The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-31

Duy5 ali SupplleSy PRESENTS HeT lIe1ll-
lied bills each month to the account
ant, who goes over the same care
fully. III correct issues checks to pay
the same. These itemized bills are
then filed away by the month and
kept safe and separate for a year or
two. In fact, we have some going
back farther than that. Then each
month the accountant, after all his
bills are paid, makes his monthly re-
port, setting forth claims paid and
to whom and for the month together
with the balance of cash in the bank,
both at the beginning and at the end
of the month. Same is done at the
close of a term. Any man can take
up these reports and in five minutes
see the whole years business. But
now a further check has been used.
The accountant, until this term, was
a different man than the treasurer.
For many years Prof. Golf has been
treasurer of this club. Reports such
as / have described were made to
him every month, and a copy left
with me also. He could have Sc
CURED further reports by asking for
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to make any changes and improve
ments in method or practice, had he
thought best to do SO. The club has
been his special responsibility for
many years, before / came here and
| never in any way discouraged him
from knowing all the details or
workings of the same. These funds
are now kept as public funds and
under the same official, the secre-
tary of the institution.
AS to the auditing, they have been
audited by a students committee
each year. Last year we paid a
senior in October $50 to do this
work. 1t took him six days. Mr..
Urdahl makes a special point of a
letter he got from Mr.. Westaby in
which Westaby stated they had not
been audited for six years. He meant
by any state official, and in that the
statement is correct, but now all that
is changed. The public examiner
takes these in the same as other &C
counts. / do not think l have omit
ted any important features of this
Urdahl letter. / want to plead guilty
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Urdahl going to the senate. He
seems to dispose of me very gladly
and claims he could have had me as
q friend if he had wanted me. How
very good of him. | wrote him the
letter he prints. | was at that time
trying to treat him in a courteous
manner. as l always did. 1t did sur
prise me that he helped us get thai
$4,000, for he had opposed the leg.
islature Gin special SESSION. raising
our appropriations, and that of other
schools to a real working basis fol
the current year, but now that lertcl
was dated March 25, several very
Important things happened between
THAT date and Jlne IA, the date when
all this ''slusn' in the Urdani ie.te,
wah hashed yer ~ said seuatu", ard
for hours he dispensed wisdom ,hat
day to the regents and hammered me
as I will relate later. This Urdah.
letter is no comparison to the abuse
II got that day from this high Off
cial. He seems to think | have nj
fright to interfere in his political game
that | should keep hands off anC
| let him manipulate the politics of The
) county. Now | did that very thins
/. for six long years and never in thu
= least gave him any trouble political
Iy. But the situation has changed
and the situation has become, in m!
a opinion a disgrace to any enlightened
community.
I Mr.. Urdahl asserts he never inter
fered with the operation of thii
I school. That is not true. He Away
! did so, but this year his operation
!. have become intolerable and degrad
l ing. He not only wants to dictat'
+ faculty appointments, but others al
so. We dare not remove an employ
even in the kitchen without incur
g ring his d~ispleasure, and when yol
7 do that you may imagine what hap
pens by reading his letter in TIL
( kDaily Leader, only that is NOTHING
: compared to the abuse you will sc
from his tongue. Does not inter
fere in this school" and he admitte,
r before the board that he had inform
o ers here who told him our limos
doings and that he knew just hoy
g much this and that teacher did, etc
The regents require minute report
e and they know every hour of wor'
e done by teachers. But to have a
e outsider intrigue with faculty mem
bers to carry news and otherwise {
{ act as a source of authority and max
y trouble between employees is demon
e alizing. Any official who will wor
n to destroy the morale" of faculty
an enemy of the school, not ii
o friend" / care not who he be no
where he comes from.
d Further, Does not interfere wit
this school," and yet the board c
regents can't cpme here and hold
meeting and proceed with their wor
until they give audience to this yer
wise and powerful man, and liste
It for hours to how this and tina
l. should be done.
s Does not interfere with TIL
school," and yet on or about Ma
10, the regents came here to tran:
act important business, but had onl
It two or three hours until the trai
left and nearly all of this time wa
IL cpapt WAITING AZ find Mr. TTrdah