The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-10-14
The $1,000 Bond Issue.

the two hundred and fifty school
boys and girls of Itika: / call on
you in the language of Holy writ,
Come let us reason together.
The opposition to this proposed
Bond issue has forced the Mayor
and Board af Aldermen to order
an election to be held on the 18th
of this month to decide whether
we shall issue 50, 900. 90 Of 20 year
6 per cent Bonds to put a good and
sufficient steam heating plant IN
our school building.
The first thing for each intelli-
gent citizen and voter 10 settle IS.
Do we need this new heating
plant in the school building; or is
the old hot air furnace already
sufficient to comfortably heat the
building, so that the children that
have to sit there day after day can
have that warmth necessary for
them to properly do the work for
which we send them to schools!
If it is not, then it is our duty as
voters and citizens, whether we
have a child in school or not, to
see that the building is made COM
Portable. 1t is not only our duty,
but the State insists that we pro-
vide suitable and comfortable
buildings for our public schools to
entitle us to the public money for
the schools. Now, is our School
building properly heated' You
who are honestly seeking infor-
nation, that you may vote intelli-
gently, ask the ESQ students who
have to sit there and shiver on
any cold day. Ask the faculty OF
whom you are demanding that
your children be properly and eff
ficiently instructed, and that their
time for studying be not wasted.
Ask your Board of Trustees
whom your Board of Mayor and Al
dermen have placed, as the law
directs, in charge of your public
school and the public school build
ing, and make recommendations
of the needs of the school and
school buildings etc. If not sat
isfied with the answer OF any OF
all of these, go to the school house
on any cold day and sit awhile ano
learn for yourself by chilly expe-
rience. 1t would seem that every
honest voter seeking to cast his
vote for what is the right and
best could satisfy himself from
these sources how to cast an in
telligent vote on this question.
| would call your attention tc
this fact, which anyone can veri'
fly by examining the petition or
file with the Board of Mayor an6
Aldermen, that over 80 of the. sc
petitioners against this Bond issue
have not a single child in school
Good men, but men who do not
know the conditions at the school,
nor can not feel an interest in the
children as fathers and mothers
whose children are shivering from
cold at the school house. Will
you go to these petitioners for the
information to base an intelligent
vote on this question? Will yot
go to these parties who have new
er been in the school house on ;
cold day? The, writer has exam
ined carefully the petition FLEE
against this Bond issue, and
assert, l have never known o
heard of a single one of those pc
titioners having gone to the schoo
house on a cold day to learn TIL
conditions there. The writer ha
been there, it is my legal duty t
go, and haye seen the children
shivering in their seats, and We
compelled to remain and try t
study. Common humanity de
r1ands asbetter condition for Bu
children than this. The old fur
naces that we have, do not, no
never have heated all the room
at the same time properly, Thes
furnaces were a cheap make-shif
and miserable mistake at TIL
start, costing far less than wa
recommended by the architect, an,
as was pointed out at the time
wholly inadequate to properly hea
the building. Yet costing moi
all the time in the way of fuel tina