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Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEED MORE ROOM Board Plans For Central Building Build-ing to Relieve Congestion MATTER NOW RESTS WITH COMMITTEE COM-MITTEE OF COMMERCIAL CLUB. Several Moore Rooms Needed to Meet Increased Attendance. Preliminary work has been dono to relieve the congested condition In the public schools of tho city. Those plana have been submitted to tho committee commit-tee oh education In tho Commercial Boosters club, and will bo mado public pub-lic when the club has had them officially offi-cially presented to It. Supt. A. Molyncaux stated yestcr. day that theso plans hafe-been gono over carefully with tho Idea of bettering better-ing tho present school rooms of the city which are entirely Inadequatotu meet the great demands of moro students, stu-dents, If something Is not dono to relievo re-lievo tho situation tho students will have to bo sent back to basements, private buildings and tho old buildings build-ings which huvo been discarded for tho liist two or threo years. There Is no other nltornate, claims the superintendent super-intendent Already, every nook and corner of tho city school rooms havo been mado use of, and still tho pupils cannot bo properly cared for. Tho teachers havf an" average of 50 pupils In tho main central buildings, and In tho outlying buildings sufficient numbers cannot be Induced to go, nor can thoy bo asked to because of tho grades taught thero. Buildings do not Answer Demand. "it Is true," says Supt. Molyneaux, "that we havo built fltteon additional rooms In the past threo years; but It Is forgotten by the peoplo that we did' away with twolvo rooms In ordor to get thoso fifteen. So wo gained threo rooms, while tho attendance of pupils Incronscd 287, or an equivalent of seven rooms. We nro eight or ten years behind In building requirements require-ments of tho students for proper room. And peoplo ask, when tho matter Is laid before thom, why we do not open up the old buildings- Supposo we do; will thoso peoplo submit to us sending send-ing tholr children to them? Whcnovor wo proposo doing so, thoso samo peoplo peo-plo loudly protest at tho action." Plan Central Building. Tho plans of tho board Includo an-other an-other large central building of olght or twelvo rooms, tho basement of which could bo used for manual training train-ing work. Tho nature of tho work In this now building would bo what Is called sub-high school, or a grammar school on the plan of tho high school. By this schemo In other cities the public school course Is made to oxtend over six years and then six yoars In tho high school. Tho details of tho proposed pro-posed manner in which tho additional room will bo secured for tho school Bystem will not bo glvon out, however, howev-er, until after tho Coramorcial-Boost-ors Club has boon prosentod with them. |