The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-31

EDITOR CHRONICLE:

Having noticed in your last issue,
frantic appeal from ''Tax-Payer" address
e. to you in particular and anybody" in
general for Information ~ to the where
abouts Of "certains school apparatus pur-
| chased some six or eight months ago at an
| expense Of t2oO," and believing we have
! clue to the missing t2o0 worth, We
hasten to relieve this poor stricken Tax
Payers slumber Of harassing visions OF
impending bankruptcy and ruin that
await himself and ell Toledo in case said
5000 worth is not discovered and pressed
into immediate service. However, Tax
| Payer" thinks if he succeeds In ferreting
it out and it proves to be nothing but "a
useless lot Of rubbish" Of suggesting to
the Board ito sell the concern" Pshaw!
Mr.. Taxpayer" if that is your way of
disposing Of useless rubbish,"if we are
informed correctly an individual holding
to such ethics will have an opportunity to
| cultivate the acquaintance of an entirely
different Cerberus to the one he imagines
guards the long lost apparatus.
Two years ago tax was levied for the
purpose Of supplying the school with some
apparatus. Last winter it was collected
and last spring $166.85 was expended for
appliances for the school. Now If "Tax-
Payer" had taken half the time and trou-
BILE that it cost him to sound his alarm in
last weeks paper, in calling at the school,
any time during the spring or this fall
term, and making inquiry, we would have
been delighted to have given him oppor-
unity to sec with his own optics the dis
position made Of the lost property. First
we would have ushered him into the
Third Primary where he might see, and
without the aid OF his glasses either, hang
ing on the south wall and in plain sight
$40 worth Of the missing property in the
shape of large and beautiful map of the
United States used by the department;
and without moving If he had but cast his
eye upward he might have beheld above
the teachers desk another so worth of
the sscreted goods; and in the First Pri.
mary he would find still another $3.50 in
an exact counterpart Of the writing chart
before him. Then if he would favor US with
his presence in the intermediate, here also
he would find so worth of the vanished
$168.85 displayed in bold relief, this time q
large map Of the United States for daily
use. And now if he had about faced and
assembled the stairs, in the Higher room
he would have usually found suspended,
also in plain sight, from one to three of
the nine Anatomical Charts that have
been used by the class in Anatomy and
Physiology during the last two terms-an-
other $10S5 worth of the "useless rub
bish," and lastly if Taxpayer had but
stepped into the recitation room, in neat
cupboard with glass front the remainder
of the onerous and mystriously secreted
$16685 would have been seen consisting
Of few pieces Of philosophical apparatus
the greater part OF which is an air pump
with its receivers &C., and the only
Cerberus guarding it-a lock.
Now why would we find the Geographi-
cal maps and not the Anatomical Charts in
use in the lower departments. simply be-
cause the scholars in those departments
study Geogr Apply and do not study Ana
tony; and why should we find the Ana
tomical part Of the apparatus in use at
present in the Higher Department, and
not the Philosophioals for the very simple
reason that we have at present q class
studying Anatomy and Physiology and
none studying Philosophy. Why will the
Anatomical part be laid away the coming
term and the Philosophical used? because
there will be no class inAnatomy and there
will be one, Dec Tokente, in natural Philoso-
ply. Why do we lock up the different por-
tons of the apparatus when not in use? for
the reason that we want to have it in work
ing order when it is necessary to use it,
and for the further reason that it is part
Of our contract with the School Board to
do so. And lastly why don't we travel
from one department Of the school to an
other, with the apparatus under our arm
and lecture by the hour on the wonder
full phenomena of the atmosphere as re.
vealed by the air-pump? we'll, had We
very much less sense and q great deal
more vanity and egotism, perhaps we
might.
Last spring as . matter Of curiosity
The Philosophical Apparatus was exhibited
10 the school end manipulated fur their
but believing that such APP
paratus is not designed to take the place
If Christmas toys, we put it in its proper
place intending to use it for the purpose
.or which it is designed, viz, to illustrate
various principals Of Physics when under
by class.
!. J. ANDREwe.