New Britain herald., 1915-01-21
WILL START EVENING
 SCHOOL ABOUT FEB. 1
School Board to Meet HGxl Week
 to Formulate Pans.
WILL BEGIN VIII TWO GLASSES
Teaching of English to Foreigners An Important Feature of sIOrl>-Thinl> Criticism of Assessors Not Deserved --Garrity to Leave Clock Shop.

Criticism of Assessors Not Deserved -Garrity to Leave Clock Shop. A. L. Rogers, chairman of the town school committee, is making arrange
 ments to call a meeting of the mem- hers of that body to formulate plans for the esta blishing of public evening schools. for which the town voted an appropriation of $50 at Monday nights meeting. The mem bers will probably be brought together some 1 evening next week and the necessary ! plans will then be gone over. According to one of the members it l is the intention to start the school 1 about February 1, continuing it for l sixteen weeks The school is to be l operated two nights a week, probably l from : to 9 o'clock, and it is expected l that two rooms will be required to ac- cOmmOdate the pupils
 Chairman Rogers is enth usiastc l over the prospects for the school and 1 L. H. Mills, who serves the state l board of education a supervisor 1 and who is member of the local l school committee, is also greatly in 1 terested in the plans. To him will be
 left the major part of the work of l preparing for the opening of the 1 schools. Chairman Rogers explains 1 that Mir. Mills has had considera ble l experience in the management or eVe- ming schools and there will be nothing | experimental about the Organization 1 here if it is left to him.
 ] r~i, hN 1 the town, it is believed, will cover 1 the expense of instructors and will | also pay for whatever text books | which the school will require. But 1 few additional books will have to be l ordered as those used in the schools 1 during the day can be utilized by the 1 evening classes. The cost of heat and ! light will of course be extra. It is the intention to employ two teachers at first, they receiving $1.2o a night for their services.
 While the school will be open to the general public, 1t is to be estab-
 lished primarily for the benefit of foreigners desirous of learning Eng 1 fish, The board claims that without any solicitation, fifty-fve non-English speaking residents made application for admission to the school and after it is esta blished. the expectations are that there will be many more. There is a disposition on the part of some prominent citizens in sym pathy with the plan to advocate the payment of part of the expense of the schools by the pupils themselves. They believe that if those taking ad- vantage of the towns offer were
 asked to pay small amount weekly towards the expense 1t would result in the wedding out of undesrabl bles, who attend the school out of curios- ity or for amusement, and those really interested in learning the language and custo toms of the country would have better opportunities.
 The towns non-English speaking population is made up largely or
 Italian immigra nts and this national ity will be strongly represented In the classes.
 Only Individual Criticism. Analysis of the criticism that has fallen to the lot of the board or aS- sAssors since the grand list was made public shows that the dissatisfaction has developed almost entirely over
 
 a increase in the indlvidual case of the critic. It Is generally conceded
 that the board did it's best to equaltze
 property values and the opinion seems
 to be that it was fairly successful in
 it's efforts.
 The increase in the grand list IS not
 accounted for by large raises in prop
 erty valuation in simply a few cases
 as the $241,000 gain represents
 changes made in the lists of 3S0 tax
 payers The amount when distributed
 over that number does not mean
 great deal for a single individual.
 Of course a blow at a mans pocket
 book produces more pain than even
 the sleep-producing uppercut of a
 pugilist. and in this case pleas by the
 score will doubtless be made to the
 board of relief.
 The state board of epualizat ton
 gave the toNns grand list material
 boost last year and the report of the
 assessors this year will prObab bly
 prove satisfactory to that body. Un-
 less there are general reductions by
 the relief board there will be a good