Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-01

i; School Department would entail nc { additional costs upon the taxpayers According to statistics reported by | Prof Philbrook last night the school census has doubled during the past | three years Last year the census
 showed 1915 children in the district
 of school age. and the prediction of the census marshal for this year is 2500. Attention was called to the seating capacity of the district which | by crowding, can accommodate only
 160O. and Prof. Philbrook is of the opinion that additional school rooms
 will be necessary before the new term
 Is opened. The cost of the erection
 of additional buildings would be rais-
 ed by a small special tax, and Prof. Philbrook stated he had no fear of the result of such an election, and
 spoke with pride of the s75,O00 school building erected in Bisbee two years
 ago in this manner
 Good schools are a builder of com munities,'' said Prof. PhiIbrook, and
 he predicted a population for Bisbee of 10000 within the next few years
 Before concluding. the Professor call. ed attention to the manual training
 and Kindergarten departments which
 had been installed during the past
 year. and made the pleasing announce.
 ment that Bisbee High School gradu- ates were received into the Universi. ty of Arizona, the University of Cali fornia and the Arizona normals. In conclusion. Prof Philbrook urged the parents present to allow their chil dren to remain in school until the end Mir. John Blair took for his OTatiOn ''Fhe Juvenile Courts,- and by his re
 marks showed that he had made 6
 careful study of the advantages of this | system for correction of the youth oi
 the land, over the old idea of forcing | the young into close association, un. | der unfavorable circumstances, with hardened criminals. Mir. Blair stated 1 that the Juvenile courts were the re | suit of a new spirit which was abroad
 in the land, and cited Massachusetts Colorado and several large cities as
 shining examples of the success of the
 new idea. surround a boy" said MT. Blair, with good influences, and you will produce a good citizen, and good citizenship Is the every founda ! tion of the American Republic"
 Mir. Newman took for his subject Child Labor" and delivered his ora. | ton in very pleasing manner MT, Newman said that the nation must protect itself against the crime of
 child labor, and likened the employer of child labor in the sweat shops of
 the great cities to robbers, who would
 steal away the happy days of child
 hood, and leave in it's place a stunted
 body and life filled with regrets. | Prof. Andrew Douglass, of the Uni yersity of Arizona. delivered the bac
 calaureate address, and took for his subject Every Day Mountain Climb ! ing" After describing some diff cult ascents the speaker had made in ] South America and Mexico, at one time reaching an. elevation of nine | teen thousand feet, the Professor pro l ceeded to impress upon his hearers | the necessity of endurance, prepara ! ton and encouragement in the every day mountain climbing of life. Prof l Douglass address was we'll received and he laid particular stress on the l necessity of preparation in the high l school and college for the task ot i climbing the mountain of success iI i later years.
 At the conclusion Of the exercises
 the audience sung America" stand ] ing. and the 'O7 school term had pass
 ed into history.