The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-08-25
THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL

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in regard to the building of new high
school, the writer is not as well in
formed as are the well selected mem
bers of the school board. From casual
remarks it seems the city's electric
light and water works debt can DOS
Slbly be met with the net earnings of
said plants, but at the same time said
debts are not directly against the
plants but against the city as a whole
hetrenchment, including perhaps street
improvements and other not urgent
outlays might assist in securing a more
favorable financial standing. The de-
| cision not to build a new Eighth street
bridge, but to repair the same, is un-
doubtedly in harmony with the con
Sensus of public opinion. The quite
large site purchased by the city for
its new high school, owing to its heal
thy elevation, spacious grounds and
quiet zone for study, has been pro-
nounced by impartial outside experts as
being the most ideal for said institu-
tion of learning. Its building will loom
forth as an ornament for the whole
city.
Our city schools in the several wards
have been located with a view of near
ness for the children. For high
school however, its scholars being
older and stronger, nearness is not
desideratum. Regular walking in the
Great Outdoors" for scholars of high
school age, is universally admitted to
be an effective aid toward developing
healthy young men and women.
inventions increasingly tend toward
leSsening bodily exercise, resulting in
softening and weakening the human
form deyine, which in consequence is
more easily subject to disease
A prominent teacher in Milwaukee,
only recently, expressed the opinion
that the larger, higher schools will in
the near future earnestly discourage
taking scholars to schools in automo-
bleS; on moral grounds as well as be-
ing opposed to the health promoting
exercise of walking
The world war has revealed the fact
that an unexpected large number of
young men are not physically fit to de
fend our greatest of nations in time of
war.
/ 1t is claimed a state has the right to
expect high schools to develop schol-
ars into men and women mentally and
physically fit-typical American citi-
zens. That does not refer to size nor
weight, but only to mental and phySi-
cal vitality "Mens sana in cOrpore
San0."
President Harding's physician, Brig.
Gen. Sawyer is working out the foun-
dation of a plan of scientific training
for men and women but especially the
youth of our nation, as shall make
ordinary American citizens of the
future "The best and strongest citi-
zens of the world, in mind and body"
The campus of the proposed high
school is large enough for all outdoor
games and the teaching of athletics,
gymnastics and marching of all kinds
The SO called rich, are not so neces-
sarily interested in a new high school
as are those who belong to the large
ma aiority of citizens.
The rich even without a high school
will not fail to give their children a
fair opportunity of acquiring a good
education, which is the best and often
the most valuable Inheritance which
parents can bequeath to their children.
Tangible wealth may vanish like the
mist before the rising sun, but an
education serves throughout life
Preparing for the future, the high
school may perhaps he planned for
twice the size of its present require
ments If so, a part sufficient for the
the present could be built, adding
future enlargements in harmony with
the original plans. No doubt the
school board is doing all that possibly
can be done for the welfare of the
city's educational system.
A TAXPAYER