Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-11-27
CLARK ACCUSED OF
DOUBLE CROSSING
Claimed That He Agreed With
|, Board On Budget But Now
Attempts To Knife II.

Double crossing his associates on the
school board was the charge made
against Director H. L. Clark last eve.
ming at a regular session of the board.
He denied giving the board a back
handed wallop but it later developed in
a discussion that while agreeing with
the board on the proposed budget, Mr..
Clark was secretly working against it.
1t rather riled the feelings of sew
eral members of the board of edl0ation
to think that any member should pro.
fess to tie in accord with its action in
submitting and preparing the budget
and then to go out and attempt to knife
it. The opinion was expressed that if
any member was opposed to any action
of the board the right time was 70
bring the matter up before q regular
session and not to go out and seek to
defeat the proposed budget to be voted
on next Saturday.
Said There Was No Opposition
As to whether there was any opposi
tion to the budget, Mr.. Clark said ht
could suggest several who were oppos-
ed and he named Dr. Stone, Ray Farm
er, d. M. Fisher and Mr.. Basey. Clark
finally agreed to support the budget
The increase of the proposed levy fol
the coming year to maintain the city
schools is due to the increase in the
salaries of teachers, to the loss in the
school census by which the district re,
ceived $S for each name and to ene
purchase Of the Holman property ad
joining the high school building
| Superintendent John A. Todd OK
/ planned the workings of the Smith
Hughes act by which the government
appropriated money to assist in the
building of trades schools similar Il
the one erected adjoining the higl
school building. To encourage practi
cal machine work, the government il
willing to pay half Of the teaching ex
penses Of this work and BY this means
the district will receive this year $780,
and each year with better facilities tht
government win ad to this, to be ap
iplicd on the salary of teachers.
A. A. Lee Present.
| A. A. Lee, who was present as Wis
itor said that he had carefully exam
ined the budget and that he felt tht
/ directors had done the best possible un
er the circumstances, although the lev,
had been raised to 7.6 mills AS to- th,
census, in all his Is years experience OF
/! the board, he found, it had neve
| been satisfactory on account o
so many people being out of the cit,
at the time the law required the censu
be made.
| AS to the present proposed budget
he said he had figured it with school
of other cities an with the budgets o
the past Is years an that he figured
the board was running closer ON genera
expenses than ever before.
| Mr. Lee said there is always opposi
1 ton to any proposed measure but tina
from his personal experience he knsv
no school board had ever been refuse,
its budget when the people were ap
pealed to. In this instance, he fel
the board should have the approval o
: the people at the election to be helt
, next Saturday. "Taking everythih,
, into consideration, the school board ha
, never been SO economical as now. I'm
stating just plain facts" said Mr.. Lee
Among those present at last night ;
board session and who took part in tn,
! general discussion we're u. G. Shipley
Joe H. Albert, G. s. Hamilton, Viii
liam McGilchrist Jr., A. +. Marcus, A
A. Lee and w. D. Evans, All wcr
unanimous in supporting the proposes
budget