The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-19
SOCIALIST TEACHER WINS.

tTnnt ANY one sent or nam"d by Lizzie
Jones IN this serious business Il
would be- very easy matter for =
crooked doctor to inject real tubercle
hacilli instead of the tuherCulin pre-.
paraiiun. There are doctors crooked
enough for anything. Comrade Sin.
clair told the man Harris that he could
not examine her. Lizzie said that
either he or the county doctor had to
do tho Job Comrade Sinclair refused
TO be examined by either.
An Accommodating School Board.
Then the man Harris and the eX-
tremely truthful Lancaster and the
hand picked school board held meet
ing At this meeting Mrs. Sinclair
was suspended as a teacher and ord
cred to quit teaching until such time
"a she could satisfy the man Harris
that she was free from tuberculosis.
Everybody knew that comrade Sin
clair was i'm perfect health. The chill
dren and the parents could not believe
the story when they first heard It,.
Nevertheless, because she is Social.
list, comrade Sinclair was compelled
to so to Seattle and subject her per-
son to the tuberculin test. 1t is n
serious business, fraught with consid-
cradle danger in these days of compe-
titive crookedness. But she had to do
1t or lose her place as teacher. The
specialist that she went to was in
credulous He couldn't believe that
there crawled creatures so low as the
Arlington patriots. He didn't want to
butt in on another doctor until he got
the lay of the land. Then he proceed
ed with the work. At the end of
twenty-four hours he pronounced
comrade Sinclair absolutely free from
She went to her own physician
whom she has known for twelve years
and this doctor also pronounced her
free from the white plague.
Contemplate Work.
Then she returned to Arlington and
presented the two certificates to the
man Harris. But the great Harris
gave her a sermon. He also gave her
husband who accompanied her a ser
mon He told them that one of the
certificates was absolutely useless.
The other he was not sure about.
Then he INDUCED in some self-praise.
He spoke about his high standing in
Arlington and flattered himself that
he was not as J. E. Sinclair. He boast
ed about his fairness and told the Sin
clairs that if he had been permitted
to direct them to a suitable doctor in
Seattle all would have been well. He
wasn't fighting the Sinclairs, oh, no!
He was just a friend of the children
and working ever so hard to keep
them from getting sick and getting
into his hospital. Only the crooked
mind of a Socialist would ever think
wrong could Turk in his sanity system.
Then it was that this sanity pill
maker was confronted with some of
his own remarks made when he was
trying to get up mob of the petty
bourgeois to run j. e. Sinclair out of
Arlington. Oh, Harris is fair! He ad-
mitted that he might have said" all
that he was charged with. He said
that he couldn't remember his exact
words.
Arlington People indignant.
However, by this time popular in
dignation was rising. Even the most
bitter enemies of the Sinclairs were
protesting against the injustice of the
whole farce. They pointed out that
teachers who were known to have tu-
berculosis had taught in the Arlington
schools before and that several were
employed this year, but
recalled the fact that Lancaster put a
whole class of little children in a
basement room in the Baptist church
in which a man had liver only a short
time before who was suffering from
Worse than that, he ac-
tually put a teacher in charge of this
moldy room who herself had express
ed fear that she had tuberculosis.
That the patriots had got into
hornets nest dawned upon them.
Within an hour and a half after Harris
had denied comrade Sinclair the right
to go back to school and teach he
his marvellous mind, and in
formed her that everything was al
right
In order that the public may not get
too wise Lancaster has an article out
trying to show the dear people how
he is trying to protect the human race
from tuberculosis. But there is a part
Of that human race that is wise be-
yond redemption to his brand of
patriotism.
In the meantime Lizzie Jones and
the Jesuits are busy on a fresh plot to