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Show ( f P HIPH SCHOOL FOR BlNGHAfd i t. ' -- ... ! i i ' t - : - ''- ' ilinJlH?? f0P 801,16 Ume t0 the thinking' people of Frui Tu "I11, VT?hM D0W become fa,t- Thpre will be no new High bchool buU6 in the west end of the district. ' Ail doubt of thk fact was removed when the Jordan School Board last wc k called for bds for ntprovements and building, for the east end of thTdistrS wh,ch vnll consume the budget appropriation for budding purpoS , The enhre amount bemg appropriated, for building will more than The beauMul picture of a modern high school building which we ' Z n"6 W8 raly- picture an1 lt t0thr with the quarter million dollar appropriate for its construction, has vanished J?.-. 5 ? "r 1 ur Blnhaui is concerned. School patrons who have waited long for the time when it would be Binghams turn to get a substantial sub-stantial amount of the building funds of the district and the much needed equipment for our educational institutions, must now feel the stuig of disappointment just as their hopes seemed nearest to the long-looked for realization. In our issue of two weeks go we pointed out the drastic need for more room for our school Now Junior High pupils are being held ' m the primary schools and being denied junior high school privileges: old rooms m condemmed buildngs are beng pressed into service 'and toe senior high school is scattered out into three buildings. We now imd that if no new space is provided it will be necessary to limit the first grade pupils to one half day of school. It is not hard to imagine what a continuation of present conditions will mean to the thousands Of boysand girls who must depend on local schools for their early education and training. . Just at a time when good judgment, fair mindedness and co-op- eration among patrons of the schools would have brought about a remedy and would have supplied the paramount need, a new modern high school for this section of the district, a bitter quarrel over the location o the school burst forth and is still raging, althoug all else except the argument has vanished. 'Perhaps those responsible for the situation do not realize the great harm that they have wrought this community. Some may even believe that they haye rendered a service in mirepresenting the situation and proclaiming We do not need a new High School. " There are those who would like' to be force in public affairs, even though only as an obstacle. Their experiment in this case however, has surely proved costly to our school and the public in general. In order to animate sentiment sen-timent and feeling, outside forces have been brought in. The so called Taxpayers Association, whose real purpose seems to be to keep down the taxes of the wealthy corporations and who have experts and highly high-ly paid executives wjio organixe groups and lobby the legislatures, wiere called in to help establish the argument that a high school was not needed here. , , . , . Bungling legal counsel with no interest whatsoever other than a ; pecuniary one for themselves in the welfare of the schools of Biug-ato Biug-ato or thetommunity, caused the final episode which made it an absolute ab-solute certainty that no new high school will ever be constructed in Bingham. . ' , . , . . |