The Newtown bee., 1897-08-13

Sandy Hook district pay more to its
teachers than the districts above named?
Why should st Johns parish pay Parson
Wright $500 salary, a parsonage and a
donation thrown in, while the pastor of
the Methodist church for like services
gets only the prayers the poor and the
thanks of the conference? Why, indeed,
but for the munifcence of tie dead on
the one hand, and the parsimony of the
living on the other? Can the former make
q make holder assault on Heavens high
wall? But why pursue this line of plead
ing further? 1t is only INDUCED in now to
show the absurdity Of this argument
against Sandy Hook. Our district wants
the best schools and the best teachers;
and it wants to pay them. 1t is the only
school in town maintaining a grammar
grade, and sending its scholars to work.
shop and the desk without the interven
ton of the Academy. Its patrons are
poor, who cannot afford to send their
children to higher school, and the board
should not rob them of these privileges.
The men of Sandy Hook say, if you do,
we will meet you at the polls on election
day and seal our disapprobation with our
votes. We have no quarrel with Hunt
ingtown. That district in the person of
it's present incumbent has an experienced
teacher who deserves better remunera-
ton than he got, instead of reduction
of wages. Some OF his district may be
glad of this preliminary 'throw-down'
in this attempt at equalization. But
constantly increasing number of towns
people understand, or are beginning to,
that there is another way of equalizing
besides the one adopted by the board, land
that is equalizing up instead of down. I
heartily recommend it as remedy for
Huntingtown's ills. AS for Taunton, lit
has been held for generation as fam
lily fife; and Lands End has been in a
never-ending game of battledore and
shuttlecock between rival churches for so
long time the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary. Neither has any
thing to do with the case.
AS to the character of the school work
done in Sandy Hook school, the good par
son is emphatic in negatives. Ifhe could
descend to slang he would spell his dis
appreciation with the monosyllablic
ssNIT'' in capital letters. He is confident,
however, it is no better than others. And
yet the good parson never visited my
school but once in his official capacity,
and that visit is now matter of current
educational history. 1t didn't last long
not so long as the law requires; and not
nearly so long as the visits made by him
to Middle Gate district, in the intervals
between two southbound morning trains
on the Berkshire and Derby divisions of
the Consolidated railroad. AS it is only
game, let US all become s'rootersn for
the right
His depreciation OF the work done in
our schools is of a like charaeter.With his
appreciation of the work done by the
good Sisters Of st Mary's. Heknows abb
solutely nothing about the inside work
ings Of either, and yet that doesn't deter
him. It is campaign Of calumny and a
silent search for sycophants. The good
sisters are doubtless doing their best, as
all teachers who love their work do. I
have never heard anything but good re-
ports OF them. But IS well wisher of
them confess 1t made cold shlver ran
down my back to read the good dominie's