Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-03-13
Palisade Greatly Wrought Up
Over Election Of New Members
On Fort Lee Board Of Education.
Henry D. SchaH Not Thinking of Getting out of The
Race Appears To Haze Boards Support And That
Of Its Friends, Which Some Think May Cost
PaIisade Loss Of One Of Its Allotment


The article written by reporter
of "The Palisadian" in the last issue
gave an idea on the subject of the
coming Fort Lee school election that
might have been we'll adapted as a
theory at that time, but it is not
now a workable proposition. The
fact of the matter is, Palisade, on
account of having two candidates be-
fore the people, is likely to lose one
of her members on the board, if one
of the two candidates is not with
drawn. A gentleman who went to
Fort Lee yesterday called on "The
Palisadan" and said some very
plain things about the situation:
at is unfortunate" said he, "that
Palisade has two candidates out at
the school election for next Tuesday
night. Heretofore, the people of the
borough have felt that the proper
way to divide up the members of the
board was to have two from each sec
ton, Fort Lee to have two, also, and
the odd member, there being nine in
all. When Mr.. Douglas resigned, Mr..
Schall was appointed to fill out his
unexpired term. He did not partlcu-
larly court the place, but he found
it congenial work, the other men,
bers found him a good worker, so the
attachment became mutual. When
the Woman's Club nominated DR..
Berkey without so much as saying
to Mr.. Schall, by your leave 1T left
him in an embarrassing position.
He could not withdraw his own name
for the reason that he felt he should
have been consulted. Now, no one
knows better than l that DR.. Berkey
is a fine man, and that the Woman's
Club failed to consult Mr.. Schall en-
tirely through an oversight. They
never supposed for a moment that
they were not doing fine and proper
thing for DR.. Berkey and for Pail
SADIE. DR.. Berkey is one of the finest
men for this post that could be found
anywhere. He is an exceptional man,
for that matter. But then there are
certain consistencies that must be
observed in all things, and in this
case, with all that is represented by
DR.. Berkey he should never have been
pressed after the discovery that MIR.
Schall had been neglected, unwilling
ly thought it was. 1t looks as though
those who are responsible for Dr.
Berkey's candidacy, were determined
to force his name on the ticket, re-
CARELESS of circumstances. The
members of the Board of Education
naturally resent this attitude, and
they are all going to support MIR.
Schall, and have advised their friends
to do the same thing. The people OF
Fort Lee do not want three men,
bers from Palisade, for that would
SAVIOR too much of the tail wagging
the dog. They might even regret
that they cannot have so able man
as DR.. Berkey on the board, for his
counsel would weigh nightly on all
educational matters. They can only,
therefore, proceed in the way that
seems best to them in the circum-
stances. select man from some other
part of the borough and support him
against one of the Palisade candl-
dates which would really amount to
ignoring both of them, so that in the
end Palisade stands to really lose a
member of the board instead OF keep
ing two as now. So far as | am con-
cerned. there is no other way out OF
the dimemna except for DR.. Berkey
to see the light of reason in the sit
uation and withdraw, hoping for
different turn in the dial next time
As for Mr.. Schall, he has no feeling
in the world in the mat .er. He says
he would willingly have resigned IN
favor of DR.. Berkey, only he thinks
he might have been consulted, and
he does not now propose to be
showed out, because his personal
pride and self respect are at stake