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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN; FRI DAY, APRIL 25" 1013. SCHOOL PROBE REPORT AN ATTACK ON SUPT. POPE AI PH. WOOD Recommending that the. superin indent of, public Instruction, W. T. Pope, be taken from office ,&nd that the hack salaries of the Misses Maud and Eva Dawson,, teachers who were not reassigned to schools by the su perintendent be paid, and that ; Miss Etta Davis, a discharged Instructor, be given suitable employment and be paid her back salary, and that a. spec ial hold-over committee of the senate Investigate thoroughly Into school af inlrs of the territory, the joint com mittee on education of both houses handed in the report of their investi gations, late yesterday afternoon. . In Loth houses the report was adopted and ordered printed.! The discharge of Superintendent Tope may occur when the senate takes up the confirmation of the governor's recess appointments this V week. Though It has 'been rumored - that Principal Wood was to - suffer the tame treatment by the committee as Superintendent Pope, the committee passes him by with a few unfavorable comments on the testimony he gave before It :.,'.." - . ' The report in this connection says: - "Mill Davis charges that Principal Wood is accustomed to act toward his subordinate teachers in an arbitrary, oppressive, rude, domineering, insin . cere and untruthful manner. ; "Your committee attempted to get evidence from Mr. Wood but experi enced great difficulty in so doing; he did not seem to .be able to give a straight answer to a straight question and impressed your committee with the belief that he was constantly try- - lw ia v-ri anil nt H r1nr rm-' wers to questions. Your committee is willing to. believe, however, that this Is due to temperament, and is lead to think that Mr. Wood is habitually evasive, even though he may, by his peculiar . ma nner . give that Impres sion." . . ; ' . The report goes into detail in the tchool . conditions generally,, both as to the efficiency of the instructors employed and the desirability of the course of studies pursued. v The com mittee reported that It was not eatis- lled with the text book arrangement and cited one ; instance Where - the course had been changed after the pupils had already purchased books for the former course, which obliged them to buy an entire new set of books.: Near the conclusion of the report the committee states that It Is of the opinion that "it would be possible to establish an academic department at (he College of Hawaii, the same to in clude a normal training course, which ycould be a move in the right direction."- ; - i It is In the closing section of the report that the removal of Superin tendent Pope is recommended, saying that he is a detriment to the depart ment because of his "arbitrary meth ods of dealing with the instructions given by the commissioners of public Instruction, and ignoring such instruc tions whenever be wishes to do so." " The report is signed by the follow ing: Chairman Penhallow and Mem bers Makekau and Rice of the cenate education committee: Chairman C. H. Cooke and Members Kinslea, Spald ing, Paxson and Muddy of the house education committee. However, the real work of Investigation was dele gated to a joint committee. Chairman Paxson. Senator Penhallow and Rep resentative Spalding, and these three made the report. " " It was stated, this morning by a leg islator In a position to know that Chairman Paxson wrote practically the whole report No public hearings were held and the report was accept ed by the house and senate as a mat ter of routine. Bqth houses were too busy yesterday to consider it at any length: ; v':. The report says in part: . !.-. Sixth 1 1 -: y : Your committee . was instructed to inoulre "whether any abuses or in etf icient practice: existed in the ad ministration of the financial affairs of the department; and if so, ; what remedy recommend." Your committee finds no abuses in the business ad ministration of the department except ing-some discrimination Jn . awarding contracts. . Bids have been invited for the, furnishing of certain school sup plies and afterwards such supplies, were ordered from bidders other than the lowest, this however, may be due to oversight but it should be . care fully guarded against In the future. Seventh Your committee was Instructed lo inquire whether the system of fixing salaries of teachers in said depart ment is reasonable, equitable and carried out In practice; and what de partures from, or abuses of the sys 1 em in this regard, have been prac ticed; with , the recommendations of said committee as to any reforms which may be desirable." Your com mittee finds that the method of em ploying teachers, fixing their salaries and terminating their employment adopted by the department is an ex tremely unsatlsfatory one. Any thing like a written contract contain ing the conditions of employment is unknown to the department. Other educational institutions in this terri tory, for instance, Punahou College, find U convenient to enter a contract with their teachers in which the rela tions of the contracting parties . are carefully defined. By adopting this course, both the department and the teacher would be informed as to their respective rights and duties, and many misunderstandings would be avoided. The present method of re questing teachers to notify the depart ment. If they desire : reappointment and letting the matter rest there with out immediately informing the teacher as to his appointment or non-appointment is; extremely unsatisfactory, and, as shown above, has led to many misunderstandings -.and much dis satisfaction. ' f:. V .-,' V - Your committee recommends that full allowance for previous experience should be given after one year's satis lactory service with the department. Eighth ; . . -. Your committee was instructed to inquire "whether partiality toward or prejudice against individual teachers on the part of. the superintendent of public instruction, or of any principal, either in the matter of the .place or grade of assignment to duty, salary, or other matter, has been practiced to an extent Inimical to the best inter ests of the department or of any school therein." The system cf fix ing salaries is conspicuously lax and in many cases carried out and prac ticed In what seems to be an inequit able and unjust manner. Salaries are rated without due regard to the length of service, capabilities and former success of the teacher and there are" pot lacking instances of favoritism and prejudice. One 'teacher for in stance, whose only teaching experi ence - in the territory consisted of one month's teaching in ' a small country school and teaching ,li Sun-' day school, was appointed as principal Your committee is of the pinion that to a large tleteu room tcisool at a the present cost of school books for (alary of 1 800 per year, even thougn tne eight primary grades is not exces he had. no previous experience, and; 4veC We find, however, that in some bis only training seemed to be that instances the books which the depart acquirtd in a Bible normal school. In men t requires to be used, .were not this con section it may be well to considered desirable by the teachers, point out that the granting of teach-'while other books recommended .. by ers' certificates seems to be con- the principals are less expensive. ; ducted In a careless, slipshod n.annerl Your committee is of the opinion without due regard to the ability and I that In the course of study more env fcuccess of the teacher. For instance, !phasls should be placed upon the in the gentleman above ; referred to.jteUigent understanding of the Eng tecelved a grammar certificate while high language.. More effort should other teachers with normal or college j be expended in teaching reading, training have been unable to secure ting and speaking and the simple such certificates. It is recommended by your committee ' that . certificates be granted only on examination as prescribed in the rules of the depart- rules of arithmetic Eleventh Your committee is instructed and directed to make any other lnvestiga- jnent or as a recognition of training tions and recommendations, not spe- ana experience, me system adopted Cif ically referred to in the foregoing j by the department In the matter of j paragraphs which It might deem pert- classification of teachers and their ; salaries and certificates is detrimental to the best interests of the depart ment . Ninth . : . . I Your committer was instructed to Inquire "whether the course of study prescribed for the;different grades can Inent to the subject and thereupon, your committee made an investigation of the Normal School Your committee met with many expressions of dis satisfaction with the methods employ ed In the Normal School, and with the (results obtained in that institu tion. : It seems to your committee. be better systematized, simplified, or j that one of the great weaknesses cf the expense thereof, either to the de-!tbe administration of this school Is partment or to the parents of pupils, j the lack of proper entrance requlre be reduced. And escepially. said com-:menta. , It seems that- no 'definite . mittee is herebv directed to inauire f standard of examination is reoulred : and . report as . to the average cost to J that pupils, simply walk - into the the pupils of text books and other ma terial required by said, department throughout the school year In the re spective grades,": and "to recommend any feasible . reduction of such ex- school irrespective of their previous training, and ability to take advant age of the course of efred.: Your com mittee recommends that no pupil ihould be admitted to the Norma! pense. which will be consistent withlSchool unless ne have a certificate the efficient Instruction of pupils in ; Mating that ' he has satisfactorily the primary breaches of English, or otherwise, with the reasonable effi ' clency of the ' respective schools." f Your committee has given . the sub jects referred to In this paragraph, considerable and careful thought and passed through the eighth grade of the Grammar School, or unless he shall pass an examination showing his proficiency in all studies up to and including1 the eighth grade. ,; :v It seems - to .your committee that cIiiiIt1 ' Tn Vn Intn fhaoa mattflfo ilhn Mnrmfil Rhrw-il tl rrnvdMt inii tnoroughly as they deserve, would re-1 this condition would probably be quire much more time than the com-.remedied by, stricter entrance re mittee has had at its disposal. Your committee believes that the present course of study could be greatly im proved. The consensus pf opinion in quirements. '" .': :. The principal of this school, Mr. Wood, has given the territory i many years of service. Your r committee public instruction, by his arbitrary methods in dealing with the"lust ruc tions given by the commissioners 'of public instruction, and 4n Igrorln?; such instructions whenever he v "shed to do so. Is a detriment to the depart ment I Through his actions, several of the commissioners resigned, giving as their reasons, that they dd r.ot deem it advisable to waste their time In attending to the affairs of trc de partment they having learned from experience, that the superintendent would not follow their instructions: and further, would use the Infraenc of his position to prevent other em ployes of the department from tarry ing out the wishes of the commission ers; that the complaints of the retir ing commissioners were well founded Is evidenced by the refusal of the SttY SEMj UPSET Slffio "Pape's Diapepsin" Ends Indi gestion. Gas, Sourness in .Five Minutes "Really does put bad stomachs la order "really does overcome Indi gestion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and tourness in five minutes that just that makes Pape's ' Diapepsin the W . . . superintendent to call a meeUng of f L".,VIIl?5 Alm!" S- the commissioners as rcquestvl by them for July or August 191, and his action at the meetings of super- in mv t which tttiAH nf 'oal: tongue coated; your insldes fill Into stubborn lamps you belch gas rnd eructate sour, undigested food and acid; head is dlxxy and aches; breath- the public . was drawn and considci able adverse criticism expressed in the public press. ;W i : We would therefore, recomme ; 1 that the senate take necessary step. toward having a new superintendent appointed, as that course would be for the best interests of the department of public instruction V Owing to the great amount of w?rk that your committee was eompelle i ed with bile and indigestible waste, re member the moment Dlapeptln comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonish lag almost marvelous, and the joy 1a its harmlessnesa. A large fifty-cent care of Pape's Cx pepstu will give you a hundred dollars worth of satisfaction or your drugslst hards you your money back. . It's worth Us weight In gold to men and women who can't get their atom- iu uu-iv u mirv u i i achs regulated. ; It belongs -in your possible . to make an exhaustive ex- home should alwsys be kept handy amination of the affairs of the iHin case of a' sick, sour, upset stomach partment And your committee reccr.i-; during - the day or night It's the mends that a senate holdover com ; quickest surest and roost harmless mittee be Instructed to continue tl' j stomach doctor In the world. adver- mvesugauon witn parucuur reter-; tisement to the business management cf ence the department schedule of salaries and course of study.' " All of; wbicji Is respectfully snb mitted. ': ! , ri'y.-:r: Dated., Honolulu, April 23rd, Ar D.. - i S. S. PAXSON, "; . RUFUS P. SPALDING. v ; II. B. PENHALLOW.- the rural districts, is that the present recommends that he . be given one course of study is especially inadapt- year's vacation.; ; : .;; able' to their, conditions, as unlike After considerable discussion, your Honolulu, it is necessary to have sev- committee is of the opinion that I cral grades in the samei room. Your would be . possible to establish ; ah committee is unable to suggest at the academic department )a the CoHcua present time, any manner by ; which of Hawaii, the same to include a the expense, incident to the conduct normal training course, which would ; of the schools, -could - be materially, be a move In the right direction, j j reduced, but believes that a course of Twelfth :. '.. study could be adopted more snitable : Your committee is of the opinion to the needs of the rural ? districts, that the present superintendent ' of TREAT FOR BOY SCOUTS. Honolulu Boy Scouts will be guests of the Newman company at Ye Liberty theater tomorrow afternoon, when they will be marshaled at fclty hall and in company with Secretary Miles ' and Scout Commissioner - Wilder, will march to the theater In a nody. A The third class of midshipmen at Annapolis will enjoy , the most exten sive summer cruise in the history of the naval academy this coming sea son, according to officials of the navy department - - ' . The battleship Illinois, assigned to the cruise, will leave tie Chesapeake capes early in Jnne, and proceed to Antwerp, the bay of Pontevedra, Ca diz, Gibraltar, Funchal and the Ma deira Islands The battleship will re turn about August 22. The members of the two upper classes will not leave home waters, being distributed among the ve33eU cf the Atlantic fleet - With milk displacing beer ia Ger man universities and pie abolished at the United States naval academy, U special Boy Scout matinee has been ar- the coming generation going the mcl ranged forthe pleasure of the lads. ' lycoddle pace? ProviJ ence Jourril. T mi t FC i SALE M AUCTI 1126, 1913 " 12 o'clock noon Saturday Apr At my salesroom, Fort and Queen Streets, opposite H. Hackfeld & Co. - Uliree Rve-iioioiie : New 2 f- B 1 - , - tots 60 x 200 Situate 7h Avenue, KaimuRi, Terms: $200 cash; balance payable monthly O. A. STEVEN, Auctioneer. Also at Same Time and Place I Lot on Palolo Avenue,. Kaimuki, , ; One Block from Car Line. ' ; ' ; ; Size 100x150 level cleared. -J . O. A. STEVEN, 'Auctioneer. . Also at Same Time 'and Place Aiea-ITh Iciant Complete, ready for running; Capacity "10 tons a day. FOR ALL PARTICULARS APPLY ' v . - v , "' ' .:. ' , ; . O. A.. STEVEN, Auctioneer. MU: C T t WW:-- S A .L:. ;joiiiDg OAf eeo to TCCAfMAS Avu4Ys Vails r ' - 4 W AO LAN I GrmA t res OAfW COUNTRY t CLUB ' ; r ' " . i" " " . .. . y ' ' , ... : : ... . . I.' M-tft ... Under instructions from H. Cush- man Carter, of Honolulu, the trustee under deed of trust, made by John A. Cummins and Kahalewal Cummins to Joseph O, Carter, dated October 1, 1896, and recorded in the Hawaiian Registry of Conveyances in Liber 165. pages 183-189. I will offer for sale at public auction at my auction rooms at Fort and Queen Streets in said Honor lulu, on Saturday the 17th day cf May, 1913, at twelve o'clock noon, the tract of land containing an area of 12.795 acres or thereabouts known as Haipu on the Ewa side, of Nuuanu avenue, Honolulu, with a frontage on said Nuuanua avenue of 980 feet or there abouts and adjoining at the rear the i golf links of the Oahu Country Club, ' and. more particularly described as .follows: - ; '. All that portion of the land describ ed in Royal Patent (Grant) No. 860 to Thomas Cummins, whose metes and bounds are as follows: Beginning at a point on the north west side of Nuuanu Avenue by true aslmuth 198 02r, 136.7 feet from government street monument, the co ordinates of said monument referred to the Rosebank Triangulation Sta tion being north 1786.6 feet and west 10.7 feet, and running by true azi fnuths: .k-.. : 1. 143 24', 590 feet along stone wall; 2. 148 06', 211.1 feet along stone wall and across stream; 3. 225 30'. 115.5 feet, along land Reg. Petition No. 188, Oahu Coun try Club. to. point 45 00', 0.3 feet " from concrete monument; 4. 259 50' 30", 164 feet, along same to point 29S 22V 19.7 feet from concrete monument; 5. ' 204 47', 392.7 feet, along same to 338 SO', 0.8 feet from con crete monument; 6. 235 30', 194 feet, along same to point 9 40', 1.2 feet, from con crete monument; . 7. 317 37' 30", 103.6 feet along fence,, along property of J. G. Spencer; ' 8. 329 15V 265 feet, along stone wall, along same; 9. 324a 45. 142 feet, along stone wall, along same to Nuuanu Ave.; 1 0. 30 55', 735.1 feet, along north west side of Nuuanu Ave., to point of curve; 11. Southwesterly along same, follow ing a curve to the right of 5704.6 feet radius, the direct azimuth and distance being 32 12, 245.3 feet, to the initial point. Containing an area of 12.795 acres. The said premises will be sold sub ject to an existing lease (which ex pires January 1, 1915) of a portion thereof containing one acre or there abouts at a rental of . Sixty; Dollars ($60.00) per annum, and taxes, 'The portion covered by the lease is In the southwesterly corner of the tract and is described as follows: . Beginning at a point on the soutb- westerly boundary of the premises to be sold as aforesaid, 310 feet distant from the stream running approxi mately through the southwest corner of said premises, and running north westerly along said southwesterly boundary to said stream; thence northeasterly along the easterly bank of said stream 116 feet; thence, south easterly and parallel to said south westerly boundary, 380 feet; and thence in a straight line about 135 feet to the point of beginning; and con taining an area of about one acre. ' Terms: Cash; a deposit of ten per cent-(10) of the purchase price must be paid at the time of the sale; deeds and stamps to be paid by the pur chaser. For further particulars apply to H. C. Carter, 87 Merchant street, or Abies & Armitage, 83 Merchant Street, or to me, the undersigned. P. 1 7:A ZCSAL.A4: . . ... . I sir y . . . ' XyA "': , ' : ,tf(t rrt-i . ' u ff JS M07tSf f .. t ' J " I " .iirf -J ... - St , ) S7 J ' (Tft For Auction O. A. STEVEN, Auctioneer. Saturday; May 3 1913 For particulars apply. , . 0. A. STEVEN, Auctioneer is