Evening journal., 1914-05-30

cover their shortcomings and lead the people look
upon them being whittier than but It will avail
them nothing The public is determined that this
school situation shall cleaned up and that too in
the right way There is practically division OF
sentiment the community in regard TO that exceed
ngy important matter, and President Baynard and his
associates will well heed the fact The patience OF
the public has been tried beyond the limit and the
time for a settlement has President Baynard may
regret that this public uprising has in the first
year Of his administration but much he may regret
IT, he ignore the fact that is here, and that it
marks his educational administration as perhaps the
most unpopular city ever has had He has had
an opportunity to do things which would please the
public and has failed do them. Instead Of stand
ing shoulder-to-shouder with the Wilmington public
in the matter Of educational reform, he has placed him
self shoulder with the High School clique
and become its silver-tongued orator and advocate
Il is not our purpose pay heed TO President Bay
nard's utterances before City Council in which he
characterized THE EVENING JOURNAL as yellow
newspaper Such characterization is the almost in
variable resort Of public private offender who
has been brought to the bar of public opinion
suit of newspaper effort It is the plea Of the ON
cial or TIN individual who, guilty of sins of omission
or commission finds himself driven into corner
with all his legitimate defenses battered down. In
other words it is the defense of the individual who
has no defense. Neither the canary-colored oratory
nor the pussy-footed methods of President Baynard
and the High School clique relieve them from the
embarrassing position in which they find them
selves or niure this newspaper in the esteem of the
public The people know that this newspaper is right
and that President Baynard and his associates
wrong There been ample evidence OF that and we
are content to upon that situation and not drag
our readers into the heart Of Chinatown the pur
eus OF Billingsgate in effort TO follow President
Baynard into the ocherized environment TO which
he has carried his hopeless controversy.
The den uds of the people with respect to the High
School are very few and very reasonable.
They want to know the secret underlying that influence
which the iantor OF the High School exercises over
certain controlling members Of the Board Of Education
and which him practically autocrat Of the
High School building.
They want to know who has been responsible for
the circulation Of lubrcious stories rejecting the
good name and the fair fame of High School teachers
and students attempted justification of that iani
torial autocracy.
They want those who have been circulating such
stories at the expense OF the womanhood and the
childhood OF Wilmington to prove their charges con-
fess themselves be cowardly assassns of private
character.
They want the superintendent of the public schools
of Wilmington to be placed in a proper and dgnifed
relation to those schools
They want the principal Of the High School to be
put in proper and a dignhed position before the
teachers. the students and the public and not kept
in such position that the boys and the girls cry
!
principal instead of the principal being the boss Of
| the ianitor.
They want the High School anitor put in his proper
relation to the teachers and student body and to
cease being an ntimidating and a terrorzing factor
| in that school.
They want the janitor to clean the High school at
such times that the teachers and the boys and girls
shall not be compelled to work in Gust-laden atmos-
phere that is preiudcial TO health and a to
life.
They want twentieth century intelligence and not
janitorial caprice applied to the ventilation of the
High School building
They want clean and decent books for the use Of
the students.
They want the front door Of the High School build
ing opened and used and they do not want from any
of the board any echerous suggestion that the
High School boys and girls not decent enough to
use that entrance and exit with proper decorum.
They want decent regard shown for the rights OF
the students and the public in the of the High
School building for public school functions.
They want the members of the board to understand
that neither at any other time they force
the intelligent decent well-dressed and orderly rea-
tives and friends of the High School students down
into : whitwashed basement to partake Of refresh
ments.
They want the members Of the board to bear in
mind the fact that the High School is owned by the
public not by clique of the Board of Education
and the janitor OF the building
lhey want SOMETHING uohe 10 shehVe tue gossip rela
tive to circumstances attending the purchase Of books
and supplies.
Those are the things the people want.
Those the things the people going to have,
II they cannot get them through President Bay
nard and his associates they will get them through
others who more responsive to the public will
II is useless for President Baynard and his associate
TO solace themselves with the thought that this il
merely gust of public resentment and that It 500
will blow and leave Smiling skies. 1t is not
: gust, but settled storm of public resentment tina
has resulted from long train Of abuse Of oficia
power II will not subsde until the reforms de
manded have been granted and chief educations
d institution has been put upon proper footing.
l. OUR NEW COMMISSIONER.
c NN AYoR HOWELL has appointed John Frankli
III Mock a member OF the Board Of Public Utlti,