The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-07-13
JUST SCHOOL BUILDINGS

with view of carrying into accomplishment
the first step of the big school program which
was recently given the overwhelming support
of the people Of the city. It is taken for grant
ed that there will be no delay in carrying for
ward the work and the people of the city hope
that the board with abundant funds at it's dis
posal will promptly meet the emergency de-
mands of the school system and open the way
for the larger development in connection with
the building of the high school, which has met
with the sanction of the people. It is to be
hoped that the work can go forward with such
speed that some of the glaring defects in the
housing Of the children may be corrected be
fore the opening of the next school year
The program which has been given the sane
ton of the people is sufficiently elastic to make
urgent needs" come first and the board will
expect to work along these lines The pro-
gram is a pretentious one but not any too pre-
tentious for Kenosha It suggests the expend-
iture of considerable sum of money but if it is
expended judiciousy and with common sense
along the lines outlined in the survey the chill
dren of the city will get dollars worth of
school building for every dollar expended. The
Board should tell the architect frankly that
what it wants is school buildings and not deco
rations. 1t should be the guiding star to get
buildings which will be useful in educating the
largest number of children rather than mon
umental" structures which will prove decora-
tive to certain sections of the city. The finest
decoration that any city can have is an educa.
tional system which meets every demand fol-
the bringing of better citizenship. The build
ings housing such system must be the last
word in ventilation and heating provisions, they
must have air and sunshine and they must be
roomy enough to provide seats for all the chill
dren They may lack some frills on the out
side, few steeples and cupolas may be left
off but all of these things may be missing if
the interior of the buildings are fitted for
school rooms We are not in favor Of four
bare walls to make school but we want the
school useful to the greatest extent rather than
an expenditure for the school beautiful" The
school which is useful will always be beautiful
Architect Chubb has shown his ability tc
build good school buildings and he should be
told that Kenosha expects the best that is in
him from the standpoint of economic school
construction If plans which meet with these
specifications are available and they undoubted.
ly are the school board should lose no time on
preiminaries but start the building program
The recommendations of the survey adopted
by the people, are so complete that the doors
for chickering's over sites and types of con
struction have been pretty we'll closed The
board is expected to carry out the wishes OF
the people as shown in these recommendations
rather than to bubble over the ideas or the
ideals of individual members of the board.
The erection of school buildings IN Kenosha
has usually been attended by long delays due
to just such quibbling There should be moth
ing of this kind in the carrying out of this
new and greater program for the advancement
of the school systems. The Board has rea
job before it but it has been admirably outlined
for it and the following of the program as out
lined will get the results anticipated and get
them in the shortest possible time.