The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17
TIME TO CALL A HIATT.

It's about time to call halt on all
this wild talk over the school house
question and get down to actual
work On another page in this issue
we print a conglomeration of ideas
and suggestions as a sample of the
diversified opinions running ram
pant throughout our city
Harmony, Harmony, Everybody is
yelling harmony at the top of their
voices and at the self-same time
grabbing hold of every and any loose
end of the rope they can get their
hands on and pulling like the devil.
The whole thing was thoroughly
looked into by the school trustees
before the first move was made.
After advising with prominent bust
ness men of the district they decided
that a s35. 900 bond issue would be
sufficient for the present needs; the
required number of petitioners were
secured; an election was held and
the proposition carried almost unani-
mously On every hand expressions
of approval were heard.
But what a difference now, as the
school trustees are about to let the
contract for the building! Every
body wants a finger in the pie. State
ments have been made by prominent
members of the Commercial club, at
official sessions of that body. that the
school trustees were being robbed,
that they were about to let a contract
for a building from two to eight
thousand dollars in excess of what
the work should be done for. But
when a committee was appointed
composed of the more active partici-
pants in this wild talk, to confer with
the trustees, and after they had care
fully looked into the matter, they be-
came satisfied that the building as
proposed was none too good foI
Ely and that it could not be con-
structed more economically without
the use of cheaper material and in
ferior workmanship. So much fol
that end of it.
In an interview yesterday with a
News representative, Mr.. 'Schmitt-
roth, chairman of the committee APP
pointed by the Commercial club, sug-
gests delaying the whole matter in
order to call another election for an
additional bond issue to enable the
trustees to construct an eight-room
building He says: Il feel certain
| can dispose of $500 worth of
bonds; if business were better
could take more,"
Again he says: ''As a means of adj
vertsing the town it would pay the
merchants to go down into their
pockets and see that a proper school
house is constructed"
Is that what we are all striving
for, to advertise the town? 1t would
seem to us that the paramount issue
is to educate our children and that
we are losing valuable time listening
to lot of gush that is not worth the
breath spent in its deliverance.
There is absolutely no question
but what the four-room building as
proposed by the school trustees will
furnish ample accommodations for
the CHlluGGu- Vi ELY lOT TIE DIeSeul
and probably for some time to come.
We are not finding fault with the
Commercial club for appointing this
committee to confer with the school
trustees. 1t is right and just that
they should have done SO, but we
do find fault with the spirit of an
tagonism that has been prevalent
throughout the entire controversy.
In spite of all the criticism that
has been poured forth there has not
been one iota of evidence produced
tending to show that the school trus-
tees have made single mistake up
TO the present time and we think that
their judgment should be given con-
sideration in matter to which they
have given their individual attention