The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-22

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III several school buildings At once
lThe school board can not help tns
limitafiol5 placed on the levy 81
LAW It has provided that bonds
may be Issued by the district in
need, Il the people want that.
4 If three voters out OF every i've
who vote say by their ballot that
ithey are willing to giye all children
an equal chance to attend school in
buildings that are comfortable, with
proper furniture, then the board can
lay a levy for bonds and pay it in a
few years and not have a burden
all at one time.
40 one will contend that North
view, Tin Plate, Meadcwbrook, lower
wllsonburg and other sections are
Equipped with buildings sufficient
for good schools. But on the other
hand they are badly put out as to
school buildings. The people who
have good buildings In other parts
OF the district should be charitable
with their votes and give. these
places chance to have as good
buildings as they now have for their
children.
The places now in need have been
helping Adamston, Wilsonburg, Rey-
noldsyille, Hepziban and others to,
build the good buildings that they
SO proudly enjoy.
Help back is right, and especially
when you help poor. innocent chill
dren who In after years can help
pay back the bonds from which th=y
received a beneft while in school.
The voters should bear in mind
that with Adamston and Northview|
having corporation charters or in
.croporated towns they put the school
board in close position as to what Il
can do, or not do.
Section 81 of the school law Of
1911, for West Virginia, reads as
follows: -
provided, however, that in any
district or town where graded or
high school is maintained, which is
continued for a longer period than
six months, the board Of education
shall have authority to lay a levy
in addition to the levies above spec
flied sufficient for all purposes to
conduct the schools of said city or
town for the term fixed" -
Section 161 defines: District"
shall not mean independent district.
The law has been tested before the
supreme court and it holds good in
the cases of Parkersburg and other
cities and towns in West Virginia.
Such law would permit the board
to burden the people with a very
heavy tax for one year, If this should
be resorted to in order to get these
buildings, and It must be levied for
the same year in which the build
ings are to be built.
1t is to be hoped that the tax.
payers will not overlook the import
ance Of such condition. The board
can be compelled by a mandamus to-
lay levy and give the people build
ings.
To build the houses necessary this
year it would take levy of $1.O5
on the 500 valuation of property,
above the running expenses. The
man worth 1000 would be com
PEELED to pay s1O5O in building
fund tax, and those worth more in
their proportion. It now seems just
to make a bond issue and leave the
rate at about what 1t is now already,
and have the use of these buildings
thirty years or more in advance.
Then the people coming into the
district can pay some Of this debt
as we'll as those now living here.
Coal district win continue u
grow,
Think 1t out and then act on the
best decision reached after careful
investigation.
NUcN6IccEN