The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-03-23

the Stowe school at New Duluth
Thursday afternoon Of last week.
When president McGiffert sound
ed "cease fring,' janitor Tidball
was minus his head and Nathaniel
Schneider, the Morgan Park phys
ical culturist, had meekly prom
ised to make monthly reports to
the supervisor of physical train
ing.
1t required powerful bunch
to blow little Tidball out Of his
humble janitorial job. There were
president McGiffert, Supt. Hoke,
chief engineer Stewart, director
LeDuc, director G. Francis Col
man, principal Chadwick and Vo-
cational Guidance Noyes.
Directors Amundson, Proved
and Armand were not invited to
accompany the bombarding party
but they were told all about it
that evening at the adjourned
meeting Of the board Of education.
Janitor Tidball alleges that the
dauntless guardians Of the peo-
pie IS schools came out there like
thunderbolts, riding the raging
storm. Although he must go
through life minus his janitorial
head, he feels that he has brought
better order and discipline to the
Stowe school.
While the Morgan Park school
has revelled in the benefits Of the
blessed Gary Plan, the Stowe
school went long on correlation
and Vocational Guidance in ad-
dition to a heavy injection of the
Gary Plan dope.
When little janitor Tidball came
to the Stowe school last Septem-
Der, wise and discerning as re-
suit of experience in some highly
disciplined schools in other Sec
tons of the. city, he thought he
had encountered either an aggre-
cation of wild and woody cowboys.
or a herd of stampeding cattle.
His simple mind failed to under
stand that he was viewing a prac-
tical application Of the divine
Gary Plan in all it's purity.
"Until very recently at the
Stowe school, many pupils had a
habit of coming early and going
away late,'' said former janitor
Tidball as he gazed at his bob
tailed pay check. "Those who
beat the teachers to the days
grind, roamed through rooms and
corridors as they desired, thereby
adding age to the appearance OF
the noble building. Those who
fingered late piled up what the
early birds pulled down.
"Until very recently, neither
bugle, drum nor human voice
marked time for the exit of the
pupils. Dismissal was made at
class room doors, after which,
with wild cries, loud yells, much
buffetting and scuffling, the
youngsters piled down the two
flights of stairs and went tearing
out of the doors. Many, once out,
came right back in again and
fingered around the scene of the
days educational confinement, all
to the hindrance of teachers and
janitors.
"Certain of the teachers were
accustomed to stroll up and down
the halls and through the class
rooms. arm in arm, holding hands
or encircling one another's waists.
just like teacher and the big girls
were wont to do in the little old
red school house in Hoop-pole
township, Posey county, Indiana. -
declared the little married man
who has the reputation of being
janitor who will stand without
hitching, which is more than one
of his superiors can say.
Janitor Tidball, who may, per-
chance, have the embryo of a
heaven-born principal in his sys-
tenn, argued and labored with prin-
cipal Chadwick and assistant
Bohlke. He even went over their
heads in handing certain inform
alton to Supt. Hoke. Although
he no longer is janitor and has
gone on a visit to his wife s kin
in Illinoy, Harriet Beecher Stowe
teachers now do their embracing
out side of the school building. A
gramophone grinds out a spirited