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Letter From DR.. Hubbard

Letter FROM III. 1uDDdlu
Mr.. Editor: y Commissioner OF
he county has made reply TO the
complaint from the Sth district. The
complaint is that our roads are not
as good as a small part of our taxes
would warrant. and our schools 90
not teach beyond the 9TH grade. We
have no school OF higher grade
within reach. and no authority 10
mend or improve our own roads.
The County Commissioners are the
guardians of our money and are un-
restrained in paying ii out. While
the administration is honest,it seems
to have neglected our particular dis
trict. For one of the Commissioners
to direct a citizen to the School
Board for better schools is all right,
but he probably knows that Mr.. NO
Bile inherited program he must car
~ out, and the School Board has no
chance at the treasury except under
the eve OF the Commissioners. Were
they ever so anxious to put school
in Hudson, or give our district bet
ter educational facilities, or to give
TO us schools equal to the schools i'll
Otl6T ulSIrlClS, lutlI lILlluSAlS ihb
appeal is the limit of their power.
Eldorado got its fine school thru
a direct appeal to the legislature, as
did Taylor'S Island and Cambridge.
ii our district bordered on one that
had good schools we could send
our pupils there, but We are isolated.
We are entirely surrounded by wa
Ter, except where the road passes
through Lloyds, and here high tides
overflow and We are then an island.
Unless we go to Cambridge or Balti-
more Zone is as accessible as the
other), we must allow our children
20 leave school at II and 13 years
of age.
These facts have challenged some
attention, and one of our Commls-
Sioners, who opposes central schools
where increased facilities are offer
ed, publicly charges that l have chal-
ienged Israel and have gone all
about with the swagger of brag-
CART. | am sorry to see so high an
officer filling his sling with mud. Da-
vid found five pebbles and these
found Goliath's head. One OF the
landfuIls of the soft earth the Com
missioner put into his sling was my
being excused for writing nonsense,
because l am too lately resident
OF the county to have sufficiently
valuable information, or such accu-
rate knowledge of affairs as to JUS
lily me in exposing the Inequalities
Of an administration that leaves my
district on the back seat, when our
contributions to the Commissioners
purse would and should put us on
he row very near the front.
Subterfuge has such a champion
N the Kaiser that l believe it will be
100 great a strain on any Dorchester
man to get into his class. The fact
S that although l left the county at
Il, to study for the ministry, my ia
her remained here, and l returned
20 years ago, built home and have
never voted elsewhere. l cannot
claim intimate knowledge of how the
county is run, but l know one of its
legs is shorter than the other, and
unless something is done the dipping
gait will injure the spine.
Above all things, l deplore the in
ability of men to debate real issue
without resorting to despicable meth
DDS of detracting from the main
question l want to find the rule of
The county government; the rights
contributors to the treasury have in
the treasury. If any one of the
Commissioners cares to state the
rules of disbursements, the Neck
district will coincide or openly seek
change an tce - -
100 long a resident of the county to
desire anything but the best for all
hands. If a disagreeable odor is
raised l don't want to raise 1t.
The County Commissioners whom
[ reminded of 4 cute little boy with
a chip on his shoulder" reminds me
of cutter little girl, with her moth
er's cologne literally sprinkled over
her, who said to the folks in the
parlor, IF you smell any smell, it's
me-"
To prove my assertion and give
some reason for my public plea Tor
school in Hudson, and better
schools for the larger youths, l will
compare the Neck with Hoopers and
Vienna:
Hoopers has 345 voters, the Neck
has 2SS; Hoopers has PA pup1ls.the
Neck has 1913; Hoopers receives S15
for each pupil, the Neck SIP; Hoop
ers schools cost 81, 151, the Neck
schools cost $2,412; Hoopers pays
for taxes s4,15S, the Neck pays for
taxes s10,43O. This gives to Hoop
ers for schools within 81 of all it
pays into the tax pocket, while the
Neck pays four times as much In as
it gets out for schools.
Vienna has 337 voters, the Neck
has 2S8; Vienna has 297 pupils, the
Neck has 1913; Vienna receives SIG
per each pupil, the Neck receives
S12; Vienna schools cost S4,S13,the
Neck schools cost $2,412; Vienna
pays for taxes $10,070, the Neck
pays for taxes $40, 43O.
The Vienna district has railroad,
State road, shell road, steamboat,
high school and a fine town. Has
more voters, more school money, a
larger acreage and pays less taxes.
Without so much as suggesting dis
honesty in anyone, l insist that
someone is in duty bound to explain
why our district has been outd1s-
tanced. Indeed, l believe it as much
the duty OF a Commissioner of a
! trust to make answer to reasonable
inquiry as to administer. II a Coun-
! ty Commissioner is able to answer,
! let him do so. If he is unable TO
answer, let him say so. 1t might be
well for such one to seize the mo-
ment of idle curiosity for the acqul-
| sition of valuable information. When
| 1.-The boy with a chip on his shout
: der" cannot secure dlgnlhed at
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