Connecticut western news., 1910-04-28
EDITOR NEWS:

EDITOR NEWS:
 Being woman shall speak, or hope to, through the medium of THE NEWS, on the library question and ill the first person singular. A woman says I, be- cause she generally is It. or thinks she is, and men are still chivalrouS and will ing to let her think so. I shall not talk sense; women never do if they can help it-and they generally can-and men as a rule don't expect, or even want them to. They are apt to make things uncom- fortable, however, whichever way they talk.
 The town of North Canaan is I believe S44, 900 in debt O yes, you've heard that befores and you maybe. had heard the Lords Prayer before the last time you heard it. It seems (the prayer) to bear repetition well, and as for that debt statement, I believe I'll repeat it too. The to VII of North Canaan is $44, 900 i'll debt A debt is something that has to be paid some time, isu t il? Now that debt is worrying ne. l haven't g,n to pay it, of course, but the voters auu taxpayers in my family have got Uo help, One thing I shall not Nio. I shall not sanction, with my pen, voice, or what influence 1 may possess any proposition raised, which shall, if carrie through, put the town further in debt. There are women as we'll as men, who don t care about such unimportant matters as debts, either public or private. It is sur prising to note how little many of us seem to care about this debt of our own town. We can't have brand new Ii brary, nor new town hall, nor re ceiving vault (greatly necded) in tht cemetery. We also want a high school It is terribly needed, but we can't hay, all these, nor have we any right to hay, them, until we are out of debt; and then we can have, I hope, the Ligh school first and the other things ill their time and fitting place.
 It is my firm belief that no one has moral right, at least, to have what he can't pay for. To be i'll debt for things that we merely enjoy having is prac5i cally to be living on someone else's mouey. You've heard that before :? We'll it will bear repeating. It will thunder this summer though we've all heard it before.
 Now I've proposition to make to my fellow townspeople. 1 want to make it In the columns of THE NEWS so that we can be thinking it over before the final vote is taken on where we shall have our makeshift library. Let each one Of us who is interested Ill this matter find out how many of our merchants, plumb CTS. milliners, dressmakers, grain dealers, saloon keepers, doctors, lawyers-oh everybody that is in business of any kind, are willing to wait indefinitely for their pay for value received, and if all are willing to wait then we will pledge ourselves to pay a hundred or more dol lars apiece toward the two thousand dollars needed for our makeshift, and we will further pledge ourselves to raise the money necessary to remodel and maintain said building as long as it stands. Not one of us but what eau easily do this if we don't have to use any money for living expenses, and then, too, we can have lot of other things we long have wanted.
 While we are about it let's run the old town bit further in debt (since the butcher will wait for his meat moneyl; let's have brand new clubhouse for the women, something like the Colony Club in New York city, and now will be a good time to agitate the soldiers monu. ment question and hospital for the lame and wornout horses where they can die in misery and peace. Personally would like to have hanging gardens, not like those of Babylon, but places. where you could hang up the stray boys and girls who are found on the streets at night long after they should be at home and i'll bed. They could be taken down in the morning unharmed and