New Britain herald., 1921-03-19
THE OBSERVER MAKES - RANDOM OBSERVATIONS
 THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE.
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Announcement by prominent woman of the west end, Mrs. Arthur c. Kimball, that she will be a candi- date for the Board of Education at the next election, should be hailed with rejoicing by those who wish to see politics elevated. The enthusiasm for office of the gentler sex should be the leaven for which the calloused hearts of mankind have been praying.
 Mrs. Kimball is one of the recog
 nized social leaders of the city. She is just the. type of woman we need in politics, the type voters of both sexes will look up to. It is possible that enough men will allow their prejudice against women. to sway their judgment so that she may not be elected but she should not allow this possibility to cause her any worry. With the big complimentary vote the third ward should roll up for her. and the support she will re- ceive from men and women in" other sections of the city, Mrs. Kimban should count her chances of victory bright. t.
 There is no more appropriate post in the city government for woman than the Board of Education. Male opinion has always dominated it al- though advancement in education has not been retar rded because of this fact.
 But the addition of a woman-to the board would, no doubt, strengthen it in some respects. especially a woman such as Mrs. KimbalI is known to be. An impressive interview with Car dinal Gibbons is published in the of %I 1A A Afoe
 aine." In the course of the inter- view the Cardinal dwellsaon the tre- mendous progress made in education. He said, in part:
 Tn. a hundred years the world has been transformed from illiteracy to literacy. Remember, that reading and writing were the exclusive adorn- ments of the well-to-do only a hun dred years ago. 1t was not common for working mau to be able to do
 more than make their marks in the early years of the nineteenth cen tury. Today every boy and girl in civilized nations who cares at all for the opportunity may learn; the store houses of the worlds thoughts. as preserved in books. have been opened to rich and poor alike.
 "A perfectly tremendous achieve ment, that is. We are so accustomed to its results that we forget how tre- mendous it is-how slender frac- tion of the men of the world could read or write intelligently even century ago. And now illiteracy is banished, just as slavery has been.
 These statements by the eminent prince of the Catholic church have peculiar significance for New Britt ain, at this time. We have in this city certain individuals who scoff at education and who lose no opportun- ity to make an assault on our school system and the expense it incurs. If these people had their way, the work ing man would probably find himself in the same situation as his brother of a century ago-living in darkness, unable to communicate, by writing. with his relatives and friends and unable to enjoy the advantages of reading New BritaiA has a right to
 be proud of what its schools have ac- complished. A person of education always has something that person
 without education regrets he did not or could not obtain. Let New Brit ain continue its work, even though the expense be heavy.
 Reports from the citadel of our liberties at Hartford nave IL that the
 Judiciary committee has decided to report favorably a bill which would permit judges of superior court
 (criminal court) to grant divorces
 forthwith to wives or husbands whose spouses have been convicted of of lenses against chastity.
 Here is an opportunity for some
 level headed. sane legislator to put his foot down on a measure out of which
 mischief is certain to come. America is fast becoming a country where
 divorces can be secured as easily as one would order a cup of coffee for breakfast. Instead of letting down the bars further, efforts should be made to remedy the divorce evil and
 more stringent laws are needed to put a stop to the practice. The family is the smallest unit of democratic government. The state is nothing more or less than group of families. Any force that tends to break up families also tends to break up th state, The right or wrong