The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-19
FAIRFIELD
A List of DOn'ts MT. Wheatley's Advice to SchOlars..A Trade School. I..GrOwth of the Baking Business ss-M0re Roads Spelling Good Highway-Per. S0nal Mention.

Since the schools of this town and
 Westport closed, Supt. Wheatley has
 been very busy revising the course or study 10 be persued for the coming school year in all grades in the two
 towns. Among other things he has prepared a list of 'Dont's" for those who expect to go to high school next
 fall. He says: Don't go to a high
 school for the purpose of having fun
 or for the mere name of going to high
 school. Don't go to a high school eX-
 pecting to shirk and inviting failure.
 Why not? Because such a failure at
 whole life. Because the habit of shirking work once fastened upon you, ard the willingness to waste your
 time now that you are old enough and strong enough to do something worth while, will cripple you morally for the noblest manhood and womanhood.
 'df you purpose to make the most of yourselves, if you purpose to pay
 back part of the great debt you owe to your parents, to civilization, to
 Christianity, and to your Maker, for
 the priceless privileges you inherit and enjoy, then continue honestly, with
 persistent effort and infinite pains, to
 work out your life career. Don't go
 at once to a business college and ex- pect to secure there the business training demanded to-day, in a six
 months or a years course of study. You have not yet sufficiently broad
 
 for a business training. For several
 years I was in close touch with the
 Eastman Business College of Pough-
 keepsie, the Yale or Harvard of Com
 Eastman they demanded high
 school education before they cared to
 train one for business career So, if possible, attend some good high school, and study faithfully for at
 least two years before you attempt the business course. There are too many
 poorly trained stenographers, book keepers and bank clerks to-day. Don't
 become one of that class. for they are poorly paid and are spending rather
 unpleasant and unprofitable lives.
 Don't go now, unprepared as you are, into the worlds work, for you
 would be forced to join the ranks of the unskilled laborer. This army is
 already overcrowded, it is poorly paid
 and for the most part must lead a life of humiliation. Be skilled in some kind of work, prepare to do well some kind of service, for then you will be honored and remunerated- The final
 don't. Whatever else you do don't
 drift through life aimless and purpose less. Better by far be a hard work ing conscientious unskilled laborer. Make up your minds to be worth
 while in this grand world /of oppor-
 tunity, lay your plans, prepare your
 selves thoroughly, and then work out
 your Ife's noblest career Very soon oTluSSpOTI IS llhOly lO nave d Sldl0 trade school, I sincerely hope so and that this school will attract many of our Fairfield boys. believe heartily in trade schools and feel that the an- cient Jews were more than half right when they declared that a father who brings up a son without teaching him some trade brings up a thief" A new $450 oven capable of turning out from 300 to $50 1oaves of bread, has just been installed in the Home Made Bakery.
 MT. Louis Morehouse is spending the summer in town.
 MT. Frederick Sturges is having oi1- ed at his own expense the highway from the railroad crossing to the top of Rand Hill. Two carloads of oil will be needed for the job.4 Willis Hutchinson is home from a visit to Port Jefferson.
 A stretch of the main highway from the Round house in Southport on- wards towards Westport, has been covered with a top dressing of coarse gravel, full of cobble stones. The re- suit is all automobiles avoid this piece of road and take to the trolley tracks. It is announced that the Village Im- provement society will have a tea next Wednesday afternoon at the
 home of Mrs. William Bradley, Green Miss Fannie Pratt has returned to Hartford.
 Early next month the roads of this town will be reoiled. The dust is get ting to be pretty bad.