The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-11-13
SCHOOL LOAN TAKING SHAPE.
Plans Entered Upon Last Spring Are
Now Beginning to Mature Prior
to Meeting of Assembly.

The Board of Education of this
county at its regular meeting last Fri
day, discussed tentative plans for rec
ommending to the Board of County
Commissioners loan of about
100000 to be authorized by the Gem
eral Assembly of 1920, for suitable
new school buildings to be erected at
the following places:
kitzmiller Grammar and High, bod,
son and Shellmar, Vindex, Deer Park,
Bloomington, Yoder, Grantsville.
Loeb Lynn Heights, Swanton, Flat
woods, Steyer, Jennings.
From the above proposed loan of
100000, sufficient amount secured
from the loan shall also be spent for
equipment of the new buildings, need
ed repairs and alterations to many
school buildings now in use to make
them modern in their construction ac-
cording to present day standards, as
well as for any other pressing neads
for new school buildings at such times
as such funds may be available
1t is planned that the principal of
these bonds begin to mature after the
county levy of 1922, the levy which
provides final payment upon the cur
rent bonds which were issued to build
the present court house.
The Board of Education decided to
take up in conference with the Board
of County Commissioners at an early
a date as possible the plans in detail
for the above loan, which arrange
ment was decided upon last spring by
these two boards.
The school authorities are con-
WINGED that only through bond issue
for new buildings, equipement, alter
ations and repairs, can all the schools
of the county be kept open, for, even
to secure the present number of teach
ers, the ones now at work are receiv-
ing all the funds levied last April for
that purpose, and it appears today
that the General Assembly of 1920
will make them still higher in order to
secure the necessary number of prop
erly trained and equipped persons for
the profession of teaching in Garrett
county. Accordingly, only an ex-
brilliantly high and prohibitive county
tax rate would result if loan were
not granted as herewith outlined if
any or all of the buildings named a.
bove were built through direct county
levy.
Upon the subject of school bonds,
in Bulletin No. SO, 1919, as published
by the Federal Bureau of Education.
we read as follows:
If bonds may justly be issued for
any purpose whatever by the people
of one generation to be paid by those
of another, surely the building of
schoolhouses is such a purpose. When
we issue bonds to pay for streets,
roads, bridges, sewerage systems,
courthouses, city halls, or houses and
equipments for fire departments, we
ourselves get the benefit of these. and
when streets, roads, bridges, and sew
erage systems are worn out and must
be replaced and repaired, and the
court houses, city halls, and equipment
for fire departments are outgrown,
our children pay for what we have
used and partly used up. But when
we issue bonds to build good school
houses for our children, they them
selves get the benefit of what they
must pay for. By issuing bonds for
this purpose we only enable the child
rem to borrow from their future rich
er selves to provide themselves now
with that which is essential to their
welfare but which we feel ourselves
too poor to give them out of our own
pockets.