Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-01-28

Editor Spectator:
short editorial appears in your
paper Of the Dist instant, in which you inform
the public That TIE committee TO act upon Ma.
jor Bells suggestion for graded school are still
at work, and there Is every prospect that such an
arrangement will be made as will give Us school
OF schools upon the Old Academy lot, and those
adjoining suitable for the purpose"
A fter speaking of the beauties and advantages
Of this new system Of education, you thus con
clude-''let us give the able trustees headed ty
Major Bell every encouragement and support"
We wonder the Major did not include the fe-
male schools of the city in his suggestion /; that
would, perhaps, be cutting the thing rather lat
at the present Although the application for the
| old Academy has been twice made and refused
by the Trustees of the Academy, the School
Trustees seem determined to agitate the subject
and their policy seems TO be to manufacture
public sentiment In favor CT the scheme
Perhaps when they have entered the wedge, by
getting this Academy. they will then spread
their wings over the female schools. Can they
get the Academy? Have the Trustees OF the
Academy power TO turn 1t over to them Tor COM
mon or free school purposes?
Ii am correctly Informed. the late Judge
Archibald Stuart donated, withoat any pecuni-
AIRY consideration the land on which the Acad
envy stands, for the purposes set forth in the
charter granted by the Legislature (By the
way, the writer has been unable to find any coed
| Of conveyance from Judge STUART is 1t, then,
| IN the power of the Trustees of the Academy to
give this land entirely new and different di
| rection from that & wen by the donor? Ii Judge
5. were living, and the purposes of the trust
failed, would not the land revert to him, and
what rig ht have the Trustees Of the Academy
TO conclude that he, if living would donate this
land for common or Tree school purposes Have
the Trustees any rights whatever, further than
10 carry out the purposes OF Judge Stuart as set
forth in the act If ircoT poration?
In addition. will the MasOns be willing to give
up Tor free school purposes the price OF their
| old l. Jdge $500 o., now the basis Of their Two
scholarships? Certainly. they have at least an
equity, and ought to be consulted by the Irus-
tees Of the Academy.
The Trustees of the Academy having, under
| an arrangement with the representatives of Shi-
rus, received one thousand dollars, which they
expended i'll enlarging toe Academy, can they
devote this fund To other purposes without the
Consent of the representatives, OF Shlrus?
A Ii of thee m titerS, MessrS. Editors, should
be pondered we'll. L VIII not say hat this whole
| free school system is humbug, and will prove
a failure but believe l demonstrate that
its operations unjust tyrannical and oppres
sIve and is one direct step towards Communism
the tendencies of which are III the direction OF
bal barism, rather than to high state Of civil
z ,tlon And it our Conservative Legs allure
had been sio instead of fast to gu the sy stem.
put it off until The last moment, we might have
had u cnange in our Constitution and avoided
tee whole thing. JUSTICE
American Bciles.-Amerca is justly
proud of her be ,utitui ladies, but how many
mar their beauty, and lose their health and
youth, become prematurelg old in appearance,
by negiecting to take proper care of their teeth
I here can be excuse for this as Sozodont pro-
nounced by ali worthy place be tween the
sweetest lips can now be had in all civilized
countries.