The Press., 1914-11-18

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 Mrs. J. W.afWitt visited in Amher and Springfield over Sunday.
 A. F. Bemlis has taken positio
 at sufield, and his family will joi him when they can secure a, desirab
 house, $"
 Tho Ladies Aid society of til
 Congregational church cleared one
 hundred and forty dollars at theei
 rnmmage sale. '~ @>''.@
 There will be a football game O
 Hyde park Thanksgiving day betwee
 two local teams. There will be prac 1 tide Saturday. ' '4~-> ?; s.--
 Owing to-. unforeseen complication D7yominicoq. Tonon. will not build hi
 moving 5pictQEe. building on East Mai
 street .]1lnl pntil next spring, .:.:..,
 Mrs. John A. Colburn. and .daugh
 ters,aa Ms Spencer ,sand., Alice, O.
 Enfieldi,lMeEe~ guestsaof Miss Mar. SnRit tn, yesterday. .<h .,,ts ;. s,a..s.ia
 Rev. Rees Williams gave gan in.
 tensely interesting and splendfdly
 impartial lecture at the Congre
 gational church last evening. Mir
 Williams is the pastor of the Marva
 rick Congregational church, Boston,
 and while spending his''' vacation ir
 Europe saw much of the horror and carriage of real warfare. The audi. terium' was filed and the large audi snGeI was enthusiastic with the in. formally told experience of'+Mr. Vii, liatis of his trip tltrougif England, Holland, Belgium and the German lines. An excellentiaea of the awful desolation wrought to Belgium cities aud towns vas ~gaineds by the fine stereopicton slides, many of whict were smade from photographs taken by; MT. Wllliams' travelling com. Ipanions... His arrest several times as t spy was. described and the form ot procedure under those circumstances evidenced the seriousness of being taken prisoner by the Germans. MT. Rees belieyes DO one person or govern: tnent responsib ble. for the awful up |Iheeia7yal, hpt ~ar series of circumstances |oommercial. finaneials and political, coming to, g. crisis. He. believes nc tnation could, with self respect sit tquietly by and let another nation pass through their country ordering down nativeS flags, dark kening cities at nine |o clock ftrefusihg to let persons enter Ftheir own houses without passports and convert9te the invading army $ use any thing desired 1 Plucky little tBelgium was not. willing to submit, and whatever her future she will ever be remembered" as a brave though inaaequately prepared nation 'stak ling all for her nationalhonor. |. The new Plan& Of announcing the honor pupils at fife Stafford high school a6acli month should serve as an incentive to stimulate the students to greater 'effort:au F: ss9@Gorharn, the new principal, appears to be: the right man in. 'the right place. There never was a better working spirit on the part of teachers and pupils, than there is to-day. The. scope s of the towns Obligations in: the matter of education inoludes, among. otherssstwo essential elements; ltanely, suitable material eauipnIent, rand carefully selected intellectual Eeqaipmeht. If either of these is lacking, then fI1e educational mems necessary for tho development of,.good-a citizenship is sdefectives according to- our advanced stHte of iciRilisatioh.t The present corps of teachers and .,the splendid material eqiipm ent;4at tic Stafford high school i iniicate that thi9 t6wn 5'Tia fulfilling it's obligations ih af ieaa1st these two essentfals,, ,>' The same Is generally true. of. the elementary schools in the borough. as5wel1l, as those in.. Stafford Hollow, and pessibly?one or ..Qther districts When it comes: to the small rural schools, 4:hewever, there is at least serious doubt as to whether the town is doing it's full duty, not so much perhaps in tie essentials men, tioned as in the matter of oversight of the schools. Some stops should be taken to bring about a more uni form plan of work in these schools
 This could best. be brought about by ., the. {. employment of an efficient superintendent of schools. The school board does perhaps as we'll in this respect us any average board under similar circumstances, but this is not ehough.: A trained superintendent, one who is a specialist in the work and can. quickly, detect the shortcom- ings of, the :. schools and prescribe remedies foE the esames would do much toward 4improVing conditions: in the rurals schools a The cost to the town would be a little more than under the present. system, but it is believed that results would justify the addi- tional outlay. Until such time as the town sees fit to employ a. superintend Fent we suppose the schools will have to worry along. with the. acting visitors Gopscientiously doing what the Jaw prescribes as their duties. The.local school board consists of six member, or rather it did until early in July, when one of fits members died. The town election 'in' October completed the mem bership,. but the next day Pr, C.. Peroival Bard. who bad been. elected on the republican tiRket, resigned It has been' hinted that the dernocratie members of the board were responsible for the vacancy not having been filled at the last meeting. The democrats and repub- licans on the board work in prefect harmony, as they have done for years, and there is no vestige of politics in fbo doinoc of tIo hoard If Ahic bar