Shaplin Gives Angry Tone To City's Election Meeting

Judson T. Shaplin '41, associate dean of the School of Education, set the tone of the coming Cambridge election last night, when he shouted angrily to the audience at a Meet the Candidates rally, "How much do you value education in the public schoolsof Cambridge?"

The rally was fraught with angry tones and bitterness, which could not be covered up by pleasant Irish songs, tap dancing, and door prizes which the rally's sponsors, the Democratic Committee of Ward 10, had provided.

Shaplin spoke in reference to the school committee's 17 secret appointments last December, the main issue of the election on November 5. He is endorsed for re-election to the committee by the Cambridge Civic Association, which came in for many attacks at the rally.

The most vituperative came from James Fitzgerald, noisiest pro-appointments school committeeman, who cried that the organization "has not acted in accordance with democratic principles of government.

This view was loudly seconded by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan who threw the meeting into an uproar when he exhorted the audience to vote "yes" on both the referendums on election day. Someone in the audience screamed, "Vote no, while someone else yelled, "Vote yes." Still another shouted, "Throw that heckler out."

This remark brought wild applause from many in the audience, over which Sullivan, shaking his fist, cried, "The citizens of Cambridge want the same kind of service I have given them and will elect me once again!" With this he stalked from the hall, surrounded by screaming and yelling citizens, most of whom left with him.