Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31

of argument say that the School Tax
is one half of the tax raised by gen
eral city levy.
The day laDborer, meaning the COM
monty accepted term for we are all
laborers for that matter, would be
the one to suffer most if there were
any hardship in the taxes from be
ing excessive.
But in an examination of the tax
roll we do not have to take the day
laborer as a basis but take men who
stand at the top of their craft and
are being paid from four to six dol
lars day for plastering and brick
laying, say one such citizen pays a
few cents less than $50 this year as
his total tax and is educating three
children at total cost to him in
his tax of SIS, being one half his
tax. Men receiving much less pay
only $40 for their regular tax and
educate from three ito five children.
Take another example and you will
find a prominent contractor and
builder pays less than $50 a year
tax and educates three children at a
net cost of less than SIS or S. a
child, and certainly no sane man can
object to so small charge.
While on the other hand the Foun-
der, whose generosity gave us the
Witter Manual Training School, also
laid the foundation for our largest
industry which pays one-si&th of the
whole tax. These people and our 9th
er large tax payers have told me ma
and again that they were willing to
pay these taxes and more if we can
build up our city and make lit so we
can be justly proud of it and give
back fair return for their money
We therefore hope that in the flu
ture when any calamity bowler"
tries to convince any one of you
that you are individually paying the
whole $35 900 school money you will
know it is not So
Mr.. Thompson, the director of the
Manual Training School, had fine
display of work done in the Witter
School and a short talk was given
on this work Whiting and paper
cutting is given in the 4th and 5th
| grades, the use of saws, planes and
other hand tools taught in the, 9th
and 7th grades.
There are now 307 boys in the
| Public Schools taking Manual Train
ing which is SO per cent of all the
boys enrolled and all it costs for ma
terials for these boys lis less than
eight cents per scholar per month.
In the Domestic Science in the
Witter School it costs less than six
cents per girl per month for supplies.
The cost of running the sewing
room lis nothing except the price, of
100 sewing machine needles per year,
all the other materials are furnished
by the scholars and they make arti-
cles that they wear.
The scholars attending the Lin
coin School number 81 and of this
number 1875 take the courses in the
| Witter Training School.
| The cry has BEEN raised by unin-
formed people that this Witter School
| though a gift, increased the cost of
our schools, but this is not true,
| for if we, did not have the Witter
School you would require even more
teachers than now employed to take
care of this 1876 in the regular school
| branches.
This last year the machine shop
has been completely equipped in the
| Witter School at a cost of Sc, 200.33.
This machine shop is the best equip
ped shop in any school in the state
except the Stout School, which is
not to be classed with a High school
In there we have the finest Auto
matte Hendey Lathe and three Reed
! Lathes. We have SO equipped this
shop that boy going from this school
into a shop is able to handle either
the latest pattern or the old style
| lot oN !, i7c10/, n
with Milwaukee Milling Machine, a
Gould G. Bberhardt shaper, Gray &
Co., planer, Cincinnati Drill Press,
a Brown & Sharpe tool grinder, and
other lesser machines.
The work shown gave examples of
tools made in the Forge room which
were used to do metal chipping in
the machine shop showing that the
| boy had mastered tempering Wood
| patterns were shawn from which cast
| ings had been made at the Foundry.
| Further exhibitions were from the
Domestic Science work. The girls in
the gym drill last week all wore gar
ments for gym suits which were made
i'm the Domestic Science department.
1t all showed the useful and practi-
cal side of life considered in our
school
1t was moved and carried that a
vote of thanks be extended to the
Superintendent and teachers for
their efforts in behalf of the schools
the past year.
1t was moved and, carried that we
adjourn
(Signed.)
M H Jackson