Smyrna times., 1921-01-26
INTEREST IN COMING VOTE
For A BETTER HIGH SCHOOL

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any town in the State to establish the
largest high school in State outside of
the city of Wilmington, because she
has a larger territory to draw from
and larger population to serve.
Good people of this community are we {
going to turn down this golden oppor-
tunity by casting a negative vote on
| Saturday. Let us look at the amount
! spent last year on each pupil of Della
ware as compared with some of our
sisters States. 1t cost us last year
! $34.69 per pupil, while New York
spent S69.31 per pupil. Maine spent |
~u274. Vermont So4.02. New Jersey /
$5S.47. Minnesota $81.76, and North |
Dakota, which ranks 47th, in wealth !
spent S91.00 per pupil, or nearly 3 !
times as much as Delaware, which |
stands at the head of the column or
No. 1 in its per capita wealth, and No.
Al in its education rank and No. "a
in it's per capita ownership of automo-
, biles. So long as this array of facts
stares us in the face we can give no
possible good reason for voting
against the bond issue. Above all let
us keep in mind the teaching of the
Master when in answer to the request
of the Mother of Zebedees children
q that her two sons should sit the one
: on His right hand and the other on
: His left. He exalted and emphasized
o service as the position of honor, and
p pray to whom, next to the Lord Him
: self, do we owe more service than to
our children. They can not vote on
Saturday, but fathers and mothers of
3 this community are we going to vote
, against them? Are wegoing on rec
il ord as esteeming of higher value our
# hogs and cattle than we do our boys
d and girls? What crops do we pro-
y. duee that is comparable to them? God
70 forbid that we shall turn them down.
% Greatest Educational Step for Smyrna
a This community has on Saturday
m the greatest opportunity ever present
ed to it, to show by its vote on this
bond issue its estimate of the value Of
;s education, and the inestimable value Il
10 puts upon its boys and girls, as com
no pared with that of our sister town t'
bo the North of us. If we do the righ
no thing for our children on Saturday
% this town can not estimate the posi-
M BILE advantage it may be to us In tn
= future. Just a word about voting
he Tax receipts are not required. A lis
av of all who are eligible to vote will b
m at the school house where the eiectio
.l,v will be held between the hours OF or
o'clock and o'clock p. m. Adminl
traitors or executors cannot vote tt
hoe estates they may represent. Heirs
o,,+ estates may vote in person their r
+o spective share of an estate. The
+Lo can be no proxy voting. Persons ha
On ing a life estate in a property can vo
mo the whole property. In the case
,nT partnerships any one partner can ca
orce the full vote. Corporations must al
r directors meeting authorize by W
some one to cast the vote Of the C.
~. poration and the party thus design
] of ed must attach to his ballot cel
;oI fcation of this resolution duly sigl
bv the president and secretary OF
. co,noration. Voters select their
'"'Hv lot. place in figures thereon, the nj
n her of votes to which the yare entlt
Oh write their name on same, and dell
- the ballot to the inspector. The NJ
must appear on the ballot, but it
be written thereon by another t
lgs the individual voting. A list OF
..uvmIs rarnes of the voters and how I
lrned voted Will De mace anu .i1et ~ III
rip to ballot is not seeies@ DS IN
vton minds Of few people that the
: 80 uosed addition to our present Duli'