The New York herald., 1922-02-08
'SMASH MELENEY' MESSAGE
TO SAVE SCHOOL JOB TODAY

royalties from the sale Of these books
10 the New York Department OF Educa-
ton.
'It follows that if the text books were
standardized apd all the schools used
the same books, instead OF having III
some instances fifty to a hundred differ
ent kinds of text books used in the game
grade work, one good text book could
be selected fo- use in each grade, which
would mean large saving of money 10
the tax and rent payers OF the city. OF
course such proper business action
would cut out the royalties of many OF
the ITO authors and ooauthors within
the school system and would eliminate
possible graft from certain book pub
fishers.
1T may be OF interest to learn that
at the head of the list OF authors who
have made a good thing OF it is Super
intendcnt Ettinger, who, with a public
school teacher, ono Miss Georgina
Burchall, and Associate Superintendent
Edgar Dubbs Schimer has edited a
run.ber OF books. Superintendent Et-
fingers principal book. known as the
Progressive Road to Reading is said
to consist of extracts of a fantastic
nature from children's books, with fairy
tales and legends culled from many
sources, and designed for primary
classes. 1t is said that $4,000 copies of
tlris Progressive Road to Reading are
used annually in the schools. The
royalty from these alone makes quite a
tidy SUM annually.
Crfticixes Meleney speIIer.
Associate Superintendent Charles f.
Meleney has his name printed on the
title page of two books, entitled Selected
Words for Spelling on which he re-
oeives royalty. An examination of these
books does not show them to be differ
ent from any other speller. However,
said books are used extensively in the
schools"
Mr.. Hirshfield listed as other authors
and co-authors" OF text books Associate
Superintendents J. II. Walsh, William j.
OShea Gustave Straubenmuller and
Edward b. Shallow, District Superinten-
dent William e. Grady, John w. Davis
director of the Bureau of Attendance !:
District Superintendents S. r. Stewart
and w. a. Boylan and Principal Melvil
Hicks.
Unhampered investigation, Mr.. Hirsh-
field said, would reveal that much
money is wasted in the purchase of un-
necessary books, and elimination OF
superfluous supplies would save IAN
enormous sum each year. without inn
I
ance for books and supplies this year is
S2,725, ,437.16.
Mr.. Hirshfield closed by saying:
1T is this sort of school administra-
ton the Rockefeller Educational Gary
crowd is encouraging and for the con-
,, tinuation of which Superintendent Et-
finger and the other school politicians
are fighting. 1t is for the perpetuation
of this greed. waste and incompetence
that Gov. Miller is playing Shiny
politics.
Five Places to he Filled.
School supplies will be the topic OF
Mr.. HirshfieId's next chapter. Patrick
Jones. superintendent of supplies, is up
for reelection at to-day's meeting of the
Board of Education, along with DR.. Me-
leney, DR.. McAndrew and C. 3. j. Sny-
der. superintendent Of School Buildings.
1t is believed the Mayor would like to
get rid of all of them. He also would
like to see his second cousin, Alice
Birmingham. made director Of speech
improvement. Supt. Ettinger has nomi-
mated for this post Elizabeth VI. Nc
Nally. Mr. Samuel Stern. the member of
the board to whom the nomination was
referred, Is to make his report to-day.
The members of the board sure to vote