Show I i COMMUNICATION TioN j jt I I j t Editor Edior of ot Tho R Republican Republican- In your I Issue of or March tarch 4 I have havo o hc l seen en tho the first I sensible thing timing hat has been uttered by Y tho press during the thc disturbance disturb ance about the Hie affairs of or the tho school chool Aboard J board viz Iz Toll Tel tho time Truth and If I Pyou will JI alTow alrow mc me to go Into print in iii S your valuable pap paper r. r I will 11 confine 0 my i to myself allowing ng alo others the tIme same amo right to Toll Tell oTel tho the Truth I I am charged In tho the first place place by slanderous articles In the Herald and Tribune Tribuna simultaneously and apparent apparent- ly h by bl th the same reporter with wih having hl I changed my namo three times while I being helm In the tho employ of oC tho the board of or education In order to lo draw I my pa pay rho Tho foremans foreman's time book hook will wil undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly show whether this is truo true or oth oth- ollI oll- I 1 dony lony ony tho the charge as ns a 0 sIan- sIan derous derus lie le I 1 never Dover received ed ono one cent from the board or a a check for tor work vork lono tone unless I 1 have signed tho the payroll with my ray own name and with a full tul 1 knowledge powledge that the board of ot education lion tion and tho the public bIc had value alue received I 1 refer all al parties to Foreman I E. E IH H I-I Evans E for confirmation of ot this state ment Another noth r artIcle app appeared ared a n few tew da day s later lter evidently c prompted by the same sam e portion n In both Tribune and n Herald stating that some omo very cry valuable tools tool s I were were missing belonging to tho the board boar d di I i I I I j I er or education during tho the time that four tour I of fC Mr r. r sons wore employed This Mr Editor as I 1 take It It IB is not a n 1 1 direct charge but ono of or those thOM Infernal Infernal Infer Infer- nal Insinuations Insinuation that is used to gratify t fy personal persona spite or to throw officers ocer rl- rl S of ot the board off orf tho the track in their search tourch of tho tIme guilty parties partes and as this Is an assertion that t reflects on all al tho mechanics Including tho the foreman that has Jias dono clone any ony work for or tho board of or education for the past two or three S years ears I 1 have havo this to say tonally Personally I 1 know of ot no tools be belonging be- be longing to the schools that tool I would stoop loop to pick up for or my own use nor nOI do eo I that nn any other mechanic I would desire to use ee tools that S purchased b by educators educator for or use of or women women wo wo- men and children In manual training wO 1 departments the they he being IDS altogether too loo small mol for Ol mens men's use uso S In the Heralds Herald's Issue of this I lIsue mornIng morn- morn lag Ing U 1 I havo have not no seen tho the Tribune the the lost tools have been heen discovered all al but butone butone one unc saw worth about aboul SI 80 cents and andu u IL 1 hammer r worth about 40 cents T I am ama charged with wih tho the abstraction of these articles articles- Now Mr l. l Editor Edior In all al fairness how hoyt does oes t time tho c matter moter appear to you ou or the tho public If I true trueS a warrant for tor my m- arrest arrest ar- ar nr rest should bo be Issued and charges chante proved before courts having ln jurisdiction tion ton in the cn case caso o What Vhal must roust tho the pub pub- lie lic lc C I nH mean an the tho Intelligent portions portion porton rub rub- think of or a it D board of ot education that will allow alow such slander to appear In wl the public prints as a being tho tIme finding of such Huch committees Q I cannot bring myself my my- self foI olf to believe c bele such things of the thc vast alt majority of these honorable members I trust you ou will wf print print this In tho the in- in ernst of or fairness and right Respect fully THEODORE M M. NEWMAN EW tU |