Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-06-06
Am INorIsIToRIAL FARCE.


THE Board Education requested City Solicitor
Hastings to conduct the investigation OF the public
school administration in this city That is all right
far it goes, but it does not go far enough
doubts the honesty Of purpose which will act
City Solicitor the performance of that work
If he undertake The trouble is that he will be trying
his before packed jury, in other words the
members of the Board Of Education. As those who
that board already have asserted that every
thing connected with the antor controlled system is
all right the verdict resulting from such an invest
cation is a foregone conclusion regardless of the ear
and honesty of purpose underlying the work
of the City Solicitor.
other words a that already had been judged,
with incorporate uterances, by dominating members
the board would be trial and the handing down
Of the verdict would be a mere Formally easy Of
accomplishment 1t would be following the waste
of the City Solicitors time in conducting vaueess
investigation under biased partisan auspices.
Citizens teachers and pupils who know the imper-
fections Of the existing school administrations
going waste their time by becoming parties to a
whitewashng expedition in which the members Of the
Board Education will sit in judgment upon them
selves. No matter how much they may respect the
City Solicitor they naturally will be placing
in his hands evidence against who to sit in
judgment upon such evidence and Who in certain in
stances would have it within their power to
reprisals Of sinister nature against those supplying
the information
Those who hopeful that the present agitation
will result in the curing those things which should
be cured in Department of Education are not so
thick to be unable to fathom the purposes of the
Board Education who have BEEN still are under
fire. Realizing that the Board Education investiga-
ton and verdict planned merely TO head off a real
investigation verdict they will refrain from sub
hitting to such unnatural and unfit tribunal the
matters they would gladly lay before natural and 1t
tribunal In other words they will ignore the Baynard
Cooper investigation which will in nothing more
m Of a NJ WIFI and Ste
mutual application.
We have a suggestion to make to the industrious
clique that controls the Board Of Education that
they have gone to the extent OF endeavoring to use
the City Solicitor to lend respectabty to their nves
tgation scheme. II is that the board request City
Council to appoint special committee investigate
the Department OF Educaon that the City Solicitor
requested to act in conjunction with that committee;
and that the Board of Education an act precedent
to the opening Of that real investigation before i'm
partial judges, enter into written and binding agree
ment not TO strike at the bread and butter of any
teacher at the educational standing of any pupil
who nay go before that Councimanic committee and
give testimony OF a truthful nature.
OF thing President Baynard and his associates
may rest assured That is that the Wilmington public
is not going to be party to the prevailing scheme
which is to permit the members of the board to sit
in judgment upon themselves and their own sins Of
omission and commission.
To the extent Of public participation or the getting
vi iaVls from nOse whose bread and butter or whose
educational standing in the schools would be at the
mercy Of the Board of Education clique the investi-
cation now proposed by the board will prove to be
nothing more than inQuisitoral farce eliminating
In the distribution Of certificates OF absolute innocence
If proper expedition be exercised those certificates
OF innocence may be distributed to the members at the
June commencement exercises simultaneously with the
distribution of diplomas to those students who declined
to be forced by the Board of Education to entertain
their parents and friends in a whitewashed basement