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totally out of date and unsatisfactory for education purposes.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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