Education: Perpetual Motion

The audience in Cleveland's Labor Hall was in an ugly mood. The 450 union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff.

They soon began to. "You invited me here," she shouted, "and I'm staying." Then she began to tell them a thing or two. The school board was corrupt and inefficient, she said, and who was to blame? Well,...

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