather working and
printing the Oregon school received
the gold medal at the Alaska Yukon
fair, in competition with the Califor-
MIA, Washington and Utah schools, all
larger and having almost double the
financial resources of the Oregon
school But, of course, for such a
gentleman such a fact could have lit
. tile significance.
at is significant that he must 90
back over IA years to find something
on which to base personal attack on
me-, and allege that was at that time
discharged from the superintendency
of the Montana school, when the facts
are that resigned over the protest
of majority Of the board, having ac-
cepted a position in Danville, Ky, at
the same salary, in far more desir.
able location, that this board author
lied me to name my successor and
further to discharge such teachers and
employees in the school as had caused
dissention.
Not a parent Of the SO pupils in the
Oregon school has made complaint re-
garding the trades instruction fur
nished the pupils The only appro-
prlation over $4,000 asked of the
1911 legislature was for an industrial
building, for which $13,5Oo was asked,
yet the charge is made that trades
teaching is neglected,
"The present management will well
come the most searching investigation
into these matters, that good may
come of evil"