Jan, 21, 1916. 
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PARENT-TEACHER MEETING 
Roy F. BERGENGREN oF LYNN GAVE 
Very INTERESTING TALK. 
S. THE monthly meeting of the Man- 
chester Parent-Teacher associa- 
tion was held Wednesday evennz in 
the Price Primary school hall. Roy 
F. Bergengren of Lynn, a former 
member of the school board and n w 
commissioner of finance of Lynn, 
was the speaker. 
Previous to the talk the usual busi- 
ness of the associa’ion was t a‘sact- 
ed. As the next meeting is to be the 
annual meeting a nominatirg commit- 
‘tee was appointed, compoced of Mvs. 
-H. W. Purington, Miss Lila Go'd- 
smith and Raymond C. Allen. 
Notice was also made of the i'lus- 
trated lecture to be given in the Town 
hall Friday even'ng, Feb. 4, by U. S. 
Milburn on Switzerlard. This is 
given under the aup‘cs of the asso- 
ciation and the committee in charge is 
composed of J. C. Mackin, Mss 
Chapman, Miss Stetson end Mrs. J. 
J. Connors. A candy table will. be in 
charge of Mrs. A. L. Saben, Mrs. 
Otis’ Bohaker, Mrs. Alfred Pa s ns, 
Miss. Fannie Knight, Mr-. Ellery L. 
Rogets, Mrs. F. A. Rowe, Mrs. David 
m. Mrs. Janes Kehoe, Mrs. 
mond and Mrs. C. L. Crafts. 
Mir. Bergengren’s talk was of ‘he 
rambling sort, but was alive with 
~ over it. 
timely suggestions and much knewl- 
edge as to the management of schools, 
especially from the financial sta d- 
point. 
_ Mr. Bergengren voiced the cpinion, 
in passing, that a college education 
does a man more harm than good, un- 
less he has enough balance to get 
(Mr. Bergengren is himself 
a graduate of Dartmouth and also of 
t _ the law school). : 
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— 
Lynn, a city of 98,000 popu'ation 
and spending $418 000 a year for the 
support of schools, not count ng rew 
buildings, probably has one of the test 
set of schools in the state. He told 
how a bill had been passed giving 
over a certain portion of the tax 
levy (five-twelfths) outright to the 
schools, and as ‘a result the schcols 
are now on a pretty sound financ al 
basis. 
Why has the cost of running our 
schools advanced so tremendovsly, 
querried the speaker. In I ynn, for 
instance, there were in 1852 3°79 
pupils, taucht in 34 schocl houres, at 
a cost of $22,500, not counting new 
APARTMENT to rent in Manches- 
ter, 7 rooms, all on second floor, 
bath, hot and cold water, electric 
lights, Apply at The Breeze Of- 
fice. sort 
buildings. That year a new high 
school was built-at a cost of $6000. 
In 19%5 an ell was added to the pres- 
ent high school and it cost $250,000. 
Now we have 13,400 pupils and it 
cost $372,400 to run the schools | st 
year,—for buildings and all $665 0-0. 
An inciease in pupils of 400%, but 
an increase of salaries and other 
costs of 29c0%. 
The problem that stares us in the 
face is the inconsequential way we all 
look at the government of our towns 
and cities. Why, you can’t get the 
really good men to run for office. In 
the whole of Essex County there 1s 
no business so large as the business of 
running the city of Lynn. It cost 
over two million do'lars to run the 
city last year, yet we elect grossly ‘n- 
compe‘ent men to manage affairs w th 
never a thought as to the 1e wts. 
The day will come wh:n we will real- 
ize the impor‘ance of this, and we 
will have the ost competent men we 
can find anywhere to run our ctes 
end towns, just as any big corpcra- . 
tion seeks the ablect men to :un he 
affairs of the concern. The qu stion 
stares us in the face,—are we ge t ng 
full value for the money we spend? 
And this appties to the schcols as 
well as to other departments of gcv- 
ernment. 
There is need of getting back more 
to original principles in the schoos. 
It is the tendency of the titres to get 
away from o'd-fashioned tlings and 
fall for every wh'm and fancy. 
In speaking of the foreign é'ement 
in the American towns and cit cs of 
today the speaker said he wasn’t «o- 
ing much worrying about the hyrhen- 
ated-Americans. They are the smart- 
est children in our schools today and 
give the least trouble. They regard 
their citizenship of such a hgh value 
that they would be the very backbone 
of the country today in case of an 
emergency. We don’t always rea'ize 
that the Red Indian is the only teal 
American in this country of ours; if 
we get back far enough we were all 
immigrants once. 
In concluding the speaker ho-ed 
for a time when the children weuld 
be taught the real truth about the 
country’s history; we ought to get our 
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minds righted; don’t. half tell the 
truth, give him the real facts about 
the Revolu'ionary and Mexican and 
Civil Wars, for his mind will then: be 
the better fitted for the real ccndi- 
tions of government. 
The usual social period fcllowed, 
when. refreshments were served. 
“Ever notice how Jones butts into 
a conversation ?” “Yes; he always 
thinks his particular train of thought 
has the right of way.”—Boston Tran- 
script. 
