Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
kEfPORT SCHOOLS OPEN;
NEW PRINCIPAL SPEAKS
Enrolment Of 500 on First Day-New
Ideas NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Stirring
Address to Pupils.

Enrolment OF 500 on First Day-New
Ideas NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Stirring
Address to Pupils.
By Special Correspondent.
KEYPORT, Sept 49, The local
schools opened Monday with an en-
rollment of 500. Rev. F. T. B. Reyn-
olds made the opening prayer and
national airs were sung, after which
r. o.. Waling. clerk of the Board of
Education, introduced w. f. Bilder-
back, the new principal. Mr.. Bilder-
back gave a very interesting address
along patriotic lines. Miss Myrtle
Eickles, the new supervisor of music,
began her work Wednesday. All the
children liked the work and good re-
suits are anticipated this year in
music lines. j-t~hEi0
The physical training instructor
will teach and supervise the work al
Keyport on Monday, Wednesdays and
Friday afternoon of each week. In
stead OF the regular recess, play
ground periods will be given to each
class. Miss Theresa Pressl, the phys
zeal training instructor, will instruct
n supervise the work at Matawan
on other school days. The class
teachers will continue the work when
the supervisor is absent. School will
commence at $40 instead of 9
O'Clock as formerly. The pupils will
therefore be dismissed twenty min
utes earlier in the afternoon which
will give them more time for work
they may care to do at home. n this
also affords better opportunity to con-
tinue class work occasionally beyond
the regular school hours.
Mr.. Bilderback, the new principal.
Is anticipating many changes n win
them as they are made.
On the opening day Of school, in adj
dressing the pupils, he said, in part:
Underlying the foundations Of our
great government are basic ideals for
which our forefathers fought, bled
and died. We have a right to per-
-petuate those ideals and before the
world are accountable for our stew
ardship. We know this to be true.
for in times of peace when reason is
paramount, they have been given the
general approval of-all mankind.
This nation only seeks to 10 what
Is right. 1t cannot do this unless IL
protect itself In times of danger, and
particularly must 1t see that It's citi-
TENS be unmolested in life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. This
principle was advanced by Thomas
Jefferson, in the grandest plea for tn
rights of mankind hat has ever beef
written. The Declaration of Inde-
p~endence.' And clearly has our great
President, Woodrow Wilson, indicat-
ed that we mean no wrong, for In
making the World Safe for Democ-
racy' is no -covetousness, nothing
save a change of conditions in the
German Empire which now threatens
the eac and happiness of the entire
world. In order to keep u patri-
otism at high water mark IL Is a good
thing to recount now and then some
of the reasons why We are at war.
"The German government has seen
At to brush aside the laws of nations,
substituting for those laws Its will; 1t
has deemed 1t entirely proper to set
at naught the sanctity of treaties to
which 1t was a party; II has held hui
man life of so little worth, hat h
subjects of neutral nations have been
wantonly killed; vessels engaged in
legitimate commerce ~have/been sunk
without warning; untold destruction
of property by fire and other mean
has occurred within our boundaries,
also propaganda to disrupt disorgan-
lie, and create instruction has been
disseminated by their paid ennis
s~aries; and TO the last disgrace of the
German Government. crimes unmen
tionable nave been committed against
the subjects OF u allies, which
crimes, We believe, were i~nstigated by
that government. ~ fsaM
what does IT mean to be an
<AAAicTiCanf Ask the IdlncTleS8 anu
the motherless babes of Belgium and
of France. Ask our wounded allies
who nave been tenderly cared for by
our Red Cross. Ask the soldiers of
France, England and Italy who n
fighting shoulder TO shoulder with
u o boys for all hat life holds
dear for them.
ITO be an American means more
than all of them could tell. But we
know this much. IL means that every |
red-blooded American must be In this
wal to a finish. To such a finish that
shall prove to the world for all time
that right n not might must be the
end that nations seek. To be an
American mean hat we must give !
conscientious work, service, and sac
rilce. seeking always Divine guidance
in doing what is right. Then no mat
ter how hard the work. how great the
service, or heartrending the sacrifice, |
we can pursue our course unfaltering-
ly to the end. and leave to future
generations a heritage second TO none
since civilization began"