The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1922, Page 4

’ Rp MISUSE OF SOL AT FARMINGD DIER FUND ALE GHARGED IN REPORT T0 GOVERNOR ' a ' $58 per month, She was required to | Trustees Ordered to Show}}riotw chock tor thie amount, turn y e = the cheeks over to the bookkee an | Cause Why They Should |itccve in cash 1 nervices the 25 ae sum of $55. The difference was used i Not Be Removed. to pay other servants in the Direct- > ? “mia C. Boegel, previously em- FOR DISABLED \ ployed by ‘Mr. Johnson as a RUF girl and general mald, was placed on alary Incraqenc pie State payroll in June, 1921, at j Went to Pay Salary Increases [ie samo time receiving pay, from § Hy o Ved Mrs. Johnson ‘fsonally, at Agricultural School “Bridget Kirkpatrick, previously ; in Part. employed by Mrs, Johnson as a cook, i i was placed on the State payroll in i , 1921, at $65 per month, i (Special to The Evening World.) affairs of the school have H ALBANY, Aug. 81.—The nine trus- {been given much Babiiony is the ' spilled |POWSPapers of Inte, T have endeavor en of the State Institute of Applied | 11. investigation to inquire into the \grioulture at Farmingdale, I. Jmatters referred to in such mews- ere summoned to-day to appear be- | papers yre Gov. Miller, Sept. 11, to answer] "One criticism 1s that the school ts in league with the Russian Soviet, rious charges against them and iow cause why they should not be moved. Their management is de ared to be inefficient and improper 1d they are specifically charged with uthorizing improper expenditures of oney received from the Federal Gov nment for vocational education of abled soldiers. It is alleged that the oney was unlawfully used for In easing salaries of the teaching staff, soluding the director. The nine trustees named in the mmons are William M. Baldwin of inden City, L. L, President of the yard; Henry P. Tuthill of Mattituck, ‘William W, Niles of New York Irving J. Long of Bay Shore, } Jacob W. Heineman of Hollis, .; Carl H, Fowler of New York ity; Hilda Ward of Roslyn, L. 1; ohn Angleman of Staten Island, and <athryn Reed Pierrepont of Brook- a. The publication of the report of ‘dward C. Zimmer, commissioned hy 1e Governor to investigate the Insti- ution, and his recommendation that le trustees be removed, the manage- sent changed and the system of or- | anization be improved by new laws, | as timed appurently to follow tho tion of the trustees yesterday in dis- ‘issing Dr. Allan Roberts, Secretary { the faculty, on charges. This action vas taken at the office of President jaldwin in Manhattan and only one vustee, Miss Hilda Ward, who ts ighly commended in the Zimmer eport, voted against It. Dr. Roberts had been dismissed once before by the board, but the Commissioner of Education refused to approve the findings, The Zimmer investigation was ordered because of the commissioner's refusal. The trus- tees promptly framed sixteen new charges against Dr. Roberts and yes- terday sustained ten of them. It was shown in the report that while the law requires students not living in New York State to pay a tuition of $150 a year, fourteen such students paid no money; that John- son, because he was dissatisfied with the public schools at Melville, L. 1., = for his two children, induced the trustees to establish an elementary school at the Farmingdale institution for their special benefit, and that he bad his salary and that of severe! of the teachers increased above that fixed by the Legislature from a con- Ungent fund established by the trustees in 1919. The contingent fund now con- consists of $1,259 from the Long Isiand Food Reserve Battalion and $59,741 from the Federal Vocational Board as tuition for disabled soldiers SAYS THEY MADE MISUSE OF FUNDS. Mr. Zimmer says that by @ broad interpretation of the ruling of the Attorney General the trustees as sumed that they had the unqualified right to use the money as they saw fit and were uccountable to nobody ‘The investigator holds that under the Education Law they had no right to Three or four students at the school are members of the Society for Teoh- nical Atd to Soviet Russia. The alms of the society, to assist farm laborers and others to migrate to Russia and in Its development, are really commendable. The only eriticism here is the admission of such students, evi- dently non-residents, without the ayment of a tuition fee, The same nent applies to other foreign stu- assist ents. “Some of the other matters referred to in the newspapers are the employ- ment by the director of a chauffeur whose 1 by the State. The use by th tor in his cottage of one of the three billiard tables pre- sented by the, Red Cross to the school for the use of Federal students, The evidence shows that while one Scally ried on the State payroll as “head janitor,” his only duties are to look after, for and drive the Director's private automobile, It 1s admitted that one billiard table was care in the Director's cottage, but since one is set up in No. 8 Dormitory and one is in ste go owing to lack of space, criticism on this point ts without merit IMPROPERLY CLASSIFIED AS IN- STRUCTORS. “Other matters commented upon by the newspapers have either been re- ferred to above or in the conclusions, “Tt appears that some eight persons are carried on the State payroll under the title of ‘instructor,’ whereas the dutigs they are performing certainly do not entitle them to that classifica- tion. Such practice resulta in evading the Civil Service rules. ‘The evidence shows the following persons so em- ace Tabor, assistant to the Director; A. Robertson, W. Allen, janitor; Wil laborer; W. BR. Wood, drew Kiefer, laborer; M stenographer; W. Frank In his conclusions the Investigator makes this comment on the school; “prom a study of all the evidence and from information gathered from other reliable sourees. I am led to conclude that there 1s an absolute lack of loyalty, confidence, co-operation and unity of action between the Di- rector and the faculty and employees. ne School seems to be undermined by a current of petty jealousies and suspicions “Trivial and unimportant questions are magnified and given such impor- by the Director that they be- an obsession Misplacing a let- apparently of no value on its the subject of accuss- tance come tions of theft “For this condition of affatra the Director is primarily responsible, He is continually suspicious of the mo- tives and actions of the members of the faculty; he has no confidence jn un employee performing ths work assigned or carrying out the ssthedule of instruction without a verification from sources in themselves tnr able. He has instructed, at times, an mploywe to carefully watch and re- the condugt of memburs of ulty, particularly when he ts absent from the school.” Among the alleged abuses of aiscre- tion and power mentioned in the Zim- mer report are the following: n nishment of a teacher and two employees by Director Johnson for testimony adverse to the management given to Mr. Zimmer; they were d to give up thelr dormitory rooms and deprived of dining room ie underhanded persecution of Dr Roberts use this money and thet they should.) 4,1" uae Sonne! pn af Dies ave confined: theipiexpenses’ (0 the| tinccca ane thameatd of trasicemand appropriation made by tho Legis- lature, He declared that the surplus money in the fund should have been turned into the State treasury under the law Instead, the report showed it was used for extra salartes, bonus P tl labor, publicity, travelling expenses Kas a school orchestra and many other pu s In the last three years| WABwey COMF/DENTIAL in salaries alone, both to persons or and off the State payroll Of this sum $6,098 went to John authorized the employment of lol i ers as domestic servants in the D rector's cottage to be paid from t State appropriation for lxborers suant to this authorization one nearly $25,000 was paid from the fund A boues Won's7h se OPEN © PM, DAILY SAT. 9 PM. n Diamond Rings Value Unparalleled! The fact that Diamonds have son. He received from the contingent gore Up 20 per cent ie another fund $2,250 in & year in addition t Reason’ that” prouid” ‘prompt his salary of $5,000 appropriated t yout ely avail your. the State. Johnson also received his] i ytlonal home and maintenance from the Diamond Values Btate. that Wh ure offering. The One of the principal causes of eom- ng pictured tm aint, according to the report, was in $ 5 ants of the Director;’ The report ard may be bomeht om, “On March 28, 1921, the T. 8 Wickler was placed on the State pu fol! in March, 1921, at a salary of f ‘THE EVE LANDS SWORDFISH AFTER BATTLE Catch Weighs 400 Pounds and Is 6 Feet Long. CAPE MAY, Aug. Francis Holmes of Fimily of Norbury’s Landing, six miles north of here, while fish- ing off Bug Lighthouse in Dela- ware Bay yesterday, had a hard battle with a swordfish which he hooked on his line, After nearly an hour and a half the veteran captain, assisted by a party of Philadelphia, whom he had out fishing, landed the swordfish. It was over six feet long and weighed over 400 pounds, Fisher- men hereabout say it was the first swordfish they had ever heard of being caught in Dela- ware Bay. 81.—Capt the yacht SS the biind obedience of the majority of the board to Johnson's every whim, The failure of the institution to co- operate with the agricultural inter- ests on Long Island, and its antago- nism to the farmers and poultry growers’ associations. The failure to collect tuition fees from non-resident and alien students ‘The resignation of former trustee, Frank P. Nohowel, because he found he was allowed no participation in the supervision of the school except to sign on a dotted line provided by Director Johnson, The lack of any qualifications in Johnson by experience, temperament and personal qualifications for his du- th he is described as believing that fa school is to be fudged by the number and size of its buildings and the beauty of its lawns, shrubbery roads and gardens, and as having no con- ception of its educational purposes. The absolute inability of Johnson as an executive and educator and his suspicious and ous nagging and spying upon all his subordinates on and off duty. Mr. Zimmer found Mr, with all these defects enthusias- tic, energetio and hai orking of- ficial,"" but one ‘whose experience has been mostly in the way of plan- ning and supervising the erection of new schools and in obtaining appro- priations therefor.’ Commending Trustee Hilda Ward, Mr. Zimmer says she appears to be “the only member of the board who seems to be capable of any independ- ent judgment in passing upon the af- fairs of the school, and I consider her a woman of ability and understand- ing, knowing the needs and prob- lems of the institution better than y other member, but whose efforts have been of no avail since opposed by a majority of the board,’ Mr. Zimmer said he learned that when Miss Ward undertook to confer and advise with the faculty, she was told by President Baldwin that she should get information only through Johnson, The other trustees, the investigator said, might have had successful bus! - ness careers, but had not the time, experience or educational knowledge for their present duties. —— STOLE RING TO PAY GLIDER EXPENSES S. Aviator Needed Funds to Enter Contest. LONDON, Aug. 81. — Howard Blanchard, thirty-one years old, who claimed to be an American aviator, has been remanded for a week on the charge of stealing a diamond ring valued at $1,300. The police stated that he admitted the theft, explaining that he intended making restitution after he had won he coming glider conest in London in September. Blanchard, who engaged a room at the Piccadilly Hotel, is alleged to have telephoned # jeweller, on Aug. 28, asking that some diamonds be sent for his wife, who was ill, This was done and the jewelry clerks said that while Blanchard was examining a ring he suddenly slammed the door in their faces and made his escape. He was arrested last Tuesday in the West End after @ tussle with two de Johnson U NING WORLD, T! LABORIN GERMANY NOW PROFITS MOST, SAYS GEN, HARBORD |/Two Months’ Visit Showed | Middle and Fixed Income Classes are Sufferers. WASHINGTON, Aug, 81,.—Judging from outward appearances Germany is prosperous and happy, but this condition goes no deeper than the sur- face. This was the impression brought back by Major Gen. Harbor, Deputy Chief of Staff, from a two months’ visit to Germany. ‘ erman laboring clasnes," he sald, “are perhaps the most highly {organized in the world. ‘This enables them to force wage increases as the mark drops. But these wage in- creases follow the fall of the mark, and in the interim the captains of in- dustry are able to take advantage of the situation and produce at costs. “The class which suffers most Is the great middle class of salaried persons and those dependent on fixed Incomes. Their situation is serious, with no tm- mediate prospect for improvement. “The recent violent fluctuations of the mar\ were very interesting, News of another fall would be heard first at the banks. A few hours later you would see all the shops filled with purchasers, foreigners and Germans, who were buying all manner of things before the shopkeeper got wise to the further reduction in the value of the mark.'’ Gen. Harbord declared conditions in the area occupted by American troops are excellent and that the Ger- mans prefer the other army of occupation. Many cases that in other areas are tried in military courts are allowed by the Americans to come before German tribunals. As an example he cited the case of an American soldicr killed by a German man and woman, The murderers were tried and con- victed in a ¢ man court. —— GEN. CROWDER GIVES CUBA ULTIMATUM Gives Ten Days in Which to Effect Reforms, HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 31.—The Zayas Administration to-day was faced with a crisis following the re- ceipts of an ultimatum yesterday from Major Gen. Crowder, represen- tative of the United States, giving the Government ten days in which to act on the legislative programme submit- low Americans to avy ted by him and approved by Secre- tary of State Hughes, ‘The programme calls for the enact- ment of five laws providing for the reforms in. the Government's counting system, suspension in part of the civil service law, the clearing up of current indebtedness, judicial reforms and the flotation of a foreign loan. ac- ——- ae ESTATE LEFT TO COUSIN, SON MAKES CONTEST Charges Will Was Not of b Objections were filed in Queen's Sur- rogate’s Court to-day to probate of the will of Alexander Reiling of Jamaica by his son, Alexander Refling jr., of No, 95 Himrod Street, Ridgewood Relling asserts he ts the sole heir. The will names Elizabeth Weick, ao cousin, No, 7 Pointer Avenue, Jamaica, who Ww estate, with the Free Act 8 left the entir xception of $20 to the son, Reiling tectives, He confessed, the police | ays the will waa not n free act of his said, to having pawned the ring in’ father and that he was under the in- Liverpool for sixty pounds. Black Calfskin Short Wing Tip 2S HEY'RE “last word” in | | C 47 West 34th BROOKLYN ~ \o HOLTON st NEWARK no BROAD ST Ag \ x STORES WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY SLELEMBER ne ff | avees wae | for women who seize the very first minute in point of tim AMMEYE Stamped ona Shoe Means Standard of Merit of drugs. nee Tan Calfskin with Light Tan Buck Back $950 e to secure the point of style R St., New York D, THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1922, RUSSIA SEES RED! ’TIS SMALLPOX CURE MOSCOW, Aug. 81. Red, the official color of the Soviet Government, has been found by Russian sctentists to have a beneficial effect upon smallpox cases, White rays are harmful to the skin lesions in this HERR GRAND UR FNS INDICTMENT INMINE MASSACRE diseage, they say, while red 1s most healing. Ti A Consequently the —_ smallpox Timekeeper Findlay Tells of wards of the Third University Feigning Death as Miners Hospital at Lefortovo, built 217 ., years ago by Peter the Great, Swept By. have been painted entirely in ———— flaming red. ne beds, bedding and equipment are also in that color. A MARION, Ml, Aug. 31 (Associated Press.)—The firet indictment tn con- nection with the Herrin massacre, In SHEVIK which twenty-two persons were NTI-BOLS killed June 21 and 22, was returned] OUTBREAK REPORT late yesterday by the Special] FROM THE UKRAINE Grand Jury investigating the mine The name of tho person in- dicted was withheld pending arrest. Names of several hundred persons, alleged participants in the massacre, are In the hands of the jury.” Every name {s entered on a card, and as each bit of additional information is brought out, it is attached to the card bearing the name of the person it pertains to. ‘The names of witnesses are closely guarded, but out of the hear- ing came the report that one who passed @ long time in the jury room was A. P, Findlay, a timekeeper at the strip mine, He marched second after the employees had been put in line by thetr captors. Though his testimony will remain secret, it 1s believed he repeated what he told on previous occasions, He was guarded the entire time he spent in Marion. Findlay previously had told he saved his own life by feigning death while he Jay wounded, his hair en- tangled in barhed wire on the battle ground, while the clean-up squad Revolution Said to Be Spreading ‘Through the Crimea. LONDON, Aug. 81.—Press des- patches from Kerlin to-day quoted re- ports from Odessa that an antt-Bol- shevik revolution had started success: fully in Southern Ukraine and was spreading through tho Crimea. ‘A despatch to the Daily Mall sald an Orlessa Soviet had “freed itsself of Bolshevism and called upon citizens to unite against the Communist usur- pers.” Considerable bloodshed ts re- ported to have attended the revolt. war, Odessa is an important Black Sea port near the Bessarabian border. Be- fore the war it was @ prominent grain centre and still 1s one of the Russian gateways. Findlay 18 reported to have sald he saw a county official bending over him. Remaining rigid, Findlay ts sald to have heard the official sa phere's that—— timekeeper, keep no) more books. —_—> DYNAMITE BLASTS STARTLE CLEVELAND Four Houses Blown Up tn Five Min- utes—Labor Fight, Say P: CLEVELAND, ©., Aug. 81.—Four houses under construction were de- molished here early to-day by heavy of dynamite. plosions, which occurred sep- arately within five minutes, shattered windows and routed residents from their beds in a radius of three miles. He'll The most sanitary and comfortable mattresses are made of Pure Horse Hair That’s why we have been making them for 94 No one was injured. years. ‘After the blasts the wreckage caught fire. Police attribute the explosions to FRANK A. labor trouble. eee RS WHEN JAP w 1S LOST. LONDON, Aug. 81.—Only sixteen sur- viyed when the Japanese cruiser Nil- taka sank in a typhoon near Kam- chatka a week ago, according to a des- pateh to the Central News from Tokio to-day. 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