Gunnison news-champion., 1920-04-16
State Board of Land Commissioner

State Board Of Land Commissioners
The proposed bonds are serial bonds
due and payable in twenty years; but
redeem2ble after ten years. Should
the people prefer, however, the bonds
may be refunded al the end of ten or
twenty years, without the calling of a
special election, and permitted 20 run
longer. With the valuation of the
county constantly increasing, the rate
Of taNation for meeting interest, will
constantly diminish, and it will be-
come increasingly more easy TO pro-
vide for the redemption of the bonds.
Should the bond issue carry, the in
tercst upon the entire bonded indebt-
cdness of the county would be about
fifty cents on one thousand dollars
somewhat less than FIVE dollars on ten
thousand dollars. Men having child
rem OF their own could not possibly
make a better investment for those
same children; men having no child
ren, but enjoying the benefits of citi-
zens of this state and nation, could not
perform more thoroughly patriotic
duty than to take upon themselves the
responsibility Of making educational
facilities of the best type available to
the young people of this county.
We know more than we used to
known We know that fully one
fourth Of the young men drafted for
service in the late war were illiterate.
We also know that those of them who
became disabled are obliged to be re-
educated before they are able to make
respectable living by the use of their
brains. This simply means that the
average young man Of this country is
an unskilled laborer without trade or
profession or any sort of special skill.
The whole country is awakening to
these facts and trying to save this gen.
Grafton Of boys and girls from q SINH
lar fate to that of the older brothers.
If Gunnison County will only give
its young people an adequate physical
plant, it will have the right kind Of
high school in a very short time.
With adequate shops, adequate COM
mercial quarters, sufficient laborato-
ries for commercial chemistry and
physics. q department of agriculture
and animal husbandry, etc, the school
can begin to train boys and girls in
counties with less than half the
wealth Oh 0ouIhSou tACAA
young people the best modern type
of high schools.
Gunnison County is nearly as large
as the state of Connecticut, and yet
it does not own any kind of a high
school building. II has big job on
its hands-hundreds of young men
and women of high school age, and
no special educational inducements to
offer them. 1t is impossible for these
young people to get into college, tech
nical schools, or professional schools
without first going through high
school, and yet, as county, Gunni-
son has failed to provide any fit
school. The chief interests of Gun
nison county young men are agncultu-
raj, mining, and commercial; and to
make much Of these things thoroly
modern and completely equipped high
school is absolutely necessary.
Have We any right as q civilized
and patriotic people to put this thing
off and keep putting il of when every
day the chance Of education Of the
right kind fails and keeps failing to
come to some boy or girl Of ours or
our neighbors!
Respectfully,
THE GUENISON COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
VERNA WATERMAN, Secretary.