The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-09-30
THE PROPOSED COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL BU|LD|GG

The necessity for high school
building to house the County High
School has long been apparent to the
least casual observer.
Education is the thing to which ev-
cry child of Eureka County is en-
titled. IL the parents of the child,
the county, or the State can give him
nothing else, they are morally and
legally bound to furnish him with
the facilities for securing an educa-
ton. Education is the dominant
force which has made this country.
1t is the only country in the world
where every man and woman helps
to educate their own and all other
children, thereby helping to create
better citizens and more intelligent
men and women.
When the child has finished the
sixth, seventh. or eighth grades. the
parents are not then asked to COM
plete his education at their own ex-
pense. The county continues to edu-
cate him until he has completed the
twelve grades or has graduated from
the high school. The State then takes
up the task and places the university
at the command of the student. 1t is
this education that makes this coun-
try free; that gives each one his in
dividual rights; that makes each one
of US equal in the eyes of the law.
Sometimes we are prone to forget to
what we owe everything-freee educa-
ton.
Education cannot be given without
buildings, equipment and teachers.
Teachers cannot do their work, nor
can pupils realize upon the invest
ment of the taxpayer without suffi-
cient buildings.
Eureka County is the only county
in the State of Nevada without a
County High School building. At
present, and ever since the original
organization of the school. the quar-
ters have been rented from the Eu-
reka District Board.
1t is said by many that the present
building is now supported by large
timbers on two sides. Further occu-
patton of the present building seems
to be only counting disaster.
The County Board of Education
has come to the people asking them
for a vote on a bond issue of $50, 900.
The election is to be held at the time
| of the regular November election.
The money to be derived from this
bond issue is for the purpose of Sc
curing a building site and erecting
and equipping high school building
and dormitory. M
Parents who reside in the many
parts of Eureka County cannot send
their children to the County High
School after they have completed the
eighth grade because there is no
place for, them to board and room.
And in many cases where the parents
are able to secure a place for their
children to live; there is no one to
take suitable charge of them.
The dormitory;; which the board
school, will solve this problem. In
later issue we will present the facts
concerning dormitories which have
been successfully conducted else
where.
The of the contemplated
building will provide class rooms.
laboratories, assembly hall, physical
training facilities, library. heating ia
cilities, and other features to which
children in other counties have ac-
cess during their public school days.
Isn't at right that the children of Eu-
reka County should have the same
advantages as other counties?
The issue of bonds is planned, as
advertised, to bear six per cent inter-
est and to be payable at the end of
twenty years. This means that each
year the taxes which will be levied
will provide only for the interest and
enough to create a sinking fund to
pay off the principal at the end of
twenty years.
In next weeks issue data will be
published showing how little this
levy will affect the individual taxpay-
er and to what extent the county'will
benefit as whole.
VIM. H. BREMEN.
J. B. BALE,
fa e. A. SKILLMAN,
Eureka County Board of Education.
C. M. LUCE, Principal.