Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1915 — Ten Reasons Why Ernest Lamson Should Not Be County School Superintendent [ARTICLE]

Ten Reasons Why Ernest Lamson Should Not Be County School Superintendent

Lamson Admitted That the Published List of Teachers For Which the County Pays Are Sold By Him For $1 Each and He Pockets the Money. Used Correct Term by Admitting It to Be a “Little Graft.” Lamson Admitted That He Drew Pay For His Assistant at Rate of $1.25 Per Day and Never Paid Her That Much, But Secured Outside Work to Keep Her Busy and Took Part of the Money For It. Lamson Admitted That He Would Rather Have an Imported Teacher Than to Have a Jasper County Teacher of Long Experience Whom He Could Fail On a Technicality. Lamson Was Shown to Have From 55 to 64 Imported. Teachers Whose Total Salaries Amount to $20,000 or More While There Are Many- Old and Idle Teachers in the County. Lamson Shown to Have Taken From Girl in His Office $5 or $6 Which She Had Earned by Keeping Books for Trustee. Failure of Teacher Shown to Have Caused Abandonment of School Career by Sister Who Saw Futility of Effort While He Was Superintendent. Lamson Shown to Have Quibbled With Local Applicants in His Effort to Defeat Them For License and to Have Failed Seven Successful Teachers in One Township. Lamson Shown to Have Issued License After Committee From Parr Waited Upon Him With Demand For a Square Deal. (Lamson Shown to Have Told Teacher Who Opposed His Election That It Would Do Him No Good to Take Examinations and Threat Was Made Good. Lamson Shown to Have Used Schemes to Keep Wages of Teachers Below What is Contemplated by the Law and to Have Executed Contracts For Trustee.