The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-24
THE SCHOOL BOND ISSUE

Of every citizen of this school dis
trict-more school room must be
supplied. There is no dissenting
voice as to the actual, pressing need
for greater facilities.
With school room at present for
LESS THAN HALF of the school
children of the district, it will pro-
badly strike every thinking citizen
as ridiculous that only TWICE
THE PRESENT CAPACITY should
be supplied. Statisticians who have
made an intense and thorough study
of school facilities state that Nor
gan City has at present PROPER
accommodations for three hundred
pupils. A fifty thousand dollar bond
issue will create PROPER room and
facilities for three hundred and fiji
ty more. The present enrolment OF
tha Morgan City school is SEVEN
HUNDRED FIFTY ONE. If the
present accommodations for three
hundred are merely doubled, what
provisions is made for the remain
ing hundred and one? What provi-
sion will be afforded for the rapidly
increasing scholastic population?
And, if, the remaining fifteen. hum
bred children Of school age in this
district should want to come to Nor
gan City to school, how could they
be accommodated?
To call for bond issue which
would double the present accom-
mediation would be to furnish an in
adequate temporary relief. 1t is
true that at present there are seven
hundred pupils crowded into. a.
building that was originally built
and designed to furnish school room
for three hundred. One might rea-
sonably believe from this that to
double the present building capacity
30 to furnish room for four
Tea - -ed pupils. But, do the cit
izc.- = -1organ City want their
Child crowded into their school
rocr2; !:'e passengers in the steer
age 81 immigrant ship? Are the
intelligent and humane property
taxpayers and citizens of Morgan
City to be satisfied with less than
the best school facilities for their
children? Is the health, the eye
sight, the physical development of
these children to be jeopardized be-
cause the property taxpayers are
unwilling to fill their obligations to
posterity by refusing to tax them
selves for enough to supply the
needed relief?
Morgan City is growing. Every
section of the school district is
growing. The indications are that
the growth Of the next decade will be
greater than any ten years of the |
past. Are we to indifferently await |
the changes that are surely coming?
Are we not deserving Of a place in
the front ranks Of progressive COM
munities, and are not our children
and the children of those who come |
after US entitled to consideration?
. The public expects the Advisory
School Building Committee to con-
slider these things in their plans for
increasing school facilities. The
public will accept their verdict if
they say $4,000 is enough. But
the public will as surely lay the
blame upon them if $4,000 or $780,,
600. or 100000 is voted and found
to be insufficient. No man wants to
be burdened with. unnecessary tax
cs. but no sane. man will say that a |
school bond issue of 100000 would
be unwisc. Every dollar spent in
facilities for commun-
ity is dollar invested in sound,
dividend paying business. With her !
and powerful resour- |
ces and her commanding geograph- I
ical location, Morgan City will reap $
tn, harvest in increased commercial s
returns and growing property val
les in return for her investment in +
school buildings. This fact should r
demand the attention Of, those who J,
AN only see the taxes to be PAID.
70 the man Of broad vision with the
Iuality of mercy unstrained. in his
'eing-> no further fact need be adj
srced than the fact that hundreds
+ dependable little children Of this
chool district are being shamefully
oglected, mentally and physically,
nder existing school conditions in
[organ City.
les. cREENWALD is BUYING