Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-23
DROP MILITARY TRAINING.
PLANS FOR HIGH SCHOOL.
Regulations Submitted by War
Department Too Much for
East Orange.

That the war department would
have no objection if East Orange
High School was to rival West Point
in military training was clearly
evinced in the letter and regulations
which Secretary of War Lindley NJ
Garrison addressed the East Orange
Board Of Education in answer TO in.
quiries made on the subject by Byron
e. Brooks, member of the board.
who presented his information at the
regular meeting of that body last
night.
On September 10 the board received
letter from Fl. A. Graham Driseoll.
of 9 Arlington avenue, north, East
Orange, asking that military train
ing be introduced in the high school.
The matter was referred to the war
department on October Is, and the
answer which was made public last
night was dated November S
All that was necessary, the latter
stated, was that the authorities of
the local institution would insure the
war department that military in
struction would be compulsory and
that all students enlisted be pnysi-
cally qualified. The regulations
further stated that all students would
have to be uniformed at other than
the governments expense, and that
the officer detailed to drill the stu
dents. whether he be active or re-
tired, should be enrolled as a mem
ber of the faculty, with the same
privileges as those at the head or
other departments OF the institution.
The board was not willing to abide
by the regulations set down by the
war department, and 1t was decided
that the matter be dropped.
The question relative to where
child's legal residence is was thought
to be settled in East Orange for all
time when the city counsel gave a
ruling that the child's legal residence
is where the father resides, but the
board now confronts the same ques-
ton again, as Calvin L. Kendall.
State commissioner of education, has
decreed that city must provide
proper schooling facilities In the dis
trict in which child resides, regard
less of where the parent is making
his home.
Owing to the fact that the city's
official transporter of backward
children from all the schools in the
city to the Elmwood School has him
self been sent to the county jail for
driving while under the influence OF
liquor, the board decided to accept the
bid of Richard Coyneas transporter"
at sum Of $3.50 a day.
A contract for installing 15O steel
lockers in the East Orange High |
School was awarded to Merritt G. Co. |
for $508.50, the lowest of four bids 1t |
was also decided to pay the expenses |
Inl. pr-inafna1 Of the /
high school, to the convention Of the |
schools of the middle
States, which is to be held in Phila- |
delphia on Friday and Saturday. The |
resignation of Ceridywin Rosser, a
teacher in the Elmwood School. was
accepted with regret. Miss Rosser is
suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Miss Charlotte L. Cory was en-
gagged to succeed Miss Bessie Phelps |
as a teacher in the Eastern School, at |
a salary of $3.50 for the balance OF |
the school year. Miss Phelps resigned |
owing to death in her family. The |
board also decided to secure loan of !
s26, 500 to meet expenses for the cur I
rent month, in anticipation of the 1915 |
taxes. The city of East Orange pays |
three and one-half per cent on all |
loans which it makes but Mr.. Brooks
felt confident that he could borrow |
the money from a New York firm at
interest as low as two and three
quarters per cent.
In regards to the proposed course |
in household arts" which was sug-
gested by committee from the Wom-
ans Club of East Orange, the board
decided thai lack of sufficient funds
on hand would prohibit them from
financing the move. The State re-
CARDS these classes as vocational
and at the end OF the year would re-
imburse the city for one-half the sum
expended. The board decided to allow
the women to rent the Cooking de-
partrnent' in the high school at the
rate of SO per meeting.