Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1910-02-25

at least IL rooms, the second floor
arranged for high school quarters.
the first floor with or 8 rooms for
the grammar grades. Beneath the
first floor an entire basement con-
tanning closets, baths. furnace and
fuel room. janitors room, manual
training room and one for domestic
science. This building should be
modern and hygenic. The high
school quarters TO contain an assem-
bly, room accommodating l25 stu
dents. and with seating capacity
Of $50; four class rooms, music
room, an equipped laboratory, IL
brary cases and cabinets for geolog-
ical and other specimens. Many
boy that is not endowed by nature
with sufficient mental ability TO
ever make a success in any of the
professions or business enterprises
can in a manual training depart
ment learn a trade that will enable
him to earn an honest living and be-
come a useful citizen. The district
ought to do just as much for the
pupil with inferior mental capacity
as for the one that possesses super
ior ability.
Many a girl who aspires to be-
come the mistress of home can in
a domestic science department sup
plement her home knowledge of
household duties and the culinary
art, and thus make the homes of
the next decade more attractive and
inspiring. Visit these departments
in the schools Of some of our sister
towns and you will become an en-
thusiast for their introduction here.
Such a building equipped would
cost about $35, 900 and will be one
to which every citizen can point
with pride. This is the opportune
time to build it. As soon as the
town is divided into wards, sectional
feeling will make il impossible to
secure suitable high school and
grammar grade quarters within the
next twenty or more years. With
a school so equipped there will be
no necessity of sending any of our
children TO distant places among
strangers to attend school. They
can be educated more economically
right at home. A youth is best
trained both mentally and morally
when under PARENTAL guidance and
restraint.
BOND TO RAISE NECESSARY FUNDS.
By issuing bonds for 20 years, all
the new corners that move into the
district during that time must help
to pay for such building. Their
children as we'll as ours will reap
the benefits. and they should be al
lowed TO pay their share. Deming's
population ought to quadruple with
in that time.
LOCATION.
The Board is DESTROYS of securing
q location as near central as posi-
Bile, and in purchasing block SIS have
not acted hastily, as during the past
twelve months careful, thorough
investigation has been made by the
Board and others concerning the
nearest available site. II is not a
question of getting what we want,
but of getting the best we can.
The block south Of Atty.J. Fielder's
residence Is an ideal site, but il can
not be secured as the owners refuse
TO sell. A mistake was made when
Deming was first plotted in not set
ting aside a central block for a
high school. This error cannot be
corrected now. Block 55 Is the
nearest available site, located four
blocks west of Gold avenue and two
from present school building. No
good titles could be secured to many
of the blocks considered, and no
public building should be erected
upon defective title.
In this valley why're land is so plen-
tiful II would be an injustice TO
place such a building upon half
block or less, thus depriving the
pupils Of a suitable play ground or
compelling them to play in the