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PARENT-TEACHER MEETING 
The November meeting of the Par- 
ent-Teacher association, Manchester, 
was held at the Price school Wednes- 
day evening. The meeting was open- 
ed by the President, Mrs. Seddie 
Follett, and Mrs. D. T. Beaton read 
the report of the committee in charge 
of the Gymnic which was given last 
week at Town hall. The affair was 
very successfully financially. Great 
credit is due Mrs. George Dean, who’ 
devoted a great deal of time to drill- 
ing those who participated, and who 
gave her services without any charge. 
It was unanimously voted that the As- 
sociation send Mrs. Dean a suitable 
expression of gratitude. 
The musical part of the program 
Wednesday evening was furnished by 
Mrs. Raymond C. Allen, who sang 
two solos, “’Twas You,” and “Don’t 
You Mind the Sorrows,” which were 
greatly appreciated. She was accom- 
panied on the piano by Mrs. Charles 
E. Williams. 
Mr. Mackin announced that a 
friend of the Parent-Teacher associa- 
tion had kindly offered to give the 
organization a lecture by Dr. John- 
son of Beverly, to be delivered at 
Town hall in January. It was voted 
that the offer be accepted and that the 
regular January meeting of the asso- 
ciation be made an open meeting with 
Dr. Johnson as speaker 
The subject is a most interesting 
and instructive one to everyone: 
“Preventative Medicines,” and the 
Manchester public is cordially invited 
to attend. 
C. C. Carsten of the Association 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- 
dren, of Boston, spoke on “The Pro- 
tection of the Family Virtue.” Mr. 
Carsten is a speaked of pleasing per- 
sonality and his address made an evi- 
dent impression on his audience. 
Four things, Mr. Carsten said, were 
needed to practically do away with 
the tragedies in child life, which he 
and his fellow workers see daily in 
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their work. They are: first and most 
important, the virtue of family self- 
support; second, standards of moral- 
ity and decency in family life; third, 
discipline; fourth, education. 
If a family has not the conscious- 
ness of financial independence, said 
the speaker, it is almost impossible 
that the other needed conditions can 
be brought about. Out of the one 
hundred cases of boys in the Concord 
reformatory which were looked into 
by the association which Mr. Carsten 
represents between fifty and sixty 
homes were found unsuitable to send 
the boys back to, which would seem 
to prove that ordinary standards of 
morality and decency are woefully 
lacking in parts of our communities. 
The speaker told of a girl of four- 
teen years who ran away from her 
home and mother one night in Nov- 
ember about two years ago. Upon 
investigation it was found that the 
girl’s home was spotlessly neat, that 
her mother prided herself upon being 
a good housekeeper and a discipli- 
narian. She was a disciplinarian of 
the old-fashioned sort, but the girl 
was too high spirited for that sort of 
government. An agent from the As- 
sociation for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Children called on the 
mother and tried to persuade her to 
let someone try to bring out the good 
in the child, but the sense of being 
interfered with was too strong on the 
mother’s part and, as the law could 
not step in in such a case, the girl was 
returned to her home. A year later 
the woman had her daughter brought 
into the juvenile court in Boston on 
charges which would place her in an 
industrial school, the worst possible 
place for such a girl. 
Discipline, said Mr, Carsten, need 
not be of the iron-clad variety so long 
as the desired results are obtained. 
The fourth needed factor in Amer- 
ican home life is a suitable amount 
of education for the boys and girls, 
not merely just what the law com- 
pels. The speaker said that it was 
a proven fact that the critical years 
between fourteen and sixteen are 
more likely to be wasted at work than 
at school because of the fact that 
children of that age can earn only 
small wages under even the best con- 
ditions and that at the end of the two 
years they are either where they 
started or worse off. Mr. Carsten 
defined the education he had in mind 
as not only secular education, but also 
religious. 
After the close of the program the 
social committee served sandwiches 
and tea in the room below. 
MANCHESTER 
The Sons of Veterans are to put on 
a mock trail on the evening of Fri- 
day, Dec. 18. 
The Pilgrim Wanderers will visit 
Beverly Farms Friday evening, Dec. 
4, guests of the John West colong. 
The heavy rain last night made the 
ice-man happy, anyway. The ponds 
hereabouts were dry, but they are 
well filled today. 
The Gloucester schools have been 
closed for the balance of the month 
because of the prevalence of con- 
tageous diseases—scarlet fever and 
diphtheria. 
The Junior Class at the High 
school voted at a class meeting yester- 
day to dispense with the usual gradu- 
ation reception in 1916 and take a 
trip to Washington in the spring va- 
cation that year, instead. 
