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He also said in this letter: 



"Manual training and physical culture in the public 

 schools should be the first step toward developing a 

 sound mind in a sound body." 



This will show that his ideas on education were 

 several decades ahead of time. 



While on the subject of the public schools of Wood- 

 bine I must not neglect to relate what happened in 

 connection with the large Central School, the fourth 

 one built. For a few years my husband had felt that 

 Woodbine was large enough to have a graded school, 

 also a high school in the center of the village. By this 

 time we had a number of boys and girls, graduated 

 from public school, attending Millville High School, 

 twenty-five miles away. This bi-daily trip was quite 

 a strain upon the students, and my husband felt it 

 should be spared them. There were, besides, other 

 children rapidly growing up to high school age. The 

 township, he knew, would share the cost of the building 

 and upkeep of such a school ; but it would mean a some- 

 what heavier taxation for the Woodbine people. The 

 same troublemaker who had figured in the farmers 1 

 strike began to prejudice the people against such a 

 project, bringing forward the argument that this would 

 mean a financial burden for them in extra taxation. 

 The appropriation of funds for the building of this 

 educational center and high school would have, of 

 course, to be voted upon by the citizens of Woodbine. 



