Daily Capital Journal

SALEM'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The noblest work that any man or woman can engage in is to help get for the growing generation better public school facilities.

In a free government, where union of church and state is forbidden, the great multitudes must depend on the public schools.

For the past two years the Capital City has taken great strides towards an adequate public school system that shall be a model.

This city has the elements of population, and is so situated as to establish the best public schools on the Pacific coast.

Those who help bring this about are worthy of the greatest praise, and deserve the heartiest public co-operation.

In the building of a new High School structure at Salem, the future of the city and state should be kept in view.

A community that aims to build up the best school system in the state should not be satisfied with anything but the very best in a building.

It should be a permanent structure and of material and a style of architecture that shall pass muster before the eyes of the whole state.

The second class of cities in the Northwest are all looking to Salem for leadership in educational matters, and we should be leaders.

A first class public school system, with a high school building that can be pointed to with pride, will be a big advertisement.

The people should take an interest in this matter.

Those charged with this duty should get the best ideas of other progressive cities.

The world is making progress in all lines, but in none so fast as in public education, and we cannot afford to fall into a rut or take any chances on one man's ideas.

Let Salem's new public school system be the reflection of the best thought and the advancement of the most wide awake communities.