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De ------------ 4 --. WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1922 Want $500,000 Bond Issue for High School (Continued from Page 1) been obliged to put up with many dis- advantages and there can be no more postponement without lowering ef- ficiency. It is a condition and not a theory which confronts the voters. Need More Classrooms The first great need is for addition- al class rooms: All rooms intended for this purpose were in use up to capacity two years ago. Many tem- porary rooms have been provided by sacrificing space needed for study halls, library and other purposes; but now it is no longer possible to provide more rooms of even a temporary char- acter because every inch of space 1s in use. The lunch room is inadequate and must be enlarged at once, in or- der to take care of all the pupils who find it necessary to get their lunch at the school. The office space for conducting the business affairs of the school must be increased immediately. Before very long the gymnasium fa- cilities, which are at present greatly overtaxed, must be added to. If they are not the physical health of the boys and girls and their physical well being will be unfavorably affected. Auditorium Inadequate The school auditorium is much too small to hold the entire student body. The laboratories, the study halls and the bookstore are all inadequate for a school of the present size. A tem- porary overflow has been provided for the library but this is not only in- sufficient, but it iz sorely needed for other purposes. Last year one of the four study halls wa: cut up for class two cvils which involved serious com- rooms. This was a choice petween plications. The school day has been lengthened in order that the plant might be further utilized to capacity. This, of ccurse, was a makeshift and its continuance is n-* to m2 thought of. The conclusions forced upon the Board of Ecucation of the High school are that the schocl must have more and enlarged buildings at once. Even if building is started immediately the efficiency of the school may be retard- ed before buildings can be completed. The members of the board feel an ob- ligation to maintain the splendid tra- ditions and educational standards of the school and at the same time to deal as conserv:lively as they can with the money which ig iuined over to them from taxation. Building Plans Ready From what has been said above, the needs of the school are immediate and from the facts presented this must be apparent to everybody. The plans for immediate building operations have been practically decided upon and the general plans for further enlargement are still under discussion. The Board of Educaticer will call upon the citi- zens of the township on Saturday, September 30, 1922 to vote to author- ize an issuc, as needed, in order to meet the demunds of the High school, of bonds in the sum of $500,000. The maturity of these bonds will be ar- ranged so that the entire issue will ve retired in 20 years. They will bear interest at 41%9%, which will be pay- able semi-annually, thoughtful citizen, in approaching a problem like the one presented, naturally says to himself: "Is this pro- posed bond issue likely to increase my taxes?' Of course, we are none of us seers or prophets. It is the de- liberate and honest judgment of the members of the Board of Education that, if a bond issue of half a million dollars be voted, taxes will not be 1n- creased, for the reason that the bonds an be paid off out of increased current revenue in the same way in which the land was paid for which was ac- ¢uired in the spring of 1921. This prediction, of course, is based on the supposition that the School district, during the next ten or twenty years, is likely to grow in the same propor- tion in which it has grown during the last ten years. It should be kept in mind that the voting cf ilis hond is- sue will not increase at all the tax rate. The Board of Lducation has ab- solutely no thought at present or sug- gesting any increase in the tax rate. Seek Good of Children The board has tried hard to ap- proach the question of the future needs of the school with a broad vision. It feels that the work of the high school must go on, and that it must go on along wide and compre- hensive lines. It feels that, for the children who live in our School Dis- trict, the very best is none too good. Its policy will be always to provide a sufficient force of thoroughly effi- cient well paid men and women as teachers, to furnish sufficient land and sufficient buildings to keep the school in the very front rank of modern High schools, judged from the stand- ard of the best modern educational thought. It looks to the voters for support in dealing with this problem, and it looks to them with no feeling of apprehension, because it believes that the very large majority of the thoughtful fath:rs and mothers who live in our School District will unite in a policy of giving to our high school children the best that can Ye had. |THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL. By Edward J. Phelps, President Jesse R. Gathercoal, Secretary Leslie F. Gates Charlotte L. McKenzie Henry P. Williams READ THE WANT ADS It's Coming! Watch for the Key Contest Adams Pharmacy Will Not Increase Taxes Winnetk The present bended indebtedness of tka the school is about $80,000. Every " Ta i nS . - 3) 3 ge = of t = 3 Pot! = -- ¥ a BA Ca = i bem = Jo = 3 i = =, fa =j= Cc oJ ra me = TR LLELINLAL ur you th account. self-denial so flat your old-age will not know want Start right now, and deny your- self some foolish, expensive habit and put that money in a Savings 8 should drow WINNETIRA VIEEV & SEVINES CLRES WIRE (Le HE Stockholders, Directors and Officials of the Winnetka State Bank invite you to be present during the opening day of the institution's recently erected building, Monday, October 2nd, 8:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. Your inspection of the commodious new bank- ing rooms and vaults, designed to conveniently accommodate the increased demands of a growing community will afford us all much pleasure. HENRY R. HALE, President. This Bank will not be open Saturday evening, September 30th, from 7:00 to 8:00 P. M. 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