New Britain herald., 1928-12-11
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Mayor l'aonessa Finds Fault With Editorial on High school Addition

Editorial "n High school Addition Editor New Britain Herald:
 realize it is not the very best policy tor q mayor to take issue with the editorials of any newspaper. be- cause to do so would keep both the mayor and the editor quite busy. am certain. however, knowing you as l do. that you will welcome cor rection of any misstatement made.
 am referring 10 your editorial of last Thursday. Overriding the veto for H. $. addition" If you were in closer touch with doings at city hall you would not congratulate the three democrats and some repub- licans who voted against me. be- cause you would then realize just why they did SO.
 It was my duty to bring before the public the facts had gathered. and when ] did so 1t was not with the i1ea that I would scare the public. l am content to rest any question on the intelligence of the public. Had the public an opportunity 10 vote on this question. I firmly be- leve they would have voted against it, Opportunity on the part of the public to register its sentim ents would have changed the prevailing opinion that the public considers the investments so far made in school buildings here to be money well spent, And when you speak of modern construction. I hope you have not in mind any construction N Nhich is sandWiched in between two old buildings. Do you know why the Roosevelt school was built more elahorately than some others and why it cost more It was beca use if is intended TOT junior high school us". If it was not intended for such use. the school committee should have saved $50 900 to S15,- o0" on it. There was loud prot's st when it was about 10 be built. hut way, as usual.
 One para graph in particular sur prises me. You take issue with my statement that nearly one-h half the money taken from the public in tax alton is spent on schools. and you ridirule it. You claim hut 3S per cent of the money is so sprpt. and quote inc tax collectors office. I refer you to that office again and request that you check up on whether i: is 3S per cent as you claim or 1885 per cent as the tax collector claims and as l know it to be.
 In that connection you have written: This discrepancy is sig nificant: other figures that haN, "-cn quoted may be just as unrc- liahle.' My only comment on this is 10 say that If is q poor rule that doesn't work both ways.
 Looking at the question fairly and sqnarcly. yon must agrce-it is tho logical thing 10 delay the huildirr or years. In the mean t,mc. inc school board would find better site for q real. modern high school and build in a central place. When the present school was built it might have been considered to b" centrally located. but with do- >"lcsn"nt to the north it must hc agreed that the school is al one cX- tr"me end of the city. and is just aS near to kcnsington as it is to Eolvidcrc or North Eurrtt street. Perhaps there arc some who feel l was wrong when I suggested that n new school le built north of tho railroad tracks otwithstan1inS that l believe there are almost twice as many children there as there are south of the railroad tracks.
 With an addition 10 the present school of 27 rooms. it can readily be seon that there is no prospect Of a senior high school north Of tHc