Williams news., 1906-04-14

started. What was the first thing that had to be done? We had to carry boxes up there for seats. What would we have done with one room? You say the people didn't have any sense; they ought to have known they would have needed two rooms. Don't say it, for you are doing worse now than they were. Then they had to issue bonds for what they needed. We have got the money lying in Flagstaff, and it belongs to the district, yet you say, Don't pay it out; let us send our children away to school" We had better pay the money out of our own pockets and let other peo- pie reap the benefit. You say 1 am selfish because I have children that need a higher grade; but there are others that have children-ffteen or twenty in town. So you want the money to lay there until your children get large enough to reap the benefit. You are not selfish; you think it is business on your part. Did you ever put up any money for a school house and the maintenance of school before you had any children of your own? If you did you are not selfish.
 Now, what we need is one large room-large enough to assemble the whole school for an entertain ment and any visitors who may wish to attend; also for the fifth teacher, which should be the prin- cipal's room. If you will not take my word for it, go up and watch the classes in the principals room for three days. He is trying to handle three grades-sixth, seventh and eighth-with several classes in each grade. He gets around every two or three days. What results can you expect to get out of that kind of work?
 You ask, where is the remedy? Put up the building we need. We have the money lying idle and do not need it for anything else. This talk of not having money enough after a while to run the school is all bosh. There will be schools after we are dead and gone, and they will all be provided for.
 Put in one more teacher to take the sixth and seventh grades and give the principal the eighth and ninth grades. Then when your children get through with them they are ready for college.
 I have been asked why put MT. Barney up for school trustee. In the first place, MT. Wolf said last year that he would not have it again. Then, again, I do not con- slider any man, who will turn a teacher down on account of his own boy, when that boy himself ac knowledges he was in the wrong, should be trustee. The only thing I had against MT. Smith was that he opposed the building of another room we need so badly, and I was taking the chance that Mir. Barney. having children quite large, would be favorable.
 However, the trustees do not have the say. First. the proper petition, properly signed. will have to 5e presented to the board. Then they will call an election, and by the vote of the district will deter mine the erection of the building
 Do you think it right that men who have to work by the day have to send their children away to school when the district has money that it has no other use for? There is MT. Yoder, MT. Carlson, MT. Tefft, MT. Wolf, MT. Barney, and a whole lot of others that are up against it next year unless we get the room we need. It will not take all the money we have. There will still be two or three thousand dol, lars. left, with more coming in all the time. Now, if there is man