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Now, if they could just be persuaded to come forward with a few of their suggestions in time for them to be put into action, it might be a great help—but that ia not their policy nor practice. They shall sit back and do nothing; and then, at a later day, when their aid is still needed— they eriticise, and throw up their hands in disgust, and say they want nothing to do with the whole affair! (That is always appropriate, however, for “nothing" is usually what they have accomplished so far and is more than apt to be what they can do.)
When the campaign is launched to get the music festival and the State orchestra summer camp located in Rappahannock, watch out for those who can tell you how it should have been done. (You’ll always find that the sum total of what they have done to help is exactly zero.) It would be a charming idea if there were some way to prorate the value of their suggestions, proportionately with the actual value, and send them a bill for it.
As the discussion of the building of the high school for the county progresses, watch for your arm-chair committee. They will be the ones who never expressed an opinion nor made a single sug-^ gestion where it could haveNjpen heard and may have added to the thought of the interested citizens of the county. Yet they will be the loudest in deploring any mistake that is made by those who tried.
For the ones who go to work, make mistakes, correct them, and keep on at work until the goal is reached, there can be this satisfaction: the arm-chair brigade will . applaud your success, in fact that is exactly what they said all along should have been done, only it took you longer to see it than it took them.
Do you recall from your early schooling the poem of “Me and Betty, We Killed a B’ar”? When the music summer camp arrives in the county, the arm-chair brigade w'll be the first to brag about how hard “we” worked in getting it started. No doubt, “we” shall recall also how much had to be done before the question of the high school was settled.
Committee Appointed
For School Construction
The following letter shows the appointment of an unofficial committee to make recommendations for a high school building in the county, addressed to Prof. H. B. Winfrey, principal of appahannock High School:
Rappahannock’s share of the Battle Fund for schools is around $100,000. Since the State considers our present buildings inadequate, the only way we can get this is by new buildings. It cannot be used against old debts or for repairs to present buildings.
In late December, our School Board, in order to qualify for
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