The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
Five Wait on Leslie Today
to Tell of Poverty in
Southern Indiana.
HINT PROBE GROUP sop
ENJOYS May Present Strike
Threat If State Aid Is
Not Forthcoming.
BY BEN STERN

rive SCHOOL CeacncTS representing
more than a thousand of their pro.
feSsion in the bankrupt school, aiC
corporations of southern Indiana
were to deliver a plea for immedi-
ate relief to Governor Harry G
Leslie this afternoon.
They were expected to set out the
poverty stricken condition Of their
fellow teachers, tell that it is i'm
possible for them to borrow any
more money from banks against
their unpaid salaries, and threaten
that unless relief Is not forthcom-
ing soon, southern Indiana will be
without teachers.
A note of political retaliation was
expected to be found In Their
petition to the Governor.
Leslie announced that he woulc
receive the delegation at the state
house. The ENJOYS we're selected late
Friday at a conference of teacher;
from state-aid counties at Bloom
ington.
Maybe Is Chairman
They are: D. L. Maybe, principal
of the Stinesville high school AND
chairman of the conference; Harry
Hayes, principal of the Smithville
high school; L. D. Miller, president
of the Unionville high school; o. M
Shekell, principal of the Plainville
high school, and E. G. Dilley, prin-
cipal of the Solsberry high school.
Criticism of the commission OF
thirteen appointed by the Governor
to study state aid conditions and
hints that it was not formed to af-
ford relief, but as political sop
were contained in the resolution
adopted without dissent at Bloom
ington. 1t said:
I'VE commend the Governors &C
ton in appointing a commission to
study the state aid problem, but the
teachers should be paid now, as
many of them are not financially
able to await the ftlnctioning Of the
commission.
"InaSmuch as a commission has
been appointed, we wish to go on
record as asking why state aid cor
porations were not represented more
fully?
I'VE doubt that 1t will be possible
for this commission, unacquainted
as 1t must be with local situations
to find any means of immediate
relief,
Furthermore, as we understand
it, the said commission was not
formed with such in view"
Objection Voiced
Objection to these paragraphs
was voiced by DR.. j. w. Jones OF
the faculty of the Indiana State
Teachers college at Terre Haute,
and a member of the Governor
committee, who attended the meet
ing as spectator.
you are criticising the Governor
severely and I wish to advise you
that I think it best that you strike
out those paragraphs" Jones said
THE Governor has appointed a
committee of thirteen men who
never yet have held a meeting" he
continued, "but whom I believe are
in sympathy with you teachers
State aid Is not a matter limited to
southern Indiana, but has grown
and grown until it no longer is q
local situation. / believe your reso-
luton, if passed, will meet with at
least a little antagon:Sm."
Ignore Warning
The teachers who have not been
paid for two or three years and
who have borrowed to the limit
ignored the warning and adopted
the resolution without q dissenting
vote.
The resolution also asked that
they be paid interest on the money
owing them; raped state in
difference and refuted the charge
made by the Governor Thursday
that the funds generally were mis-
used by township trustees.
Harley Talley, statistician Of the
state department of education and
representative of Roy P. Wisehart,
state superintendent of public in
struction, made a few remarks from
the floor concerning relief and took