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In a recent issue of The Outlook, Na- 
than C. Fowler, jr., had an article on 
schools and school committes which 
ought to be of interest to readers of this 
paper. He says that there is probably 
no other elective body that receives more 
unjust criticism from the public at large 
and from the teachers as the school 
committee. Criticism from the latter 
may be far more severe, and is likely to 
be fairer because the teacher is a trained 
official, is on the inside, and should 
know and generally does know more 
about educational conditions than one can 
who has but a general familiarity with 
the school and with educational matters. 
The school committee, as it runs, is 
next to all-supreme, he says, True, the 
real power is vested in the voter, 
comparatively few school committees are 
pledged to any policy, and they usually 
do as they please, subject to no interfer- 
ence except criticism. No other office- 
holder holds so great a responsibility, 
and yet the average school committee 
men are untrained for their work. 
aus G. E. WILLMONTON eas 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law , 
but — 
There are training schools devoted to 
practically everything, from stenography 
to motor-car driving. The school com- 
mittee man and the parent being practic- 
ally the only ones who are unfamiliar 
with their work and who have little op- 
portunity to perfect themselves along any 
line apropos the raising of the rising 
generation. 
The average trained individual has 
some ability, otherwise he would not 
submit to training; but, anyway, the 
trained man is better than the untrained, 
other things being equal. 
The average school committee is in- 
competent and does not do its work 
properly; first, because its members are 
untrained; secondly, because they have 
little ability to handle educational matters 
or others; thirdly, because they are pol- 
iticians or under the direction of poli- 
ticians; fourthly, because they are not 
acceptable to the teachers. ‘This latter 
condition is due to the fact that the teach- 
ers have to be governed by the board se- 
lected at large. The teacher is under a 
government which he or she did not se- 
lect or had little to do with selecting; 
therefore, the teacher rightly or,wrongly 
chafes. in the harness. 
Any child over 10 years old, any mar- 
ried woman, in her own name and free 
from interference by her husband, and, fof 
course, any man, will be able to deposit 
his or her savings at the postoffice, if the 
plans now under way get through con- 
gress—and they probably will. 
Senators took up the problem today in 
the room of the senate committee on 
postofice. There are three bills very 
much alike that are to be combined in 
one and given a place among the laws. 
The main points in the bills under con- 
sideration, which will in all probability 
be endorsed by the committee, are: 
Postal savings banks, to be under the 
direction of the secretary of the treasury, 
postmaster general and attorney general; 
children over 10 years and married wom- 
en may open accounts; deposits of $1 or 
more to be received, but not more than 
$100 for a single account in any one 
month; no person shall simultaneously 
have more than one account; no ac- 
count shall exceed $500; stamps’ to be 
sold that may be attached toa card and 
deposited when the total amounts to $1; 
interest rate, two per cent. a year. 
The government managers: may de- 
posit postal savings funds in banks in the 
neighborhood in which the funds are re- 
ceived at one-fourth per cent. or invest 
them in government or certain other se- 
curities. A reserve fund of at least 10 
per cent. of the total postal savings de- 
posits kept 
Fourth class postmasters are to be given 
must be ready for use. 
additional compensation for transacting 
To estab- 
lish the system an appropriation of $100,- 
000 is proposed. 
postal savings bank business. 
Ir will take until 1916, State Forester 
Rane told the legislative committee on 
agriculture this week before the moth 
parasites that have been released to prey 
upon the gypsies and the brown-tails 
reach their maximum of efficiency. 
He spoke in favor of an appropriation 
for further work with sprayers, declaring 
that if there were a let-up in the activities 
of the moth gangs that have been em- 
ployed for the last few years, the gypsies 
and the brown-tails will cross the Con- 
necticut and be well on their way to the 
Adirondacks in less than two years. 
Forester Rane said that at the state 
laboratory in Saugus parasites are being 
bred now in Jarge numbers—‘‘ 
them,’’ as he expressed it. 
oceans of 
THE movement on the part of the 
Manchester school committee and su- 
perintendent of schools to bring about 
the organization in Manchester of a 
Parent-Teacher Association is a move- 
ment in the right direction, we _ believe. 
This is nothing new; in fact, the move- 
ment is wide spread throughout the 
United States andin the places where it 
has been in operation, it has proved for 
the best interests of the school and of 
the pupils. The prime object of such 
an organization is to bring the home and 
school incloser contact. Let it be hoped 
that a large number of parents will attend 
the meeting at the Story high school next 
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock when 
this matter will be talked up. 
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