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Rappahannock News

Published Thursday Morning: at

Washington, Rappahannock

County, Virginia

Dial Washington 2851

LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE

Publisher

Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Washington, Virginia.

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What Manner of Man

To have better schools is ostensibly the desire of our Rappahannock citizenry. To have better schools is going to tax our citizenTy, •which must decide if it is •willing to pay the price. By paying, we do not mean necessarily the payment of money. Other considerations are more important; for gold cannot ever compensate for flagrant deficiencies in the thinking of our adult citizens about the ^tal question of educating our future citizens.

Any thinking that is colored by petty jealousies of the various localities can produce no possible benefit towards a solution of the problem. A public school meeting demonstrates, most dramatically