The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-28
ARLINGTON WILL
BATTLE AGAIN ON
SCHOOL QUESTION
At Annual Town Meeting to Be
Held Tomorrow
BOTH SIDES ARE READY
Town Has Been Stirred BY Eff
for to Prevent Erection of
New School
BOTH SIDES ARE READY

Arlington is before the eyes Of the
public, which is a ridiculous situation.
] AT the annual town meeting in
March 1920 1t was voted to erect a
junior high school not to exceed the
sum OF $4,000 Some Of our good
respectable ctizens were not quite
satisfied with the vote so asked for a
special town meeting which was held
March Goth 1920. At this meeting the
subject under discussion was the
school and [ was attempted to rescind
the vote which was carried at the an
nual town meeting IN respect to the
school However, the attempt failed
and once more the voters decided to
80 on with the school The building
comm ttee was appointed and compos-
ed the following. James r. lyman
chairman, Frank y Patterson, Albert
Buck. Horace GOeWey and Arthur
SIN tn, but under the circumstances
Mr.. Smith resigned from the commit
tee
This committee has left the con.
tract and the architect has already
signed up. Land has been brought
and the deed is recorded in the town
clerks Office, and everything apparent
ly is under way but, alas and alack. In
the warn ng for town meeting for
1921 appears the following article G.
To vote o tax on the grand LIST Of
the town for the support Of the poor,
for the keeping in repair Of the high
ways and byways, for operating the
public schools, for meeting existing H.
abilities and 10 pay al necessary ex.
penses Of the town for the ensuing
year, also TO provide for the payment
Of the state, state schsol, state h gh.
way and county taxes.
Article Z will the town vote TO re-.
sc nd the vote taken at the last annual
meeting relative TO approprating $685.
00O for The purposes sat forth in or.
tcie o OF the warning for said town
meeting
Article 8: If the money now paid
in toward a new high school build
ing for the town; will the town vote
to use the whole or any part thereof
for the purpose OF enlarg ng or other
wise repairing either or both OF the
school houses in the villages OF Ar
ilngton and East Arlington
1 This special article was signed by
six OF our most estimable voters as fol
lows: Joseph West, Robert Blair. Pat.
! Cuiinau. Irving Grout, Deun C0nroy
and John Conray. OF course this year
/ the special tax has been paid for the
new high school and no other purpose
there fore it viii be impossible to use
the money which has been raised for
the above purpose Some of our yot-
ers at town meeting last year even
went so far as TO put themselves
down for a much larger amount, than
that called for by taXat on on account
Of the school These voters do not own
property here, but volunteered of their
own free II to do this order to help
the school proposition. What is go
in to become Of this special money
so to speak which has been paid in?
DO you think those men would be will.
ing to let Their money be used for
something else? Oh no, emphatically
no The money is for the high
school and viii so for that or nothing
As long as the contract has been let.
material purchased and on the way
here. what are You going to do with
the arch teet or what perhaps will be
so to TO the towns? Bring one of the
biggest law suits Arlington has ever
had, aud will have good sum of
money coming to him whether ne
bnlds or not. Why? Because the
agreement has been made in black
and white for him to so ahead and put
the building up. This school question
is joke from one end OF the state to
the other Accord ng to law or rather
parliamentary law, the loosing side has
no right to rescind vote; 1t is always
the winning side which has right to
ask fora vote TO rescind a vote II it Is
to be reseinded,
In regard to the editorial that ap.
peared in the Banner Tuesday even
ing. to be sure some of it is true, but
in regard to electric lights these are
gradually being installed and soon we
hone the new electric company Will
be ready to supply al the lights that
are needed.
some OF our most enthusiastic citi-
zens have tried to have a bank, lights
better SCHOOLS, tlNr bul HdNt HSNu
unsuccessful The question again is
why? Because there are citizens,
good people. so esteemed who would
down everything and anything that
would be Of benefit If these were Of
the ordinary votes, and who perhaps
were out of sympathy with commum.
ty advancement by reason of financial
stress we would not and therefore
could not. appreca ate the mutual bene-
fit to Me derived by intelligent'y, sane.
" and generously anticipating
the needs OF the coming citizens Of
the community. Through an inherit
ed prejudice which expresses itself in
that time worn and absurd saying
, what was good enough for our
fathers and mothers and under which
I grew up and prospered, (some pros.
peritv. some character, some gener-
ousity, is plenty good enough for the
present. There might be some ex.
cuse or even explanation, but and
this rs the hardest part to explain, ex-