The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-02-23
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Editor Wrangel Sentinel

/ Editor Nraneell Sentinel
IN your issue of Feb 10th consider
able prominence was devoted TO The
activities of the Feb P.f.A. meeting
and especially upon the objection
which the writer raised against the
! payment OF legal expense Of $4,000
/ incurred by The supposed publicity
committee. the impression conveyed
i evidently tend TO the belief that my
contention or objection was not we'll
i founded or justified
As a majority of members who pay
! dues but do not participate IN any of
/ its meetings. in justice to them and
myself I am compelled through your
columns TO give the true facts in this
matter.
It seems thai a bill vas presented
at the December meeting for legal
/ expenses amt. $4,000 for services and
advise connected with the bond cleo
/ ton. the President questioned the
/ fact that he did not know of any
such bill or that it was ever present
ed 10 the meeting at any time the
party who presented the bill stated
/ that the bill come to her personally
/ Anyway motion was made that the
] organization pay the bill and was SO
ordered. The writer was not present
at that meeting, later on several
members who was present, drew nv
attention to the fact that they did
not consider il an obligation that the
organization should assume and l
agreed with them. I was present ut
/ the January meeting and stated that
objection had been raised against the
action of the December meeting and
requested that it be made a special
order of business at the Feb meeting
and it was so ordered. Under that
heading a member of the so called
i publicity committee submitted a re-
port of expenses including hall rent
auto hire etc amounting to $4,000
motion was made and seconded that
said report be accepted. I at once
raised the question if there was any
record on our minutes authorisine
the mourning of said expense I was
informed that there was not. I then
explained that such procedure was
irregular. as in any we'll organized
body no committee WAS empowered
to incur any extraordinary expense
without the consent of the organiza-
| ton as a whole, and II was evident
that consent was not asked or grant
ed and I further stated that it was
mainly a civic affair, and stated that
! the city Council had secured the ser
vices of Judge Wiekersham who gave
all necessary advise bearing on said
election, and in conclusion stenuous-
~ objected to it payment by the
P.T.A. on the ground that it was err
regular unnecessary and did not
come under its function as a proper
expense item.
was answered by a very intelli-
gent member of the so called public
ity committee. and of course like
Ceaser's ghoast appeared the spectre
of the defeat of the bond issue, ex-
planning the difficulties and obsta-
cles encountered in the carrying on
of the campaign for the success of
the bond election. and incidently as
sailed the activities of a prominent
member of the School board, but
oonsoled herself with the assurance
that in any case they had the intelli-
gent vote of the town on their side.
Ye. Gods the thought impressed me
at the time owing to the overwhel-
ming majority it was indeed a sad
commentary upon the intelligence of
that body in the opinion of some of
our wise citizens
The question was then called for
on the motion and it carried with
bang, Oh it was great victory and
wonderful meeting they had their
forces we'll marshalled, and really
Tammany in its palmy days would
envy the harmonious precision with
which all details were carried out
anyway the parties responsible need |
ed protection and the action of their
friends was timely.
| will say in conclusion that I hes
itated before entering into this CON
troYersy, but the fact that I was per-
sonally mentioned as the objective
figure both in our school paper
(Which was uncalled for) and the
Sentinel, which l consider a personal
reflection upon my character and
my objection to cause which | |
honestly consider unfair and unjust.
P. c. MCCORMACK.