The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-19
A CONSIDERABLE SCHOOL BOARD.


Capitalization of government in Kenosha is
beginning to take hold and to win appreciation.
The recent action of the Board of Education
in unanimously suggesting the creation of a
smaller and more workable board comes as one
of the big results of the education OF the people
along this line. Kenosha has had splendid SER
vice from it's Board of Education. of men
with high ideals and with excellent interest IN
the cause of the children have worked in har-
mony to build up and maintain a better school
system in Kenosha These men have been enti-
tied to the thanks of the people for the work
they have done. They have given OF their
time, their brains and their energy without
asking pay or receiving it. They have spent
long hours in meetings to find the best way
out of the big problem of meeting the school
demands of city which was growing more
rapidly in population than it was growing in
annual income. There has been little criticism
on the part of intelligent people on the action
of the school board.
And yet this board sees within itself the fact
that 1t is too large to accomplish the best
results, and with the same kind of a civic patri-
Dtism that has characterized it's work it request
ed the people Of the city to vote it out of bust
ness and put into the offices of the school
administration building more compact body
of men and women to take over the work.
Working with the school board both in Off
cial capacity and in the roll of just plain inter-
ested citizen" we have come to know the fact
that this board has tried to do the best it could
for the city. Kenosha owes a great debt to
some of these men, who have worked for years
as member of the school board, but Kenosha
must come to realize with these men that the
present organization of the school board makes
Of it an unwiedy body, and that the best pos
sible results can not be obtained from such a
body.
The action of the 'board-decdedly graceful
in itsef-paves the way for the action of the
city. There will be no hesitancy on the part of
1.-THE people to fear injury to the feelings of men
who have served the city long and WE'LL These
men are seeking to render farther and great
service by bringing their work to close with
the Inauguration Of modern school board
The old DOGGY of some section of the city being
disseminated against because it had no repre-
sentation on board, has gone to the discard
along with the idea that it was impossible for
Kenosha to elect men from the city at large
who would be willing to give fair deal to all
other portions of the city, other than the ones
in which they happened to live.
People who have watched the work of the
city council are convinced that smaller board
of education is workable proposition in Keno
sha.
; There isn't the shadow of doubt but that if
the people by their vote decide to have this
smaller school board, that the people by the
same vote will elect men and women who will
be capable and willing to look at the school
problem with view of meeting the demands
Df every boy and girl who is to be educated, no
matter where he or she may live.
Tt is to be hoped that the city council will
lose no time in providing for the reorganiza-
tion of the school board of the city along the
more modern lines of the smaller commission.
The people want 1.-THE school board members
want it, and the results of the operations of
these more compact boards in other cities have
repeatedly shown the ACCESSIBILITY of the move
ment The plan should be carried out, so that
Kenosha's new and smaller board can be elected
in connection with the city election next April.