Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-03-21

The Journal editor still persists i'll
attempting to defend his unWarranted
slurs on the school board in recent is
sue when he charged. in effect, that
the board of education was responsible
in large measure for the delinquency
of Il Young man who passed some spur
rious checks on local merchants Bro.
Maloney says he doesn't care to discuss
the matter Shouldn't think he would.
that it is long while before school
%meeting. 1t might he suggested that
this would have been Il consistent
course for him to have adopted when
he rallied at the school board for trying
to have some system for the use OF the
gym, Just as they have everywhere else.
Perhaps. however. he remembers the
sad fate of his theories at a previous
school meeting. Instead of persistent
w villifying the school board for trying
10 do its duty and follow the mandates
of the school meeting. Bro. Maloney
should exercise little judicial temper
ament bring his criticisms, whether
constructive or not. before the school
meeting Then if the people OF the dis
trict want the doors of the gymnasium
prOppod open and the keys thrown i'll
the river and the building used regard
less of rules or reason, the members OF
the school board will lose no sleep over
if. The school building is built pri
marily. for the SchOOl-age children.
however and the rules permit children
of school age. whether attending public
school OF st. Mary'S. to use il free OF
charge Whenever the boys Of the city
have applied for the use of the gym for
basketball or other purposes, it has
been given them without charge unless
engaged for something else.
The NeWS-Budget was in error
when it stated that the guards were
not charged for the use of the gym, al
though this has no bearing on the Jour
nails unwarranted attack on the board.
The guard was offered the gym free
hut insisted on paying something for
using it, as Bro. Maloney knows.
When it comes to fcatS of, logic. the
Journal man can pull stunts that would
make even Bolsheviki leader turn
than admit he had mis-stated facts.
IN the original TRADE the Journal com
planned that that expensive inStitu-
ton was turned over to the grown men
free of charge" The News-Budget
called attention to the fact that it was
the Journal that had assailed the
school board when it established a fee
of So a year for men to pay. to cover
the expense to the district-of course.
n0 profit was thought of or desired.
Now the Journal comes back and says
AS to the mems club paying for the
use of the gymnaSium-whe it was
first organized. an addition was made
10 the salary of the manual training
teacher. said to he for athletic training.
This increase absorbed the fees paid.
In other words. the fees pay for in
Structi0n. the use of the gymnasium
Icing free
The business men---Or any other men
who want to-use the gym two hours a
week. (they get no Instruction. pay So
Il year for the privilege. but the Jour
nal still maintains it was not Il mis-rep-
rcSentatiOn when it charged they were
using that expensive institution free
of charge" For clear. unauthorized
logic. we submit the above quotation as
Il masterpiece. The idea is great. if
YOU can follow it!