The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-08
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
IN SESSION THIS WEEK
Take Up City Street and School
Matters.


Mayor and Aldermen met in regular
session, discussing mostly street and
school propositions.
Turning posts are now being
placed at the street corners. These
are to take the place of the temper
airy arrangements heretofore used
and will be permanent. The work
men are now busy putting in the
posts.
Concerning the schools Superin-
tendent MCGEE was present and call
ed upon for a report. He began in
his remarks with the explanation
that he expected when he came to
Union City to first get acquainted
with the people and their school
needs before venturing upon any
suggestions in case change or i'm
provement is deemed necessary, but
he felt that he must begin now to
work out some plans for the schools.
He had already made some sugges-
1ions to the school board, but came
before the Board of Mayor and AL
dermen with some tropidation, not
that he is not secure in his premises,
but for fear they might possibly not
understand the Importance of the
work proposed. MIR. MCGEE then re-
ported that he had been in touch
with the various university standards
with regard to the high school units
required for entrance without ex-
animation, Ii seems that the uni
ycrsities arc divided into organiza-
fions as follows; The Northeastern
States, Southeastern States, Central
Northern States, Central southern
States, and Western States, Each
organization has standard reouir-
ed Of high sehool students. He finds
that in Tennessee there Grc twenty
two high schools located in towns
like Union City which have been
recognized by the South Central
State universities as being fully up
to the educational standards required
for entrance without examination.
Our high school in Union City is not
one of these and it is lacking not in
the scope of the work but in thoro
preparation, and this preparation is
not possible because of a lack CT the
proper equipment. In the first place,
a chemical laboratory is needed and
then for that branch and other
branches of the work q reference Ii
brary is needed. For these things &
considerable outlay is necessary, and
that is why he is afraid he would
not be understood. Mr. MCGEE ex-
planned that he had no criticism for
his predecessor, who did all he could
probably with the material he had,
but the school is not properly equip
ped for thoro high school work.
When Mr.. MCGEE had finished Mr..
Chas. Miles, Jr., who was present
for the school board, was asked for
a report and he stated that Mr. Nc
Gee had made practically the same
report to the school board, but in as
much as a considerable expense had
already been incurred in the repair
of the old school building, together
with the grading and parking of the
new one, that the board had also
felt backward in asking for more
money for the schools. Mr.. Miles
enumerated some improvements in
the old school building as follows:
Mr.. Massengill and his assistants
have about completed the remodel
ing of the old building tower, which
had been condemned and was about
to fall down. That and the bell were
practically hanging upon thread
and were very dangerous. Then
some repairs and partitions had been
made inside of the old building
necessary for the proper heating and
ventilation of came, so as to make
the children comfortable and protect
their health. All these things are
expensive. But he was sure that Mr..
MCGEE had no recommendations that
were not in keeping with standard
high school work, and that these
recommendation were necessary for
the proper Standardization of our
own school.
Then the members of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen, each and
everyone, indorscd all that was said,
Mr.. Davis going so far as to say, that
even to cost of thousands of dol
lars, If that is necessary, he was in
favor of indorsing Mr.. McGce's rec
concentrations. A motion was then
made and carried that the PROPOSE
tionS be put in concrete form and
first presented to the school board
and from that board to the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen, and the same
would have prompt attention.
SURGEONS agree that in cases of
Cuts, Burns, Bruises and Wounds,
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