Tombstone epitaph., 1908-05-17
Election Next Saturday
 to Decide High School

ihe county sup Tiutondeut asking hlm to appoint iire and place for an C election in Tombstone distrl,t tu es- A taol.sh a hign scuool, and tue elsction c IS to he held rsSt Saturday st the l. central school building. a
 This is {. move in the rishs direction Tor there is no good reason why we should not have as good school adysn { tages here as in many other towns where high schools are successfully maintained; while there are many good reasons why Se should have an up-to date high school in our midst
 ln the first place, all intelligent parents are auxiols for their children to secure the best eiucgtIOn possible
 If it is necessary so send their children away from home in order Co enjoy the . advantages of high school, many of these wise parents will do 20. This l entails both a hardship and heavy ! expense It depriyes the parents of the pleasure and help of their chil- dren, breaks up the home in a sense, and causes untold apprehension, often
 sgony and besides, few such students
 require ss much money for expenses as would be required to maintain a high
 school departmenti in the local schools
 The money spent by these boarding
 students is spent in other com mnni-
 ties and is therefore u-eiul 10 those
 communities. The same money spent
 for the maintenance cf local institu-
 tion would render much better returns
 as an investment by providing for
 more students the privileges secured
 for the comparatively few boarding
 studcnts.
 Then. too, because greater number
 of students are provided with high
 school advantages, tue money thus
 expended becomes a wiser investment
 in the earning capacity Of the citizens
 ot the community. Ten or twenty high school grad Cates are a more val
 uable asset to school district than three or five ca possibly be, for they
 can earn more In hard cash; their combined influence in social or politi-
 cal fife is greater; and they form A larger unit in any sost of actisity.
 In the next place. the local high school provides for the welfare Of the
 children because these children are not compelled to leave home at sn
 early age :n orler to secure higl , school training. The child who is
 deprived of the silent, refining inhI. ence oi home, of mother and father
 sister and brother, often goes into Iii,
 ill.equipped for the most sacred obi. gstions that deyolve upon him. Many child has plsn.ed the seeds of life.
 failure while ylt a boy or girl il
 "boarding school"
 A good high school stands for (
 higher standard of social and intel
 lectual efficiency iu the community |, Constant effort results in quickeneC
 activity. Persistent digging reveals
 the gem of true worth. The high h school provides for an extention O T the mental activity begun in the 8 grammar department. The gram r mar department provides for the fun |, damentals of knowledge; the higf
 school supplies the beginnings of 8 larger experience that counts in lie T and the high school therefore becomes ' the more socializing force az 1t is the . more generally patrOnizsd.
 ' Finally, the high schoo! accentuates = the real purpose of all public educa- I tioa. Public schools exist solely for | citizenship Good citizens are aiways 2 in demand, for Jpon their shoulders s degolve the respons blities Ci govern !, meDt. of making, applying sn1 execut . ing the laws of the country; and every
 type of progres5 depends upon gooi , citizens Organized activity is an es- [ sentisl feature of advancement. In the high school the child comes into } close contact with the laws that under . lie organic life ; he is taught the real function of all education, namely; to , see the relation between cause and ef- feet and his own position iu life. We ] may differ in our views of politics or
 religion, our codes of honor and Of moral. may vary to an extent, our . ideals may count for more or less,
 as the case m y be; but no one ques-
 tions the lasting influence Of good high school as a factor in developing
 the latent resources of character and
 intellect, in fa-hioning the raw mater
 isl of boys and girls into the finished
 product of ladies and gentlemen.
 A band oi Papago Indians arrived
 in Tombstone yesterday from the l Papago Indian reservation. near The