Connecticut western news., 1916-07-13
CANAAN'S GREAT NEED (Continucd from First l'aye.g

it possibly can for the whole oom- munity? This question is being de- cided in the right way, all over the land. Messieurs of the B. M. A., if you really want to do some real lasting good in this town. if you want to render a great service to the taxpaying community at large, pray drop golf link ideas, country clubs and such like. and get busy on the real utilitarian practical needs of this town. The towns. people need, they are actually in utmost urgent need of free social cen. ter building The school house should be utilized for that purpose.
 It really is too bad, gentlemen of the B. M. A., that, leaving out the Mssons and Odd Fellows, the members of 30 many clubs and of so many fine, helpful religious societies who are also members of other worthy organizations have nowhere to go but that old bar rack of a town hall and must pay for the use of even made over cow shed or renovated hen house, for gathering of any sort. 1t is an era of the call for public efficiency, public economy and the greatest good to the greatest number. AS planned in Rochester and & large number of our best cities and towns this interferes in no way with the school itself. In Canaan there is absolutely no, building free to the public but the library, and possibly, the cemetery vault. There are in every town, probably, few people so dead to progress and broad minded ad. vancement that the vault would be, for them, a suitable place to hold meet. ings, but live people in every live town want something for their monev-their tax money-that they can use freely as their own. Opposition to progress, to anything new. in fact is to be expected. The agitator is always looked upon more or less as an unpleasant person to have around. If you want to be one kind of beloved and popular person don't agitste. Now, B. Nj. A., the town needs to understand that public utilities should be utilized to their fullest possible extent, so as to benefit those who make these utilities possi. ble. This the people are not doing when big expensive building stands idle some parts of the year. and which, if planned us it should be, might be used for other purposes beside school, to the great convenience and advantage of the public. To utilize all the utili. ties of the town, so that nothing is lost or wasted, to provide for all the needs of the town, so that not one of the least among us need beg for food or shelter for mind, soul or body. This, all this, members of the B. M. A. you can help to do; others should help you, both men and women. When town falls so far behind the times that there is absolutely no place, spot, or shelter, where members of the tax paying com. munity can hold even the smallest meeting without paying an admission fee, then it is time for business men and other associations uo sit up and take notice of the towns needs. As it now stands, the taxpayers do not begin to get the worth of their money in. vested, and their women folk, but for the humanity and christian kindness of the clergy and other decent people. would have no place to hold the small. est meetings of any kind except at the great dismal old hall and pay good stiff price for the privilege. Let the people have an assembly room, free to the public, in our public school build ing. Sit up and think 1t over, B. M. A. A Utilitarian.