The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-04-03
BOND and BUILD
The Proposed High School
Is Greatly Needed
and Why.

Let some facts be submitted to the
people of Madison relating to the
school bonding question.
1t is a fact:
That the Central building is very
crowded.
That the kitchen, sewing room,
commercial room, and laboratory have
to be used for class looms,
That the superintendent Office is
in a cloak room, and the principals
Office in a store room.
That the stairway landings are used
as a library.
That the halls have to be used as
cloak looms.
That a building which was original
ly intended for about 900 pupils is
now accommodating twice that nun
Der.
That there is no more room left in
the Central building that could be
finished.
That the old building would still be
/ used to it's full capacity but not tc its
crowded capacity
That we have no assembly room
where we can get the high school
students together or where programs
can oe given.
That we have no place for indoor
physical exercise and games.
That our closets are out side, cold,
i~uconveDient and unsanitary.
That the problem of ventilating
the Central building is a difficult one
] because it has beer changed SO often
and because it is so crowded.
That we are in great need of more
recitation rooms and Office rooms for
the administrative work of the whole
school.
1 That the proposed new building
will provide for nothing now provid
ed for in the old.
That the new building will have
no rooms not actually needed for the
work of the schools.
That it costs about twice as much
to erect a building now rs it dill
twenty years ago
That the amount needed to pay the
principal of the bonds would be 81, 500
a year for 30 years. This would neces-
state a II mill levy, and would be
about 81. 80 a year on each 81, 900 val
"uation of property.
That the tuition received each year,
together with the amount that could be
saved by not having tC rent outside
rooms, would pay the interest On the
bonds at the start. and would be grad
uallY saved to the district as the prin-
cipsl would be paid off.
That the district is now in good
financial condition. There is no float
ing Indebtedness. There is a bonded
Indebtedness of IS. 900 alb ut half of
which is provided for in the sinking
fund.
That the plans for the new build
ing NAV he inspected at r. B. Fitz-
gerald's store
That the members of the board,
the teachers, or the school officers are
prepared to give information regard
ing the whole matter.
That you are urged to visit the
schools, inspect the plans and talk
the matter over with the board and
teachers.
That pupils spend about one third
of their waking hours at school. Are
the conditions good enough2
That arrangements are being made
to give the people of the city some
definite information relative to what
other places have done by way Of pro
viding buildings for their high schools.
That both men and women can vote
on this question,
}, That the voters are asked to with
hold Judgment regarding the matter
until they have investigated the need
for more room and the plans for the
new building.
That the voters ought to decide this
question on its merits without letting
any other interests or question infu.
ence the voting.
That the need for more room is sc
great and the welfare of the schools
} so urgent, that the board feels JUST
fed in going to the people with this
proposition.
D, June Emry, Principal.