Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03
CALAMITIES OR BLESSINGS

fairs than seems developing in cur country today It would appear that [ disregard of all else than ones own | individual preferences has become the | prevailing motive with the prominent | politicians of the day, To an on-look- | CT it seems so childish, so unreason- able, so unmanly. But, after all, the country Is greater than it's presid
 ing officials, and we may safely trust | that, however the several parties may l be ruled by low motives, the nation l will stand firm on its foundations of truth and right, and cannot be over thrown by the spirit of misrule and violence 80 plainly shown by some of the present. factions l venture to predict that not many years hence, the
 campaign of 1912 will have become a
 source of laughter, and We shall won
 der how 1t could ever have been con- sidered a cause of Worriment.
 To come nearer home, much is be- ing said of our school affairs just now
 and the tangle in which they seem in- volved Many are claiming that an end has come to all advance, and that from this time on no child is likely to receive proper care or education. | We shall certainly have a generation | of numbskulls," lamented the pessi- mists, land no good can be expected l from any such arrangements" Such | a shake-up in school affairs never was | known in my day, and I hope will nev- CT come again" growls another. T am glad my children are old enough | to be out of it.
 Now the Idler has lived long enough
 to remember some of the comments
 made when the Central District was
 formed and the two or three outlying
 schools were brought together under ] no child at that time, but there remains ! in her memory the laughter in her own household over the growls of those who worried over the new arrange
 ment One good old man, in parti- cular, was sure of disaster. No l schoolhouse could stand securely on such a sand bank as that on which the present Broadway school was | placed. No man could hold in check so many children. They would over run the neighborhood and destroy all peace and serenity. So much money l wasted in fine school furniture! The
 old desks were good enough" The
 poor old man made himself miserable and also all who listened to him. What
 was the result? Why he used to come
 and stand opposite the schoolhouse
 and watch with delight the orderly | lines passing in and out of the build l iliS, anu Dt1Oi e Ills dSc1tl4 A4D Hp NN lighted in ringing the praises of ''ouT
 new schoolhouse," that one would
 think to hear him talk that the pro-
 ject was all his own.
 Now don't you think 1t would be
 well to wait for time to decide Wheth-
 CT all our educational affairs are go- ing to smash? Looking at it entirely from the impartial stand of an out
 sider, it seems to me the chances are quite as likely to be for progress as for failure The theory is a right one in the interest of progress and econ omy, and eventually will prove its claim.
 Our incoming board is made up oi men whose motives cannot be Ques-
 toned Their number is such as tt remove the charge of political favor itism. In that respect we are favored : above some other cities. One, know ! has board of five members, and, di vided party wise, their squabhles hay, already branded them in the opinion of. all high-minded citizens. Problemi , will arise in our affairs which vii cause criticism however they may b, settled, and perhaps the expenditure , will not be immediately lessened, bu time will convince us all, I hope, tn, . right way is the best way, and tha 1. in the end the right will prevail
 AN IDLER.