Arizona republican., 1895-04-07
TO BE OR NOT.
The High School Ques-
ton Tomorrow
Will Go One Way or the
Other.
Shall 1t Be & Joint or a Single
High School District?
A Series of Arguments in Favor OF
High Schools Generally and
Joint Districts Particularly.

The high school question will be voted
on tomorrow. Notices of the election
were posted yesterday by the order of
County Superintendent Grouse. The
election involves not only the question
of high school, but whether it shall
be high school for Phoenix district or
joint high school including the twelve
adjoining districts which want to CO.
operate with Phoenix in the formation
of high school district. The deter
mination OF this particular question
does not appear to have been con-
templated in framing the law, or rather,
the law is silent upon the subject OF
elections for this purpose, though it
provides for an election upon the high
school proposition. The lawmakers
probably took the view that union OF
two or more districts would be generally
desirable and that the establishment
by any district of q high school within
its own limits would be dernier resort.
The polls will be opened at O'Clock
and will be closed at four. The cleo
ton officers are: Inspector, G. W.
Johnstone; judges, J. G. G. Ii. Boone
and CT. Dyer clerks, N. A. DeConnick
and W. H. Black.
THE REPUBLICAN is in receipt of two
communications On the subject OF the
high school. The first consists in a
series of arguments in favor of high
schools regardless Of the joint or the
single distinct quee on end Is as follows: :
IA liberal education develops liberal
and Independent men and women. A
free people!
"a thinking community is a pro-
gressive community. High schools
develop in the young the power to
think.
sit pays to educate. A cultivated
intellect has greater capacity for the
production OF wealth than the unedu-
Gated. Real estate values are highest
where the people are most Intelligent.
Remove YOUR schools and your prop
erty is worthless.
THE grammar school is only the
foundation for liberal education.
The high school is the superstructure
which should be built upon it.
The United States government
a
annually costing about $25, 900. This
institution is practically worthless to
the people of Arizona for want of high
schools to qualify students to enter it,.
Let US have high schools and prepare
our capable boys and girls to reap ad
vantage from the highest and the best
the university"
The second is presentation of the
objections to union district, with re-
plies to them in order. 1t is as follows ::
"The district would be SO large and
the number of pupils so great that it
would be difficult to manage. Yet San
Francisco manages larger school.
"a high school accommodating g
population of 10000 will require greater
capacity in its management than for a
population of 5000, but the equipment,
| efficiency, capacity, and number of
students benefited will be more than
correspondingly great.
"That school is most valuable which
benefits the greatest number of people.
"Strife and antagon1sm may be en-
gendered between country and city peo-
ple-while the children of both now
attend the same school in peace and
harmony.
cit is unfair to the large landowner
to be taxed to help educate the children
of families which have settled about
his lands. He holds said lands tor in
crease in value, and since such increase
accrues through and because of the
settlement and improvements made by
such families, he ought, therefore, to
| hold and naaseas all the increase and
render nothing in return to the com.
munity."