Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-24
CENTRAL HIGH
STUDENTS RIP
DOWN POSTERS
Hot Campaign for Presidency
of Student Body at High ST.
institution.
LOW MARKS FORCE ONE
SCHOLAR OUT OF RACE
Boughton, Popular Athlete,
Withdrawn, and His Support
ers Express indignation.

The first campaign for the presi-
dency of the General Organization OF
the Central High School, which viii
close with the election tomorrow, has
been very exciting. The liveliest
feature happened yesterday after
noon when posters urging the
selection of Sidney LASER as presi-
dent were torn down from the walls
Of the corridors The &c. o." as 1t
is called, includes all of the 1900
students at the High street institu-
ton.
The posters torn down were about
eleven by fourteen inches and were
neatly hand lettered in red ink. They
bore such adnlonitions as vote fior
Sidney LASER and Great Absfty,'
Vote for Sidney LASER. the tdan OF
democracy" vote for Sidney LASER
and Fair Play All the WY" and
others of similar laudatoryf tenor.
At the bottom of EACH card was
the sentence: paid fo,/ by, George
Cohen, manager Laser campaign
committee" The posters were put
UP at noontime and were taken
down at almost the same moment
and none have been put up in their
places. The LASER supporters de-
clare the incident gives them all the
argument they need to justify their
choice for head OF the general
organization.
Four Candidates.
The campaign commenced with four
candidates for president. They were
Sidney LASER, Charles H. Boughton,
George Cohen and Paul Henerlau.
The last two withdrew and left the
field to the others, but last Monday
Principal William Wiener reduced
the field still further by declaring
Boughton out of the race because OF
low mark in his studies. Boughton
who is the two-mile national inter-
scholastic champion, and popular
fayorite. was a formidable candidate
for the presidency.
His supporters resented the action
Of the principal in declaring the ath-
lete- ineligible, and tearing down the
posters of Lasser was their metnod
Of showing their displeasure at the
principals action.
They refuse to talk about the mat
ter to outsiders, but one might hear
on every hand today when one Cen
trail High boy met another: w nat
do you think" and the reply almost
always was, "Bum business"
Boughtor, who is a sniler and not
given to bearing grudges. said to his
friends who offered condolences.
"What does it amount to? What
is the job, anyway?
Friends of LASER said: 'You must
admit we have been gentlemen. we
tore down no posters"
With Boughton out, there Is but one
candidate for president. Margaret
Brown has clear field for the Office
of president, but there are
tweny-eight candidates for the eight
places on the executive committee.
They are: Herbert Abeles, Gladys
CHAPMAN. Ethel Clemmens, George
Cohen, Pasqualino Corbo, Jennie Dan
zis. Charles De Rose, Abraham
Franz Harry Friedman, Selig Gar
her. Frank Gill, Henry Gottfried, Max
sreenberg. Rose Grossbart, Paul
Henerlau, Larry 1laria, Albert Kap-
Iansky. William Krueger, Hobart
Kuebler, Abe Levin, Harry Mo1tit,
George Ritchie, Jacob Schaffer, Philip
Sobei. Fredericka Stahl, Irving
Stelle. Leroy Stein, Joel Sugarman.
The friends of Boughton are CEN
tering on the condidacy of Harry
Moffitt, also prominent In atnletics'
Lasser. the sole nominee for presi-
dent, formerly went in for track
events but withdrew and now is ac-
tive in the affairs of the Central Ser
vice Club.
Professor weiner said today that
the Central High School will stand
for efficiency so long as he is at Its
head and that Boughton as head OF
the general organization would be a
challenge to his efficiency campaign.
Twelve organizations comprise the
general organization: Clioni Literary
Society, Webster-Hayne Debating So
ciety, w. & w. Debating Society,
Central Service Club, Central Girls
Service Club, Glee Club. Voice Gull
ture Club, Camera Club, Rife Club,
Tennis Club, Athletic Association
and the transformers.
THE general organization will exer-
else a general supervision of the
work of all these organizations and
Of the pupils who do not belong to
any of them as well. There will be
chosen at the election tomorrow a
president, a vice-president and an
executive committee of eight. The
secretary will be appointed.