Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1915 — GREATHOUSE HERE TO ATTEND MEETING [ARTICLE]

GREATHOUSE HERE TO ATTEND MEETING

State Superintendent of Public Instruction to Hear Chargee Made Against Supt. Lamson. The trustees of Jasper county are gathered in Rensselaer to head evidence to substantiate the charges of unfairness and inefficiency offered against County Superintendent Lamson by The Republican. State Superintendent Charles A. Greathouse is expected to be here from Indianapolis to attend the hearing. The Republican has continued its investigation of Mr. Lamson during the past week and has found general approval of the effort that is being made to have him removed and some qualified man put into his place. The evidence today will be chiefly concerning the fact that so many who have applied for licenses have failed to secure them and that there are so many brought in from other counties and even from other states. There is no legal status to the case at this time, the trutsees having simply asked that The Republican make substantiation of the charges. The few witnesses who have been called come voluntarily and others who have made statements regarding the inefficiency of Mr. Lamson and who were not present to state to the trustees what they have said to the editor of The Republican have signified their willingness to come in answer to legal summons and tell all they know. The Republican is more and more convinced as its investigation continues that the charges made are true, that the schools of Jasper county have fallen back in their work and that the graduates of the high schools of the county who desire to teach are not given licenses by Mr. Lamson and that old teachers of many years’ success are discarded to make room for teachers, often of inferior qualifications from other counties. In order to save the feelings of some of the imported teachers against whom complaint has been made no one will at this time be called to testify against them, but it is expected to show that in the denial of licenses to a number of old teachers the county has been done a great educational damage.