Dr. Darby P. Philip, chairman of York Township Board of Education, was criticized at a meeting of the board for asking the religion of three applicants for a clerical job in the school system. The board members who scored Dr. Philip emphasized that color, race or creed should not be a consideration in examining applications for employment.
Defending his action, Dr. Philip reminded the members that the board once got itself into “hot water” for refusing to hire a girl because it was thought she was Jewish. “The board thought she would lose too many days on account of religious holidays, but as it happened she wasn’t Jewish. I didn’t want that to happen again” he said.
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