Oxford eagle., 1918-06-13
SEC. D. |. ROSS AND
T.C. TROUSDALE LET
OUT OF UNIVERSITY
nI'ersits's Secretary and Laundry
man Has Been 0usted by the
Chancellor.

ihs annual meeting Of the board or
trustees of Universities and college
met IN Jackson June :. At this time
the heads of all the big colleges of
the State named their teaching force
as well as other employees for the
approval af the trustees.
1t seems that the trustees for some
years past have given the heads of
these big schools entire control of
all appointments Of the teaching
force and employees. The Car Of
Russia never had more power.
We believe in giving the head Of
ncer Of these schools sufficient free
hand TO insure harmonious co-ope-a-
tion Of all parties, but the recent nc
ton of the Chancellor Of the Univer-
sity IN disrnissing from his service
Hon. D. L. Ross, the secretary that
had been there for about fifteen years
and was possibly the most efficient
and certainly the most popular officer
In the Institution, barring none, to
gether with the abrupt dismissal Of
Mr. I. c Trousdale the manager Of
the laundry department, shows that
tins sort Of power can be abused
Mr.. Ross Is a most valuable man in
every way A high toned citizen and
certainly by far the best available
man for ms most arduo1s and most
important place He was dismissed
without the least warning, without a
single objection beng made known TO
HIM and 50 far IS We can learn for
lnothing absolutely save that possibly
the Chancellor had. BY some means
disliked the frank and strxightfoT-
ward way Mr.. Ross had IN doing
things. Certain II was for no neg
lect Of duty nor for any ineffieiency-
As TO Mr. Tronsdale he has been there
since the laundry started. He install
ed il. A hard working honesI de
pendable man-a better laundTyman
can not be found IN the state. he not
only kept up the laundry and charged
the boys only S1.50 per month but mad
a fund left over TO start another year
on Of over 81 900. Why was he fired
No one knows. He was likewise dis
missed without any charge beng filed
or stated against him and without the
least warning. The people Of the
town who know these men don't bike
such treatment There are men there
that are more inefficient. we are ad-
vised, and that have failed in their
duty, but il seems they are the favor
ed ones. The Chancellor Is miSadvls-
ed. He has given these men rough
treatment and he VIII regret IL The
trustees should look further into this
and see what the real cause Is.
We shall stand behind Chancellor
Powers every time we think he is
right; we shall also condemn ms ao-
tions when ne Is wrong
Ii is stated on good authority that
there must be some politics in the dis
missing Of the above employees Just
last week singular incident occurred
Chancellor Powers md Ear Brewer
both spoke At Water Valley al the
close of school Here Chancellor
Powers and Brewer had a conference
Mr.. Block al the University l. q
brother in-law Of Brewer. Mr.. Block
came there through the politics Of M
Brewer was not dismissed, altho his
dismissal was looked for. Why ;
There were other removals there that
would have helped nc school, but that
did not happen. Why?
Be that as il may the dismissal Of
these two men viii not meet the ap-
proval Of the best citizens; the leav-
ing of others in the school that could
have been and should have been dis
missed viii Yet cause trouble.
The trustees should see about tins
free hand" business.
No politics should be entered into
these schools, and If that Is the main
reason why some were fired" AND
others left in, there ought 20 be some
more free hand" used by the tTus-