Smyrna times., 1921-01-26
|Tfy1 N COMING VOTE
|aI / BETTER HIGH SCHOOL

- ISSUE ELECTION NEXT
,ppDAY y QUESTION OF HOUR
q ,.0sal to Parents and Tax-Pay-
!. p put Smyrna in the Forefront
!, This Important Question
mr. last article before the
tho bond issue is taken on Sat-
,svt. we want to call attention
y verv important points bearing
ouastion: First, we can not es-
bond issue. If we turn it down
.'srday. we will only postpone it
fsu months at best, to face, in
81 liability, a larger issue then.
NJ present building has been
,'mnpd and it must be remodeled
,lsrged. Some one has said
a year or SO ago this building
.rsdered all right, how is it pos
AR It so suddenly to become all
- Well a few months ago sew
avs in this community were re-
~ all night and their milk was
this town freely and with no
N as to there being anything
n, with it, but when the expert
vss applied to these cattle they
nudemned. Just so with our
building. So long as no tests
uulied it was all right, but when
we're applied, it could not pass.
Sme architects who drew the
and made the estimates for the
100 building, which includes our
hlding remOdeled, made the es-
for the remodeling and enlarg-
our present building only to the
d Of caring for the children of
Dstict, and say it will cost $751;
Where is the soundness of the
zng that turns down a bond is
$4,000 with a bonus of $780,
hUEn in, only to be saddled with
$4,000 without the bonus. A
ne saying reopen the country
and cease bringing the chill
ito Smyrna schools and we will
BED this larger building. Dc
eOple realize how much more
We proposition this would be
lat We now have? There are
lly four country schools now
in Smyrna School District
leanS four teachers at $500 pei
aeh or 5000 for salaries, to say
Of fuel, repairs to property
xOre of other incidental expen.
smyrna without these country
would continue to require tn,
number of teachers as are nov
ged The cost of carting thes'
IN in is scarcely the half o.
and see what the children ar,
mage Derived from Consolidation
FirestOne Automobile Tire Co
out recently a circular settin;
lew Of the advantages of con
aied schools, viz:
-He competent superintendent.
ssalar attendance and less tardines'
@adren 70 to school.
- - WIN the larger number of childre
- ne ehilds vision and gives a NOR
sled viewpoint.
- Of higher calibre are attracted I
-a'ldated school, and the teaching fore
"a more stable.
saality of educational opportunit,
Saool rooms. better light, better hea
sl1is'lon and better sanitation.
~ 'ne country child all the advantage
aNa school without sacrificing the ae
g Of rural life.
4Cw how this progressive ide
1'ohaatlon of the public school
Ypng the wide-awake states tax
lgle county in the State of In
.aone-RandOlph-there are nol
o. lSl One-room schools left i
-oe , county. In the last fv
i-lo students have graduate
,,-s -s 9th grade, and of this nun
~ or 81 per cent. entered hig
before consolidation ther
'ly 81 students in the hig
from all of the one-rool
u the county. Since consol
mere are 742 or more than /
: many with the rural populs
Acally the same as previous
On ma az the State of Iowa. o
i'ls' she had 23O consolidate
one now has 4O7, or nearl
many, gained in less than tw
oo.e lhese consultations hay
!. -0OO One-room rural school
transporting over 10000 chi
ss.al 0I the farms to the consolida-
,o,a : 1t is surprising that low
sso, from No. 30 to No. 2 in he
n. aal a. standing among the state
i !, VINO are clamoring for a r,
y VIZ "e country school realis
Is. ,esIs y. ago there were probabl
\ e.. y iOO school teachers in Il
" Il u e s. Of Delaware and that t,
nave n over 1900 teachers in Il
sps, - ,-s tney also know that the
M. i0O Persons teaching in tn
s.;s ,s'n What are called nro,,;s;o,