The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-27
HOBART IS
To
NEW COLLEGE
Says New Tax Burdens Are
Not In Favor By Smaller
Communities
ESPECIAL TO The rIurs1

part News has this 70 say OF the
proposed now Junior collera -,
Lake county:
inere is now a movement on
foot for the establishing ~ 1a1a
County Normal school. or Junior
college as it is termed, at county
expense.
The principal sponsors are said
70 be supt. W. A Writ of the Car
school system. and supt. Canine of
the East Chicago public schools
ifst as we understand II the
PROPOSITION was put up to the state
o1nclals, who were much onn,,sod -
u as state institution. Nert cs,,a
ene proposition to build It AZ coun-
y expense, and this is said now
20 oe the plan. and that the Lake
county representatives have beer
instructed TO work for an epshI4r
ac' At the coming session Of the In
oiAna state legislature that viii all
low the county commissioners 70
grant the building Of such a school
IN casting about to learn tho
sentiment on the plan. we find there
IS considerable opposition 10 such
move but just how much has not
a. yet developed As a Gary or
East Chicago proposition, or a com
olhatlon or the two cities, il would
PROBABLY have no opposition from
tho balance OF the county, but a. IL
mas been put UP TO The News, Ho-
bart and the smaller cities and the
rural population arc not asking for
H. and do not feel they actually
need it. If the state turns 1t down
why saddle il on to the whole
county just because Gary and East
Chicago want 1t?
IT Is pointed out that Hobart
must soon provide addition school
quarters. as our public school
building is now crowded to over
flowing, and II is necessary to 20
outside for additional room. And
added to this, petitions are now be-
fore the county commissioners for
about three miles OF concrete roads
in the south part OF the city at
township expense Between the
schools and the roads we are facing
an extra leavy or perhaps as much
as the high road levy we now have
with US and which We must carry
for two more years. Now, in the face
Of this fact, II has been pointed
out to The News, do we want to
help pay for a normal school when
we are needing local schools but
n ~
There is just a little sentiment
beginning to be stirred up that be-
fore very long the balance of Lake
county outside of the dense Calu-
met region, must petition the leg
isaturc to be made a separate
county. because the interests OF
Gary and the thickly populated dis
trict seem to be so different, and
the demands of these cities are ap-
parently ever-ceasing, that it Will
bankrupt the taxpayers of the
smaller communities and the farm
ers If they try to hang on and meet
these additional burdens being fos-
tered and proposed from time to
time.
Just recently the medical fra
ternity vas enabled to put through
a tubercular sanitarium at the ex-
pense Of the whole county, although
perhaps s5 per cent Of the patients
will come from the Calumet region,
If not even a larger percent.
"A juvenile court is another addf-
tion In the very near future. and
for whom The Calumet region-or
at least s5 per cent. or more.
another addition. we are in
formed, that has been proposed is
the employment OF a horse doctor
at county expense-veterinary sur
geon. we should say. Just why
veterinary surgeon we can't say.
Now. these latter things may
seem triiirg. and the cost is in a
manner, insignificant in each in
stance. but when all are added to-
gcther, it will be found they are
quite a sum. And what is more
when once installed they are here
to stay, because the politicians don't
let go of any chance to milk the
public-they just hang on to what
they have and when the time is
propitious they slip over another,
and thus our taEes gradually go
skyward before we are aware OF It.
For the building of the Jnuior
College 1t is proposed to begin with
to rlace a sc levy on each hundred
dollars of valuation TO cover the
expense. This would mean about
So. 500 as Hobart's share After the
first leavy it is stated that a aae
or two cent levy would carry 1t
along. Two cents would mean ST.
900 a year from Hobart.
Hobart. with the highest levy in
the county, must face these things
souarely and decisively. Once lev
led we must figure on the levy re-
naming forever.
And we want TO say also. that
Hobart taxpayers and the Hobart
News are not against this PROPOSE
ZION for the state or for Cary or
East Chicago or any other munich
pa,ity that wants it and VIII pay for
ii. But Hobart taxpayers have all
they can handle at this time in
irving to solve the pure water sup
ply for the city. further extension
of our public school facilities and
an extension of our concrete road