The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-22
BEDDING


 Bedding, March n.--At the instance of the State Council of Defense, W. ?. SanfordI chairman of the local War Bureau, has appointed a committee of ten to make the agricultural survey of this town, a work which the coun- oil has planned to cover the entire State. When completed it will show Connecticut's agricultural resources as The census taken last spring showed It's resources in man power The sur vey was started in Litchfield county In February as an experiment and gave such satisfactory results that it's statewide extension was decided upon. The local committee named by Mir. Sanford is composed of Dr. W. C.. Deming, A. G. Barnett, H. A. Louns- bury, W. E. Hazen, George S. Banks, Marcus H. Burr, M. Joseph Sullivan, L. W. Warner, J. L. Blackman and Joel G. Hawley. The work is to be aone between March 25 and April 1. The only other survey of the kind in Connecticut was made in 1845.
 Mrs. Florence Simpson, who occu- pies the Aaron Read house in Lone town, will make her fourth trip to Danbury on Friday to undergo trial on a charge of noncompliance with the statute requiring parents to send their children to school. The case has been prolonged through success i've adjournments, the last having been made at the suggfestion of Sec retary Hine of the State Board of Education. Mrs. Simpson went 10 Danbury to live early in February and was about moving back to Red ding when she was arrested. She is convinced that her prosecution is indirectly the outcome of a fstic en- counter between her ten year old son and the fifteen year old son of Prin- cipal Hosterman of the Danbury High school. It is understood that the authorities are ready to drop the case provided the defen Iant sends her two boys to school, but this she declines to do. She relies for acquittal on the alternative clause in the statute which reads: Unless the parent or person having control of such child can show that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly thorough instruc- tion during said hours and terms in the studies taught in the public schools"
 Mrs. Simpson asserts that she gives her sons regular and careful instruc- ton at home and that such instruc- ton is under the supervisory direction of the Calvert school of Baltimore, a high class preparatory school. The school selects the text books she uses and it's teachers review and mark her boys examination papers which she regularly forwards. The older boy, aged 10, is up to the schedule which will qualify him for admission to the school when he is 12, according to her plan. Whether the court will find these circumstances an adequate defence remains to be seen. Mrs. Simpson is a Southern lady of aristo- cratic family and says that education mainly by home tuition has always been the family's custom. Her fath- CT was on the staff of General Lee, commander of the forces of the Con- federacy.
 The Mems club and a considerable gathering, of other auditors heard at the Sanford School last Saturday from Frank Rollins, principal of the Pushwick High school of Brooklyn. the story of one successful experi- ment with boy labor in farming. Thirty of the Bushwick pupils voiun- teered last season for the work and had their living quarters in a barn on Long Island which the owner allow ed them to occupy on condition that he should have first call on their ser vices. Although in general charge of one of the schools teachers the boys were mainly a self-governing hadx. They did their own house