The Penn's Grove record., 1913-11-21

providing for the present but for the
e future.
Eight years ago Penns Grove had
eight teachers including Il principle
at a cost $500. To day Penns Grove
has sixteen teachers and a supervisor
at a cost OF $S470. -Four temporary
rooms are now occupied outside of The
regular school building. What may
we expt ct TO need i'll The next eight,
twelve OF twenty years? Should not
citizens have as much foresight i'll
public as in private?
But many say look at the expense.
Where will our tax rate 0 and
when will it stop?
What created this condition of af-
fairs?
Men and women getting married aud
bearing chlldlen, which is part OF the
design Of the creator and the way tile
human race is perpetualed. Before
marriage did any man count the cost OF
renting OF building a home, the cost of
food and buying his wife's clothes ?
Did you count the cost before the chill
dren were born, the cost OF DOCTORS
bills, shelter, TODD, clothes aud pleas
ures?
Most men were REAL men who had
virillty enough to meet all these emer
gencies without counting the cost or
baking at what may arise III carrying
out the design for which God created
them.
Having provided food, clothing and
shelter for children why not be WHOLE
men and provide for the physical AMI
mental development of the children,
which is far more ennobling than spend
ing so much for amusemenlS, pleas
ures and qualification of appetites.
More money is spent for these than for
education and those who derive profits
from them can with small reasons OPP
pose larger and better facilities for
education.
The doctor gets his greater profits
from the men who have children. The
merchant, lumber dealer, carpenters,
masOns, painters and house owners get
the greatest profits from The men who
marry, and raise children. A man
may have several houses 10 rent, but he
gels his profits with which to pay taxes
from the man who have families living
therein. The farmer may have no
children but he gets his profits from
the fo,d he grows for other peoples
children.
All of which shows we are mter-de-
pendent and does not and cannot
1--we to himself in our present day adj
vanced civilization.
Voting to rescind the purchase of
the Sack land and also the appropriation
leaves the Board with the Cunningham
lot Oh which to erect a school house
with out money. TO do so would make
she majority as much jockeys as TWO
thirds of the Board of Education who
are jockeying WI h the Slate author
tiles for time and making their greatest
efforts in show not to do it," because
they offer no other site nor applopria-
ton.
The building of a school house OH the
Cunningham lot might ornament the
town but it would concentrate from
$40 to 800 children on less than about
TWO acres OF ground. That might
do if they we've dead children. Only
I9 of I6I votes were Cast for it
July I6. But Penns Grove boys and
girls are very much alive and will make
the town livelier Ill coming years, and
there will be many more of them.
Woodbury. built a hundred thousand
dollar school house Oh "a prominent
street to ornament the town. The
children have to parade the streets and
walk clrcun specify and not look Cross
eyed at a police or they get arrested.
WOodbury's big school house was filled
in three years and more room was need
ed.
Penns Grove is a growing town and
Is not likely TO cease growing. Is it
not wise to look tic the future and have
ample school ground? Four acres now
for 700 is much less ground than so had
Oh half all acre around old Harmony
school.
The fact that the Sack site is not OIL
the main street is one of the best
reasons why it should be purchased.
Children are out OF danger of automo-
bile travel and they will not annoy
those who do not like the presence OF
children.
Several women were included in the
Ill votes On July 10Th. More should
vote at this election.
Progress Is made only 10y perpetual
agitation and by keeping eyerlastingly
at it.
Progressive voters will surely not go
back on what they voted for on July
10th, nor become Indifferent.