The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18
COMMISSIONERS MAY MOVE
SUPT. YOUNG TO VIRGINIA
Bosses Of Marblened Courthouse Said to Feel That Educa
tor Uses Excessive Space and That Range City
Will Make More Convenient Base.

It is limited that Noah A. Young,
county superintendent Of schools, will
be requested to make his headquarters
at the Virginia courthouse as soon as
the addition is finished. If it proves
impossible to plant the eminent prac-
titioner in copious expectoration in the
range town, where his school work
really centers, it is limited that the
courthouse commissioners will insist
that he at least take his huge stock
of rural school supplies to Virginia and
store them in the branch courthouse
up there.
The city of Duluth has no vote in
the election Of the county superintend-
emit of schools and he has no jurisdic-
ton over the Duluth schools. His
work is confined to the rural schools
and one Of the range courthouses is
more nearly the center of work con-
nected with those schools than is the
marble-lined courthouse in Duluth.
There may be some personal equa-
tions in this problem and there may
not. The courthouse commission, or
! board Of control, embraces auditor
Bergen, treasurer Vivian and Ralph
o Neil, chairman Of the board of coun-
ty commissioners. They are the ones
who will have to 60 to the mat with
Supt. Young as to his occupancy of the
LEGAL courthouse in whole or in part.
One idea in restricting Supt. Young g
occupancy and use of the marble-lined
structure back Of Col. Henry's post
office is that he uses an unduly lot of
space up there, room that is needed by
other officials or departments which
cannot be expected to 60 to the range.
supt. Young has ample quarters for
copious expeotoration and maintenance
Of general office and personal desk
on the ground floor of the noble gran
tie pile. He also has considerable
space in the basement which he uses
for storage purposes. The quantity
Of supplies he has down there rivals
the stock carried by many a jobbing
house, say those who have seen the
sacred precincts. A supply of Mason
fruit jars, alone, would have gone far
towards wiping out the shortage in
Duluth during the canning season.
Supt. Young and a bevy of pulchri-
tudinous female clerks occupy at least
half of the Fifth floor. There must be
ten or dozen of the beauteous crea.
lures up there, each one with desk.
On the ground floor there are as many
more and couple or more look after
the supply depot in the basement. It
is believed that Supt. Young has not
less than a couple of dozen of en-
ployes in the local courthouse.
There are experts in all lines of edu-
cational work and even experts in do
nestle science, nursing and instruction
in how, when and where to use a
tooth brush, night shirt or how to
bake batch of buttermilk pancakes
without smoking up the entire house.
Supt. Young not infrequently loads
up bevy of his beauteous assistants
and tours the rural regions, stopping
at the range towns for bed and break.
fast. Supt. Young is rare Judge
of female beauty, despite his devotion
to Mistress Nicotine and his excuses in
copious expectoration. When the bunch
unloads at the Ormonde hotel in Vir.
ginia, for example, the town boys and
local sports stand agog. When Noah
A. Young spreads his name on the reg
lister and then follows it with the
names of his encourage, it makes as
impressive a showing as when Brigham
Young went visiting with his entire
assortment of honeybees. But all that
is another story.
Supt. Young, incidentally, has a
marked penchant, as the French teach
ers term it, for big automobiles. Be-
! fore he gained a strong hold Of so