Strikes

Superior, Wis., is a progressive town with shiny buildings, civic pride and a school board.This school board, headed by the Rev. A. T. Ekblad and backed by the Mayor, intends to prepare Superior children for "life" (i. e., business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool's Day, 1,000 students went on strike. Their parents backed them, held mass meetings, threatened to take all Superior children out of school unless Miss Dickinson was reinstated. Last week the school board returned Miss Dickinson to her chair.

Meanwhile, in New Albany, Ind., 700 students were reported on strike because the school trustees reappoint a high school principal and an aged botany teacher.

In Jacksonville, Ind., 300 students went back to their books and spitballs, when parents agreed to mediate the ousting of an athletic coach and two teachers.