The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-05
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT
Editor Sentinel.

doing. l have been sore at your pa per for a long time but your posi- ton on the school question has set tied things for me.
 We have a right to think our pa per should boost the town. But 1n- stead of that, what do you do2 Al the time you have run this paper you are always bragging on the teachers but you are ever once in awhile saying something about the school buildings and about how bad a condition they are. Well maybe they are but you should not come out in the paper and say so. It gives the town a black eye. II you can't say something good about the town you should keep still.
 I notice where Frank Gingrass says he is Fire Marshal and he is going to contem the high school building because it is a fire trap. We'll. there hasn't been any chiI- dren burned up yet in that build ing and l don't believe in borrow ing trouble. If Frank thinks he is going to contem that building without the people having some thing to say about it, he's mistaken that's all. And why is Frank so busy about a school anyway; he hasn't any children. These mat ters ought to be left to the parents.
 Another thing l don't see why you encourage Mrs. Johnson to be always stirring up things. When she came here eleven or twelve years ago we were getting along
 
 and were getting along fine. Then she got elected on the school board and every body thought she would be fine because she was, you might say. practically stranger. But what was the first thing she done? According to her own words in pub lie meeting the other night the first thing she done was to put in an eX- tra teacher and get some high schoo work started and the enrolment went up to 75 that year and it has been going up every since and We have never had a cheap school since then It is something awful what the taxpayers half to stand when a woman gets started.
 Mrs. Johnson kept on until she got our high school accredited and now she has been working to have Us build a new school house. don't see what complaint she has got. The town has educated her children, and she has one daughter going to graduate this year from high school and another one almost through. It seems to me that we have did a lot for her and think the parents generally should not have so much to say about the schools.
 Now if the high school building is really condemned for a fire men ace and we half to scare up build ing somewhere. I propose that We lease the A. P. A. eannery for high school purposes. It may start school a little late but that won't mat ter And the walk will be good eX ercise. Some of the bunk houses used by the Chinee crews could be fixed up little and rented to the teachers and their room rent would provide a revenue toward a sinking fund for a new school building.
 suppose some of the women will object to the A. P. A. because the water freezes up in the winter, so it is always cut off in the fall when the salmon canning is over, and I'll admit there might be a few draw backs but children appreciate their schooling more if they don't have things too easy. We've got to do the best we can. Anything is bet ter than going in debt
 Now, Mir. Editor. there are plen- ty of things I could say about you and your paper but I suppose you will throw this in the wastebasket anyway
 All of this trouble and stirring up for better schools goes right back to the Pr. A. and I sure wish we had real red-blooded editor who would scorch up the paper about that Pr. A They do more harm than anyone. And I think the superintendent ought to be made to quit trying to tell us folks that live here what kind of schools we ought to have. He is doing a lot of harm talking like he does One of the Pr. A. women said we were mighty lucky to have a super intendent like Mir. Rasmussen. She said he had invaluable experience along school plants and that sort O thing and that he had a master'f degree from Columbia whatever that means. Now I would like to know what that has to do with Wrangell MT. Rasmussen is hired to teach school and he should keer still about what kind of buildings we have. He is getting the people all worked up and dissatisfied. He Is hired to teach school and that's all. think he was pretty small to take pictures of conditions at the high school and make them into slides and show them not only once but twice at the picture show. He is sure giving the town a black eye and he ought to be stopped. I blame you a lot for publishing his articles in the paper. After all, it isn't the building the children set in that counts; it's what they get learned that counts.
 Now Mir. Editor, this letter is getting pretty long and I suppose l had ought to stop. But I want to tell you that I haven't got started telling what I think is wrong with you and your paper, and the harm T