The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-27
EXPECT LIVELY FIGHTS
FOR SCHOOL. POSITIONS
state Board of Education VIII Meet
Thursday to Select Division Sup
crintcndcnts for Vacancies.
MANY CONTESTS IN COUNTIES
MI Candidates VIII Re Granted Hear
ing and II May Take Board Several
Days ~ Make tho Appointments.
Board TO Adjourn saturday.

Days ~ Make tho Appointments.
Board 10 Adjourn saturday.
I Candidates for the positions of d.
vision school superiAtendents who are
| scheduled 20 be appointed at the
meetings of the state board Of educa-
ton, to begin March / lasting three
days. are aligning their forces for the
! hearings, which will be allowed all
! the candidates Friends and sup
| porters OF the numerous persons who
will 90 before the board are arriving
in the city in large mum hers and II
is estimated that fully 500 people VIII
he here during the hearings to voice
their endorsement for the various can
didates
About 100 applications have been
made for the 1903 positions which Will
be distributed by the state board. In
many instances contests Of par
! tiCuAriy warm nature have develop
! ed. and the candidates in the contest
! ed divisions are preparing to show
| a stiff fight at the final hearings.
Many of the positions which the board
will make appointments to are ex-
, tremely desirable, the salaries rang
ing from $4,000 down. The salaries
of a number of the positions are
around $4,000, and other figures
equally attractive.
II is planned that the state board
will remain in session for three days,
beginning Thursday, March /. 1t has
been announced that all of the candi-
dates will be granted a hearing in
order that they may have presented
their claims for appointment, and
with 100 applicants or more to be
heard. the board has a task of con-
sdera Bile proportions awaiting It, 1t
will he impossible to have the hear
ings and complete them in the time
allotted, which will make 1t necessary
for the board to meet at some other
time in the near future to take up
the appointments.
Board Adjourns Saturday.
The board will adjourn after the
hearings Of Saturday. March 3,-sff
order that those desiring TO do so may
attend the inauguration on March 8.
on Tuesday March 6, it Is believed
that Attorney-General John Garland
Pollard. who is member of the
board. will attend the hearing be-
fore the supreme court of appeals of
the West Virginia debt case. Mem
hers of the West Virginia legislature
have been summoned. by papers serv-
cd by this state. to appear before
the court and show cause why they
should not take steps TO settle the
are likely to be out Of the city during
that week. so 1t Is not considered
likely that the hearings will be taken
up until some time later.
According to the present plans OF
the board. on March ! the candidates
in the divisions in the eight, ninth and
tenth congressional districts will be
heard. There are seventeen contests
in these districts On March 2. the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh dis
trIcts, in which there are twelve con-
tests will be heard and on March 3.
It is planned to hear the remainder
Of the districts the first. second and
third. Ten contests have developed in
these districts.
No Party Endorsements,
During the hearings no party en-
dnrsem ents for the candidates will be
considered by the board IL having
been decided at previous meeting
that every candidate would be selected
on his merit alone, and that political
support. advanced by persons who
were without knowledge of the fitness
Of the candidates. would not be re-
CfiNGG. rms VIII be StFlCIF auHeFeu
Ito. Although the board Is composed
of eight members, only six can parti-
cipatc In the selection OF the school
pupcrinteudents These are Governor
stuart Attorney General Pollard. j.
N Page Of the Iniversary of Viz
einia. Colonel Fl G Ford, Of the Viz
eiuia Military institute; Or, ]. G. Will
son. Of william and Mary; and r. c.
Stearnes. superintendent Of public in
struttton. nr ]. A. G. Chandler, OF
richmond and Frank r. West, of
Louisa, are tho other members of the
hoard. but both being superintendent,
they cannot take part in the appoint
ments.
Interesting contests have developed
IN several counties and cities, among
them being the fights in Hanover and
King William counties, the contest in
DanvilIe. and those in Norfolk city and
Norfolk county. In Danville and Nor
folk large salaries are paid the super
intendents. and several candidates
have been advanced for appointment.
Some of the other counties in which
a night is being waEed are Lee. Alex
andria and Franklin. Nansemond and
Montgomery counties also have lively
contests In the counties mentioned
the fights are the warmest, but these
are only few ot tho large number of
contests for appointments.