Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-31
SCHOOLS FIGHT
LOOMS BIG AS
ELECTION NEARS
Better Schools League Makes
Plea for Progressive Ad-
ministrative Methods.

With the fual week of the campaign
getting under way the contest between
the fourteen candidates for school COM
missioner has become one of the leading
features Of the campaign, secondary in
interest only to the mayoralty contest
itself.
It is doubtful if ever the lines have
been as distinctly drawn between candi-
dates. although three states are in the
field. the real contest has settled down
to the candidates favored Lyf the Better
Schools League. an organization of non
partisan character, standing for the
election Of a board which can be de
pended upon TO carry out the progressive
policies Of the present board, and the
slate put out by the sO-called citizens
school committee representing many OF
the forces of reaction in the city.
TAX LEAGUE
ACTIVE.
This later committee, headed by Edgar
II. Evans, whose children attended SD
expensive, socially exclusive private
school in preference to the public schools
Of the city, and with Reginald Sullivan,
who is unmarried, as secretary, Is com
posed largely of members Of the Tax
PAYERS League of Indiana, an .gant-
cation which has bitterly oppo ed al!
school construction for the ~ year
and which even now is holding up. by
means Of remoustrance to o State
board Of tax commissioners, tn erection
Of four sadly needed buildings widely
separated sections Of the city.
The Better Schools League favOrs the
erection of sufficient modern, ireproof,
safe buildings to do away with the nu-
merous tumbledown shacks ard portables
A ~, ? Is cafi
at present It also IS planning the start
ing Of construction on the new Short
ridge High School at Thirty Fourth and
Pennsylvania streets within the next
year.
LEAD BY
MRS. TCTEWTLER.
Candidates favored by this organization
are Mrs Julia Balle Tutewiler president
Of the school board. Clarence E. Crippin,
member IF the board. and Fred T. WI
lis, well known Indianapolis business
man and former president Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce. and Albert Smith, sec
Rotary Of the Masonic Mutual Association
aid employe Of the Typographical Union.
Officials Of the Better School League
point cut that OF the more than one hun
dred names announced by the citizens
school committee as fndorsers OF the Lit
nave no children in the public schools
and large percentage are unmarried
This fact. coupled with the number Of
Taxpayers League mem bers on the list.
IS taken as a strong indication that the
policy o. the Little School party Is to re
strict building and the extension Of
school facilities to the very lowest posi-
Die point
LITTLE SCHOOLS
SLATE
Candidates favored by the Little
Schools slate, which Is backed By the
indianapolis News. are: Charles L. Barry.
reactionary member of the present board
wso las consistently fought the building
program Of the present board DIT Marie
Haslep. strong aHti-Shank Republican;
Fred Bates johnson. former reporter on
the Indianapolis News. and Democratic
member of the public service commission
q Indiana under q Republican Cover
Tor; Fred Z. Yoke a News-Teyvett Re-
publican who presided ar the official open
ing Of the Howe campaign during the
primary hight las spring. and AdoIph
EmharC-, "a Democratic politician.