Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-05
FAVOR AN ISSUE OF BONDS
FOR new School BUILDING
Superintendent Miller And Captain Cobb, President Of
Board of Education, Show Need Of II s

Urgent is the need for additional
school room in the public schools. ac-
cording to Superintendent Miller and
Captain John A. Cobb, president of the
board of education. The opening of
the spring term has served only to
accentuate the need of better facfIi-
ties in the way of actual room to ac-
commodate the new pupils who apply
for membership in the schools.
Both Captain Cobb and Superintend-
ent Miller in recent interviews ex-
pressed themselves as heartily in fa-
vor of the issue of bonds by the city
IN order to obtain the money needed
for the purpose of providing better
facilities. AS there is still 10000 due
on the High School building, the issu-
ance of bonds to the extent of $780,
900, or not less than O,0OO, is cham
pioned by both of these friends of Io-
cal education, who are more familiar
with the needs of the local system,
perhaps, than any other residents of
the city.
That a smaller issue of bonds than
100000 would hardly be worth while
is made manifest when the indebted
ness now due on the new High School
building is taken into consideration
This money has been due since the
completion of the new building, and
the obligation should be met, while
the need of additional school room
just as pronounced in the opinion of
Captain Cobb and Superintendent Mil
Ter, who have gone over the situation
thoroughly as regards the city's needs.
The opening of the spring term recent
ly served only to emphasize the facts
that were brought out so clearly at
the opening of the present school
year last fall when it was seen that
the increased enrolment included
proXimately one hundred more stu
dents than were enrolled throughout
the entire preceding school year.
1t will be recalled that SupeFinten-
dent Miller recommended in his first
report to the board of education last
fall that the need of additional school
room space was imperative Realiz-
ing this fact, he also recommended
that land be bought in two or three
sections of the city where it could la
ter be employed for the purpose of
erecting school buildings. The needs
of South Americus as regards a ne
school building are imperative, ac-
cording to the superintendent, be-
cause the city is expanding more rap
idly in southern direction than in
any other way.
Superintendent Miller favors the
of as many new School
buildings as the city can afford to
build, taking into consideration the
needs ofFthe school system now and
the rapidity with which the demand
for additional school room space S
growing. There should be at least one
new school building, ,&while as many
as two or even three could be profita-
bly, used. South Americus would
likely claim first place in the event
new buildings are constructed, while
East Americus and Brooklyn Heights
come in for consideration also. 1t IS
believed that with two new buildings
the school population of the eastern
and southern sections of the city could
be accommodated by one building,
while the second building could be de-
voted to the section included in
Brooklyn Heights.
The abandonent of the Furlow,
Lawn building for use as a school
building is deemed advisable on ac-
count of the fact that the structure
was never intended for such purposes,
consequently the rooms are too small,
especially for the lower grammar
grades, where many students are plac-
ed in the same room. The addition of
new buildings to the city's school sys-
tenn is thought to be necessity which
must be met soon by the people OF
Americus.