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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
‘“‘CURRENT EVENTS.’’ 
Miss Jennie Cole, a teacher in the 
Beverly High School, Speaks Be- 
fore the Manchester Woman’s 
Club. 
At the Manchester 
last Tuesday afternoon, 
Woman’s elub 
the mem- 
bers of the Parent-Teacher associa- 
tion were present as guests. Miss 
Jennie Cole of Beverly gave a most 
interesting lecture on ‘‘Current 
Events.’’ She said in part: 
‘“‘The last half of the 19th cen- 
tury was one of moral decline. The 
cause of this was the Civil war, the 
enfranchisement of the slaves, the 
influx of immigrants with no knowl- 
edge of the rights of American eit- 
izens and the oper ning up of vast 
areas of land in the Ww est. What 
wonder that the country became 
productive of corruption. Presi- 
dent Garfield raised the moral stan- 
dard. The great President, MeKin- 
ley, had little time to continue the 
work for he was engaged in the 
Spanish war. It was Roosevelt who 
proved himself a man as well as a 
reformer. You remember his in- 
vestigations were against individu- 
als as well as corporations. How 
positively he dealth with the Fili- 
pinos and the corrupt government in 
anama. Whatever greatnesses are 
attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, he 
will be considered the saviour of our 
woods, soil and waters. Look at the 
public lands set apart during his 
administration. The benefit of this 
will fall to posterity. 
‘<Tf Roosevelt is known as a re- 
former, Taft will be known as an 
organizer. Never before did a Pres- 
ident come to the chair with such 
preparation as Taft. He was the es- 
tablisher « f ihe government of the 
Philippines, and he opened their 
legislutiye assembly. In the dark 
days of the Panama construction, he 
was sent there and he affeeted such 
eood organization that the dirt be- 
oan to fly at onee. He was ready 
when Cuba was on the eve of a seri- 
ous revolution and he affected the 
present orderly condition of affairs. 
Think of his decisions on the su- 
preme beneh, ana how valuable he 
was to McKinley, as secretary of the 
cabinct. Back of all this is the 
great, calm mind which has won 
him }is reputation. 
‘Has he fulfilled the expecta- 
tions since coming into office? Many 
eriticisms have been heard. Among 
those things eriticised were the tar- 
iff question and settlement, and his 
message to congress. He is, never- 
theless, a follower of Roosevelt, but 
he will not carry them out in the 
Roosevelt way, but in the Taft way. 
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MAN- 
CHESTER HIGH SCHOOL. 
Recalled by One of Manchester’s 
Oldest Citizens, John A. Gould, 
the First Instructor—1841. 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
Dear Sir: Kindly permit me to say 
a few words as to the establishment 
of the Manchester High school, and 
the first principal of it. 
Mr. John A. Gould came to Man- 
chester in 1841 and was examined 
and approved of by the committee 
—Dr. Asa Story, Rev. Oliver A. Tay- 
lor and Mr. Larkin Woodbury—to 
take charge of the ‘‘Newport’’ 
school for the fall and winter terms. 
Again the following year he was en- 
gaged and as before for the same 
school. The school then numbered 
58 scholars. The following year he 
was placed at the head of the Cen- 
tral school, numbering about 100 pu- 
pils, whose ages ranged from 7 to 
20 years. He continued there for 
five years. 
March 6, 1848, the town voted to 
establish a High school ‘‘for the ben- 
efit of the whole town,’’ and Mr. 
Gould was elected as the principal. 
In 1850 he retired from further ac- 
tivity in his vocation as a school 
teacher, left Manchester, and much 
to the regret of the townspeople, 
went to Boston, where he engaged in 
business, till advancing age—over 80 — 
years—compelled retirement. 
Mr. Gould was not only a suecess- 
ful teacher, but as a citizen was 
highly respected and useful. He 
was connected with the Congrega-— 
tional church and was instrumental 
in many ways, especially in that 
branch of church service relating to 
music. He was leader of the choir, 
and when the church placed an or- 
gan in the singing gallery, in 1846, 
he was the first to handle it, much 
to the gratification of the people. 
Mr. Gould was largely instrument- 
al, with the aid of Dr. Strong, in in- 
troducing music into the schools. He 
was also a composer of music. Some 
of his work was published by Oliver- 
Ditson Co. 
He was closely in touch, as well, 
with the fathers and mothers of his 
pupils and they were much interest- 
ed in the schools and fully appreciat- 
ed his desires that their children be 
fitted for lives of usefulness. 
Mr. Gould married a Manchester 
girl, a daughter of Capt. Benj. Leach. 
She was a woman of rare domestic 
qualities, reared a family of six chil- 
dren, a loving friend to the poor and 
afflicted, highly respected and _ be- 
loved by all who knew her. 
GEO. F. ALLEN. 
Manchester, Mass., Mar. 1, 1910. 
He made a most intelligent handling 
of corporations when he said to con- 
gress, ‘There are good ones and bad 
ones.’ In the Ballinger-Pinchot dis- 
pute, he found reason to exonerate 
Ballinger. Yet, Forester Pinchot is 
one of the ereatest men the country 
has ever known and he is ‘all right’ 
as a public servant. The investiga- 
tion will accomplish just what Mr. 
Pinchot desired it to do, it will serve 
as an eye-opener of the doings in 
Alaska.- Let us give Taft a fair 
time.”’ 
Miss Cole here spoke of the Postal 
Savings Bank and the Parcel Post 
and of the advantages to be derived 
from them. She also spoke of the 
new city charter in Boston, as a step 
in the new awakening. Then pass- 
ing on to the various countries of 
Europe, she mentioned Egypt, Per- 
sia, India and Turkey, as examples 
of the establishment of government 
by the people. She showed how 
China and Japan responded to the 
awakening, and also of the future 
prospects of Belgium. England, al- 
so was compared in the list, and this 
was made plain by illustrations of 
the power of the peers and the es- 
tablishing of a new parliament. She 
closed her remarks with a poem ap- 
propriate to the subject. 
At the close of the address, tea 
was served by the hostess, Mrs. 
Maude Carter. 
Washington Party. 
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A number of Manchester teachers 
and friends will spend the spring va-_ 
The party 
cation in Washington. 
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will leave April 8, and will be in 
charge of Supt. Mackin, who has had - 
considerable experience in conduct-— 
ing Washington parties. 
opportunity to visit the nation’s cap- 
ital in company with friends and ac- 
quaintances, and at reasonable ex- 
pense, is invited to consult with Mr. 
Mackin. 
‘“Say, Pop, what’s a pessimist ?’’ 
‘“A pessimist, my son, is one who, 
of two evils, chooses them both.’’— 
Everybody’s. 
Speculate not on distant things.— 
: 
Chinese Proverb. 
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