The border vidette., 1905-01-07
PROF. A. H. MCCLURE
Says Arizona is Up to Standard Educa-
 tionaIly---AsaInstJ JoInture.

secretary of the Territorial Teachers Association of Arizona, is stopping at the Commercial while in the city en route to the thirteenth annual conven tion of the association in Flagstaff, says the Phoenix Gazette of December 27. To a reporter of the Gazette, the professor said: ''I have attended many state educational associations in the old states east of the Mississip- pi, and while these gatherings are hers count, I have my first state meet ing to attend where superior intelli- gence is possessed to our own little gathering. Our public schools, nor mals and university are much above the average of this broad land, and while not up to the standard of New England education, it is superior to many of the great commonwealth systems east of the great Father of Waters
 Arizona civilization is not nearly what it has been pictured to be by many of the eastern yellow journals, as well as some individual opponents to progression. It is my intention on the opening day of our educational meeting in Flagstaff to secure the ap- pointnent of committee to draft resolutions strenuously opposing the |. IL l1 T rected to the president and congress of the United States. I believe the time has come when these protests cannot be too numerous, and I especially de sire this protest to go out from the six hundred intelligent teachers of Ari- zona. I hope to secure on this com nittee Superintendent of Public In struction Layton, President Babcock of the university, President Matthews of the Tempe normal, President Fay Tor of the Flagstaff normal. and the am somewhat evading your question by drifting into the statehood affair. and hope you will pardon me It is a failing of mine when talking to news paper men to talk where my heart is.
 "Now, getting back to your ques- tion of our coming gathering, will say I have worked very hard for this meeting and firmly believe it is going to be the most successful educational gathering ever held in Arizona. l have secured the best talent ln the territory, and pardon me if I say the greatest talent in all the southwest, for this occasion, and why have 1 not right to egotistically state that it will be the most interesting we'll as the best attended meeting ever held by our body? I have had the hearty support of most all the enthusiastic educators, which support alone can bring about such results.
 Another feature of which I feel to Lowell observatory one evening during our sessions. This observatory is the best in the world for viewia g the planet Mars. And every teacher in the territory feels deep interest in this since Prof. LowelPs wonderf ul discovery on this planet the 26th of May, 1903. This will undoubtedly be a great treat for every member of the associat tion.
 "Another attractive feature Is the excursion to the Grand Canyon of Arizona the last day of our institute. Comparatively few of the teachers have seen this most wonderful of all gorges. When hundreds of people travel yearly from the most distant parts of the world to have the privi- lege of lowing at its threshold, why should we, almost at its brink, not ina prove the great opportunity If it IS such that 1t has never been painted by the artists brush, ,-beyond the de- scription of the poets dream-beyond all description, then may l not add l that this will be a great climax to the gathering of this intelligent body?
 "I hope to see the educators more thoroughly organized each year until