Excerpt from Forty-Third Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures and Municipal Activities of the City of Berlin, N. H., For the Year Ending January 31, 1940: Together With Other Annual Reports and Papers, Relating to the Affairs of the City We recognize that there have been heavy demands upon the city treasury for relief and the support of old age. Indeed, the establishment of a reasonable pension system for all city employees would be a desirable program. How ever, we feel that failure to care adequately for the educa tion Of youth will in the long run be false economy, for it will result in poorly trained and maladjusted individuals who are incapable of participating in the complex modern scheme, and the increased relief burden will far overbalance any temporary curtailment of public educational support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.