The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-01-16
w. S. EARLES
North Yakima, Wn.

better will be our farming. It is false
economy to send our young people off
to college to learn that which should
have been their privilege to have
learned at home. Scarcely less inn
portant is manual training and do
nestle sccnce. Build commodious
high school in the center Of a block,
with an assembly room for 600 stu
dents. surround ii with recitation
rooms and properly equipped labora-
tories put about ten rooms on the first
floor for grades. In these grade rooms
put all the seventh and eighth grade
pupils of the district and use the re-
naming grade rooms as the demands
would require, and we have a struc-
ture that will do for many years to
come and be at once source of
pride and credit to our community.
This building can be constructed and
| completely equipped for $4,000. /
have seen it done where building ma
terial costs more than 1t does here.
Such a building does not necessarily
need to be centrally located. That idea
seems to be a pet one with some of our
people. 1t would cost too much to buy
high school are generally so full OF
vim that it is we'll to walk off some OF
this excessive athletic proclivity in
| going to and from school. then there
will be that much less time to be spent
in the gymnasium.
| At the public meeting on December
! 81 a man offered an acre of ground just
north of the city for $500 for a school
site. Another public spirited citizen
offered a site free in the southeast
part of the city provided a school was
put on It. Permanent school buildings
of from one to three rooms each in the
| outskirts of the district according to
the population are practical. Children
in the first three or four grades can
not be expected to go so far to school.
As they become older they can go
farther. Then they could attend the
present ward schools. BY having the
seventh and eighth grades transferred
to a new high school building there
would be more room in the present
| ward buildings. A complete up to
| date high school and grade school
| building combined would be the solu-
| ton of our school problem for some
| time.
The proposition 10 be voted on next
Saturday includes the repairing of the
Central. Columbia and Lincoln build
| ings. In the case of the Lincoln
building, of course it means practi-
cally a new building. This is a very
/ desirable site for a grade school
Erect a $4,000 grade building of
about twelve rooms on this site. Buy
other sites and erect buildings there
on to suit the means and demands
This can be very safely left to the
| judgment of the board and city super
| intendent OF schools. Some claim
that we can get along with $4,000 less.
| but it is cheaper to put it into build
| ings and sites now rather than in a
year or two. Present signs show us
very clearly that money spent now
on school sites is a far greater saving
than the interest on $4,000. Waste no
more money on portables We have
competent teachers. Let US give them
room and tools to work with. then
look for results An affirmative vote
next Saturday, to me. is the most eco
nomic, permanent solution to a prob
lem that has vexed our people for
some time. J. L H.