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10.39
State Prison, posts.
162.50
United Steel Co., chain
11.50
$ 1,532.56
Police
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., telephone $ 9.60
North Tewksbury Garage, labor and parts 19.45
$
Fire Department
G. E. Bugbee, supplies $ 4.39
Tewksbury Diner, lunches.
6.05
Arthur Tremblay, supplies
38.68
Lowell Electric Light electricity
Corp.,
21.88
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., telephone 12.85 No. Tewksbury Garage, labor, storage and supplies 22.14
Bartlett & Dow Co., hardware ....
6.48
Lowell Iron & Steel Co., hard- ware
1.05
Daniel E. McQuade, labor and parts
17.71
Roger Buck, gasoline.
6.44
Town of Wilmington, rent of hydrant
60.00
$ 197.67
Incidentals
.80
A. J. Fairgrieve, P. O. box rent $ Tewksbury Cemetery Corp., care of town lot and tomb. N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., telephones Town of Wilmington, labor on town boundry lines. 1.50
10.00
38.57
Cyril Barker, Fish and Game Warden
25.00
- 29.05
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Howard, Rogers & Sherburne, legal services ...... 158.30
$ 234.17
Welfare. Aid to welfare cases .. ........
$ 226.88 - 2,517.52 $
UNPAID BILLS-WELFARE
Appropriation
$ 1,536.48
Expenditures
$ 1,435.40
Unexpended
$ 101.08
UNPAID BILLS-HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING ACCT.
Appropriation ........ ...... .................. $ 91.47
Expenditures
Bennett Bros., electric pump installed (balance)
$ 91.47
4-H CLUB
Appropriation
$ 50.00
Expenditures
Omer Blanchard, transporattion. $ 25.50
Anthony Furtado, transportation
5.00
P. J. Roux, paid for paint
.40
Robert Stavely, labor
5.00
Mrs. E. P. Maclaren, materials and transporta- tion
14.10
$ 50.00
PURCHASE OF TRACTOR AND SNOW PLOW
$ 2,400.00 .
Appropriation
By loan
2,400.00
$ 4,800.00
Expenditures
$ 4,800.00
1 Tractor Snow Plow
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COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE AND TELEPHONE RATES
Appropriation ..... ..... ............... $ 50.00 ....
Expenditures .
Sullivan Bros., envelopes and letterheads. $ 8.50
A. J. Fairgrieve, stamps.
2.25
$ 10.75
Balance carried forward to 1937 $ 39.25
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES $ 225.00
Appropriation ....
Expenditures
John W. Kirwin, weights
$ 13.00
D. J. Cameron, services
200.00
Hobbs & Warren, Inc., supplies.
7.78
$ 220.78
Unexpended
$ 4.22
PURCHASE OF FIRE HOSE
Appropriation
$ 2,000.00
Expenditures
Fabric Fire Hose Co., 3,000 ft. hose
$ 1,960.00
Unexpended
$ 40.00
MAINTENANCE OF LEGION HALL $ 100.00
Appropriation ...........
Expenditures
Osterman Coal Co., coal and cement
$ 12.65
The Robertson Co., Inc., tables and chairs. 33.00
Owen A. Gilday, tuning and repairing piano.
17.00
Daniel Gage, Inc., pine butts
2.00
Lull & Hartford, keys
4.50
$ 69.15
Unexpended
$ 30.85
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REPLACING G. A. R. MARKERS
Appropriation
...........
$ 35.00
Expenditures
The M. D. Jones Co., markers $ 29.70
Winthrop Jones, paid express.
1.43
Middlesex Supply Co., bronze.
1.39
$ 32.52
Unexpended
$ 2.48
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING LOAN
Appropriation
.........
$ 6,608.75
Expenditures
A. L. Ripley, paid note No. 186 $ 1,000.00
Interest
82.50
Merchants National Bank, interest on notes
No. 125 to 177 and No. 187 to 191 797.50
Paid notes No. 125 to 128 4,000.00
Interest on loan.
728.75
$ 6,608.75
FOSTER SCHOOL FUND
Receipts
Central Savings Bank, interest. $ 4.50
Payments
North Wilmington Nurseries, shrubs. .... 4.50
MUNICIPAL INSURANCE
Appropriation
$ 1,500.00
Deposits
City Institution for Savings $ 500.00
Merrimack River Savings Bank. 500.00
Lowell Institution for Savings. 500.00 $ 1,500.00
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CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Receipts
Central Savings Bank, Samuel Jaques Fund .... $ 2.50
Central Savings Bank, Thomas Bridge Fund .... 2.50
Central Savings Bank, Jeremiah Kittredge Fund 2.50
Central Savings Bank, Ebenezer Page Fund ....
5.00
Central Savings Bank, Wm. Prindle Fund ........
2.00
Lowell Institution for Savings, Martha Shedd Fund
6.00
Lowell Institution for Savings, Peter Clark
Fund
5.00
$ 25.50
Expenditures
Tewksbury Cemetery Corp.
Care of Samuel Jaques lot.
$ 2.50
Care of Thomas Bridge lot.
2.50
Care of Jeremiah Kittredge lot
2.50
William Pringle, care of Martha Shedd lot .. 6.00
William Pringle, care of Peter Clark lot.
5.00
William Pringle, care of Ebenezer Page lot ... ...
5.00
William Pringle, care of Wm. Prindle lot.
2.00
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$ 25.50
SUMMARY
Highways
$ 23,499.88
Chapman Road
924.55
Chapter 90, Maintenance of Highways
5,499.99
Pleasant Street, Chapter 90.
1,749.99
Pleasant Street, 2nd Allotment.
935.75
Schools
55,797.42
Vocational Schools
846.85
Public Welfare
15,238.53
Aid, State and Military
1,416.61
Old Age Assistance
3,760.61
Stationery and Printing.
970.37
Salaries
2,988.00
Incidentals
880.93
Board of Health
1,087.03
Memorial Day
249.75
Street Lighting
6,056.99
Library
1,380.57
Town Hall
3,737.98
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General
Moth Department
124,322.92 895.87 1,199.49
Tree Warden
Interest
691.83
Police and Equipment
4,976.24
Parks and Commons
300.00
Fire Department
4,879.63
Assessors
1,786.70
Motor Excise Tax Refunds
71.71
Inspection of Meat and Animals
600.00
Collection of Taxes
3,929.82
Shawsheen School Building Loan
1,998.00
W. P. A. Fund.
6,696.03
Unpaid Bills, 1935
2,517.52
Unpaid Bills, Welfare
1,435.40
4-H Club
50.00
Purchase of Tractor and Snow Plow.
4,800.00
Committee on Insurance and Telephone Rates
10.75
Sealer of Weights and Measures
220.78
Purchase of Fire Hose
1,960.00
Maintenance of Legion Hall.
69.15
Replacing G. A. R. Markers
32.52
High School Building Loan.
6,608.75
Foster School Fund
4.50
Municipal Insurance
1,500.00
Unpaid Bills-High School Building Acct.
91.47
Cemetery Trust Funds
25.50
Total Expenditures
$298,696.38
Cash on hand. $ 81.09
Cash in bank, subject to check.
59,103.49
$ 59,184.58
$357,880.96
Treasurer's receipts
$357,880.96
TRUST FUNDS
Condition of funds, December 31, 1936:
Foster School Fund $ 1,057.66
Municipal Building Insurance Fund 9,644.45
William Prindle Cemetery Fund. 100.41
Martha Page Cemetery Fund 386.64
Louisa Bridge Cemetery Fund 165.87
Samuel Jaques Cemetery Fund.
122.29
Jeremiah Kittredge Cemetery Fund
122.30
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Peter Clark Cemetery Fund 105.38 Martha Shedd Fund 620.17
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of Town Officials who were authorized to receive and expend money, for the year ending December 31, 1936, and to the best of my knowledge they are correct, with proper vouchers on file, and $59,184.58 in the Treasury.
ROBERT E. GAY,
Town Auditor.
Personally appeared before me on this 18th day of January, 1937, Robert E. Gay, and made oath that the foregoing statements were correct.
THOMAS F. FLYNN,
Justice of the Peace.
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Middlesex ss :
To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County :
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of February, 1937 at 12 o'clock noon to act on the following articles :
ART. 1. To choose all necessary Town Officers, to choose by ballot a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three members of the Board of Public Welfare, three members of the Board of Health, a Town Treasurer, an Auditor, a Collector of Taxes, a Tree Warden and Con- stables, (Three), a member of Board of Assessors, a Trustee of Public Library, all to serve one year; one Highway Commissioner to serve three years; one School Committee to serve three years; two Trustees of the Public Library to serve three years; one Park Commis- sioner to serve three years; one Assessor to serve three years ; one Commissioner of Trust Funds to serve three years. And to vote by ballot, on the following question ; "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nine- teen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled 'An Act placing under the Civil Service Laws the Office of Chief of Police of the Town of Tewksbury', be accepted". The polls for the election of Town Officers to be opened at 12 noon and close at 8 P. M. And to act on the following articles, com- mencing at 7 P. M.
ART. 2. To hear reports of Town Officers and Committees and act thereon.
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ART. 3. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation to defray necessary expenses for the current year, and make appropriations for the same.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote the money arising from licensing dogs, for the ensuing year, to aid in sup- port of the Public Library.
ART. 5. To see if the town will vote to authorize the town treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1937 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Sec- tion 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
VOTED: That the town treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1937 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
ART. 6. To see what compensation the Town will vote for the collection of taxes, and what rate and from what date interest will be charged on taxes of 1937 unpaid after Nov. ' 1, 1937 or any other action relative thereto.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $350.00 for the proper observance of Memorial Day, and appoint a committee to expend the money. Said committee to be taken from members of Spanish War Veterans, American Legion, or Sons of Veterans.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to institute suits on behalf of the Town or defend any suits that are, or may be brought against the Town, and to sign any contracts or agreements in behalf of the Town.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the town's share of the net cost of the care, main- tenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis
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Hospital, and for the Town's share of the expense under the provisions of Chapter 331 of the Acts of 1933, which provides for the settlement of certain claims of the Com- monwealth against the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital District, including interest or discount on tem- porary notes issued therefor, as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some con- venient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the town under tax title procedure provided that the selectmen or whom- soever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 11. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen and treasurer to petition the land court for a foreclosure of tax titles held by the town for more than two years, as provided in Section 65 of Chapter 60, and to see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate there- for.
ART. 12. To see what regulations the Town will make for the possession, management and sale of land sold for'un- paid taxes and for the assignment of tax titles not in- consistent with law or with the right of redemption as provided in Section 52 of Chapter 60 of the General Laws as amended by Section 3 of Chapter 126 of the Acts of 1927.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare to set aside a part of their ap- propriation to be used in conjunction with either Federal, State or County funds whenever in their opinion the pledging of such a sum of money will add to the total amount available for Welfare purposes.
ART. 14. "To see if the Town will vote to continue for an- other year the committee appointed under Article 76 at the Annual Town Meeting in February 1936 to represent the Town in Auto Insurance Rates, Fire Insurance Rates,
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Telephone Rates, etc., with the proper authority to at- tend hearings when necessary and appropriate a sum to cover necessary expenses."
ART. 15. To see if theTown will vote that all Motor Vehi- cles, owned by the Town of Tewksbury, shall be lettered on both doors with not less than four inch letters, with name of the Department to which the vehicle belongs, or to take any action relative to same.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to choose by ballot at the Annual Town Meeting in February, 1938, three Selectmen, three members of the Board of Public Wel- fare, and three members of the Board of Health, one to serve three years, one to serve two years, and one to serve one year, and each succeeding year to choose by ballot one Selectman, one member of the Board of Public Welfare and one member of the Board of Health, to serve for the period of three years, or to take any action relative to same.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treasurer for money spent in the Welfare department under Chap. 44, Sec. 31, the sum of $238.53.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,238 to be paid the City of Lowell, being the sum due on account of town settlement cases aided in that city.
ART. 19. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for necessary expenses in conjunction with Works Progress Administration projects or its successors approved by the government for the Town of Tewksbury or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 20. 1-To see if the Town will vote to accept Mac- Laren Road from South Street to Seventh Street as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk. Or take any other action thereto.
ART. 21. 2-To see if the Town will vote to install one or more electric lights on each of the following streets Bay State Road, Durn Street, and Florence Ave., and raise and appropriate sum necessary for same, or take any action relative thereto.
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ART. 22. 3-To see if the Town will vote to adopt the fol- lowing by-law. The Treasurer shall in addition to post- ing notice of a Low Value Land sale in some convenient public place, have a copy of such notice published in the current issue of the local newspaper.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to install a street light on Marston St., near the residence of Mr. Judd.
ART. 24. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the conduct of athletics and providing equipment therefor at the high school.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate $2,000.00 or any part thereof for construction of a football field at the high school, and appoint a committee to expend the money.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for maintaining the Legion Quarters. ART. 27. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 to provide heating and sanitary equip- ment at Legion Quarters.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $4,500.00; to provide suitable quarters for the Fire department in the present Legion building, to pro- vide toilet facilities, and a suitable heating system for the Legion headquarters and the Fire Dept. or take any action thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $495.00 to provide a suitable signal system for the North and South Fire Department companies or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse Clarence and Adelbert Anderson $1,225.00 for property damage caused by the relocation of Chapman Street or take any other action relative thereto and make appropriation for same.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,000.00 or any other sum for the im- provement of Pleasant Street: said money to be used in
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conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,500.00 or any other sum for the im- provement of North Street: said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,500 for the Maintenance of Chapter 90 highways; said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,000 to construct one new bridge, located on Bridge Street - over the Shawsheen River, and to repair one bridge-located on Mill Street-over the Shawsheen River, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to establish a Road Machinery Account, to which shall be credited all re- ceipts received for the use of rental of road machinery, the proceeds to be appropriated as voted by the town for road machinery purposes, or take any action in rela- tion thereto.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to establish a Road Machinery Fund for the purpose of purchasing, repairing and operating road machinery or take any other action relative thereto:
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to increase the Salary of the Town Clerk from $200.00 per annum, to $400.00 per annum beginning January 1, 1937, and make appropriation for same.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salaries of the Selectmen one hundred dollars each per annum, beginning January 1, 1931, and make appropriation for same.
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ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,000 for the suppression of brown tail and gypsy moths.
ART. 40. To see what sum of money the Town will appro- priate as a reserve fund as provided for in Sec. 6 of Chap- ter 40, General Laws Tercentenary edition or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell any or all of the land devised to it under the will of Martina Gage on such terms as they shall deem advisable.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $50.00 for the use of the 4-H Club Chairman to be used in connection with 4-H Club ac- tivities in Tewksbury, or take any other action relative thereto.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by post- ing up attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices and leave one hundred copies for the use of the citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, 8 days at least, and over two Sundays, before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid :
Given under our hands, this fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty- seven.
IRVING F. FRENCH EVERETT H. KING HERBERT L. TRULL
Selectmen of Tewksbury.
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Annual Report
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN of TEWKSBURY
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Also Report of Superintendent of Schools
For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1936
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The work and supervision of the schools have been carried as usual this year.
At the close of the first year of our new High School the School Committee felt most gratified with the results obtained and now going into the second year with the school better equipped we expect results to be even better.
In calling for an appropriation of $22,808.00 for 1937 we would call attention to the fact that if the High School pupils were sent to Lowell it would cost the Town of Tewksbury approximately $26,600.00.
Painting and necessary repairs have been made in all schools and all are in good condition.
A room in the basement of the Foster School has been fixed up for a dental clinic with Dr. John P. Mahoney as Dentist. Dr. Mahoney is at the school one half day every week and fifteen or twenty pupils are attended to each week with a maximum charge to any pupil of twenty-five cents.
Respectfully submitted,
MAY L. LARRABEE, Chairman
GUY B. GRAY,
AUSTIN F. FRENCH, Secretary.
The School Committee recommend the sum of $54,800.00 be ap- propriated for the Schools for 1937, based upon the following budget:
Elementary Schools
Superintendent
$ 877.50
Supervisors
1,300.00
Teachers
16,675.00
Janitors
3,060.00
Transportation
4,200.00
Fuel
1,200.00
Books and Supplies
1,400.00
Health
1,100.00
Insurance
629.50
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District
150.00
400.00
Miscellaneous Repairs
1,000.00
$ 31,992.00
High School
Teachers
$ 12,208.00
Janitors
1,300.00
Transportation
3,000.00
Fuel
700.00
Supervisors
400.00
Books and Supplies
1,400.00
Chemistry supplies
500.00
Miscellaneous
2,000.00
Equipment and Repairs
1,300.00
$ 22,808.00
Total
$ 54,800.00
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Madam and Gentlemen:
The following is the annual report on the Tewksbury school system as customarily presented at the close of each fiscal year by the Superintendent of the Schools. This is the seventh in the series that I have had the honor of preparing.
The chief virtue of the report will be its brevity. I have asked my collegues, the principal of the high school and the supervisors of the special activities to report fully on their departments and I give up the space to them gladly that the public may know what is being accomplished.
IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
While not as well advertised as the high school these are the ele- ments which give solidity to our educational system. Each grade in turn is so devised as to be a supporting unit for all those that follow. Accordingly the real foundation is found in the first grades where your children gain their first and most lasting impression of what schools are for and how they are conducted. Here they must learn that the will of the individual must often yield to the good of the group. They learn that they individually are not centers of the universe, but rather parts of a great whole which is only as good as the sum of the qualities of the parts. Here also is gained the knowledge that life is not all "take" but is a matter of "give and take"; that in general one takes in proportion to what he gives, perhaps not in kind, but in general results.
In the primary grades, that is, up to grade four or five the children are gradually furnished with the "tool subjects" of education as some call them. I think a better description may be the "frame work sub- jects", because upon these depend all that goes to make the finished structure.
The basic subject is, of course, reading; a subject taught longest, and in my opinion least effectively of all of the scholastic materials. This is not applicable to Tewksbury alone. It is a general condition in our American schools. No other subject is taught as long or as
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carefully but in no other is the result less satisfactory. Studies are continually in progress by eminent educators in the endeavor to dis- cover what is the difficulty and how it can be corrected. Many of the failures in the high school grades can be traced to poor reading ability. It is sometimes suggested that one great reason for poor read- ing ability is not poor teaching but lack of practice outside of the school hours. Children have so much told to them by pictures-both still and moving-that they feel no need for reading. The advent of "talking pictures" has reduced this need still further, and the radio reproductions of the so-called "funnies" make it almost unnecessary to read the few words which accompany the popular "strips".
Similarly writing, which is perhaps next to reading in importance since it is the means by which we convey to others not in range of our voices the ideas we desire to impart, is made to seem less ne- cessary by the many mechanical devices now available to do this work. The typewriter has made the pen an old fashioned instrument. The accounting machines have displaced the old type handwritten journal and ledger. The dictaphone is displacing the stenographer. Telephone and telegraph are reducing still more the need for written thought transmission. Personal correspondence of the delightful type of our grandparents has become a lost art. All of these factors re- move most of the motivating urge for learning to write, especially in view of the very utilitarian attitude towards education which is now so common.
In the field of arithmetic we are again faced with the same type of influence. Calculating machines, are rendering accurate and speedy handling of numbers by the human mind seemingly less necessary than in earlier days. Thus again an apparent fact lessens the motiva- tion for learning. Thus we see that the mainspring of the learning process, interest, has been so weakened as to slow up the action of the ·whole education machinery. It now becomes necessary to "sell" the value of things taught before commencing to teach them. Sometimes this even develops into heated debate. This may be conducive to in- tellectual strength in the high schools and colleges, but it is certainly a deterrent in the elementary schools.
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