The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-24
CIVILIZATIONS SIDE TRACK.
Village OF johnson Gets Hard Rap
from Rutland Herald.

| If the Rutland Herald, view that the
! Normal school appropriation bill providing
! for q new building at johnson to cost
/ $4,000. j. inspired by the department Of
education in an effort 10 get in part what
cannot he had in whole by provision for a
central institution 10 cost $4,000 then the
position taken by this paper ON the normal
| school matter is significantly justified. This
parer has all along contended that the
/ thing to he done from every standpoint
al convenience and economy Is to make
the present normal school Of most effective
consequence and by needed expenditure
put il under equipment equal To the de-
mands of first class results This paper.
too. has believed that the johnson school
is the best situated to Weld the best re-
turns from such immediate Improvements.
Bulineton Clipper.
The assistant editor Of the CLIPPER has
apparently failed TO tear away his ethereal
soul fIcm the contiguous delights of John
son and must still consider himself a
spiritual II >ident of Lamolle county, even
while the too too solid flesh is required
by circumstance to exist in Essex Junction.
There may be reason.
The exiled poet, chilled by the alien
winds and depressed by the irowning
shores of his foreign prison, flies in spirit
ia sunny Spain and lives again the halcyon
lie among the kind Sierras. The trans
planted tditar. thrust mkindly into
railroad graveyard. dreams of johnson
and heavenly smiles OF Gov. Stearns.
Hence his rhapsody on that serene. hut
secluded islet upon the peaceful back
waters 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 bounded on one side
by the decrepit inability of the B. X L..
on the other by the unconnecting and
exits Of hesitating trains
from st. Johnsbury 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 a
steady supply of healthy ambitious, and
desirable Young women who would be
come teachers if good training school
were al their doors. \ school cannot |
exist without pupils, and while the ten
or twelve Young women of johnson are
70 doubt the queens of their sex, they
could hardly be expected to constitute the
of a state normal school and at
he same time supply the normal demand
Tor wives that ought to be factor of
HE local situation.
You cannot maintain a successful nor
nal school in town where all the pupils
nave t. be hauled in and out on rail
'oad that exists principally in magma
ion. that runs from spot on the map
% the headquarters of the delay depart
nent. Nou cannot patch up failure
With $40Goo.
The value of Rutland as location for
state Lormal school is apparent to
rood many people down this way but this
ty would never think of entering into
ctiye competition with johnson in the
natter Of desrability. johnson belongs
n the class of Alburgh, Island Pond and
ouch Londonderry. Rutland admits her
elf outclassed in this category Rutland
Ierald