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Time To ReconsiderwThe fact that several petitions are being circulated among the citizens of the city expressing the displeasures of those who are signing the same, with regard to the site selected for the new High School building, is a matter for serious concern on the part of the Board of Education. The gentlemen of the Board naturally are solicitous of the entire approval and good will of all the people. This condition assures a ready ear at all times to the feelings and sentiments of all.It wrould be well for those people who have been ready to criticise the action of the Board to remember that they as CITIZENS did not trouble themselves to make known to that Body their real feelings with regard to any of the sites considered, previous to the decision to buy the Bixler tract. The meeting of the Board and its purpose wrere given broad publicity and interested citizens had ample time to prepare to attend that meeting and express their views.While we are not satisfied with the selection of the Bixler site and stated that feeling the day following its selection, we are of the opinion that the members of the board acted in accordance with their best judgment. It ill becomes any of us who were not sufficiently interested, to express our preferences before this decision, to assume an unfair attitude toward the men who bear the responsibility for their action. One reason why many capable men of affairs refuse to accept Public Office is due to the readiness of many people to criticise over freely after a thing in done, in spite of the fact that they have manifested little or no interest in a question previous to action being taken.The suggestion has been made that a vote of the citizens of Hanover be taken through the local newspapers in order that a correct idea of the majority opinion may be had. This is a practical and common sense suggestion. Whether it is accomplished through one or both of the local newspapers matters not. The way is open for the people to prove a healthy interest in this question of vital import to their city. If they fail to express themselves they will have only themselves to blame as there is still ample time to reconsider this matter. Let us be fair above all things.The New York Sun in a recent editorial stated that men holding public office were as a rule second rate men. If this is true it is the attitude of the people that brings the condition about. Men do not like to serve a disinterested people. There is no satisfaction in working for any community that is not manifesting a healthy interest in its civic affairs. Whatever might be the mental calibre of Public Officials in other cities it can not be said that the men who compose the Board of Education in Hanover are not first class men. These gentlemen are representative body. It behooves the people as tax payers, therefore, to regard themselves as stock holders in a big business concern and to act with this body much like they would act with the Board of Directors of any corporation in which they held a financial interest, in an effort to correct any mistake that had occurred either through poor judgment or from any other cause.Let us be fair to our Public Servants, let us be fair to ourselves, let us do nothing that we would feel badly to have done were we the members of the Board of Education, instead of common Citizens. And above all let us not fail in our chief duty, (the expression of our sincere choice) of all the sites available for the location of the new High School.4
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Hanover Independent
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Apr 26, 1915
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