Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-02
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gines without resorting to the use of
sharp cleats on wheels. 1t is passing /
strange that roads should be destroy
ed in this manner. Surfacing high
ways is an expensive proposition and
it is criminally wasteful to have this
surface shredded by cleats. Virginia
has an ambiguous law dealing with
the situation, but the law is devoid
of teeth. 1t is certainly matter sus-
ceptible of correction either through
the manufacturers of the road de-
stroyers or through proper legisla-
ton.
Superintendent Noll of the Harri-
sonburg water works has notified the
citizens of that busy little city to alb
stain from additions pending an in
crease in the water supply. Scarcely
enough of the liquid on hand for
culinary and drinking purposes. Time
was in the Rockingham capital when
thirsts could be quenched with some
thing better than the one-half of one
per cent thorax teaser which is now
dispensed to the law-abiding and the
thirsty In those days, water was
not missed and seldom did anyone in
Quire about the state Of the reservoir.
IInasmuch as cleanliness is akin to
godliness, the cutting off of the bath
tubs may have a degenerating influ-
ence on the community. Let's hope
not, but if it does it don't hurt much
more than the jaggy days when suds
were plentiful and bottled in bond
tangled up the legs of its imbibing
citiZenry.
Next Sunday, an excursion train
will be run from Pittsburgh to Shen-
andoah Caverns. 1t is an all-night
journey from the Smoky City to the
open spaces in Gods country and the
train will reach the caverns at an
early hour Sunday morning, Did you
ever stop to think that there are
scores of Woodstock, Shenandoah
County and Valley boys holding re-
sponsible positions in the city of
iron? Boys and young men COM
PEELED by circumstances to seek a
4 livelihood outside of the Valley
I There is reason for this, and one
does not have to dig deeper than the
musty bank rolls of our citizens to
find it. Local capital SHES at any
thing which savors of speculation in
home industries, Oh, yes; many of
them will buy shares in a Samoan
volcano or an arctic ice plant, if a
suave salesman tickles their gullibil-
ity, but most of them wouldn't take
stock in government mint if it was
located in the Valley And all's the
pity.
Jacob Munich, sage of Seven Foun-
tains, who for over four-score years
has watched mankind pass along the
corridors of time, is no pessimist He
has been a student of history in its
making and lived through wars and
pestilence. Governmental upheavals
have come and gone during his life,
and he has seen a united nation rise
Phoenix-like out of the ashes of a
war which threatened to destroy 1t.
Mr.. Munich was a delightful visitor to
the Herald Office the other day, and
out OF his "reminiscences and conclu-
sions he heartened his hearers with
the assertion that the world is better
than 1t was in his earlier years, and
growing better every year He has
no patience with the jackals who are
ever bowling over imaginary decad-
ency, and out of a life which has
ripened in optimism he sees the up
ward and onward march of human
ity. He has noted the universal
spread of the brotherhood of man
and in his age he has caught the
spirit of youth-the youth which feels
and knows that, with its teeming mil
lions. this is better, brighter world.
Mr.. Munich is pointed and philosophic
in his conversation, and he imparts
the buoyancy and brightness which
comes from well-spent life.
The fQmnnraru OF
the grades Of the Woodstock Public
School is now ready for occupancy.
and while it does not possess the ar
chftectural attractiveness of the PAN
theon or the exquisite beauty of Tai
Mahal, it answers the purpose for
which 1t was built and the school chill
dren OF the town will no longer be
scattered like the lost tribes of Is
rael. Consolidation means efficiency
and Principal M. c.. Hollingsworth
VIII have better opportunity to note
the progress of the budding geniuses
who are absorbing the three "R's' in
the towns free educational institu-
ton The three additional class
rooms are large and well-ventilated
and certainly conditions are better
than they were under the congested
conditions last year. However.
Woodstock citizens interested in the
welfare of the children of the town
SHOULD not get in state of apathy
because of the building of Temporal
ry quarters for few classes. The
population of the town is increasing
and in like ratio the school population
grows. Eventually the town must
have an adequate building and one
which reflects credit ON the town