The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-24
|NSPECTORGENERAL !
OF SCHOOLS IS NOT !
WANTEDDY SENATE
Test Vote Shows Upper.House In
Line With Representatives
On Question
WANT SUPERINTENDENT 70
GET IN TOUCH WITH WORK
Castle Fights Hard For Retention
Of Raymond's Position But
Fights In Vain

On test vote yesterday il was
clearly indicated that the senate WIN
concur ia The action Of the house, when
that body abolished the position Of In.
spectos general in the department. Of
public Instruction.
In making mp the school budget the
house struck ont the title inspector
general ana substituted that Of survey
direetor. The senate ways and means
committed went little farthers Il
struck out the title survey director and
substituted the position Of statistical
clerk II must have been hard, these
past few days, for George s. Raymond
to know whether he was aioat OF
ashore, afoot or ON horseback (.
Yesterday Senator Cooke offered an
amendment reinserting the tito ipspee.'
tor general in the bill. Supporting she
amendment, he said be had talked with
Ave or six principals Of schools in the
| past few days and that all Of them
strongly favored the position of inspec-
tor eepsfaL What they might have
said relative TO the personnel Of the de-
| partment, the senator added, was mot
! gefmshe to the question as he wished
/ Il considered. Which il the senatorial
\ way Of .intimnting that At may be true
Inspector Raymond is not popular with
| the teaching star of the department.
/ senator Castle briefly but positively
! backed up senator Cooke. This posi-
/ tion is needed, he asserted. There Is no
doubt about that whatever. And the
action Of the house in abolisbing Il was
1 LARGELY for personal reasons.
Up rose Senator C0ney. can I agree
| with the senator, he said. In fact, ]
1 think the position is not only super
\ dnous but hnrtful. Hare we have the
Ibuperyising principals on the di1efent
islands and over them the inspector
general and over him the superintend-
ept Of the department.
It's the superintendent who ought 10
20 around among the different islands
the boss, the head man. Tberesou9ht
TO be no middle man between the boss
and the Supervising principals. He
! only creates Misunderstanding.
move the amendment 70 h itabled.
Senator Castle rejoined that il Is a
4 physical impossibility for the superin-
tendent TO do his Office work and spend
any considerable time. on the other
Islands
senator Cooke said the supervising
principals could not, as a matter Of
| fact, do much Of any supervising. They
were limited to q rather cnrsory inspec-
ton. In fact they were lucky if they
could put in ten minutes term to each
class room.
4 Senator Shingle, chairman Of the
ways and means committed, said the
committee had been largely Influenced
4 In its decision by the very positive at
titude taken in the house committee BY
representatives Cooke and Walsh.
Their theory was that, II the position
Of inspector genefni were abolished, It
would force the superintendent to get
n nut among the schools on the other isl
apds and come into direct, personal
touch with the department. .staif.
i Senator Paeheco inquired what the
position survey director, as the bill
came from the house, meant. The ehair-
man OF the ways and means committee
i replied that he understood it was to be
a statistical position.
In other words, retorted Pacheco,
the title changes but the salary re-,
mains. For that reason l shall oppose
i Senator Cookies motion. He restores
the position of inspector general and
yet leaves in that Of statistical clerk.
As a matter Of fact, put in Senator
Castle, the department needs both an
inside and an outside man. One reason
the Inspector general has come in FOL
so much criticism is that he, hasR 4
been able 20 get out in the field SO
much as he should,
!, Somebody called Question: and SEN
ator Cookies amendment WAS defeated
eight to four, with three not voting
Final action on the bin as a whole
was put over until today, because OF, >
!, technical snafl over an appropriation Of
$4,000 for the Hilo high school. The
/ legislature wants TO appropriate the
money, but il wishes also TO see that
its intent is not baked by action taken