Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-02

wehave that confidence we ought in men,
we can select a board competent to man
age this matter. l should be satisfied,
| don't know as move will be made,
but / do think our condition would be
bettered by the change. 1t is for the
town to say when the question comes be-
fore them.
j. V. FARR.-I think l would prefer
the present system.
HENRY SABIN.-Something ought to
be done, it is not as it should be in town
in reference to our school districts.
HUDsoN,-I am young, but it is nat
uaal for man to indulge in the fond il
lusions of hope, hoping to always be car
ried in the same old chariot safely al
though decay is written npon it. / am
in favor of a system that shall secure
the graded school of 60 or 100 scholars,
though remote of access to some, yet far
better to the promotion of education than
schools of five, ten and fifteen.
w. P. GAGE.-It has been said that
! it would save expense to the town to
adopt the town system " even if the
town bore the expense of carrying the
children back and forth to school. Now
this would be very nice to have our chill
dren carried if we could induce the
town so to do. 1t would be very pleas
ant if we could induce the post Office de-
partment to bring each of our mails to
our doors. Again, it has been contem-
plated if the districts are abolished that
the Gage district could be united with
Davis district. Why not Davis district
be united with Cages. We are now a
very peaceable district, / cannot tell
what we might be if united with any
other.
- This is a question that each voter
in town must sooner or later meet, a ques-
ton not to be trifed with, question
that involves and underlies the welfare
of all that is valuable in society and
government, the underestimate of human
progress, the bulwark of our republic.
The common school for many years has
it been maintained under the district or
ganization which had legitimate orr
gin. and answered in its day we'll, they
we're little educational republics, practi.
cally independent of each other, and Of
all the world, welded to practices which
were necessitated by sparsness and power.
ty in early times. But an opportunity
, is now given to towns to look about
themselves and see if education cannot
be afforded more freely to a greater mum
Der with less expense, by abolishing the
districts and putting the whole matter o
schools in town into the hands Of boarc
of education elected by the town, who
may consolidate districts now become al
most depopulated, locating school houses
more accessible, erecting such as de
manded, providing suitable school ap
: paratus, and securing more competent
) teachers, thereby elevating the standard
| of our schools, saving a large expense
' which figures will show, saving all dis
; trict quarrels, more equalizing taxation
: for there are schools in town that hav
! cost 1925 during the year and but fv
. scholars to attend, $25 apiece, not incIud
+ ing the interest on the building. No'
+ lay aside prejudice, and the greatest oh
! stacle for you to overcome, viii be a scr
i of reverence for old district times.
+ don't know but somehow the people con
e meet them with that passage of Hoi
e Writ which pronounces maledietions VI
l. on those who remove ancient land marks
e think it almost as easy to remove tn
d equator as to disturb one Of these ancien
1t lines. But stop, and consider, take tn
n wheel out Of the old rut, write progres
Y upon your banner, and evince to the ri;
e ing generation and generations ye
e unborn that their interest is your inter
n est, for it is universally conceded tina
If something must be DONE
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