The Mount Holly news., 1915-02-02
Chafsworth-

Our pTocraSunat1On IN school affairs
despite spasmodic promises of change
and betterment, stamps our township as
the ultima thule of indifference, inefh-
cheney and contemptibleness. With our
school meetings simply scenes of dis
order, and our discussion lacking reason,
but literally adorned with threats, pro-
family and obscenity, our timid are
terrified and the pusillanimous horrified,
leaving but few willing to combat, en-
deavoring to eliminate sinister infiuen-
ces of the obnoxious and unlettered
myopics.
There are five carloads of children
from outlying districts denied the privi-
lege of school tuition because we pre-
tend to be unable to defray our share
of the charges. We can purchase automo-
biles. build houses and boast of our
wealth, but we simply cannot stand the
strain of one dollar day (our share, the
state paying the balance) to ensure that
our children obtain their birthright On
election day fifty per cent. of our voters
are compelled to make their mark, be-
| ing unable to sign their names, and
with the methods that now obtain, par
ticularly amongst the native population,
the above percentage will increase, this
intolerable condition being due entirely
to the laches of our local school trustees,
| through their indomitable laziness, per-
sistent dilatoriness and calIous uncon-
cernedness.
Some complaints having been made
to Mr.. Calvin N. Kendall, of the State
School Board, he invited our local school
dignitaries to meet him at Trenton on
the 18th, but our response to that sum-
mons was to cheerfully consign him and
the State Board to that region where all
good Democrats are supposed to go and
where refrigerators for the inmates are
} called another session for the 25th, which
; was attended by three members out OF a
possible nine. The remaining members
i are lying in wait until the timid trio
7 attempt to collect their expenses from
the township, when, in picturesque and
f informal language, they will be told
2 whats what.
Endeavoring to pierce the censorship
I surrounding the reasons for the forced
! visit of our official dignitaries to Tren,
j ton, your correspondent was informed
s that it was an official inquiry caused by
!, a few sophisticated, subtle souls getting
d their noses into the feed bag, and hold
e ing on whilst the foraging was good
q and that though it was poor cook whit
4 could not lick his own fingers yet the plat
e ters were tapped too clean. The principa
i trouble is that outside of few, every
e one was like the man who fell out 0
I a balloon, simply not in it,"
e Inquiries concerning the happenings a
; the Trenton seance are met by the an
a lswer that it was a very pleasant inter
!. view and terminated by the visitor
promising to raise money to build
E. school house, and meeting will short
u ly be called to devise ways and means o
j further plunging this unhappy localit,
into further debt. Since there is n,
/ prospect in sight Of being able to carr,
T the children to the schools alread,
y established, it certainly seems ridiculou
It to build theatre to present Hamle
IF with the Dane left out. The ordinar,
al mind would have thought that tn
"a members of the State Board of Educa
d, ton would be keen on having childrel
N attend school, as an empty OF PARTIAL,
:, filed school house is discredit to them
+ and also to the locality where it is placed
=, 1t is not buildings that we need. 1t is
r, few public officers having the true need
y of community at heart that is desiret
y here, and which we shall obtain er
el long.
j; Were we to employ the same busines
;; acumen in conducting our township
! affairs that we demonstrate in running
J. four lilliputian commercial enterprise
this township, instead of being il
Z debt and on the verge of bankruptcy
. would possess habitable and moderl
ie school buildings, and ample bank bal
Al ance and fewer illiterates. However, be
fore resigning all hope, we will wait an,
h see what our next County Prosecutor i
ID to be and whether he will be worker Q
T trimmer.
y The trouble began when Mrs. Helel
al NJ. Goble, of Toms River, whose el
lie ficiency as teacher was never question
sr ed, presented her resignation. 1t tleake
~ :, out that Mrs. Goble resigned becaus
ID the school was overcrowded and ther
"A was some objection to her plan of dis
IS missing few of the pupils at two o'clocl
&c to provide the relief she needed for al
?, tention to others. But nobody know
d what is going to be done about it, ex
p, cept that Miss Alice Madden, of Noun
2. Holly, has been engaged to succee'
81 Mrs. Goble.
a Our registry clerk recently advertise,
IL in the county newspapers for teache
y to take the place of one who had resign
% ed. An applicant seeking the position
, dwelt on her valuable knowledge O
70 physiology and made a very good i'm
;s preston until she was asked, what
. the function of the stomach?'' to whicl
:, she replied ''The function of the stomach
q is to hold up the petticoat. 1t nigh
= have been a correct answer for Soutl
= Park but it did not go here.