Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-14

The Court House and the County
High School.
In addition to the usual election OF
county officers, the voters of the county
will have two propositions submitted
for their approval or rejection at the
coming election. First, u proposition
from the county commissioners FOR the
levy of three mill tax for the cree
ton of court house. Second, prop.
OsitiOn to. establish cOunLy nigh
school at NickersOn. Both, of these
propositions ought to receive from the
voters Of the county careful study and
attention. The first proposition, a
levy OF a tax for u court house, ought
to carry. 1t is proposition that should
have been submitted and favOrably
acted on long ago as it looks redicu-
lOus for u county of the size and i'm
portanee of Reno to be transacting its
public business in rented rooms and Of
fees, scattered over the city of Hutch.
insOn.
The second proposition. the estab-
lishmeRt of a county hign school at
NickersOn, l will consider now.
There are 105 counties in the State
ard but four have established high
schools. Why have not more than
four done SOP Tie cities all over the
State have city high schools for their
graduates. Are the country people of
lOI counties of the State more careless
and indifferent about the higher edu-
cation of their children than the City
inhabitants or are they too penuriOus
to vote a one or a two mill tax for the
support of county high school fer
their county graduatesV If not, why
have we not in the los counties OOm
posing this great and progressive State
of Kansas in this enlightened year Of
the Lord, 1897, but four county high
schools in the Statep 1t is not through
carelessness and indifference, it is not
because they would begrudge levy of
one or q two mill tax, that more
counties have not established high
schools; but because it would be i'm
possible to find a location for a COMFY
high school where all the graduates Of
county could attend it without ex-
pense and sacrifices.
City graduates can attend city high
school during school hours and board
at home with their parents. If the
counties could establish high schools
where all county graduates could do
the same every county in the State
would have its high school and instead
of paltry four that we have now we
wonl1 have 1O5 or be nearing that
number.
Pupils usually graduate in the
country schools at the age Of thirteen
to seventeen and though the age OF
thirteen is exceptional we had one In
our district that graduated at that age.
Now would any parent that has had
any worldly experience and that has
the moral welfare of his children at
heart. want tn send bis child away from
home, away from parental care to at
tend school at the age Of thirteen to
seventeen without providing a safe
guard in the way of supervision for
that child when not in school. And
this provision could not we'll be made
at county high school.
For the few graduates living within
a radius of a few miles from where
county high school is located who could
attend during school hours and live at
home, a county high school would be
very beneficial. But for the many who
would have to attend from distance,
VINO could not have fathers roof to
shelter them at night or mothers eve
to waten over ;hem, a colniy high