state the facts accurately. Now, the School Board have not
agreed to postpone the enforcement of the non-admission role for a month. What they have agreed to do is to give discretion to the local managers to put it into operation or not, as they may think fit, for the space of another month. The reason of this is that the arrears of work to be done in hearing cases for remission, owing to the complete collapse of the old system, rendered it necessary to give local managers this additional time in certain cases, in order that they might overtake the arrears of this past neglect.
Upon such blunders in simple matters of fact the writer has built up a series of deductions which are akin to the blunders -upon which they are based. A writer who ventures to make predictions as to the future cannot expect much credence to be given to his vaticinations when he is totally mistaken as to the facts of the present.
A very pregnant article of yours in your issue of October 16th (p. 1,374), on the Home-rule canard of the Daily News, supplies me with a few sentences of your own which I did not think, when I read them, would be so completely applicable as they prove to be, to an article in the Spectator of the following week :—" The Americans employ a good phrase in the analysis of any new delusion or imposition ; they speak of the trunk' lie." " The trunk ' delusion in the present case was a passage in" some daily newspapers which have not attempted to under- stand the School Board scheme. " On it rested the whole airy fabric. From this 'trunk' were made to sprout, in cunning interlacement, the various opinions expressed by " non-respon- sible members of the Board. "The product of this patchwork was" the article in the Spectator of October 23rd, on "The London School Board and the Fee Question."—I am, Sir, &c., JOSEPH R. DIGGLE,
Chairman of the School Board for London. School Board for London, Victoria Embankment, October 28th.
[Is not the distinction between "non-admission " and "exclu- sion " one too nice for such beings as we are ?—ED. Spectator.]
Previous page
