Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-21
TOWN MEETING VOTES AGAINST TEACHERS

as~sa. @ses --.a--s-s .s.-.,.--..-s. rs.5s ! extravaganza in handling other peoples money. M /.
 Attorney Brewer Speaks.
 Attorney Leslie Brewer, formerly of | East Hartford, argued for the teachers, | and quoted figures, saying that educs- tion was place where a town should not be niggardly, If this money is not granted, he claimed, we would have to depend on transient teachers who would move on as soon as they were offered 9 better salary somewhere else. = Support School Board.
 Ex-Mayor Allyn L. Brown was ap- plauded as he walked to the front of the hall and said he could qualify as resident for 36 and a halw years here, With one boy in the public schools and | hopes of having girl there. Mir. | Brown got another hearty burst of ap- plause when he said that he was there with two propositions. and the first was that the citizens ought to support the ! school board which had been duly elected 1 and was the constituted authority to administer the schools. They were . body of representative citizens, duIS elected to an office that ,entailed much hard work for which they received no pay, but plenty of criticism, either from | the citizens or the teachers. If they were honestly and properly performing their duties they ought to be support ed. back them up in what they are do- | ing. If this meeting is going to give them slap in the face and kick them down stairs, how do you suppose you are going to get decent man to serve on your school board in future years?
 We should not take the snap figures of Judge Barnes and Mir. Brewer, continued
 Mir. Brown. We cannot determine this
 on glittering generslities. Do as your
 school board has done and get at the
 facts.
 Fis second proposition, Mir. Brown
 said, was that We all want to treat the teachers fairly. but he did not consider
 it fair demand for this extra S20o which would mean handing out S40o or $40 more to the teachers as a raise for
 next year. At first they had seemed satisfied with the $20o raise, but the pol ; began to boil and when the s20o came
 so easy they said let's get S20o more.
 In the last school budget of s1S2,-
 77633, all but $47.oo0 was for salaries , The board has now figured out the fol | | lowing increases for next years budget = $2,500 for janitors. $3.000 for coal, S2, 900 for night schools, $2,oo0 for repairs
 5000 for supplies, total of S11.5oo
 The normal increase on the salary seal, . means $1,720 more and the $2oo increas : I BEdulcQ huQS SGe.UUU. ms meant 4 4 | school budget for next year of S21s, sss.3S. If another s24.O0o is to be add
 ed by the raise that the teachers art 2 asking, the budget will be $2is,sss.3s t We don't need to toss in this extra $24,
 900 to be fair to the teachers. but let U sustain the school board and we vii ,. be giving the teachers a square deal h Other Speakers for Teachers.
  r for the meeting, said he had signed s voluntarily and he asked who this oi l. ganization was that was threatening t l. raise rents if people went to the tow h meeting and voted to raise the salarie y of the teachers. Such an organizatio IS ought to be destroyed, as it was mor it dangerous than bolshevism.
 d MT. Morin said he favored the resolu .o ton and thought this would be the be.
 investment the taxpayers ever made.
 Former Councilman John Barry ,- Greeneville spoke for the teachers ar ,t said that the letters hich had appeare = in the papers had been disgrace to u =, =, writers. A person who would not sig y his name to letter is no man. M Barry said he was not there to kick f, 'A the teachers, but he was taxpayer ar LII willing to pay his taxes.
 ..- G. Warren Davis of the Long Socie
 NiobAASt ACACI1Cu lO lltc EeCenI eIdT e. the residents of that district had h: ne that their school was to be discontinu, la and their appearance before the scho or board. The school was not discontinue III He said he should vote for the resoluti, Id and spoke of the need of education nc US more than ever. He, also condemned le 1g ters that had appeared in the "reliabl It. Bulletin and said any fool or crai be could sign letter.
 ag After MT. Bishop had said a word
 two in explanation of the Long Socie rk school situation. stating that the boa he had not voted to discontinue that scho ITS the meeting called for vote on t air question.
 ey Chairman Pettis appointed Registra ey Tyler D. Guy and c. J. Downes as teIle ng assisted by George H. Stanton a pol Charles W. Burton.
 1g. When the final ballot had been cast ed 11.40, after two hours of voting, Cha .ar man Pettis appointed Town Clerk H he brook, Mir. Guy. Mir. Downes. Jud
 Barnes and Robert McNeely of the sch, II, board as counters. They retired into oH anteroom and announced the result o the vote 20 minutes later.
 ' The meeting immediately adjourn eo after burst of applause. ne One of the school teachers who want lor to speak rose three times in her pl; CTS about midway up in the hall. but fai cmul m to catch the chairman's attention.