Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-04-26
The High school Again.

LdSU week one C0dfIeS Ii. Taylor, OF
Long Island, had a letter in the Logan
relative to the high school
question. He asks a long string of
questions as follows:
l. Would it be practical to place
this additional burden upon the coun-
ty?
2. Do we need a high school? Would
it be a benefit to the children and
young people of the county?
3. Would it raise the educational
standard of the county?
4. Would it place in the hands of
parents, opportunities for educating
their children which they do not now
possess?
.. Do county high schools in general
serve to elevate or uplift the masses
by placing within their reach the
means to obtain higher education?
Instead of taking these questions
up on their merits, he answers them
all negatively at one fell Swoop.
Realizing however that bare de-
NAL might not "go" with everybody,
he gives the following three general
reasons for denying the questions he
himself asked:
I'd LII C11C AISU place. OI1O O6lu Ecu
board at one of our state institutions
Manhattan, Emporia or Lawrence)
from $1.00 to S1.50 cheaper than at
any town in our county. For one year
this would mean a saving of perhaps
thirty-five or forty dollars.
(b) And then diploma from one of
the state institutions would mean a
great deal more to one in the great
battle of life. But this is not all. One
would be far better fitted for the du-
ties of life by the reason of the super
ior knowledge gained at a state inSti-
tuition.
(c) l think it would be better for
the county at large to assist poor dis
! trictS that can only afford from 4 to D
and months school than to place this
burden upon the county for the main
tenance of a school that would in no
wise be benefit to us.
We presumes Mr.. Taylor is represen-
tative of class of people who are
honestly, though from mistaken ideas,
opposing a county high school, we
shall therefore answer his questions
candidly and then examine briefly his
''reasonS.
1. Yes. Other counties of less as
SeSsed valuation than ours are doing
it successfully. a high school would
increase the value of every farm ant
townlot in the county, in the long run
therefore it would not be "burden'
at all.
,. Most certainly we need a higl
school. The scores of our young pee
pie who are unable to go to cOlleg
speak eloquently of this most pressing
need. Would it benefit the youn
: people? Ask those young people VIII
: have saved and denied themselves, i
order to go away to some normal Q
: acadamy, if it would benefit them t
have high school at home. WOul
f a college in Phillips county benefi
our young people? How much nor
} then would a high school tuition free
: bereit them.
0 3. Yes, without doubt. 1t has don
it in every county where a high schoc
is located. A large number of teacl
+ ers have nothing but a common schOt
education; the high school would Ell
h able them to secure better education
e which in turn would benefit the SchC
S districts where they teach.
l. 4. Yes, both in better countl
e schools and in placing a complete hig
e school education within the reach
i every youth in the county.
} 3. Yes, if education is uplifting
f. at all, county high schools in commo
e with all other good schools must &c
n tainly uplift those who come undt
their influence. The county hig
o school will come much nearer reacl
3 ing the masses" than the college
select school.
s. Let us consider Mr.. Taylor's reason
;. We have numbered them (a), (b} al
u (c) for convenience.
Il (a) This statement is not true.
III it were true, would it be sufficient
e offset the railroad fare, the advantas
e of frequent home visits, the oppC
/ tunity to board ones self, bringil
D. provisions, furniture, etc. from HON
Is and the local pride of having fir
u class school in our own home count
e The HERALD makes the Statemel
IL from actual knowledge that board C;
be secured, quality for quality,
cheaply here as at any of the state
stitutiOns.
J. (b) Mr.. Taylor has evidently owe
% looked the fart that two of the sta