Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-10

Inst, you ask whether / have any
thing to say touching the school In
suranee.
Accepting your kind suggestion,
send THE communication. The sub
ject seems vital enough for many
persons To speak upon IL.
My appearance before the school
board on Monday evening. August
20. to ask what seemed to me to be
perfectly pertinent question. ap-
pears To have opened up the discuss
sion.
The very thoughtful letter of Mr..
Justice, i'm which was detailed very
accurately the discussion had be-
tween Mr.. Stradley and myself. TAX
ing issue with Mr.. Justice. MIR. Dizer
wrote his letter. Between these ap-
peared your very strong suggestive
editorial of the Second Inst.
My appearance before the board was
TO learn two things: First, Why a
certain agent, with one company, hay-
inR no participation I'm representing
tho board In the matter of preparing
the forms or In seeking a reduction
of the rate, should last year receive
renresentIng number of companies
received $500 The other question
was why only a portion of the agents
being direct representatives, received
none at all last year, and especially
why the one company agent above re-
Terred 10 was scheduled To get $780,
| 600 and | was wholly eliminated this
year. Mr.. Dizer. who was present,
seems TO think that Mr.. Stradley
/ answered my question and infers that
MIR. Justice must have paid more at
tentton TO my queries than to Mr.
stradley's answers am equally OF
| the opinion that Mr.. pizer paid more
attention 10 MIR. stradley's answers
than TO my questions for | positively
| declare that my questions were never
answered by Mr.. Stradley-he discus
sed other phases of the Issue. each
time side stepped as II were.
AS the agent who was granted
$3.50, 900 In 1920. and 100000 this year
is a we'll known politician. IL really
looks as If Justice was right when he
declared that Old Man Politics still
had a seat in the School Board.
In a discussion regarding the re.
newal of the insurance | carried IN
1890. with Mr.. Stradley week oi
more before the expiration Of the in.
suranee he advised me that he saw
no reason why | should not be award
ed the Tine then carried converFa
ton had with him on the day the IN.
suranca expired he informed me tha
was counted out Asking why. h'
told me that II had been decided tina
none but agents classed as genera
agents would participate tsub-agenti
and agents doing a real estate bust
moss being barred. ! advised hin
that | did no real estate business. ant
held a general agents contract, an'
therefore could qualify IN every par
ticular. lie seemed quite excited an'
said he would pee Dr, Washhurn ans
others and see what could be done.
II was very plain at the beard meet
ing | attended. that Mr.. Stradley wa
the member who laid out the plan fo
the placing of the insurance. N
other member spoke on the subject ex
cent Mr., gouder. who thought that al
agents who held general agency con
tracts should participate in the in
isurance The final action of the schoo
board on Friday afternoon. Septembe
9 simply shows why number Q
\ qualifying agents were eliminated
Clearly il was proposed from the ver'
first TO place the whole insurance II
the hands Of a favored few. The Tel
largest company" plan still passes tn
: insurance over to the agents frs
scheduled to receive the bulk of IL.
II Is exceedingly interesting {
read in Every Evenings report o.
Saturday what Mr.. Stradiey has I
say regarding the latest decision of tn
!. school board on this question. TN
statement was made after the con
ference on Friday afternoon. trus
the voters and all others who rea
this article will read twice the tw
e statements herewith. Read No.
: twice before reading No. 2. and sc
$ how Stradley straddles the issue:
Statement No. 1.
Mr.. Stradley says: In deciding I
place the business with the ten large
= coYnnanies. we think we are taking th
only fair course OF course, thos
agents whose companies are NJ
among the ten strongest will ha'
complaint to make. because they d
not get the business. We expect that
!, Statement No. 2.
4 "There 10 no question but that Il
Q fire insurance placed last year al
: other years was wrong. because M
ALI agents shared in the insurance
Where would Pitt, Webster, Clay I
o even Taft or Hughes come in on a
! argument with Stradley?
I The above should be printed in go
: on Cranes finest parchment linen.
copy given each member of the scho
heard. hung in the board room, in II
high schools. grammar schools, and
COPY bound in white buckskin, pr
scnted to each graduate year by yea
sn6 marked Reflections, Discussion
and Arguments" ny Shermer
S;radIey, Esq. revised September
1921.
: In his recent letter Mr.. Dizer r
| ferred TO the patriotic services of NJ
| Stradley, which had saved the ta'
| payers $1,064, through a reduction
J rates on school property Some sa'
ings are not really such. The po
said a fine thing when he wrote the
lines:
I'VE strive, we spend our souls f
dross,
We win, we lose. and ofttimes fiji
our winnings are but loss"
Suppose now that ] can prove by a
ttlal facts and figures, that instead
.,..s,,. ,ao faypayarc 81 n64 that M