South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-14
AUGUST IA. 1919.
GIVE Us A VOCATIONAL BUILDING.


II is crime. The people Of South Bend should
protest and loud enough TO make themselves dis
,snctly and emphaticalIy heard. We have perfect
Is good and more or less up-to-date high school
building II cost us hundreds OF thousands OF dol
lars View the school board discussing converting
the locker rooms where the pupils keep their
wraps hats coats etc.. into study rooms etc, Tor
vocational education. We need the room and we
need the vocational but it isn't necessary
TO rnutilate the high school Building get it, There
e a considerable vacant ground to the southwest
OF the hieh and grammar school buildings, owned
by the city and in me same bloct-where the old
high school stood,-upon which vocational school
-zn be built
ard why not have it? Why destroy the high
srnool or any OF its conveniences when the money
that will be required in such destruction and re-
modelling might better into the new building
snu would give il a considerable start? Better that
a building be rented some where than "gut-up" the
high school building IN such manner We appreciate
that just now the people complaining consider
ably about the hardship OF making ends meet; that
-sx-peyers are having whale Of "a time over the
he,v TAX law and imaEining enormously high taxes
but both these complaints are more psychological
than real-and frequently more political than psy-
Geological
We have about th- sympathy with Indiana
democracy~s way or rltKing political capital out Of
methods OF seeking to roticaI capital out Of
the Paris treaty and the League of Nations cove
nant II assessors will equalze taxation as the law
contempiates by assessing all property AT its true
value the Increase in valuations VIII mere
" bring the tax rate and the average tax
payer VIII pay less taxes thar ne did before. II
will be the former sayored- dodgers-yvho Will
nav more The law may not ne perfect, but it is a
fair start in the rlshr direction. and carried out
South Bend can construct vocational school build
ing with even hardship 10 the masses OF the
people than was encountered in building the high
school
Here Is somethlnc in which community centers
can interest themselves. and should interest them
selves. likewise people regardless Of the community
centcrs A distinctly vocational school for South
Bend would be a credi-. but the same time any
thine that viii the high school should
not be tolerated. Every year several hundred new
pupils enter the grades and huge freshman class
enters the high school. vet have never had
graduating class OF $50. and scarcely third
81 that goes any fartHer-on TO university or col
leRe We must make il AS attractive To young
people to finish high possible make
e. Il - the peoples university other universities
and colleges are i'm reality post graduate courses
Let US have vocational training but additional 70
rather than a substitute for the hish school-and
likewise vocational building without mutilaton or
destruction OF high school couveuiences The school
board may think they are doing the best that they
can under the circumstance. and set by with IL
with the people and they ought 10 be made to un-
ser-tsnd that they are not. haven't ALTERED
much culture that we afford 70 junk il all. yet
for while even for vocation