Republican farmer., 1918-03-22

REDD|N(
Especial to The Times.)

OF the state Council OF OeIense, w.
c. Sanford 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-
Gil has planned to cover the entire
State. When completed it will show
Connecticut's agricultural resources as
the census taken last spring showed
its resources in man power. The sur
vey was. started in Litchf1eld county
in February as an experiment and
gave such satisfactory results that it's
statewide extension was decided
upon. The local committee named by
Mr.. 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, ]. L. Blackman and
Joel G. Hawley. The work is to be
done between March Is and April 1.
The only other survey of the kind in
Connecticut was made in 1S45.
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 suggestion of Sec
rotary Hine of the State Board of
Education Mrs. Simpson went to
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 fistic en-.
counter between her ten year old son
and the fifteen year old son of Prin-
cipa1 Hosterman of the Danbury High
school 1t is understood that the
authorities are ready to drop the case
provided the defendant 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-
ton during said hours and terms in
the studies taught in the public
schools n
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 u, 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 fanily's custom. Her faith
er 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
Bushwick High school of Brooklyn,
the story of one successful expert
ment with boy labor in farming
Thirty of the Bushwick pupils voiun-
teered last season for the work and
had their living quarters in 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
body. They did their own house
keeping and worked in the fields
nine hours daily at rs cents an hour
for the most efficient and lesser rates
| for the less efficient. The boys fixed
their efficiency grade and did it fairly.
| Slaekers on those who failed from any
cause to make good were sent home.
An average of Is are steady employed.
The season was prolonged on account
of the demand for help to gather the
potato crop SO that the camp con-
tinued several weeks after school re-
opened, the members keeping up
with their studies besides doing full
time in the fields. The adventure en-
ebled them to earn considerable mon
| CSs DClLC1 GU l41SlI physical
and also brought notable improve
ment in the qualities of self control
and self reliance. Mr. Rollins thought
the camp he described an excellent
example to pattern after. Where
parties of boys were given the use of
land to cultivate, being managers as
well as workers and relying for COM
pensation on the crops they might
raise the results were usually not sat
isfactory.
The first annual meeting of the
Georgetown Red Cross, which is affi-
lated with the Danbury chapter was
held on Wednesday of last week at
the Methodist church. The members
elected Mrs. Catherine Miller, presi-
dent, and in the order named the
! following vice presidents; Mrs. Fred
Foster, Mrs. Andrew A. Nordund
Mrs. Michael Perry and Mrs. C. A.
Anderson. Mrs. William H Hunter
was chosen secretary, Mrs. Rebecca
Miller treasurer, and Mrs. Clarence
Olnlstead chairman of the work COM
mittee. The treasurer reported total
receipts for the year of 81, 293.73 and a
balance in the treasury of $63.7 Dur
ing the year the organization has
made UP the following lists of hospi-
tai supplies: 1914 T bandages; 636 alb
donlinal bandages; 1,01S sings; 1877
four tail bandages; 63 fracture pill
bows; 145 rolls; 416 sponges; II hot
water bag covers; 70 pair socks; 81
face cloths; Il helmets; 30 sweaters;
25 scarfs; 80 pairs wristIets. All the
materials used in making these arti-
c1es were provided by the local So
ciety.