The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-15
DIR. Miller Makes Sugges-
tiOn and Shows Ad-
vantages
WOULD SIMPLIFY
QUESTION OF FINANCE
Hines Property, Now Owned by Dos
trict, Available - Would Be Adapted
to School Business in School Houis
and Community at Other Times.

Forum Editor of The Reformer:-
The admirable report of the Memo
rial committee permits somewhat
more detailed presentation of a sugges-
tion made March %, 1919. At once
several problems are apparent:
1. What is the best memorial?
2. Where may it be placed9
3. In what manner can it be inher-
emily conserved for all time as far as
human effort may reach7
4. How is it to be fnanced9
A monument of classic form and
grace is thought by some to be the
only suitable expression. Others say,
and rightly, a vital utility may be com
bined in the memory of other days. 1t
is not, however, desirable to begin ac-
tual building on any plan till the times
are better. But there is present need of
a well conceived plan reaching perhaps
many years into the future for full
fruition. One may recall fact not
always obvious, that the educational
system is the very mind and soul of the
nation. During the recent war the of
llItlS VI 1nt anu a.
most universally well educated. and
even in administrative bureaus college
men were the rule
All of our boys who paid the full
price of patriotic devotion were at one
time or another in our schools. Where,
then, can be centered our regard for
them and others who served, better
than in the future of our youth and
their edueationi
The suggestion of March. 1919. wss:
Our high school building is far srom
adequate. The school district owns the
Hines property on Green street Why
could not the town, village. school dis
triet and contributors build splendid
memorial building, or buildings, with
perhaps commons for teachers, on the
Hines site: Adapted in school hours
TO school business and apart from that
be of constant use to the community
as center of culture, information, rec
reation, gymnastics, game and club
rooms, with audience room, mechanic
arts, domestic science, rifle club gal
lery, reading rooms with papers and
magazines-all the eentered opportun-
ity for community life within the town
limits and beyond.
lOtdlion II OMuSu anu Is
one of the best somewhat aside from
the street. is central and easy of ap-
proach 1t Is time to call the atten-
tion to the fact that the youth of Brat
tleboro, and grOwn-ups as well, are not
without legs. 1t admits of develop
| ment along many lines of community
uplift, mental, physical, and cultural.
A fit place for recreation in the COM
pany of fresh air and sun, not to men
| tion the influence of moon and stars.
One needs to be wee bit apart now
adays in hurrying world as a matter
of discipline and growth-undisturbe
| by the business expansion of the vii
| lage.
1t is proper place for splendid
memorial which would provide a special
home for the G. A. r., the Spanish
war and the World war veterans, and
particular opportunities for all Brattle-
boro s needs as catalogued in the spe-
cial committees report in The Re-
former of June ., 1920, viz, including
| l, ,, 3, 4, 3, 6, Z, S, 9.
A new schoolhouse must sometime be
built. Under this suggestion the pres
ent high school building would be avail
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