Whole Town's Talking: Cambridge, Iowa part 3

may english in mathematics in science you cannot do that on the low King John on which they pick on Larry he's a little bigger but though would you like to explain this chart here of the tax rate of the present district that search ties in with what you're trying to get over here about the curriculum and the cost of that what's that big talk let us show this one first came breeches village is 65 mills to the dollar assessment what does that mean for you the estimated cost of the reorganized unit is 25 mils to the dollars they're durable districts will make no difference one way or the other because their rate is 15 mils to the dollar that is set by state law and they cannot be charged more than 15 mils to develop will be applying rural districts known as in english and help us pay that 65 milfs of the bower or will they join with the reorganized school at once pay 25 minutes i'd like to challenge it fuck you John the smallness of our school Cambridge is very strategically located relative to des moines names a farmer told me or I heard farmer tell another man not long ago that within 15 years the whole area between des moines and Ames will be a residential section that means that we're going to be within that expanding expanding territory that means that people are going to live in memories and the population is not going down but it's going to increase the thing that we're interested in is our boys and girls and I'm emphasizing this spirit of democracy and we've got to have that in our business and we've got the finest places of business for any small town in the state of Iowa look at our stores we've got the finest local newspaper and our bank and all these things and we've got a school there then all we need to do is get behind it and buy our church is backing it up and increase the spirit of democracy democracy which lies in our church and in our school and in our homes the first of all is our homes that are being established and we're going to be at the children and the children and if you could heard the expression how these boys and girls here tonight therefore our school big right over here let's let French me everybody's in the herd well mr. Dyer you stated 200 students I believe in having to student-teacher relationships I don't we could have with 200 students are some here to graduate from bigger high schools said they didn't have the relation between those students or the teachers I think they should have that it's got to be there the vision any school spirit at all right here mrs. cars with you I'd like to say something concerning your chart I noticed that you have speech and drama all right in a if we reorganize and they had a special teacher for that make it real breathe through their giving me a little but just the same each one of us in this school have that chance with their place I hate to stop a woman you can see a very vivid fashion here that Cambridge has got a problem it's not alone in that problem everywhere you look in America my own community towns across America face this problem now you're going to vote in a couple of minutes you're going to give an important vote it's trying to have meaning it's kind of mean things to you in two people but I believe before we do that we ought to have John here sort of give a rebuttal in a second or so or something like that to you neighbors about school reorganization John would you say something about school reorganization my life school reorganization is the only answer why do you where will you get your people and as I said before they what is for Interpol the education of our pupils is it for our own pleasure we as adults taxpayer is it as an asset to business is that the purpose of a student or is education it has been proved over and over that the largest schools offer better or rounded education Larry you still feel the same way about consolidation I'm sorry they picked on Johnny's much littler it's I like you I feel if they're striking right at the roots of our American democracy by this reorganization plan I don't feel that a large unit is going to solve our problem our whole American democracy was founded on small units and by doing that they're trying to take the ruts out of us are trying to give us a taxation without representation large areas few school board members in the state of Iowa we now have more school board members and schoolteachers and we won't have that with reorganization what's this reorganization he says our consolidation he says does it mean we can you went like this exist does it mean we can stay in Cambridge oh boy I hope so I think we have to consider the children definitely and we have a little community now in a democracy we have to put an issue up and look at it look at it intelligently then we've got to vote we got to do something about it the whole town's been talking now the whole town's got to vote we hope the people back home will take hold of this issue in a democratic fashion and do things problem now on your desk you have a little button and you push that and you phoned up here now if you put your hand over the button you can have a secret file what do you do that now I'm going to watch the time here remember you have steak would take relations I'll dig or reorganize now I'm going to get ready here and I'm going to time time you and you hold your vote are you ready set go boom are you holding it down i'll vote and hold it down that's five seconds ten seconds 15 seconds there it is why don't we got somebody helped me here about three or stay put none of you want to pay the tuition and how many of you want two three four five six seven is that right and we got down here to have it would we've got to 37 to that right 10 12 now you've changed your minds a little bit haven't you again we got two people that want to organize now in your secret ballot before you had it this way in your discussion this afternoon there were three of you want to stay put none of your pay tuition aw wanted to consolidate and one run to reorganize you've changed your mind now you want to reorganize that's a healthy thing and I think the thing you see that we need to see all across America is that communities alone can't settle their problem cambridge isn't got a settlement problem home it needs the other towns around it now the thing you've demonstrated is that you can crystallize and bring together the solution of this problem in a democratic fashion it's the democratic processes facing decisions making them knowing that you might have to change them later on you've been a great group good congregation y'all sit down go ahead Eldora Iowa this is Eldora population 3100 Eldora is the seat of Hardin County Iowa in eldora the whole town's talking people are saying why isn't there a countywide plan for school district reorganization if we're going to do something about our schools we have to start with a Hardin County plan next Thursday night january tense 1952 to eldora seat of Hardin County comes television to catch the face and voice of America itself w/o ITV has presented the whole town's talking an Iowa State College production for the fun for adult education does your 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