The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-03-20

zion and real evidence TO the ellcCt
that he seeks to influence the selection
of his successor.
There are several reasons why Mr..
Young should desire to pick his own
successor. In the first place, he has a
big bunch of money tied up in a
struggling young business college. II
the next superintendent feels under
obligation to his predecessor, he will be
very apt to influence graduates from
the rural schools and pupils quitting
the rural schools to take a business
. course at Mr.. Young's business college.
Then Mr.. Young is editor. publisher
and proprietor of Young's Magazine, a
publication that is credited with pay
I'd ing a net profit, ranging all the way
from 5000 to 81 500 year. This profit
has substantially augmented the Off
cial salary of $4,000 year.
Young's Magazine costs subscribers
5000, although but a monthly. Teach
ers who have wished to stand well with
Supt. Young have felt it incumbent to
subscribe for his magazine. Three rural
teachers, for example, lived so closely
together that they thought one copy
would serve them sufficiently. They
were given to understand that each
one should subscribe, which required an
outlay of Sc instead of So.
If information is correct, the mag
azine has been sent to teachers who
failed to subscribe for it, but they
were wise enough to take the hint
without being kicked out Of position
therefore they came across with the
price Of a subscription.
Young's Magazine has shown a ter.
rible hunger for advertising. School
:. desk firms, text book companies, school
supply houses anybody and everybody
having anything to sell to rural schools
have been strongly importuned to ad.
vertise in Young's Magazine. Several
dealers have, in the past, expressed the
opinion to the Rip-saw that anyone
not advertising in the little monthly
had utterly no show to sell the county
schools anything, if Supt. Young con-
trolled the purchase. Wise dealers
have, therefore, coughed up advertise
ments at Supt. Young's quoted rates
Now that he is going out of office
Supt. Young has no real use fol
Young's Magazine and, unless he can
dispose of it to advantage, the neat
little property will prove a total loss
to its founder.
It would be profitable for Noah A.
Young if he could sell his magazine to
some educator, at profitable price, on
the condition that he, Young, roll logs
effectively enough to get the buyer
the appointment to the vacancy.
The county commissioners can, there
fore, either play into Supt. Young
grasping hands or they can avoid theil
expensive touch, just as they wish.
There has been friction, criticism
complaint and even scandal over Mr.
Young's stunts for some years. Why
he was not given opposition at the
last election is mystery for, had any
one opposed him, defeat certainly
would have been the fate Of the big
fellow.
There was scandal over the way in
which Supt. Young rented automobiles
and used up county gasoline. The ar
rogant educator was called to time by
the county commissioners, but it was
not long before he evolved systems fol
getting around their eyes and author
ity.
Early in the game, Supt. Young paid
as high as $50 day for automobile
hire. Citizens skilled in reading schemes
and motives saw that it was not I'M
possible to make deal with an auto.
mobile agent to rent machine and
then, when the rentals aggregated a
satisfactory sum, the machine could be.
come the personal property Of the man
who rented it at public expense.
For several years, Supt. Young has
had big, powerful, expensive automo'
biles galore. 1t has been sight FOL
gods and men to see the arrogant, az
gressive educator flying through. the
hinterland, seated at the wheel like
monarch on a movable throne, sur.
rounded by a huge load Of secretaries
teachers, supervisors and nurses, each
and every one very easy for male eyes
to gaze upon.
It made the provincials stare when
one of those mammoth automobiles
rOlleQ up TO SOWo mango uoIoi anu w
gan to disgorge its load Of educational
talent and female pulehritude. 1t even
made the hotel clerks gasp when Supt.
Young registered his distinguished
name, with flourish, and then en-
crossed the long list of his female en-
tourage beneath. As the Great Fam
lily Journal has said before, Noah A.
Young has made people think Of the
days when old Brigham Young went en-
tour with his entire collection OF
honey bees.
There. has been much gossip and
even some scandal as to Supt. Young s
relations with his female employees. Up
t Cook, especially, have the people
been critical and inclined to wag their
heads in racy gossip.
Supt. Young certainly has a grand
eve for female beauty and pulchritude.
The Rip-saw has at least enc reliable