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State superintendent of schools, and I oppose the amend-

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ment .

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley.

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DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chairman, ladles and

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gentlemen of the Convention, I will be very brief. As I

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said before, I think. the substitute that was offered made

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it very difficult to vote against it. However, I feel

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in this case we are being incomplimentary to the Executive

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Article and as Delegate Maurer points out in 4.21, we

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do say acting alone the governor shall not appoint the head

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of an education department, but we do not say in what

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manner he shall be appointed. We hope that this Article

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would lay to rest that question, the question that was

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resolved in Maryland in 1921 as a result of an education

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survey commission which said that for the superintendent, who

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is the State's educational executive, should be chosen not

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by the governor alone, but by a board, as far removed from

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political influences as possible, for a term either in-

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definite or long enough to avoid danger of political compli-

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cations. This recommendation was subsequently followed.

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I say by this amendment we put to rest, and to