The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-07-12


EDS GAZETTE:-0ne of the April
numbers ofyour paper, contains an ar
ticle in which the writer denounces the
action of the Board of Directors OF
Bloody Run, upon the question OF rent
for School House, for private Schools.
The writer's statements are very plausl-
BILE to all unacquainted with the facts;
but, as we claim as much intelligence
for our Board, as can be found among
the petitioner and his friends, we shall
venture reply.
Your columns were offered us at the
time of the publication Of petition
er's" article, yet we preferred waiting
for the advertised Report ofthe Board
for that school year. We believed, then,
that the Board was not disregarding
the interests of the Borough, in order
to favor the teacher, and if those who
were then disposed to censure and
threaten will read the report, they must
conclude that their demands had been
met by the Board, and, that our conf
dence was not misplaced.
1t is very uncharitable, to denounce
the action of any one, without positive
assurance that such denunciatiOns are
merited. School Boards have very Of
ten the most perplexing questions pre-
sented to them, and without an ac-
quain tance with all the facts, their de-
cisions cannot be fully understood.
But, nearly all localities contain a
class of citizens who are eternally clam
oring about the schools. They claim
to favor public schools, yet are never
pleased with the official conduct of their
Directors, and will charge, accuse and
lampoon, in a most !unchristian man
ner, without asking a single question
as to the causes of the action of their
respective Boards.
Directors receive but few thanks for
the performance of their duties, at best;
yet, when citizens are disposed to cir
culate remonstrances in opposition to
their decision, and publish charges in
the county papers that have nora shad-
OW of truth in them, how futile seem
the anxieties and labors gratuitously
bestowed by them, for the benefit of the
young, when a few demagOgues will
do their utmost to defeat every good
measure. Could those persons be in
duced to exhibit as much interest in the
] ;,,f fol oI 70 Of oh
as they at all times show for their hors-
es or poultry, their own and their
children's appearance and enjOyments,
we should have a different state of af-
fairs. The comfort of children in the
! school rooms, is of no consequence to
them. The encouragement that the
| teacher should have to enable him to
| discharge his duties SO as to benefit all,
is never given by visits to the school,
or by words or looks elsewhere. But
on the slightest intimatiOn Of neglect
or mistake on the part of those who do
their utmost for the advancement of
education, no effort seems too great
that will magnify and give publicity,
to that for which generosity should de-
mand fOrbearance. The charge against
the Board of this Borough, was exceed
ingly ungenerous, for they not only
exercised the most scrupulous care of
the property of the public, but did the
/ best they could for the children of the
/ dissatisfied.
The rent question is answered in the
Report in a satisfactory manner. We
think it should satisfy the most exact
ing, for it is there shown that they re-
ceived an amount not less than $50 for
the use of the house for 6 months. Will
"Petitioner" read that report and re-
lieve his credulity? We hope he may
be relieved, and hereafter give his in
fuence in favor of every measure that
will tend to advance the interest of our
schools, until they stand first in the
! County. CITIZEN.