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<Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 10, 1924 
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Things To Think About 
A Neighbor of Mr. Boyce 
In the issue of Jan. 19, page 186, Mr. 
G. W. Boyce, of Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., 
informs us that he has made an exhaus¬ 
tive study of the rural school bill. Mr. 
Boyce states that the yearly expense of 
teachers averages $1,350 per year. The 
writer lives but a few miles from Mr. 
Boyce, and teachers’ wages average, here¬ 
abouts, $25 per week for 38 weeks. In 
many of the towns, the sclioolhouses can 
hardly take care of the children that live 
there. In a great many places they can 
attend only part time, owing to the con¬ 
gestion. If the schools are consolidated 
and large additions have to be built, I am 
afraid Mr. Boyce will have to revise his 
figures. He says nothing of the extra 
cost of transporting the rural children. 
Another thing, the children do not all 
live on the same road. How are they all 
to be picked up and transported to the 
central school on time and in comfortable 
shape? 
In Pennsylvania this plan that Mr. 
ests, she knew them all. Nothing had 
escaped her thirst after knowledge, and 
she had the power to set th® thrills of 
longing to see and to know things run¬ 
ning up and down your spinal column to 
some purpose. 
And there are others and there have al¬ 
ways been others. They were born, not 
made. They are the natural gardeners. 
The allusion of Henry Ward Beecher to 
the cactus in the hands of the efficient 
gardener applies to them perfectly. They 
may be found in the high schools and in 
the colleges, but if there they have been 
still more often found in the little one- 
room schoolhouses where each pupil is an 
intimate acquaintance with the others 
and with the teacher. 
Mr. Geo. Duff, writing for the Dairy¬ 
men's League IS ews, hopes to see the time 
when his district can unload a regiment 
of badly disposed foreign kids onto the 
centralized school. I suspect his sugges¬ 
tion is really a warning to such a school 
that when they get what they are after 
they may he like the hawk that caught 
the weasel. 
We on the hills stand for the schools 
on the hills; the debating club, the spell¬ 
ing school, the grammar school, the sing¬ 
ing school, the weekly evening meeting, 
when the good man of God comes to hold 
Here is a New York boy with a companion far superior in developing his charac- 
ter to a bicvcle or a car. There should be more ponies m the world, lhese little 
dwarf horses often have a giant’s influence over the early life of a country child. 
There are men in our great cities today who will gladly testify to the debt they 
owe to the pony or the dog that gave them companionship in their youth. 
Boyce approves of is being tried out. The 
parents and children don’t like it a bit. 
The rig comes along a certain road. The 
children have to gather on the corners 
and wait for it. A very pretty picture 
on a Winter morning when mercury reg¬ 
isters 15 degrees below zero and win 1 
blows 40 miles per hour. 
Mr. Boyce states that the powers that 
be have the authority now to close or 
consolidate as many schools as they see 
fit, but they don’t do it. Let me ask Mr. 
Boyce if he thinks that if these outlying 
districts are consolidated with Little A al¬ 
ley and we have to help pay for that fine 
new school building, that we will still he 
able to keep up our rural schools for our 
little children to attend, and if we do. 
how will our taxes be lowered? The chil¬ 
dren of this section after they attain high 
school age attend either Little Valley or 
Randolph High School. It looks to me 
as thought it is taking the schools away 
from the little children and forcing our 
babies to ride miles in the cold and storm 
to please Mr. Boyce and the rest, who 
probably haven’t a little one to think 
about. J. S. BARNES. 
The Country School in Sentiment 
If Holmes could avert the destruction 
of an old effete battleship by a simple 
poem, why cannot someone prevent the 
destruction of the one-room schoolhouse, 
the greatest institution in the world? The 
“Lamb’s Book of Life” must eontai his¬ 
tories by the million beside which all men 
in their history shrink to nothing. Bry¬ 
ant’s “The Conqueror” tells of one; we 
all know 7 of others. I know of a woman 
who 86 years ago, at the age of only 14 
years, went into a schoolroom and taught 
Winter and Summer for _1S years, long 
before the end of w 7 hieh time she held a 
life certificate to teach in Delaware Coun¬ 
ty. New York. And she had earned it. 
She taught that all truth can be made 
plain to see. and she proved it in her solu¬ 
tions of the knottiest problems. By means 
of text books she became a scholar. The 
stars and planets in the heavens, the 
plants and flow?rs in the fields and for- 
service; the exhibitions of dialogues and 
speaking pieces, the Christmas trees. 
W. C. M. 
Bill to Increase Salary of Judges 
The Reform Bulletin deserves credit 
for its stand on many questions, but the 
writer takes exception to the following, 
found in the issue dated Jan. 18, 1924: 
“ Assemblyman Cuvillier introduced 
Bill No. 92,'to increase the salary of the 
chief judge of the Court of Appeals from 
$10,000 to $27,500. and the associate 
judges of the Court of Appeals from 
$10,000 to $25,000, and increasing ex¬ 
pense allowance from $3,700 to $5,000.” 
“The editor of the Bulletin is unquali¬ 
fiedly in favor of this measure. Our 
Court of Appeals should not be third-rate 
lawyers, but should be among our best 
lawyers. Many of them are making $50,- 
000 a year.” 
The comparison with the $50,000 cor¬ 
poration lawyer seems ridiculous; and a 
bill limiting their fees would be in much 
better form, as the public ultimately pays 
these exorbitant bills. I am reminded of 
one of these “best lawyers” wdio charged 
a farmer of very limited means $80 for a 
few hours’ work on a search, deed and 
mortgage, and of another w 7 ho, during a 
conversation on the street with a farmer 
friend, answered a question which might 
be construed as legal advice. To the sur¬ 
prise of the farmer, he received a bill of 
$10 for “services rendered to date.” These 
incidents are not jokes, but facts which 
may be verified. 
I am surprised and disgusted with this 
attitude in regard to the raising of these 
salaries, coming at this time, when the 
best thinkers of the country are consider¬ 
ing some measure for economy and the 
reduction of taxes, which are becoming 
oppressive, and rapidly driving the Amer¬ 
ican farmer to the wall. These hard¬ 
working people are receiving pre-war 
prices for products, and perhaps not av¬ 
eraging $500 profit per year, requiring at 
least 20 years to accumulate the amount 
of the present salary paid one of these, 
judges in one year. Again, most of the 
best ministers are perhaps receiving be¬ 
tween $2,000 and $5,000, less than one- 
half the present salaries referred to. 
It seems as though Bill No. 92 needs 
the attention of all stamp-lickers, and if 
this has no effect, then as a last resort 
the licking of th'e recipients of the letters 
—our humble servants at Albany. H. L. s. 
