Evening journal., 1914-05-13
REFUSE TO EAT IN THE BASEMENT.

@,>HE annual reception of the senior class Of the
i Wilmington High School will be held in the High
School building on Friday evening Of this week APP
proxmaely 1000 invitations have been sent out by the
seniors to their relatives and friends.
The formal exercises will be held i'm the auditorium
The refreshments will be served in the basement
An order effect has been issued by the Board
of Education.
The young men and the young women who had
planned to entertain their relatives and friends de-
Gently the large and corridors upstairs, re-
beled They were fully justified in doing So In the
past refreshments have been served upstairs, and
there was no reason except possibly OF janitorial
nature, why they should not be served there again
Following protest one Of the members of the High
School Committee informed the students they might
use the for the entertainment of their rela
tives and friends.
STILL IN THE BASEMENT; DOWN IN THE REALM
OF THE JANITOR AND THE ENGINEER FOR AN
IMPORTANT SCHOOL SOCIAL FUNCTION'
And there the matter stands In an immense build
ing which contains ample upstairs the decent
entertainment by the seniors of their relatives and
friends those students compelled TO invite their
guests many of them taxpayers who support the
schools down into the basement to eat the good
things that will be provided for them.
rs AN INSULT TO THE STUDENT BODY AND
ALSO TO THE FATHERHOOD AND THE MOTHER
HOOD OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.
Now the questions arise:
Who induced or what actuated the member of the
board refuse permit the seniors TO refresh
mens to their hundreds guests in the corridors and
class rooms upstairs2
Who induced, or what otuated them to issue the
order that those refreshments he served down in the
basement and, at first understood by the stu
dents not far from the sanitary plant?
How much better do those members feel now they
have reened to the extent of explaining that the
freshments may be served in more decent part Of
the basement than the students first understood had
been allotted to them and which, the students
sert Is Inadequate for the suitable entertainment Of
their guests?
What excuse have the members of the board to offer
for an edict compelling men, women and children,
many Of them in evening dress, to go down into the
partake OF light refreshments such
served in parors and expensvey-apponted and car
peted rooms in hotels and clubs everywhere?
We understand there was a leaky ice freezer
in one OF the upper last year and that the iani
tor complained about it and received 50 to compensate
him for cleaning the floor.
II would be interesting know whether the ianitor
has been exercising once more his already much-com
mented-upon pull" with the board and the High
School Committee. We hope not. That would be un-
fortunate Within a week one of the most prominent
men in Wilmington has said that steps should
ascertain what hold the ianitor has upon certain
members Of the Board of Education that he is per-
mitted TO pose as the High School instead Of
being restricted to the legitimate function of running
the boilers and experimenting the cleaning Dr. T. O..
Cooper, member of the High School Committee says
the janor had nothing whatever to do with prompting
the order to compel the hundreds Of guests Of the
seniors to eat in the basement That may be true We
hope for the sake of the ianitor that IL is Il relieves
him. to that extent the public criticism that has
been and still is rife relative to the way in which High
School matters are being handled.
Since the above was written the students have held