The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-07-30
As To The senooI
Board Management

Board Management
Editor Forum: In the Forum item
from % B. Is a strongly manifesto
tion OF carelessness. or. though;less
criticism. II ID D." would get post
ed as to facts and condipons he
would not offer these sweeping crit
icism or course the members OF the
Board OF Education are presumed to
be too busy to get out on the streets
and blow their own bazoo. or shout
10 the public what they are doing.
or intend to do While this Is per-
haps not just what the dear people
want, yet they are too busy to look
after anything in that line.
Very few school patrons OF Guthrie
realize. or care. what problems the
schools of the city present. That Is
| the least of their concern. They do
not know how the members OF the
board have to leave their business. or
their res.ful homes after business
/ hours, in order 10 keep the schools
going and save every dollar possible
TO the already oyerburdened taxpay-
ers.
While ID b. was cooring his brow
and temper those hot days Arman-
trout was neglecting his own business
and rushing down 10 the railroads
yards in the sweltering hea. to check
in car OF coal and see that the
schools we're getting what they paid
for That new fire escape for Central
came one hot morning. and just as
John Fogerty was ready to go home
after his night run. and get a little
needed rest, he must hurry down and
see that the interests of the schools
we're not neglected Bruce was hot
| footing 1t over to the far west side
| to see that the janitors were properly
over hauling. repairing and painting
, for the next year. Dodd and Hans
| ford were closeted over the figures
for the next budget. and were trying
10 plan some way to sqeeze dollar
| or two more out of the county excise
board, and how TO make 100000
spread over $4,000 expense items
for the next year. Other members
We're just as busy. Df Ritzhanpt
was trying TO be sick, but school mat
| ters hustled him out and he finally
concluded that If he was able to
work that hard for the public he
could attend TO his patients, so he
! wired his wife in Wisconsin that ne
was not as SICK as he had pretended
/ to be. All members are constantly
on the job of trying to help Prof.
| Peak figure out just how in the world
they can handle the rush of good
people who are determined to move TO
Guthrie, the best town in the state
in which to live and raise children.
/ These are Just few OF the things
which ID B." has carelessly over
| looked, and which he did not know
anything about, OF course, or he
would not have offered the sugges-
tons that he did.
But ID. b. is correct as to the
| high school proposition. lie may
not realize 1t, but the board knows
! that the camel's back IS just now
carrying about the limit. That las,
straw Is about ready to be piled on
the taxpayers back. The board Is
watching the work OF financial and
economic readjustment, and In a few
| months 1t may be able to figure out
some plan which they will feel justi-
fled in putting up to Mr. Taxpayer
But ID. B. need not think that they
are to be stampeded into anythine
rash. because they are studying these
problems when ID B." is sound and
comfortably slumbering.
Both the board and Prot. Peak are
\ kindly appreciative of the disposition
OF the Guthrie people, but that Is one
strong incentive for them not t
abuse or weaken that confidence
Let ID B." cool his fevered brow
with the thought that every member
of that school board and Prof. Peas
are on the lob OF doing everythinG