The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-12
MOTHER BURNING QUESTION.

-fNOTHER BURNING QUESTION.
 New Haven is a great place for 'is- sues" burning questions" and prob lems," and it is never long without one It is not often that they are as press ing and troublesome as the old State House question was, and it is lucky they are not for one such question in a generation is enough. That was question of pulling down noble Gre clan ruin, whereon the silvery moon beams were wont to play and in which New Haven is now confronted with question of building up instead of pull ing down, and there are signs that we are going to be duly agitated by 1t, Taxpayer" has already come to the front, and "Veritas," Pro Bono Pub lico'' and "One Who Knows" will sure ly appear later.
 Shall we put up new building for the High School? is the question before the old colony and the new colonies. We can answer that question right off, and we will. After there has been talk enough and writing enough, and report ing enough and general maneuvering enough and delay enough we shall. The reasons why we shall are these The High School idea has its opponents in New Haven and they have some reason suppose that New Haven will abandon it's High School and sink below Hart ford and Bridgeport in the scale of modern civilization? Nay, nay! and thrice nay! That being so the matter loses most of it's real troublesomeness, for it is beyond question that the present High School building isn't fit for the work that has to be done or attempted, in it. Built originally for four hundred and fifty pupils it is now crowded with about eight hundred, and crowded in a way that ought to attract the attention of the Board of Health. If any gentle reader doubts that statement let him or her take look into some of the GOODS in which the scions of New Haven's noble races are confined during High School hours. Let such gentle reader note the fact that most dwellers in the terrible tene- ment houses have more cubic inches of air than the inhabitants of the High School coops. Let the gentle reader also note the fact that in addition to lack of room and abundance of bad air there is lack of light in parts of the rooms, and that impaired eyesight is common and inevitable among the pu- pils. Let the gentle reader look fur ther and note the dangerous character of the building in case of fire We be- lieve the general impression is that the High School pupils are being carried along royal road to learning on f1ow- cry beds of ease, but the solemn and 5pdIdpiC LelCt lo LlldI llSy nave u hard road to travel. both in their study ing and in the conditions in which they do most of it.
 The simple and the plain truth is that if we are going to continue to have a High School neither it nor it's quarters can be allowed to be a disgrace to this old-colonial Uni- versity city. It is admitted that the school is good one, and 1t is admit ted by all who know anything about the matter that the old building is shamefully inadequate to the demands now made upon it and that it is dan- gerous to the health, the eyesight and the life of the pupils and the teachers. Taxpayer will groan, of course. He has reason to groan, but lie must pay the penalty of living in such a grand and progressive age. He wouldn't want the High School abandoned, for his own children or the children of his relatives or friends might want to get it's benefits So we dcn't see that there is much left for him to do but srumb and pay up when the High School ques- tion has been discussed long enough. 1t may be for years, but it will hardly be forever, even though this is New Haven.