Friday, October 27, 2017

Our Past Is Present October 27, 2017

October 27, 2017
            This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
            We have been sharing articles this week that were published in the JCHS newspaper, “The Blue And White” from 1917 and 1918.  Today’s story is one more of those articles.  The by-line was “Vote for the Bonds Tomorrow” with a subtitle “And Insure the Physical and Intellectual Uplift of your Boys and Girls – Lincoln School Is Crumbling.”
            “Torn and ugly paper streaked with dust and soot is on the walls.  Cracked and loosened plaster on the ceiling and bare area of lath, threaten the children beneath.  The floors are rough and splintered and innumerable cracks never reached by a broom, furnish hiding places for dust and deadly germs.  The girls and boys sit cramped up in ill-fitting seats and work upon desks, which have been hacked to pieces by the passing generations.  Insufficient and poorly direct light enters through narrow windows, which are set far back into the walls.  Proper ventilation is impossible during the winter and the air of the rooms is unhealthy at all times. In short, the Lincoln School, built more than 40 years ago of second hand material and practically unaltered since, is totally out of date and unsatisfactory for education purposes.  The School Board, after careful consideration of every detail has decided that the only solution is a new school building large enough and modern enough to expiate both annoyances for years to come.  This building to be built in part upon the site of the 10th Street School and to contain six graded rooms, the junior high school, freshman class a print shop, the manual training and domestic art and science departments, a gymnasium, provisions in all for about 640 students.  A resolution has been passed by the Board of Education asking that bonds to the extent of $100,000.00 be voted for the purpose of constructing a building so described. It is the duty of every citizen, to boost this measure, which if passed will place the education status of our city on an equal basis with her other enterprises.  For, even in the mad rush of present business, we must realize that not wealth and splendor, but the youth of our town is the fruit by which real desirable people on the outside come to know of it.” 
            Some of this sounds familiar to the information being received even now about a “New JCHS.” We ask you to please be informed and VOTE ON NOVEMBER 7. 
            That’s today’s story on “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.


            

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