Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29
WIENER FOUGHT
BY CLIQUE AND
BY COMMITTEE
Permanent Appointment of Gen.
trail High School Principal Is
Being Made an Issue.

An effort to prevent the permanent
appointment of William Wiener as
principal Of the Central High School
may be made at the meeting OF the
Board OF Educators committee on
instruction and educational supplies
tomorrow night. Mr.. Wiener has been
principal of the school by temporary
appointment for the last three years.
He is highly regarded throughout the
city. Should his appointment be con-
hrmed tomorrow night, he viii be pro-
tected by the tenure of Office act. and
cannot be removed, except on charges
brought before the Board OF Educa-
ton.
An issue against Professor Wiener's
permanent appointment is being led
by the Public Welfare Committee OF
Essex County, which organization. 1t
is said, Is being backed by a local
coterie inside the school system itself.
The Public Welfare Committee bases
its opposition to Mr.. Wiener on a sur
vey Of the high schools of the city by
the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research. The committee Is also at
tempting TO drag in outside reports.
On November IA last, the Public
Welfare Committee submitted a re-
port on this survey to the Board of
Education. Although this report crit
icized some general defects in the high
school system Of Newark. nothing de-
rogatory to Professor Wiener was
mentioned, nor was the Central High
School spoken of as having any por-
ticular flaws in It's scheme of instruc.
| ton or discipline.
On the contrary, Professor Wiener
was the only one of the four high
school principals of the city who was
mentioned by name In the report, and
then he was praised because he dis
tributed among his teachers copies OF
the reports showing methods, results
and experiments of high schools in
other cities. This is good practice
the report said of Professor Wiener's
action In this regard.
Again Professor Wiener is men,
toned in the report as "the principal
OF the Central High School," and 1t is
asserted that a "list OF articles made
by his pupils, and now in use in his
school, is an indication OF what may
be found to be vocational education IN
Newark's high schools"
Now, however, the Public Welfare
Committee has taken an exact'v on
posite stand with regard to Principal
Wiener. 1t Is said the committee IS
ready to lay before the board facts
rejecting on Prof. Wiener's admin
istration of the school. The commit
| tee, 1t is said, also is prepared to at
tack the method of conducting ath-
| letics at the Central High School. A
particular attack, II is said, is to be
made on the manner in which the
school football team was conducted
Several members of the board. it is
said, are prepared to back up the
members of the Public Welfare Com
mittee In their opposition 10 Prof
| Wiener.
At the Central High School today
Prof Wiener declined to discuss the
possibility of his being opposed for
permanent appointment He said II
was matter entirely with the Board
of Education.
In it's report on the high school ths
public welfare committee found mucf
to praise and little to criticize In tbs
manner In which the schools ars
conducted here. One feature of New
ark's high school system, which th'
committee calls exec lent, is the free
dom In the high school policy II
force in this city.
i'Both the board and the superin'
tendent recognize the value of ex'
pertinent ana initiative IN the snap
| ing Of the high school program" tbs
report says.
"There Is no prescribed rule for ad-
herence to prescribed traditions whiet
compels high school principals and
teachers to follow blindly any one
path in teaching"
The report then tells how q general
| academic course is given In BarringeI
High school, how Central High School
! specializes more on commercial anc
manual training branches. and how
lcontiussd en- Pass ]. Coiumn IA