Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-11-02
WITHIN
RIGHTS, CLAIM
School Teachers Who Signed
Letter Boosting Dorsey
Issue Statement in Case.

Insisting that they were acting
fully within their rights and that
they represented the majority of
the grade teachers of the city, Lewis
3. Jacobson and Rufus Il. Allen,
the two teachers whose names were
signed to the circular letter that
was sent out in behalf of the candi-
dacy of Mayor Dorsey, have issued
a statement today further explain
ing their position. The statement is
as follows:
we owe the duty to the public
TO emphatically state there has been
no attempt on u part or any of the
teachers to drag the public schools
into politics. Surely, an honest
effort to acquaiat the people with
the names of the friends of their
schools is entitled TO commentator,
rather than criticism.
Your article of yesterday created
what may be properly termed tenn
pest in a teapot or. much ado about
nothing
we stand by our guns and in
sist that we W no duty to any
party. We are not partisan. Our
conduct is the result of our own
wishes and that of the executive
committee of the Grade Teachers
Association, which we represent.
We have no interest in politics, but
we assert u rights as teachers and
citizens to acquaint them with the
truth regarding their schools and
u relation to the schools. We
stand by Mayor Dorsey. lot be-
cause he may be a Democrat, but
because he has stood by the teach
erS and the schools.
The Grade Teachers Association
which we represent is Independent
or any other teachers association.
IL represents the grade teachers only
n we do not expect the high school
to be very familiar with
u affairs.
The members of the executive
committee of III association have
been authorized to act in all mat
tiers arising from time to time per-
tanning to the welfare of the grade
teachers. In conformity with this
power the letter in question was au-
thorized. The original draft was
actually submitted by us to the en-
tire committee and approved.
The majority of the grade teach
ers do not resent our action. We
are in closer touch with the teachers
than the press or its reporters and
we therefore insist that the rank and
hle of our teachers approve our
action. Truly, there may be some
who will oppose us. AS to these, we
need only say that their personal po-
litical sympathies exceed their in
terest In the public schools. The
teachers. who appreciate what has
been done for them by the mayor.
will stand by us to the limit.
Some candidates are loud In their
statements that they did not vote
against the bonus. We only call
your attention to the fact that for
months we fought and struggled for
the bonus and we were advised to
go from one board to another. Each
passing the buck to the other and
only when the mayor took a per-
sonal interest in the movement up
on request of some of the teachers
did the bonus become a reality
rather than a dream.
1--WE offer no criticism to any of
the candidates, but we say. as it is
u right and privilege. that Mayor
Frank Dorsey has been a genuine
friend of the schools and the teach
ers and the people are entitled to the
unblemished truth.
LEWIS S. JACOBSON.
"Ch. Eek. Com. Grade Teachers Asso.
RUFUS b. ALLEN,
President"