The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-30
Pupil STRIKE
is THREATENED
AT SOUTHPORT
Charge of Politics Hurled
at HohIt by BaCkerS
of Addington.
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as basketball coach without inform
ing Ray Scott, present coach, of the
move or of his own fate.
His third official act was to ten
der a contract, already signed by
Mr.. Hohlt, to Mr.. Curtis offering
him the position of principal.
People attending the meeting last
night were, in general, confident that
Mr.. Hohlt's only intention is to
make political capital of the school
system.
Mrs. Floyd Beghtel, president for
four years of the Southport Parent
Teacher Association, and also presi-
dent of the University Heights PIT.
A., announced that the PIT. A. will
fight any disturbance in the person.
mel of the faculties of any township
school. Mrs. Beghtei said that she
has arranged for petitions to be cir
culated throughout the membership.
The petitions will ask that he leave
the school setup as he found it
when he took office Jan. l.
"WeII Have to Impeach Him
IF we should get 90 per cent of
the voters, and I think we SHALL
he can't very we'll ignore that, can
hep" Mrs. Beghtel said.
of course" she fastened, eff he
does, then We'll simply have to i'm
peach him. We won't tolerate any
thing like this in Perry Township,
and he may as we'll know it.
THE day is past when a cham
pionship team means anything. AS
a matter of fact, a championship
basketball team is a bad thing for
players and fellow pupils. 1t gets
them all too wrought up.
why I was passing through An
derson the night their team won the
championship this year and the
whistles were blowing and the bells
were ringing just as if another
Armistice was signed. It's ridicul-
Gus.
1--WE Approve Mr.. AddingtOn"
I'VE parents thoroughly approve
of Mr.. Addington. We like his man.
agement of athletics. There we're
more than 100 out for football this
year. Thus, 100 pupils got the bene-
fit of practice, not just one squad
on which the coaches concentrated
to the exclusion of others.
I'VE like Mr.. Addington as prin-
cipal. We thoroughly approve of
his discipline. The recent I'M
pleasantness (she referred to the ex-
pulSion of four pupils on morals
charges) is likely to happen more or
less frequently in any high school,
and it was in no way attributable to
Mr.. Addington.
THE parents of Perry Township
will not stand for what every one
believe Mr. Hohlt plans to do with
the school system, and we are pre-
pared to fight it to the bitter end.
We will not have politics in the
schools and no politician can force
them on us"
No Direct Statement
Virtually every one who attended
apparently was convinced Mr.. Hohlt
intends to play politics. There were
rumors here and there that as many
as 80 teachers will be fired and re-
placed. No one in the assembly had
any direct statement from Mr..
Hohlt as to what he actually in
tends to do, however, and in the
absences of the plans of the oppo-
sition the group formed an organi-
cation and announced its in
tention of being ready for any
thing.
The first function of the organi-
zation, called the Perry Township
Civic School Association, will be to
distribute ballots to parents of pu-
pills in the eighth grade and high
school so that they may vote as to
whether to retain Mr.. Addington as
principal.
This vote was in accordance with
a reported promise by Mr.. Holht
that, if Mr.. Addington won the vote,
he (Mr. Hohlt) would seek to per-
suade Mr.. Curtis to give up his con-
tract, the same contract Mr.. Curtis
informed The Times he would not
sign.
Sheriff Otto Ray injected comic
opera note into the meeting by
having it attended by two deputies