Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-06-04

The Times insincerity and lack
of an honorable purpose in his recent
attacks upon the school board of In
dependent School District No. 4, are
again evidenced this week in the Times
but it will require more than front
page scareheads and back page edi-
torials of evasion to make his position
tenable in the eyes of public
which is well able to judge the right
or wrong of the acts of the school
trustees.
The Times seeks sympathy on ac
count of the so-called "villifying" of
the Herald. The Times, of course
refuses to admit that it has in any
manner "villified" the members of the
school board and the editor goes on
to announce that he will not be deferred
from referring to injudicious acts of
public bodies on account of the "calu
minating" abuse of the Herald.
1t might be advisable for Editor
Mcintyre to first assure himself that
"injudicious acts have been committed
before he starts to refer" Thus far
he has failed to show wherein the
school trustees have been injudicious
although he has tried to do so by
fications A summing up of all the
evidence produced by the Times in it's
schol articles of the past few weeks
shows that all this hullaballoo has
been raised unproven charges of dis
honesty and embezzlement have been
made and the integrity and ability of
the school board has been questioned
because the Times came into the pos
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purport to show that Supt. A. r. Kent
is not a graduate of Ann Arbor univer-
sity and that he is irresponsible in
money matters.
The Times attempts to condone it's
unworthy attacks upon the school
board by printing alleged letters from
the register of Ann Arbor university
in which the register states that the
name of Supt. Kent does not appear
on the records and letter from Mr..
Rhoads, of Ration, N. Mexico, in which
he claims that Mr.. Kent was dishonest
in handling school funds, passed
worthless checks and borrowed money
with no intention of repaying the
same. For some unknown reason,
the Times has failed to inform the
public that nearly all these letters it
has in regard to Supt. Kent were Sc
cured through the efforts of former
Supt. Collins and that most of them
were addressed to p. M. Collins.
Supt. Kent may be unworthy of the
position to which he has been elected
but if such is the fact it does not con-
done the offense of Editor Mcintyre
and the former superintendent of our
schools. If either of them had thought
first of the interests and welfare of
the public schools of this community,
they would have given their informa-
ton to the school trustees and said:
Gentlemen, we believe you have been
misled and we think the past record
of your new uperintendent should be
investigated in order that you may
ascertain if he is all that he pretends
to be-. No fair-minded man will
question but that this would have
been the proper course to pursue. If
the charges against Kent were found
to be ungrounded then his reputation
and usefulness here would have been
unimpaired. If they were found to
be true then the school board could
have secured another superintendent
and there would have been no occasion
for the harmful publicity the local
schools have been getting and the un-
warranted attacks against the school
trustees. Certainly the public is right
in it's desire to know the motive thai
prompted the Times to follow the
course it has persued in this matter
The Times certainly was not actuateC
\ by any desire to help the school trus
tees or by any interest in the welfare
of our schools. The Times is operat
ing on a policy OF tearing down., no
building up.
The school trustees did not cleo