The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-08
DAVID WORTH DENNIS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MARK OF PROGRESS, FEELING AT DEDICATION


its highest future needs.
"Our greatest danger today lies In
the fact that democracy has developed
so rapidly that too many have failed
to comprehend the purpose and neces-
sity of far-sighted policies. This
makes it all the more necessary that
the state, through its school system,
its universities, normal school and pub
lie schools, look carefully to the super
vision of the young and old alike by
the spread of intelligence that will
contribute in the highest degree in de-
veloping greater economic, social and
political efficiency.
Make Rapid Strides
Indiana has made rapid strides in
the development of her school sys-
TEN. The rapid advancement, how
ever, has not been uniform. Here and
there throughout the state may be
found township or town or city,
and occasionally a county, where the
interest in public schools has been
backward; progress has been slow.
The advancement of the schools has
not kept pace with other forms of pub
lie Improvement.
sit is not difficult to find in the
state one school corporation main
tanning high degree of school eff
cheney, and another corporation lying
adjacent thereto. showing compare
lively little interest in providing the
best school conditions. What Indiana
especially needs is schools that are
uniformly good throughout the state.
Some school corporations have the de-
sire to maintain better school condi
lions but are unable to do so because
OF inadequate funds.
Warns Against Reduction
"Others can provide the funds but
| lack the desire, and in this connection
permit me to add at this time, when
the people are beginning to realize
more fully the necessity of practicing
economy both in private and public
| affairs, any reduction in public ex-
| penses that will weaken the person
mel of the staff of public school teach
ers and consequently the character of
work done in the school room, should
be the last step taken as a means of
reducing public expenditures.
The kind of teaching which thu
state must have requires the highest
devotion to public service. Abundant
personal power, initiative and broad
training. The surest way of gettir:,
this is to pay I wage that will hold
in the teaching profession the thous-
ands of good teachers we now have.
and school authorities should see to
it that those who for any cause are
unfit for this highest form of public
service should be displaced by those
N
and training to succeed.
ANY public move that weakens thu
character of the high moral and in
tellectual training which should al
ways characterize public school work
strikes at the central axis of our social
order and sets disintegration in mo
tion.
Great Responsibility.
, I'VE have met to dedicate this new
school building in Richmond. Greai
, credit is due those who have assumed
| the responsibility of erecting it, ant
: still greater credit is due those who
. have willingly accepted the RESPONSE
bility of paying for it.
: while good school buildings ar6
other equipment are important, thai
which overshadows all else, from the
system in the character of work don.
, by the teachers-that which takes
place between the pupil and the teach
| er in the class room.
1.-THE responsibility rests with you
school board. superintendent, anc
corps of teachers, and to them ant
this beautiful new being of brick am
t stone, we confidentially intrust tn,
i future of the children who shall b,
enrolled here"
: Robinson Talks
: H. R. Robinson, representing tn,
school board, talked on 1.-THE Buildin:
: Program Mr. Robinson emphasized
, the fact that the East Side junior higl
school is a dire necessity because O
the fact that the city will grow cas-
and west and that the population viii
| demand it, He said, "The reason w
Il selected to put school in the ives
/, end of Richmond and one in the cas-
1 end, was for the simple reason tina
: if school were erected in the cente
, of the city, the pupils would be force,
1 to come from all parts of the city
: through the traffic and risk, to tn
ell school, which would be inadequatel
o. equipped With the -Dennis school IL
, SdICu w HOlN IL - iiONs any ooultlOl4o
: improvement which is thought to b
S necessary may be made. because W
/ have plenty of space on which t
build
r I'VE realize that this school is tn
s. gift of the people, having made it pos
[ sible through their payment of taxes
v The matter in regard to the East Sid
i is only a matter of finances, and W
l. sincerely hope that the people will SUI
! port the board in this work.
Il Dedicated to Children
o "This building stands as a mark @
Il progress and it will stand and be i
b use for long time after we hav
d passed on" said Supt. w. G. Bate
1--WE dedicate it to our boys and girl:
"Our boys and girls are our grea
b est asset. Their citizenship depend
S upon what we do for them now
e the way of training for the next ger
: Grafton. The school is the agency c
t the people and they demand a bette
t citizenship. We demand that there b
J. no depreciation, but improvement tina
e Richmond tomorrow might be be-