The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-12-22
CIVILIZATIONS SIDE TRACK
Village Of Johnson Gets Hard Rap
from Rutland Herald.

from Rutland Herald,
II the Rutland Heralds view that
the Normal school appropriation bill
providing for a new building at John
son to cost $4,000, is inspired by the
department Of education in an effort
to get in part what cannot be had in
whole by provision for a central in
stltution to cost $4,000 then the pos
ition taken by this paper on the nor
NAL school matter is significantly jus.
tilted. This paper has all along con
tended that the thing to be done from
every standpoint of convenience and
economy is to take the present nor
NAL school of most effective conse-
quence and by needed expenditure
put it under equipment equal to the
demands of first class results This
paper too, has believed that the John
son school is the best situated to yield
the best returns from such immediate
improvements Burlington Clipper
The assistant editor of the Clipper
has apparently failed TO tear away his
ethereal soul from the contiguous de
lights of Johnson and must still con
slider himself a spiritual resident Of
Lamoille county even while the too.
too solid flesh is required by crcum-
stance to exist in Essex Junction.
There may be a reason.
The exiled poet, chilled by the
alien winds and depressed by the
frowning shores Of his foreign prison,
flies in spirit to sunny Spain. and lives
again the halcyon life among the kind
Sierras. The transplanted editor,
thrust unkindly into a railroad grave
yard dreams OF Johnson and heaven.
ly smile of Gov Stearns. Hence his
rhapsody on that serene, but seclud-
ed islet upon the peaceful backwaters
Of civilization.
It is folly, sheer. mad, shrieking
folly to undertake establishing a state
normal school at Johnson. The towns
upon the Great Loop Line are bound
ed on one side by the decrepit inabil-
fly If the b. & h. on the other by the
unconnecting and semi-occasional eX-
It's of hesitating trains from St Johns
bury Johnson is not only situated
upon civilizations side track; the
switch is locked and the lamp has
gone out.
Naturally. Rutland wants the state
normal school to be located in this
city The reasons therefor have not
changed, and the principal reason is
the second largest population In the
state and steady supply of healthy
ambitious and desirable young women
who would become teachers if a good
training school were al their doors A
school cannot exist without pupils
and while the ten or twelve young
women OF Johnson are no doubt the
queens of their sex. they could hardly
be expected to constitute the main
stay Of a state normal school and at
the same time supply the normal de
mand for wives that ought to be a fac
tor OF the local situation
You cannot maintain a successful
normal school in a town where all IN,
pupils have to be hauled in and on
on a railroad that exists principally ii
imagination, that runs from a spot OF
the map to the headquarters OF tn,
delay department. You cannot patel
up a failure with 100000
The value Of Rutland as a location
for a state normal school is apparen
TO a good many people down this wa!
but this city would never think o
entering into active competition will
Johnson I'm the matter Of desirability
Johnson belongs in the class OF Al
burgh Island Pond and South London
derry. Rutland admits herself out
classed In this ategory-Rutlan,