South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-12
SOUTH END VOTES
FOR EIGHTH GRADE
Listen to High School DebaterS
and Announce That Building
Should Be EreCted-Affirm-
alive Side Wins.

An eighth grade building for the
south end was the subject under dis
cussion at the meeting Of the Stude-
baker Civic club at the Henry Stude-
baker school Wednesday evening and
if the concensus of opinion Of those
present reflects the opinion OF the ma
j0rity of the seventh ward people. the
new building is bound to come
Both sides Of the question were
ably presented by four members Of
the high school debating club. the
debate giving the people "a chance to
make an intelligent choice in the mat
ter The fact that the vote which
followed the debate was unanimous
i0r the project indicates how strong
public sentiment is I'M favor of the new
building. and was also tribute 20 the
fine arguments advanced by the senior
deharers who supported the affirma-
tive side of the question. Resolved,
chat an eighth Grade should be estab-
ushed Don the south end" and who re-
ceiVed the vote OF the judges.
Edwin Hunter and j. Edwin Dean,
who supported the affirmative, put
up am excellent argument for the new
school and successfully rcfuted the
strong opposition TO it presented by
the negative
People Want Building.
They pointed out the fact that the
people wanted the eighth grade, that
il would be "a means of getting more
students to continue their education
after leaving the seventh grade, and
that il would enable a greater num-
Der of children To so 10 school. as the
present eighth grade is too TAR away
for some Of the children
The moral argument for n change
was also a strong one Both speak
erS illustrated the advantages of hay
in~ the south end children going to
school nearer home, thus keeping
them from coming I'm contact Win
the temptations incident i'm coming
down town for the greater part OF toe
day. and spending much of their
leisure time on the streets.
Another strong objection to the
present system was the danger that
the children encounter from having to
cross "a number OF railroad tracks to
set to their school, located in the cen
ter Of the business district
Franklin ShultZ and Carl PreN, who
composed the junior team. made their
strongest objection 10 the proposition
ON the basis of expense, claiming that
the city could not afford TO build new
school buildings at the present time
Objection Answered.
The objection was answered by Mr..
Dean i'm his rebuttal who quoted fig
ures showing that South Bend IS
spending less money for schools in
proportion TO the wealth of the city,
than are the majority of towns of its
size.
The rest of the program consisted
of solo by Miss WilfrOn, a recitation
10y Delmar Phend. and a short talk
10y Fairgrounds Inspector Barnes.
Mr.. Barnes took for his theme the
broader use of the public schools,
showing what can be accomplished in
making the school house a social cen
ter for the community.
He outlined the ideal schoolhouse
of the future with two gymnasiums,
one for boys and one for girls. a
swimming pool, "a larse auditorium. a
reading room, a well equipped out
door playground and many other
Tea lures.
These advantages would make each
school a club house for the neighbor-
hood. where musical organizations, de
Eating clubs, social societies and any