Show i PRNCIPAL fOR SUPtRITf DH T GROWIGS T TO PLACE PRop AVEY nT CHARGE But No One Is Seeking the Place For Only a Short PeriodMore 4Appli cations 0 A sentiment favdrable 1 to the election of Professor Oliver H Avey principal of the Washington a temporary successor only to Superintendent J F Mlspaugh rCigD Is gaining ground among local educators and friends of the public school Sstem I is contended contend-ed that PrOfes5 1 veys selection would atSfy l svho are averse to sending outside tiJ tate for a superintendent super-intendent and mQreover i is claimed for the professor vho by the way is not seeking the promotion that he is in ever way well qualfied to fill the oHce Members of the board of education edu-cation who favor the plan o seeming the service of some local educator of the required ability and fitness for the superIntendency until next June assort as-sort that such acl J would better enable en-able the board then toelet from the best many of whom are not now available for electIon for a stated term However It is extremely improbable that Professor Avey J or any other receptive re-ceptive candidate would accept the tender ten-der for so short a period as six months unless it were stipulated that the board would reemploy the temporary superintendent super-intendent if his brief services had proved satisfactory here are few i any prIncipals who want to run the risk of demonstrating their fitness to 1m the superintendency and latel probably I prob-ably without sufciet cause be reduced re-duced to the former rank Some appropriate arrangemC1t wfl be made at Tuesday evenings meeting of the board of education in filling the vacancy even for the brief period of six months but Superintendent MIlls paughs recommendation in the premi sea i it i5 solicited will likely go far toward determining upon whom the retiring I re-tiring officials mantle shall fall Among the recent applcations mae from nonresidents for the superintend ency soon to be vacant Is one fro Dr W J White exsuperintendent of the Dayton 0 schools Superintendent E M Van Patton of Bloomington Ills and one from Professor Frank III Jack of Iwaukee |