Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-09-21
WHY WE FAVOR NEW HIGH
SCHOOL FOR ABILENE


education. Progress is the watch
word. In the branches OF Industry
the trained mind and hand is now
being required as never before. me
successful man and woman OF the
future must be trained and the
high school is the training school
which reaches the greatest NUMBER.
Our present school buildings were
built to suit the needs OF time
now passed. We've outgrown them.
Make them modern and up to date.
The newest and best in the line OF
education is not too good for our
boys and girls.
Flora Snider-The new high
school building is a necessity Tor
the further progress OF our educa-
tional system. We cannot afford to
allow the present crowded condi-
ton to stand in the way OF better
opportunities for the boys and
girls OF our town. We must rise to
the occasion as other towns about
us have done, and provide a suit
able building.
Mrs. Frank Northcraft-I regret
to say that just at the present time
/ am unable to give reasons for
favoring the bond issue to build a
new high school," as your card re-
quested. Not being directly con-
nected with the schools, have not
given this question much consider
alton. However, / realize more room
is needed for the high school stu
dents than the present building
now affords.
A. Blanche Edwards If boy
or girl has the opportunity to choose
studies which appeal to them, their
chances for finishing the high
school are much greater. If we
have a building large enough to
accommodate these extra branches
of study, so that they may be car
ried on in the way they should, our
high school will appeal to many
more students, and many who would
otherwise drop out, will finish the
four years course, thus making
broader minded young men and
women, who are better fitted to
take their places in this busy world.
Nettie Geaque Brenneman-
"'If any little word of mine
May set the echoes ringing,
God help me speak that little word.
A native of Abilene. My school
days spent within the walls of dear
old Garfield. A member of the class
of 80, one of the last classes of the
three year course. To us, the pres
ent high school, with its full curri-
culum seems a very college. In the
fall OF 81 | entered the Garfield
as teacher in the southwest base
ment room. For four years re-
NAMED there; the last of the third
year | was under the Doctors care
the fourth year | was on diet
of milk and raw eggs. In fairness
and justice | was given chance in
the Lincoln, under better sanitary
and hygenic conditions to regain
the health / had lost in the base
ment of the Garfield. From the ex-
perience of those seven years as
teacher in the Abilene public schools
Mr.. Taxpayer, | plead with you,
give the beginners in the Garfield a
haps for life. by forcing them to
such dangers and conditions for one
or two, perhaps three years, of
their lives. In the name of the moth
ers of the attached territory"
plead for those same basement
rooms, not for school rooms, but
for lunch and recreation rooms
during the noon hour-as the con
ditions now are, our boys and girls
are scarcely better housed at the
lunch hour than the stock on their
fathers farms. AS the present high
school replaced the outgrown Gar
field, so must new and up to date
high school replace the present
Thanking God for the present high
school building when 1t is needed
so seriously for grade and kinder
garten purposes, and for the very
fact that we need a bigger high
school, Mr. Taxpayer. all we ask of
you is, be generous, be fair, be just
look at this thing squarely and
for the sake of your son and daugh-
ter. your grandson and granddaugh-
ter-for the sake of stronger,
better. broader race of men and