The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-04
Shall Politics Build School Houses Or Shall They
 Be Built to Get the Most for the Money?

The interesting address which of the fire department made before the Rotary Cub last night fire prevention touched in instructive fire vention in school houses.
 Notably he spoke of sprinlng systems in the basemen and of the risk attached to the type of fire usually poyed In school in Bridgeport he found that windows had not been cut down to the level with the fire escapes It climb from inside to reach the Then it was necessary to step down two feet
 would happen in time of real danger under this rangement may be better imagined than described.
 place of this Capt. Tague suggested closed smoke proof starwa which in the end would cost no more than fire es capes and would provide maximum safety for children
 merely matters connected with school house construction
 Bridgeport protected by basement prinklers although little. No Bridgeport school has good type of although the cost of the right thing is little
 Bridgeporters say that school house be built by anybody that really requires specialization to build that anybody do well anybody and so on and
 Anybody school house, and a half hundred have built in Bridgeport
 Not many of which constructed in accordance with the best modern practice In few school houses in Bridgeport restricted it might readily be, nor safety the children much safeguarded as they ought to be.
 The matter comes up especially with the pro- posed High school for which site has been pur of $OOO0 and which building IS to be erected al a cost of $9O0OO0,
 duty Education, handling this con- money give Bridgeport the children ot very that be had for the
 high these days highly specialized product
 structure than be created haphazard by man is architect, regardless of his experience
 For instance another detail Bridgeport gymnasiums  unhealthy place which carry work of physical Improvement This school designed by great architect, but not by school architect
 Board of Education is not left to its judgment in important matters subjected pressures ous kinds, mostly from selfish
 The Board of Aldermen for instance through of it's members no for High school unless the Board ploys local architect
 Without in the least touching the question local architects ought employed they probably do good ob the citizenship well inquire into the motive behind this proposition.
 There is another type of pulling and haulng in which tractors and builders participate The motive in these usually is the hope the of builder that if icular architect named he will have better chance bid in the work There understandings sometimes between conrved
 demands these not the interest of the million dollars worth High school that can be bought,
 Architects though to be professional work ing upon high pane frequently resort to purely political methods, trying by such means to get the work.
 a should the best equipped person. and the who has cOnriVed the strongest political connections.
 matters for the citizenship to think The great distress it's business has been conducted by political instead of by business methods Who will support business methods opposed to political methods?