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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930. 3 —_—— = important part of the child’s educa- |is to that every child is h:ncr‘um building can be. It costs money |berg said that had the fire occurred |ing—Secret Elsie Gamerdinge sisted of work by the students. “Iive URR HITS BA K tion, even more important than what |off when he or she lcaves the school | to build new fireproot schools, yet |during the day, the building could| Two solos—'I Passed By Your Spirits” was prescnted by Grade \ school orehestra will contri [] the child got from the school. To- |fhan had he or she not attendea|we demand them. |have £ 1 emntied in five minnutes. [Window” and “On the Road to|Mrs. Anderson sang several songs. | bute to the ; i R day times have changed. We get |school at all. Some will be stupid “When you analyze the problem |He stated that fire drills are held |Mandeley,” Walter Falk isted hy scene W of the fea- Siug _— ! DEFEN[]S SEH[][]LS good food in cans. Our clothes arc [but not your children, of course,|you will find that we are not paying |at the school and the children are | Mrs, Ruth Bennett Lindsay at ihe th children's work, Grad e i 1) ! all made for us. We have the radio, [and some will be bright and some more for education than it is worth.” [drilled to vacate the building in | piano. i nting scenes in a Japanese 2 3= ' tomobile, movies and other things Letween these two extremes, | Northend School Meeting short order. Mr. Crust so stated | Dance—"Hansel and Gretel = ; i i i the Sugioy p that the child of 30 years ago did| “Finally the business man will| Mr. Burr repeated his address at|that he was hopeful of a r au-|of Grade 4 Smalley School ; L e (Continuedl ¥rom First Page) not have, so the school has to make |say, ‘You,falk so much that I can't|a meeting of the Parents and Teach- | ditorium in the new buildin _ Mrs Jane E. Barke ohie PR et R L \ — up the deficiency in education that |follow you, but one thing that you ers association of the Northend | MMrs. Jane . Barker, nutritionist| Two So “When 1s f I L SERDaRentE S ‘the Misses Surry Yohannan, ¥rances {the home formerly provided. {have to admit. Your schools cost too | school. Snithie localksahonls Rooke o Bop | Seelianat e Bor i Mr S Kelly and Virginia Dolan, pupils of { I would like to do some things [blamed much” |~ The e lanten R et e ool orl Dhtiacah il o e i e 2 4 . Washington School Miss Doris Nelson, and songs by |as they were done many years ago. | Cannot Cut School Costs | with' F P. Clark presiding. |portance of giving children {he| Talk—Miss ind Sl R e "\ Miss Yohannan. Little Miss Dolan. hut I cannot. If I were to buy a cord | “Every new administration that | Miss Edythe Gerstein elected | right kind of food and urged the| Violin offerir g T8, G ansot aien a pupil in the first grade, was well [of wood to be sawed up, my boy comes into power in the city throws | secretary to fill an unexpired term.|mothers present to use var isted Minto Bonn h olloy school itonie received by the audience. would know that I bought it simply !this broadside, but I don't know |Refreshments were scrved. feeding their children. Mrs. piano. | o ; : Lt Principal E. E. Weeks explained | that he might have to saw it. When |how the schools can cost less. The| The program of entertainment |also said that it was nece | Closing rema sid Ar- | 18 from 730 ur e the plan of the United Parents and |1 was n boy, we had to saw the |salary for teachers in this state, be- | was as follows e, b e e e | & et | . o0 L Audi- "leachers’ association concerts, {wo | wood, and accepted the job as a fore the war, was $6 to $10 a week, | Musical selections | emphasized the n | Blames Parents for Wayward Boys d o R to be given in the Senior High [part of our regular work. for 33 weeks a year averagewMany | Saxophone—Nathan Bosco he obtained from The entire responsibility for 1t Day ) : 2 school auditorium on the cvenings| “If"we want the child of today {0 |were paid $8 a week, and very few | Violin—Joseph Bosco to children Toe e m s y St . of November 21 and December 5, |get this other kind of education we | got $10. Salaries did not go up until | Piano—>Miss Helen Bosco. e Bl sl Mo e e ) with two specialties from each|must supply the deficiency in the the war, and von know why, of | Dramatics—Grade Fourth, Mother | give their children e s i i i public school in the city. The pro-|schools. We must bring up the child |course. If there is a scarcity of po- | Goose’s Health Friends Sfleiv o i SEkEs e s sl E Sl Siade. | ceeds from the sale of tickets from 'fo be intelligent and to know about |tatoes, what do you do? You have fo | Vocal selections—John Spitzel. ac- | that it was no ey sociation last N ; 5 i, these two entertainments will be!the things in this very complicated | pay more for potatoes. When the companied by Gus Weber the child a a pint of the lquid e i ; s ‘M‘” 2 :‘:""' used in buying cye glasses for chid- iworld of today. war time jobs for women began to| Musical number—Piano and violin | but that it could be served with an whalion ould « e e 2 Ol Dt dren who need glasses and whose “The business man then #&ays, come along, wages went up nd |by Bosco and Miss Helen foods, su as cereal. Mill d te ) when Dr 0 1 ‘1‘\“ “"v,- on FEgar parents are not in a financial posi- |‘Admitting that this is true, you do many teachers went into work that | Bosco. Mre, B r. helps to keep th ¥ Ruth Dristoll @ e tion to buy them. Inot turn out a very good product |paid three or four times the teach-| Dramatics—Grade Fifth, The I'ied hodies of children properly not S e naliy o ; ; G i Principal Weeks also explained {ioday. The girls and boys do not ing wage. The girls who graduated | Piper of Health ished and fed. She warned her lis- a special court ses o o ool 1 the four weeks' musical course 10 {scem fo know very much after they |rrom high school did not go #ito the | Vocal selections—Gagliardi broth- | teners against over fecding, saving who did no wr in juvenile court | 113 and T 0 be given in the Senior Hizh school |leave school.” Normal school. They went into the |ers that a child can be overweight but Sa cn the evening of Decembr 2. Janu-| “It is hard {o say much about wvar time jobs, so for a few| Motion victu School Activities. | still under nourished Judge 1 ary 14, Fbruary 11 and March 4 t. The business man should, how- | years the normal schools had pretty | Musical selections—Piano and| If the mothers of of tHle | Desn ot tood chara o and urged every parent to attend|ever, think of this. The school can- |slim attendance. Soon » was a | saxophone by Miss Helen Bosco and4Smith school children were unable s for the talent will be better than not pick its material. The state says scarcity of teachers, and what then | Nathan Bosco. {oiEi Ane e s o has usually come to New Britain. that all children must go to school. happened? The salaries went up un- Levi 0. Smith School milk because of the lack of funds opportunitics to I 2. “Out o many of the musicians being world- {so we have to take them all, some til now they are at least three times sveral hundred visited the Levi|they should notify Principal Mary |they did not 5 i Israel Putn tamous. I slow. some quick, some tall, some|what they were before the war. The |O. Smith school, the of the re- | (. Gorman who w that they | consideration onig Parer Hits at “Political Friends” short, some blue-eyed; we have 1o teaching cost is the biggest item in | cent disastrous fire, G e T e e e o Mr. Burr's speech was as follows: | have the whole 57 varieties. We school costs, and why not? It has|connection with American Education Miss Estelle G. ¢ director of [boys to th 1 ct 1 “I am sorry that this school doe: nnot expect to furn out a wuni- to be. week. The parents displayed Xeen |physical education elemen- | It <o o not po a hall large enoufih to|form product. The manufacturer “If you want schools yvou have to |interest in the work of their chil- 1z grades, poke used for |tha 1 V-2 Y accommodate all who wanted to[has the same material to wuse in|pay the bill. yet schools do not cost | dren as was attested by the large her topic rcise Ior Health,” |ents 1 I o come tonight. 1 hope that New Brit- | making his product, and can turn as much as some other things. More | number that interviewed the teach- She urged 10 encours the rig i re ain will some time provide suchout the same product day after day. money is spent in one year for |ers hetween 7:30 and § o'clock. The their ci Asslinel mroper [down o ) o ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT large halls in evehy public school. | When he gets through with his ma- | cigars, cigarcttes and tobacco in this | school wuth es expressed th posture e I ‘ SO kS o When this school was built we did |terial he turns out a coffee pot €x-|country than the cost of all of the |selves as being well sa e e e e ; ; Loy not realize the need of 4 large au-actly like the rest of the coffce Pots schools in the country. Automobiles the large turnout Chnay S oo e e e T aioe Ta O | feve ditorium for such a gathering as we [that he makes. |cost more than the schools, yet we| At 8 o'clock an int AR S S S o el s have here tonight. As a member of | “You can’t do that with children. think that we cannot go without our |gram was held in the e e R e el S Sellen; fonis L 1he school board, T assure you that|Some children will be bright and in- lautomobiles. | s iy & ke ’ AL o Crl ST e 25 h A it is not the wish of the schooltellizent. and others will not. You | ‘“School houses should be fire- |forced to stand. Arthir G tol 12 S L iR M bl Sl s board not to provide large .vnduor—iunmm get a uniform product, and proof. They must be fircproof. You president of the Levi O. Sm o : Lol s i Poadgiciage fum |t is just as well. Nobody wants to |would not stand for the erection of |cnts and Teachers' as: domen = < » " L i e The hile the school hoard has|live in orld where everyone is|a new school that was not fireproof. | welcomed the visitors % on.posture Bove 7 = i wanted to provide suitable andi- ke every one else. We don't |This old building is not fireproof, | {hat he was pleased with the L7 i o s T v owailiia T Aldersen: mresie o : Attt toriums for the schools. our politi- t to he identical coffec pots. |but it is as fireproof as we can|est shown by the parents. Speaking lows ldent of the tion, presided a 3 101 : med at tomor cal friends deery our desires, and | only thing tift schools can do |make it and as near fireproof as any | of the recent fire, President Ci | Reading of minutes of last n AR i o lcon. 1 e LG 7 we are, therefore, not able to pro- | o u vide all of the good things we want | to provide. “Except for the weather, the big- | gest topic of conversation for all | people is the school. When T was | 2 young man 1 heard schools dis- cussed. and when T was older, T b discussed schools, and it is the same | with all of us. We took an even | livelier interect when we had chil- dren in school. especially an inter- est in the cost of the schools. Final- | 1v our politi friends take an in- | terest i1 the schools, for we have | all of our teachers with v hudget of no mean proportion, and b other large expenses. so the school system is a nice ripe plum for the political friends “When people are interested xchools there are a great m different opinions. We have con- | flicting opinions, some being in fa-| vor of schools and some bein against schools in the neighborhood; " Some praise our schools and some | blame ihem. We rarcly hear the praise, but we do often hear 1he | adverse criticism. We hear plenty. “I once told a class of Normal| gchool graduates, where I was the head of the school, that the most useful thing for a teacher to have was a skin thick as t of a at hippopotomus so that criticism would not hurt | “As a teacher, start about 30 | years ago. und as a school board member of eight years, 1 have come across much of the criticism. 1 think that I will tell you something about the most common form of | criticism i Schools of Past Always Better he commonest and one that crops ntly, criticisr the up ¢ an hich heard inevitably, is hools are not as good as they used to be, and are not as good as when I was a child. “I began teaching 30 yecars ago at b & yime when many of you now had | rot eve started go to school. Jiven then 1 heard the same criti- cism. The schools were then not as good as they used to be. My parents used to say that same thing when I was a boy, and a well known writer in 0, in solemn tone, said th the schools then were not as good as they used to he 50 years befor So the schools got better and better as we go back. They must have been veally wonderful in the time of the ! Revolutionary period “What a silly idea that is. We sec things of the past through a golden | haze. We do not see the worse things. We see only the best things that used 1o be. “When I started to feach th country schools were like they were | for a century beforc. There were 1o outside interests for the pupil Part of my job was to visit those schools, and if you could se o5 kchools then and visit your schools g of today your idea of the old being the best would ¢ “Supervision in the rur f< not as good cven today as is d B sired in cvery place, but for the > most part it is very good “The business man will ‘Oh %hat is all very well, and perhaps ' ou are right, but you spend a lot , of time doing foolish things instead of teaching the three Tt's, as in the oid days. You teach the children nonessential “In the old fashioned schools child did not go 1o school as long as | today. There no ¢ laws compelling 40 of school lifc cach year. The schools were also not | ¢ as perfectly graded as they are to- wers: s day. There were several classes in cach room. The teacher had litt time to spend on each class, ther fore it was impossible to teach an thing cxcept the barest essential Not that she did not want to teach ut she couldn't do more main thing is this: * people lived on the farm or small village and worked in | #hops, Thenr food did not come cans and their clothes did not come | ready-made. The people were at home and did their own cookir i and made their own clothes. The | child had to take part in the family | b life, and learn fo make things to vat and wear. They had to take full part in the family activitie Fach child. therefore, got a pretty wide education at home, so that the only thing the school had to teach vas that not learned in the home, Most in a| small in a r the three R Changes in *“The hom: Family Life ducation was the most NOVEMBER NO - PROFIT - SALE JOBS and MORE JOB If there are no jobs—MAKE THEM! 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