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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 5. NUMBER 9 
SATURDAY, MAR. 2, 1907. 
The annual town meeting in Man- 
chester convenes next Monday morn- 
ing at 9 o'clock. The polls will open 
at noon for the election and will close 
at 5 p.m., probably. The real busi- 
ness will not begin until the evening 
session, though it is expected that 
every voter who can will be out to 
cast his ballot for the various town 
officers. 
Inspector Ansel J. Cheney of Bev- 
erly says the ventilation of the new 
primary schoo] building at Manchester 
is not up tothe requirements. Rather 
late day for such a statement, isn’t it ? 
The building was finished and turned 
over to the School Committee last 
spring and why should it take all this 
time to find out whether or not the 
ventilation is right or wrong! 
Manchester expended during the 
past year, according to Town Auditor 
Cheever’s report, $273,526.93. The 
Financial Statement of the Select- 
men shows that the debt has been de- 
creased during the year by $6,166.54, 
and that the balance against the town 
now is $65,252.23. The total ex- 
penditures of the water department 
during the year, according to the 
Treasurer’s report, was $23,330.43, 
The Town Reports are by this time 
distributed about town, and it is not 
necessary to review its contents. 
While we would not attempt to vouch 
for any typographical errors that may 
turn up, we can assure the voters 
that the report this year is probably 
the most accurate yet published. 
Town Auditor’ Cheever has delved 
into the various books this year, and 
not a figure appears but what is prob- 
ably correct. 
It is a matter of common report 
that Geo. L. Allen is running for the 
office of selectman with the object of 
ousting Supt. Kimball from his ap- 
pOintive position at the head of the 
street department. Nor does Mr. 
Allen deny this statement. If this is 
Mr. Allen’s object it does not seem 
feasible to think the voters of Man- 
chester are looking for such a man as 
Mr. Allen just at present. While we 
think the street department of the 
town is properly managed by one of 
the recognized leading roadbuilders of 
the state, it appears to us that the 
street department is only a small part 
of the town. Would Mr. Allen’s 
labors end if he succeeded in ousting 
Mr. Kimball ? 
Yesterday morning a representative 
from some store in Gloucester called 
at the office of the Manchester se- 
lectmen and asked for a permit to 
distribute circulars around town. He 
was refused the right, and the fellow, 
we presume, returned to Gloucester. 
Now, this is something we have been 
driving at for some time. We have 
contended that circulars distributed 
promiscuously about town have 
marred the cleanliness of our streets, 
and do no material good. The by-laws 
give the selectmen the right to grant 
permits for distributing circulars. 
This is the first time they have re- 
fused. In the future, if some enter- 
prising concert desires to let Man- 
chester people know about some 
“great bargains,” they can very easily 
do so by patronizing one of the local 
papers. 
The following article in the current 
issue of World’s Work on industrial 
education, will be of interest to Man- 
chester voters, inasmuch as there is an 
article in the Town Warrant calling 
for an appropriation of $1,000 for 
adding an industrial and commercial 
course to the local high school : 
One of the biggest and stubbornest 
facts that face us in our prosperity is 
the lack of skilled workmen. We are 
suddenly waking up to it that, with all 
our educational machinery, there is no 
part of it—except a few private 
schools and the bare beginnings of 
work in a very few public schools — 
that trains the young directly to earn 
their livings by the trades. 
There is only one way out of this 
absurd position. A part of the public 
school machinery must be adapted to 
trade-training, and enough of it to put 
a free trade-school within the reach of 
every boy and girl who wants it 
“ Kducationalists’’ may discuss this 
theory and that, till the crack of doom. 
This is a condition and not a theory ; 
and the people had just as well begin 
to make this change, no matter what 
theory it violates. If teaching the 
trades be not ‘‘education,’?so much 
the worse for education. When we 
have to import carpenters and paper- 
hangers and masons and the like, and 
when very, very few American boys 
have a chance to learn these trades, 
and when we maintain public schools 
to teach boys, it is time to stop the 
foolishness of discussion and to come 
to the common sense of making the 
schools do what is needed. 
Most of the “education” that we 
offer to those who must become wage- 
earners not only faiis to fit them for 
their work but tends to make them 
dissatisfied with it. Our high schools 
are designed to help business and pro- 
fessional men — the class which needs 
help least. We learned long ago tha 
a college which was meant chiefly to 
train preachers would not give us good 
engineers, and we have been building 
engineering schools ever since. We 
are now just finding out thata high 
school which is meant mainly to pre- 
pare boys for college does not help 
boys who are going to be carpenters. 
Yet the apprenticeship system — ex- 
cept in some highly organized shops 
no longer meets the demands of mod- 
ern conditions. Even immigration ha 
not supplied the deficiency. We need 
more skilled workmen than we have 
any means of getting. Private trade 
schools can never be numerous enough 
They can hardly do more 
than point the way. We must have 
public schools that will prepare car- 
penters to build, as well as prepare 
others for the professions — schools in 
which young men and young wome 
may get a training adapted to the 
work which they intend to do. 
James Gray has hired the house on 
Bennett street, recently vacated by 
Philip Wade. 
