Show SCHOOL BOARDS WOULD consolidate A the citizens of spring glen arc are all astir over their school board boad they charge that the school board of their place hai has negotiated with the helper school board with a view to consolidating the two sc hoIs 1 spring gen haa has a ve very ry mitat and comfortable lettla school houie and it in is free from debt it if they were to consolidate they would have to assume ast mo one third of the present indebtedness Indebted of the helper school which is said t be 00 the school board ward of spring glen claims that their never has ha been a graduate from their r school and that their district cannot afford the money to carry on an eighth grade they farther state that they are unable to secure first rat class teachers as the teachers do not want to teach in a mixed grade s bol hol where it is possible to condoll date schoola schools and a small school can get into a graded school it ia Is bett better lr L r than a mixed grade but it is almost impossible for the two schools here to consolidate because of several the children would have to be hauled back and forth a of two miles twice a day and where children are jammed into a wagon it ia Is not sanitary sani sanit tiry try if one child hai has any contagious disease the whole lot are very apt to be taken down with it in a few days then again at the rate the two towns are growing the helper school would eoon soon be too small to accommodate the children then they would more than likely only be allowed to attend for half time which is the case in many places over the state if the school board had to increase tho the capacity of the school then again mure indebted edreos resa we might go on citing many instances to prove that it U is not feas feasible inte to conoll con ali date the two districts at the the present time at any rate the school house at spring glen is sufficiently large to accommodate the school but there Is 1 a k kick lek because there has nev never e r been a graduate from the school the teachers claim that it Is 1 impossible to teach an eighth grade where there Is only one or two hupila for that grade and have even gone so far as to state they have hae held pupils back so as to prevent them entering the eighth grade there 1 ii no question but that spring glen could ret just as good teachers as any place in the county if it they would be willing td pay a fair salary but the old rule of cheap sala salaries rits cheap work ap plia a here the people of spring glen owe it to themselves to work for their own Int interest eresto and they are not doing so when they try to close up their own schools if the present school ia 13 not large enough to maintain an eighth grade for the expenditure of a few thousand dollar they could bo it every dollar spent increases the I 1 ai i detests of the community but to pay I 1 00 to the helper school would not help out spring glen ono one particle it looks like a man cutting off his own nose to spite his owa face this is the result of a factional fight and it is showing very poor judgment diment ju for men to allow children ane properly property to suffer to satisfy their little petty whimsical wants any one who will III do so ii either ignorant or disloyal to his community we have seen and talked with many of the leading citizens ann property owners of spring glen and they state that they have hav never enever at any time refused to support their school board and are will will wil willmen lini mei ot any time to vote a tax to further urther the interests of the school that they want to maintain their school and will do so and that tjien they start out to boost helper they will become I 1 citizens of that place first As long as thep are in spun spring glen they will sta nd the t imir con conrat iiii ti |