Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1909 — Remington Press Correspondent Argues For Ventilation. [ARTICLE]

Remington Press Correspondent Argues For Ventilation.

TUe article of Supt. Breeze relative to the teaching of music is worthy of the float serious consideration-by the people of Remington. It is the truth, that it is a child’s birthright to hear beautiful sounds and look upon beautiful combinations of colors; but it is equally true that a child has an indisputable right to breathe pure air and to see as it was intended he should see. While I hqpe the effort to give music will meet with success I hope also that the citizens of Remington will awake to the fact that a poorly ventilated and defectively lighted school building is a blight on a fair town. A town that boasts of a Fountain Park Where all kinds of information is dispensed at small cost; whose newspaper gives a column-to the Church; where the moral standard is high; such influences should "come to” and give its children good light and pure air. Do not say “it can’t be helped.” Three years ago Wheatfield could be. bonded for $2,700 for building purposes. Certain members of the Board of Town Trustees, the School Board and others said, "we must have a building.” The result is a splendid building of five rooms, well lighted and ventilated, at a cost of SIO,OOO. The township paid one half, the town $2,700 and the citizens donated the balance and everybody here is poor.. We have light on the darkest days, pure air all the time, only one pair of glasses worn in the high school and none in the grades. PHILIP R. BLUE.