The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-08
|HIELDS' Case
ETIRS RALEIGH
e Failure to Reflect
Writer of Winston Ex-
pose as "A Boner"
By J. c. BASKERVILL
The TImeS-Ngws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel


RNEIGH. Aug. 8.-The cause
rpbfc education in North Car
h mas not been helped by the
Eor of the Winston-Salem
Iool commissioners in failing TO
s'sc, James NJ. Shields as one
The y school principals there,
tOc5,edlv because he had the
Eaci,r 20 write a book more or
exposing the domination Of
WinSton-Salem school system
d powerful industrial and tinan-
interests there, according to
fSt opinion here. For while the
Erston-SaIem school board main
6nS that the book written by
j. Shields, "Just Plain LarEin' y
u nothing whatever to do with
failure to re-elect him, the
bile generally believes and will
ntinue TO believe that this book.
Rs the one and only reason the
hool board "fred" Shields.
The explanation issued by
E WinSton-Salem school board
to why Shields was not re-
ected. as contained in the press
Sunday, is also regarded as
|cidedly lame defense of its &C.
IN. In this explanation" the
|hrd maintained the reason
Eelds was not reelected as ore
the principals for the city
tOOl system was because it had
arned that he was seeking a job
iewhere and thought he was
6ng to leave Winston-Salem
sway. Reinstatement went on
say that the book written by
elds, Just Plain Larnin'," had
fyer been discussed nor even
ntioned so far as the members
the board can recall, at any
letting Of the school board"
!: Is pointed out here today,
Fever. that the last phrase of
) statement, cat any meeting
the school board" is very sig
cant and that it says only that
book was not discussed at any
Fmal meeting of the board. This
F. not mean that Shields and
book he had written may not
Re been discussed by the school
Frd members and others out
e Of board meetings. In fact,
Is known here that this book
ated a regular sensation in
nSton-Salem when it was first
ollShed, that several book stores
10 recorder shipments several
les and that one book store re-
Jed to sell it at all because the
pretor thought it reflected
pm "lnston-Salem and some Of
people there. The book is re-
'ed as being only a thinly
Ieq expose of the domination
the schools, teachers, princi-
and superintendent in a to-
geo manufacturing city "some-
ere IN the United States" and
ion lew people had difficulty in
htuylng as being Winston-Sa-
put this sensation caused by
appearance Of this book in
nSton-SaIem did not exist over
state generally and Mr..
g'oS and his book would prob
not have been heard of
IN II the school board had not
+s a 70 md the city schools of
younS principal who had had
nerve and audacitv to tell
at Is considered here az baing
near to the unvarnisbed trnt6
0' me. tne schools in Winston-Sa-
Just Plain IarrinS Ala
reveal anything To the m
med people Of North Caroline
70 school people qenerauT o.
lucians, who have known for - .
Z ~, time that the school sv rJt
HlnSton-Salem, like the civ
ernment and almost averT s
g else there. was dominetSd
ba ,n5 eating manufacturing and
1"cial interests there, They
e. " .. :, been somewhat sur
bT vs az Shields daring, but NOT
i Rr ,.ssa at what he revealed.
I'm NOW the school board there
tn S"IIea the attention of the
IRE S.. nation to Mr.. Shields and
{,d GGoE and his revelations of
r.hs in Winston-Salem by
,I'untary and. involuntary dis
~"' OF It's author, it is agreed