The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-10
School Meeting

| Inc notlceS calling the annual meet
ing for this township have been posted
The meeting will be held in the cour
house next Tuesday evening, to b.
opened at 7.30. 1t will take few min
utes to get the organization perfected, Sc
the time for opening the polls for the
election of members of the Board Of
Education and to appropriate funds will
be 7.45
| In auditing their books the Board Of
Education found matters in a very good
condition and they are able to call fol
$500 less than was appropriated last
year. This is very creditable condition
for which all of the Board are entitled
to commentator, but even at that there
is cry to turn some of the rascals
out"
For some time there has been a move
ment on foot to select five candidates
for members of the Board with the idea
of preventing the return of any of the
members whose terms expire. This
movement has been carried on in ''star
chamber" fashion and committees were
appointed from various organizations
who according to one of them, were prac-
tlcally sworn to secrecy on their move
ments and were not to give out any
information who were to be the selection
for candidates until it was time to spring
the trap andslet the birds loose.
One of the reasons for this great
secrecy was given out that heretofore
these ''star chamber" people were not
able to do anything without it's leaking
out and that fellow Kingdom got hold of
It," incidentally at one of the meet
ings of the Board of Education Kingdom
happened to tell something he had
heard and inside of twenty-four hours
the word went forth to keep the secrets
from the informant
So far as we have been able to learn,
possibly not correctly, the committee, in
part, is S. Earl Assay, Albertus H. Jack
son, Bertram r. Orcutt, Samuel C.
Stanton, of the post Office force, and J.
Frank Scattergood. The latter appears
to be playing both ends and the middle
at the same time. While representing
the societies he is a member of the
Board of Education, hence in a position
to keep posted all along the line. That
everything is not moving smoothly in
the secret ranks may be gathered from a
remark of Scattergood to a man who
possibly he thought would not leak, to
the effect that ''as much as he wanted
to see Harris, Durand and Kingdom de-
feated he could not support the ticket
that was going to be presented
The "star chamber" ticket will not
contain the names of any women, but |
it is said there will be the name of one |
man who holds women in the very
lowest estimation if remark he made |
in public year ago may be taken as
evidence.
Miss Mary w. Budd was waited upon
by one of the committee and was asked |
if she expected to be a candidate for
reelection. She said she did not. In
the retirement of Miss Budd the Board |
loses very efficient and faithful men, |
Der. She has been somewhat handi- |
capped by not having another woman |
on the Board. II it is the idea to have |
women on the Board of Education there |
should be at least two, but if the secret |
of the ''star chamber has |
decided that there shall not be any |
women on the Board tina will probably |
be the end of it.
There have been all sorts of rumors |
set afioat with reference to the manage
ment of the schools, many of them |
simply for the purpose of being used for |
One of the most absurd |
was that which credited the members of |
the Board of Education with giving a |
note for $1,000 to meet def |
cheney on the new school building. AS
The building has been paid for and is |
clear of debt, save the bond issue, this |
story is at once stamped as nonsensical |
in the extreme.
Thus far the candidates positively |
known to be in the field ars Mrs. James |
Stoddard, Mrs. William b. Tomlinson,
John n. Austin, Rev. Il. J. J. Wright, |
+. b. Bates, William b. Pearson, and |
Harvey Rossell.
The committee from the secret societ- |
les held final meeting last evening and |
decided upon the ticket they will insist |
upon having supported. The gentlemen
they have selected are: Rev. Z. J. J.
Wright, George w. Durand, George w.
A. French, William b. Pearson and |
Harvey Rossell.
The taxpayers now have before them
4 list of persons who are willing to look
litter their interests and those of the |
public schools. A careful scanning of |
he candidates, their qualifications,
character and ability to keep
he schools in the good condition they |
lOw are in will aid in making proper |
selection. 1t is up to the taxpayers and |
citizens to decide this very important |
question.