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In spite of all the talk about re- 
trenchment, keeping the tax rate 
down, etc., ete., which charactized 
the first sessions of the Manchester 
Town meeting,—about the only cut 
in the appropriations came in con- 
nection with Manchester’s park. 
About everything asked for by in- 
dividuals or committees, from $4 
for ringing the bell to $53,000 for 
highways passed through,— but the 
$3000 asked to continue the work 
on Maseconomo Park fell by the 
roadside. The moth supt. wants 
$2000 to buy a new spraying ma- 
chine; he gets it. The boys want 
$700 to improve the baseball dia- 
mond; they get it. The cemetery 
trustees want $1000 to keep the 
grass mowed at the cemetery ; they 
get it. $500 is called for, to provide 
a series of band concerts; we get it. 
Likewise $500 is wanted to make the 
eagle scream and crack another bell 
on the Fourth of July; it comes. 
An extra $500 is wanted at the 
playgrounds; it is voted. $1250 is 
required to fix up the fire station; 
we get that. BUT—the park board 
want $3000 to keep the beach look- 
ing nice and provide bathing facili- 
ties, ete., and also to keep the pub- 
lic landing in condition at the Park, 
and they get $2000 of it. They want 
$3000 to carry along the work al- 
ready voted upon several years 
ago at the New park,—and they get 
nothing. It seems to the Whisperer 
that economy is a poor excuse. 
Rather it would seem to be poor 
economy to neglect the further im- 
provement of that piece of prop- 
erty that occupies such a prominent 
site on our harbor front, on the way 
to the beach. 
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Of the 353 cities and towns in the 
state Manchester stands at the foot 
of the list—or 350th to be exact— 
as to the amount of money spent for 
schools as compared to the assessed 
valuation. In other words Man- 
chester spends for schools $1.55 for 
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every $1000 of valuation. The 
figures run as high as $10.53, but 
the average is around five or six 
dollars. But, on the other hand, 
this does not mean that Manchester 
gives less financial support to her 
schools than other places, for, of the 
353 towns and cities of the state 
Manchester stands near the head of 
the list (19th last year) in the am- 
mount paid per pupil for schools. Ia 
this list Dover, a Norfolk county 
town, stands first, paying out $88.78 
for the education of each child in its 
average school attendance last year. 
On the other hand Clarksburg, a 
town way up in the north west cor- 
ner of the state, the lowest, only 
paying $7.92 for the same purpose. 
The for 
average the state was 
$38.60. Manchester paid $54.05. 
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May the joys of America be as 
pure as its air of freedom, and its 
virtues be as firm as its mountains. 
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Why is it when a stranger comes 
to town, he is welcome at once, but 
if an old school friend returns after 
a year’s absence he is forgotten? 
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The man who makes the doudest 
noise over some simple, inoffensive 
little item in the paper is the same 
fellow who doesn’t even thank the 
editor when some choice bit of real 
news about him is kept out of print. 
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Did you ever stop to think that 
the editor keeps as much news out 
of the paper to save somebody’s 
name and to keep peace in the 
family, as he puts in? If the local 
paper printed all the news it picked 
up during the week, what crisp and 
spicy reading it would make! 
Government as a Soft Snap 
Commissioner Brownlow, of the 
District of Columbia, asserts that 
‘‘when we learn to repay the benefit 
for the benefits we receive from it; 
when we get away from the idea of 
using the government as a ‘solt 
snap,’’’ then government owner- 
ship will be a practical possibility. 
Importance is attached to the re- 
marks from the fact that Mr. 
Brownlow is one of the more recent 
appointees to a prominent position 
by President Wilson. 
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