Evening journal., 1914-05-16
SATURDAY MAY Is, 1914.
4 TRIUMPH ron sTUDENTss A STINGING REBUKE
FOR 4 BOARD 0 FEDUCATION CABAL.


THE reception OF the Senior Glass Of the Whining
ton High school in The Playhouse and the Hotel
DUPONT last evening unqualified triumph for
the students and stingng public rebuke to those men
who dominate the policies of the Board OF Education
and the High School Committee.
1T is great moral victory" said Mayor Howell as
he stood in the lobby Of the Hotel DUPONT and gazed
at more than 1000 men, and children who
crowded the lower floor of the big hotel.
lie might have added, with equal truth that what he
beheld wel-ordered and well-dressed civic revo-
luton against the hgh-handed and outrageous actions
OF Board Of Education cabal that has been making
warfare boys and girls
IL is the biggest thing we ever have had in our
hotel said Ernest $. Taite. the manager who practi-
cally had given the Hotel DUPONT to the students and
their friends fer the evening and who previously had
done everything in his power to assist the seniors
I'VE shall have dancing in tho Rose Room and re-
1reshments IN the main dningroom Of the Hotel du-
Pont" said the spokesman for the seniors before the
curtain ii The Playhouse. ~ WISH no MAKE m
CLEAR THAT WE SHALL HAVE REFRESHMENTS.
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT BE SERVED IN 4
NHIfEWASHED BASEM-NTr
The applause which greeted that pointed and we'll
understood reference to the defeat Of the effort Of the
Board OF Education cabal the seniors to enter
tain their LOCO guests in the whitewashed basement
o. the High School building was deafening
One Of the most pleasing features Of the reception
was that those members Of the Board Of Education
to stay away from The Playhouse and the Hotel Du-
Pont They would have been mere flies in the oint-
ment and klljoys In what to them would have been
an exceedingly unfrendly atmosphere. We say they
had the decency to stay away, we wish to be
charitable 1t have been dccency or Il may have
been cowardice In any event they remand away and
not an expression Of regret heard from any
quarters.
Another pleasing feature was that ALL or nearly all
o. the High school teachers We're present In The
Playhouse many Of them in the boxes and others
we're in the chairs. Their faces showed there and
also IN the Hotel DUPONT aferward that those teach
ers We're delighted with the that was attend
Ing the reception While they did not say So their
whole demeanor indicated clearly that they were In
sympathy with the Declaration of independence OF
the students that symbozed by reception and
mat they did not fear to meet any reprisals which
might be attempted by any Board Of Education cabal
Everything conspred TO make the reception the sue
cess Il deserved to be. The weather was ideal: the
public was IN hearty sympathy with the function;
nroadninded and sympathetic business and profess
sonal men had financed the enterprise; Ira Hardg
me suhessee Of The Playhouse, had let the students
nave that theatre for nominal amount: Mr. Taite
81 tne Hotel Dupont, gave them the large and hand
some diningroom for the serving OF the refreshments
and with Il the splendid dinngroom service Of the
MOTEL with Frank II. Furbank the maitre d. hotel and
an acknowledged expert, in charge OF it; Mr. Taite
also the seniors and their friends the use Of
AN~ShAASNht AAo0S
became apparent that the Rose Room was too small
Tor all the dancers he cleared the large and handsome
lobby Of its furnishings and told those who desired TO
dance and who could not get into the Rose Room 70
use the lobby. In other words the entire lover floor
except the main diningroom converted into ball
room, the largest and the the city could supply
In addition Mr.. Taite to the students the or
chestra for the evening But best Of all the people
poured out to do honor the plucky seniors and to
show their disapprovaI Of the policy Of the Board of
Education cabal
And, now that it is over there are men in Whining
son who are determined to know why it is that the
High School jantor is permitted to be the autocrat
Of that institution and what hold upon certain
members OF the Board OF Education that seemingly
makes him boss instead of a servant.
There also are who feel that there should be a
searching inquiry into the matter of the purchasing of
school books and supplies and the relation of such
purchases to the competitive bids received
And In conclusion it may be said that now that the
seniors have forced the issue there are men who
feel that the time has when certain members Of
the Board Of Education who are either spineless or
temperamenally untitled for the positions they hold
should be retired and and younger and wiser men
elected In their stead The Wilmington public no
longer will ssand for situation which has been mada
unendurable by the folly handful of Board Of t1du
cation members who at last aroused the people
President Wilson his friends seem to think thai