The L'Anse sentinel., 1897-01-30
To THE EDITOR:

To THE EDITOR:
Grateful is the greedy cores
pondent for the text" furnished by
the modern method of news gather
ers similar to the following:
"Oh, we don't want any normal
school up there. What good would
it be? Why, when our people want
to send their children to
school they want to send them
somewhere out of the upper penin-
sula. 1t is part OF their education
to get away and see something Of
the state outside of their own towns.
1t is a part of an education to mingle
with the crowd in place like Ann
Arbor or Ypsilanti. Here is one
reason against an upper peninsula
normal school: For the difference
in the price of room and board in
the lower and upper peninsula q
student could travel into lower
Michigan and go to school aud save
money. Our people see it when
they stop to think moment, and l
don t believe there is great num-
Der that want to see normal school
established up there. We don't
need any more state institutions
now. OF course, local pride would
argue for school, but l believe the
sober-minded people would drepudiate
the argument. "
These lines, part OF lengthy in
terview with the Hon. William
Harry, exmember of the state
legislature and present president of
Hancock bank, we carve from the
columns of the Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Harry, like other people, is GER
tainly entitled to. express his
opinions on state normal school.
The writer finds no fault with his
full expressions as published in a
leading state, daily, but when the
gentleman assumes to mould and
express the opinions of the populace
OF this peninsula, he leaves himself
open to criticism; and portion of
our 200, 900 inhabitants, who are di-
rectly interested in seeing establish
ed state normal in the upper pen
insula, would be pleased to have an
exhibition of the license that clothes
the gentleman with his unlimited
authority.
The parents of the favored few
who have fortunately received
normal education from this portion
of the state, can enlighten the gen
tleman on the expense attendant
in educating their children in
distant cities. They will tell him
the chaperon item-indispensible,
owing to the fact that they do not
wish their children to mingle with
the strangers of a city--is insight
ficant when compared with the con-
tents of the huge boxes that blocks
the wharf prior to the departure of
our lake steamers. An inventory
of the paraphernalia contained in
these trunks-embracing all the
fancy furnishings, save the marble
mantle and flashing fireplace of the
modern city aat-cause the wealthy
and well-to-do to wonder, while it
paralyzes the poor. Add to the
home purchases the opera and social
culture account, the hack and
physician bills, the weekly pin
money and other incidentals, with
transportation rates included, and
you have vague idea of the outlay
necessary while contemplating the
finishing touches of high school
education in the southern cities of
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
Admitting that the minority cou-
pom clipper avail themselves of the
advantages afforded them regardless
of the extravagant expenditures
enumerated above, what source of
! satisfaction is it to the majority of
| the peninsula residents whose
/ limited means handicap their de-
sires 2 Must we infer from the re-
port OF the rich ex-representa-
tive that the rising generation in
the upper lake district should be
content with the educational op-
portunities afforded their parents
in the early days while hewing out
/ their homes in a trackless wilder