Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-19
SCHOOL BOARD
FAILS TO NAME
BUSINESS HEAD
Supposedly Cut-and-Dried APP
pOinfment Fails to
MaterialiZe.

any OC1CfC0 W Dc Tue real purpose VI
the meeting, went over at the suggestion
Of Charles l.. Barry, president of the
board, until special meeting which will
be held at 1890 O'Clock, Friday morning.
1t has been conceded that Walter J..
Twiname, examiner for the State board
Of accounts, had the position "sewed up"
and it was thought his selection would
amount to little more than the mere
formality of~Aaving the majority board
members vote for him.. However, it was
plain from the very first that the ma
1ority machine was not hitting on all
four. To begin with the meeting was
scheduled for o'clock, and all members
were on hand at that hour, bat long
"confabs" between President Barry, DR..
Marie Haslep, ". D. Allison and Adolph
Emhardt, In twos, threes and fours, up
stairs, downstairs and in the Railways,
occupied forty-five minutes and ii was
S:45 before the board got down to busi-
ness. During all this time Bert S. Gadd,
who described himself to the newspaper
men as IAN unanimous minority" seemed
to enjoy the situation immensely.
His minority, composed wholly Of him
self, caueused over a newspaper and
seemed to have no trouble in keeping
himself lined up for his policies.
HOLDS CARRIAGES
AND KINGS SESSION.
When the board finally met it took up
everything under the sun but the busi-
ness dictatorship. 1t talked about walks
at Arsenal Technical High School, and
after discussion covering. almost
enough time to construct the walks 1t de-
cided to employ d, A Bohlen & Son
to draw plans for them; it discussed q
great and ,wearisome length the purch!
OF LIZA lockers for the new building r.
Emmerieh Manual Training High Scho
and argued as to which Of two bids
the lower. Finally it awarded the Ioc
contract to the Durand Manufacture
Company or Chicago, on q bid Of s. q
O43.54, as against the bid of So. 033
made by the Berger Manufacturing Col
pany of Canton. Ohio But the Berg
company got the paddock contract on +
bid Of 81 cents each
The board received report FROM
Aiolph Scherer to the effect that -thd
William p. Jungolaus Company had com]
pleted the general contract work at tho
addition at Emmerich Manual TRAINING
High SCHOOL, / discussed at length
great length, how much of the balance Oh
inc contract price TO pay the contractor,
and finally decided upon the usual prof.
ceedure OF holding back Is per cent foA
the Tine being. 1t dug up the Snider {
Rotz contra cts, without a thorough dish
cussion or which no school board meetin
would be complete; 1T instructed AIbers
Baker to confer with U. s. Lesh, attorne
general of Indiana, in regard to the sui
filed yesterday by Mr.. Lesh against SniE
der & Rotz for the recovery of more tina
100000 fees paid to them by the schoc
board Il held a rambling discussion ba
ginning nowhere and ending in the san
place about insurance on the school bull
ings, 1t made an abortive attempt to di
cuss building program, but this W
nipped In the bud by President Barr
and then, when 1t was nearing the he
Of IL o'clock, w. d. Allison, who seer
to be deeply interested in the Twinan%
candidacy, finally brought the matter oy
the election of a business director I'd
succeed Mr.. Douglass to the boards att
tention.
For almost minute there was a 81
lence, every one apparently waiting fol
some one else to speak up. Finally NJ.
Emhardt made a statement IN which he
referred TO the possibility OF selecting
purchasing agent for the board. and
said that 1t might be found the present
salary OF the business director was too
nlSu IL dkcuI Is
who will perform some Of the duties
now devolving upon the director, that
salaries in the entire department might
be found in need of adjustment aud
other things. 1t was evident Mr.. En-
hardt was in no danger OF being car
ried away with any wild burst # en-
thusiasm in Il desire to vote for Twk
name, at least at present.
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with the suggestion the board postpone
consideration until Friday morning. Fol-
lowing the meeting Mr.. Allison said tho
election of Mr.. Twiname was contem-
plated by the board" but Mr.. Barry
would not commit himself that far.
The general opinion is there is somG
little friction between the members OF
the majority faction, and that there still
remain differences to be smoothed over
before the Friday meeting.
Mr.. Allison showed signs Of Jumping
the traces earlier in the evening, when
President Barry tried to ILL Mr.. Al
hson's plan for having members Of thu
board visit various school houses, IN
order to see for themselves what was
needed.
BARRY OFFERS
SUGGESTION
Mr.. Barry broke in and said he felt
the proper way to handle this matter was
tc wait until he named his committees
at the regular meeting Of the board to
be held Jan. 81, and then to let the
committee make recommendations.
I'VE never will make any progress by
having everyone looking around" he
said
"On the other hand, think we can
make more progress that way" Mr.. Gadd
said, breaking into the discussion for
one Of the few times during the ere
ming.
Eyes. you are right" Mr.. Allison said.
Every one Of us ought to look at the
buildings. We are in need of good, subj
stantial school buildings in this city
and we don't want to fall down on a
building program. We want to ge, somf
IF these buildings started as 500 as IA
can; the sooner we get to work on theId<
tle better. There Is no need of walti#
for sil these committees" Then W.
some little show Of feeling he adEkz
81 intend to look into the matter ticX
own satisfaction" NJ
Finally, after having been In sNy<<
three hours, the board adjourned, hav-s
Ing disposed of a few relatively small
matters, decided upon nothing Of i'm
portance, and without having selected g
business director.