Putnam patriot., 1929-05-29
AMBITIOUS COUNTRY
 BOY HAS AN IDEA"
Desire to Enter Trade School Raises Problem.-Willing
 to Work
Mother Willing to Save.-Will Do
 His Washing

A letter was recently received at ! the Putnam State Trade School from an ambitious boy in the rural sec ticns- The letter was supplemented ! by another from the boys mother. which denotes her love and her desire to see her son attain his ambition a course at the trade school. Both letters, between the lines, tell their own human interest story.
 The boy. who lives in North Ash ford, is pupil in the district school. He writes. in substance. that as soon as school is out he wants to enter the trade school but does not see any pos sibility of getting back and forth from Ashford. He would like to make arrangements to work fer his board while attending school in Putnam.
 The lad wishes to take up the mechanical course. He has been con sidering the matter and desires to learn about airplane engines, design ing and repairing, and later GIT to be come pilot.
 This boy, away from the center of trade and contact, has nevertheless dreamed and planned. He says he has an idea" which he would like to try out, referring to an original con- ception of an airplane. Tt is kind of hard to be sure about it." he says. as he has never studied aeronautics and furthermore he has no material to make a model and carry on his ex- periments tc see if it will work. 'sI have drawn up plan tc scale which l have changed many times, until l got if the best 1 could" he says. The boy said his idea is original but that 1 he had to resort to books for facts he needed to know to make it fly" The boy asks for advice.
 Willing to Save
 A letter from the boys mother, dated the following day, states that she Is not able to pay his board as there has been very little work all winter. They haven't been able to register their car so she can not carry ! the boy back and forth some eight cen or twenty miles but she says she could do his washing if he sent il home. She expresses a desire to"talk things over" but has no way of get ting to Putnam.
 "Will we have anything to pay7 ii l know what to expect l may be able to save enough to pay it." she says. She concludes her letter as follows:
 Do the boys go to church, these who stay at the school?"
 Not only does the above set forth a human interest story, it holds a de- cided appeal. The country boy. ann bilious, an alert mind, and an origin al thinker. He has dreamed dreams while shut in during the long winter months on farm many miles from q railroad. His mother, too poor to pay his board, has encouraged him has taken a mothers pride in him believes in him; is willing to make any sacrifice for him and will save from the frugal income If she knows what tc expect"
 Mother Love Unhidden
 ' And then there is that mother fear for her sons leaving home. "DS he boys go to church?" she asks. Tn, mother-love is not hidden in her let ter. any more than is the boys earn est desire and ambition to go farther with his "idea."
 It would seem that the reader O. this story, from remote section O Windham county, if in a position t' help this boy and his devoted mother would rush forward to do so. strong boy from farm, willing t work. will easily be worth his keep Certainly his ambition should not b denied. If there is any person in Put nam who is willing Co keep a boy will ing to work for his board, who want tc come to Putnam to enter upon me chanical studies as soon as his schoo is out, word to H. H. Ellis, tn trade school supervisor will have i'm mediate attention.