Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-22

courses are given and officials of the
club have correspondent with those too
far away to be visited.
Farther than this, the club sup
ported from It's own treasury class
in Domestic Science in the High
School last year in order to learn by
experience what might be done be-
fore asking the citizens to do it, and
now this club offers to donate all the
cash in its treasury as bonus TO as
sist in establishing this work.
Now if so women scattered through
out the length and breadth of Lancaster
and the adjoining country worked and
thought of this matter for year and
yet the whole thing remained secret
we will certainly have to reverse the
long standing verdict that "a woman
cannot hold her tongue"
As a matter of fact there was no
secrecy and no packed convention.
These women were there because
they were interested there was some
thing wanted and they came to get it.
Those who are now loudest In their
opposition were not enough interested
10 take notice of what was in the
air, and the women were too wise in
politics to go out and invite them in.
BY the same token these same
people are ignorant of the great
wave of school reform which is now
sweeping the country, of the demand
everywhere that our schools do more
to fit our children to meet and solve
the actual material problems of life
and the progress along these lines
are so encouraging as to lead US to
hope that within very few years our
10th century school will be brought
to meet with Goth century conditions.
We have not word of criticism
for those who attended the meeting
and who from principle, policy or
even personal interest, fought the
measure IN the open. Almost to a
a man they are now hoping for the
success of the project.
Particularly admirable has been
the conduct of our school board, who
though opposed to the measure as a
matter of present day policy, are
now doing all in their power to secure
its success and consequent perman-
ence in our schools.
As to the measure itself we
venture the prediction that, if it is
properly installed and conducted this
year and improved as it should be
next, it will have taken such firm
hold upon the children and the
mothers of this community that at the
1916 election it will be harder to pry
1t out of the schools than it has been
this year to drive it in.
Let US stop knocking and get to-
gether and boost. Let us forget that
idea which has come down to US from
the middle ages that what we pay in
taxes is so much extorted by the iron
will of a tyrant, and substitute the
true one that our taxes are simply
money applied by the community for
things needed in common, and there
fore better paid for out of common
fund.
Let us get sufficiently interested
In our public affairs to see to it that !
Cur taxes are properly expended and
let US demand of the guardians of our
city's affairs that they apply the |
same business methods to our public |
works that they do to their own
private enterprises.
Above all let us hope and act that, |
given this small impetus in the right |
direction, the wheel of progress may
not stop until many other needed
reforms and improvements have been |
made in our city. Until we can say
to the visitor or the visited "No, we
haven't large city; we haven't any
great factories, any great volume of
business or any great railroad center,
but our city is situated in one of the
most beautiful and fertile sections on
the earth and we do have the best |
paved and lighted streets, the most |
beautiful public buildings, the best
schools, the neatest homes and the |
finest, most public spirited class of |
people of any city of its size in the |
country
All this will take money, but we |
have it; and brains. but we have them
also, and when such a condition has
been brought about, most of the
knockers will have become boosters
and those who have not will find such
ready sale for their property that
they may easily dispose of it and re
move to some place where conditions
are more to their liking
j. H. Fowler.
ROAD DRAG BEST AID