The New York herald., 1922-02-09
EDUCATION BOARD
RENAMES MELENEY,
ASSAILS GOVERNOR
Commissioners Also Reflect
DR.. McAndrew, Snyder
and Jones.
LAUD MAYOR, HIT PRESS
Members Resent the Warn
ING of Miller About
Shiny Trail
MISS McNALLY ON GRILL
Accused of Teaching Private
Pupils in Public Schools
Hirshfield on Supplies.

Instead Of smashing" DR.. Clarence
Z. Melauey the Board of Education
unanimously reelected him yesterday
an associated superintendent Of
another term of office to Associate
superintendent William McAndrew,
{. b. j. Snyder, superintendent of
buildings. and Patrick Jones, super
intc-dent of supplies.
Predictions that opposition to DR..
Meseney could not survive the pub
Lefty given by Gov. Miller to 'slimy
politics" and by the press to Mayor
Fylans smash Meleney" order from
Florida proved to be accurate. Tam
many did not back up the Mayor and
did not give any orders.
The result was that those who dis
like DR.. Meleney because Mayor
Hylan dislikes him came to the pub
lie session prepared to praise him
and the other candidates as the salt
of the earth, After doing that and
asserting their independence and the
absence of any attempted dictation
from City Hall they soothed them
selves by lambasting tho newspapers
in manner comparable with that Of
the Mayor himself.
Slap at the Governor.
They then got back at Gov Miller
by disappearing the measure which
he favors-the Downing bill-which
would give a ten year tenure to SUI
perintendent William L. Ettinger and
the associate superintendents. John Z.
Bowe, the new member from Rich
mond, also aimed this at Mr.. Miller:
Shades OF Cesar! The Governor
rushes to New York to rescue its edu
cational system from politics. If there
is any Shiny trail of politics it fol-
lows tho Hudson River and has it's
source in Albany"
Samuel Stern, another member,
sprang surprise by accusing Miss
Elizabeth McNally of having in
structed private pupils in the public
schools of New York" Miss McNally
had been nominated by the board of
superintendents for director of speech
Improvement In doing so the board
had turned down the application OF
Miss Agnes Birmingham, who is
relative of the Mayors. AS Mr.. Stern's
motion against the appointment of
o1 in
days meeting the post is left untitled.
Mr. Stern said a young woman from
1Jleischmann, N. Y, had admitted to him
that she had paid 5000 for private in
structon in New York school build
ing. He was careful 10 say that he did
rot accuse Miss McNally of getting the
money. He promised to investigate
ard make a later report. Miss Nc
Nally, after the board had voted against
her. took the floor, warmly denied know
ing anything about the 5000, said she
had not taught any private pupils so
far as she knew and added that what
ever she had done had been under the
direction of DR.. Frederick Martin, the
speech Improvement director, who re-
signed last September.
Attack on Newspapers.
The full board attended the meeting,
with George J. Ryan, acting president
in the chair and Supt. Ettinger sitting
beside him. The motion for the reap
pointment OF Messrs. Meleney. Mean
drews, Snyder and Jones was offered by
Harry y. Chambers. He said that stories
OF politics in the board had no basis.
that Mayor Hylan had not tried TO In
tcrfere I'm any way and that the Mayor
ought to be praised for having the cour-
age TO carry through i'm the face of
political campaign 'the greatest school
building program ever undertaken
''Why we and the Mayor should be
accused of dragging politics into the
schools / don't know" Mr.. Chambers
said
Dr. John A. Ferguson, whose profess
sional duties include attention to the
Hylsn family, complained that the news
papers "garble and print n lot of stun
that is absolutely untrue" that he had
read articles about tho situation in the
Board of Education that we're appalling
and disgusting" He felt that there
should be some way TO compel news
papers to print the truth. He seconded
tho nominations.
Mr.. Bowe gave his opinion that the
charges OF politics were "inspired propa-
%anda by those fairly well skilled in
tho art lie said he had several chill
drcn Of his own and could be relied on
20 do nothing to hurt the schools Ap-
parently with Gov Miller in mind, he
said that for comparison with the
present situation we've got to go back
$500 years to the Arbiter Maximus sit
ting on the Captoline Hill telling us
what to do, through the press"
Arthur S. Somers, one of the mem
bers who favored the reelection of the
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