Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-10-29
TO THE PUBLIC

Mr.. Voter: l have heen reading the
notes and scandaiizing talk published
by "a committee whose secretary is
Mr.. Cook. He and his henchmen seem
to have formed very bad opinion of
myself and Messrs. Cordray and Og-
levee. / am of the opinion that they
are as good citizens as you will find
in Morgan county. /, personally, have
never learned Of anything crooked in
/ these men or their ancestors. There
fore they have as good right to ex-
press opinions and assert their rights
/ in regard to school matters as any,
one else. | am called a puppet of Mr..
Strong for which / thank you, as
am sure you cannot, with your cor
rupt rule, make puppet of me. am
| friend Of Mr.. Strong and hold him in
high regard, for he has proven HIM
self a gentleman.
Ny sole reason for wanting to be
member of the coming county school
| board is because | have a family of
seven children to be educated and un-
der present conditions, they are not
getting the kind of education that
wish them to have. wish to raise and
educate my family in such way that
| they will be useful men and women
to the community. If | can possibly
| send them to college when they leave
high school, they will not be sent
home in disgrace and say | am not
fit to enter college.
| It looks to me and lot of the good
thinking public, especially those with
:! families in school, that if things were
/ right with the present head of our
school affairs in Morgan county, that
when an election of county and town
ship school board members was to be
held all educational business would
not cease and that they and their
henchmen would not commence med
ding in the affairs of electing the
various boards. Leave this matter to
the public They are the ones to de-
eide these questions. / observed this
fall that men who were drawing large
salaries off the county and state made
it a business to attend the county
fairs and picnics and all public gath
erings for the express purpose of be-
smirching the names of their fellow
citizens.
Several of the good teachers of
Morgan county have told me that they
have been called together this fall in
private meetings and, instead of being
instructed in school work, they were
instructed how to vote in the Novem-
Der election.
TEACHERS OF MORGAN COUN-
TY, was this necessary? / will assure
all teachers of our schools that it
elected in the November election that
you will get square deal. | was a
teacher one time myself and realize
what your duties are and / have SYM
pathy for you.
You assert that Mr.. Strong would
be a dictator over the county board
if WE were elected. That is what we
are going to do away with. We want
to do away with Bolshevism. We are
real, red-blooded Americans and want
these principles taught IN our schools.
Aeitators. did you say? What is your
clique doing but agitatmg Holding
your caucuses in secret You are sure
lowering the standards of some of
your public institutions by these sec
ret actions. A national bank should
not be used for such rendezvous.
Twenty years ago Morgan county
was looked to to furnish teachers for
her own schools and supply good
number outside. Today we are i'm
porting them to fill our ewn schools.
Ask yourself what is the matter.
Pennsville school used to turn out
from 10 to Is teachers annually. Now
we turn ont from three to five grad
yates with instructions to 20 away to
college and prepare for teaching.
/ will say for myself, and | am sure
can safely say for Messrs. Oglevee
and Cordray, that we want TO get ed
ucation back to normal and eliminate
the costly red tape and frills that
now. accompany it.
You spoke about cutting ost the
rural schools and lowering expenses. /
A lot of them have been cut out to
our sorrow, but the. cost of running
the schools of our county is mounting
higher each year. You are very bold !
about letting the public know what
amount of state aid that we get each
year. But you forget to tell them
what the county has to put up to meet
the state requirements. Better investi- |
gate this matter. 1t is costing Morgan
county three times as much to run her
schools as to conduct all other public |
business.
Think, Mr.. Voter. before you GO to
the polls on Nov. 3rd, not for my sake |