Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-21

800, 900 pupils. Arizona is especially remiss in the opportunities which she affords her young people in this re- spect. Except in Phenix and possibly
 one or two other places, the young people or this territory are obliged to seek such privileges beyond her
 pounds. 1t Is every young persons
 right to know the great events of his
 tory, the general facts of science, and
 the principles of our mother tongue as taught in the modern high school. Whenever these must be acquired
 away from home, there is a distinct
 loss to the community financially,
 and to the pupils individually in the absence of parental guidance and in
 fiuence at the most formative period
 of the pupils life. The school law to high school development in the sense that it requires a special vote
 in any community before high school establishment, and then requires that a high school SO established shall be maintained, not from the general school fund, but by special tax lev jed for the purpose. In many of the older states the mat ter is left entirely to the discre- tion of the school board. and such expenses are met from the general fund.
 The modern high school stands in the place of the college of fifty years ago, for the training of the latter fifty years ago differs but little from that of the former today. This is proven both by comparison of their courses of study, and from the average age of their graduates. The college gradu- ates in the time of our fathers or grandfathers completed their courses at about the age of our high school graduates of today. It may not then be irrelevant to mention what college training has done for our ancestors.
 Dr. Bashford says that one person in fifteen hundred in the United States is college graduate, yet over fifty per cent of our congressman, su- preme court judges and presidents are drawn from this mere handful of our citizens. If we turn to the profes- slons, the facts are still more striking. More than seventy per cent of the leading clergymen, lawyers, physi- clans, and authors are college gradu- ates. Again, of the fifty-three men representing the highest attainment in the civic life, literature and art, of Massachusetts, more than forty three are college graduates. It is estimated that of men in the ordinary walks of life and with out this higher training, one in ten thousand rise to a position of distinction, while of the college grad uates, one in forty rises to a position of distinction. Every chief justice in the United States, with one excep- tion, has been a college graduate.
 "f then, as J. Stanley Brown | says, "a college education is desirable | and beneficial, how much more neces- | sary is it that every young man or woman be given an opportunity to be- come a graduate of this college of the people, the Public High School. '" And recent statistics make the follow ing claims for the high school:
 l. That its graduates have five or six times as many chances for success as those without such training.
 ?. That high school education can be obtained at home for one-third of the cost away from home.
 3. The Santa Fe R. R. (among other great corpOrations) has recently sent instructions to the effect that preference henceforth shall be given to public school graduates in the em- ployment of new help.
 The coming high school will yet be more useful to the masses of the peo- pie than both the college and high school of the past. As the modern high school is recognizing our con structive and industrial needs, it will yet broaden SO that it may at every point lay hold upon the every day life of the people.