Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-27

trict who do not attend school because of the lack of accommodations. There fore, during the month of October there were 530 children who should have beer in school, but who could not have been accommodated had their parents desired to send them
 Let us examine little further. From . perusal of the reports of the teach CTS for the same month, it appears tha, the classes, with one or two exceptions are greatly crowded, the number of pupils attending in each room ranging from B to 72, and in all but two of the eighteen rooms, exceeding 35, which is considered the maximum number of pupils that should be under the instruc ton of one teacher. There are in fact 2o4 pupils in the Globe schools, and regularly attending, above the maxi. mum number that can be properly cared for. This excess of 264 added to the $50, the number of children now deprived of instruction, gives a total of 794 children of school age now in Globe for whose education provision should be immediately made.
 That is not all. In the above com putation no allowance is made for the growth of population here and the cor responing increase of school children to be accommodated. It is good opinion that Globe is on the eve of a great boom that will place her in the front rank of Arizona cities. In order to carry out the deduction, we will allow for an increase of 1900 in population within the next year, of whom 200 will be children, which appears to be con servative estimate. Therefore, we can reasonably count upon having to pro vide additional accommodations a year hence for 994 children, practically dou. bling the number now enrolled in the schools of this district. If we were to limit the number of pupils in a room to thirtyhve, there would be required for the housing of these pupils five new school buildings of six rooms each. If the present congestion is allowed to continue, four new school houses of that size could be made to answer. That is the situation confronting the parents, taxpayers and school authori- ties of Globe school district.
 The school trustees say we should issue $50,000 bonds and build a high school. Let us examine into this phase of the school question. In October there was an average attendance of forty-two in the high school classes. In the eighth grade there are thirty. seven scholars who will be eligible to enter the high school next year. Not all will desire to. But we will estimate that double the number-of pupils now attending high school would apply for admission next year if a separate build. ing were provided for them. We would then have eighty-four high school stu separate high school: Two teachers are now employed, principal at a sal. ary of s200 per month and an assistant at slll. Were a high school building provided, in all probability four teach CTS would have to be employed. The 1 salary list would then amount to $j33 per month, or $l,797 for the school year of nine months. A iantor's wages at s90 per month would be $10S0 per year; interest on s50.0OO bonds, $2500; in. surance on s30,00O at the rate of 2.75 would be ss25; heat, light and water, and incidental expenses, $500; for keep ing the building in state of good preservation and replacing damaged ap- psratus and furniture, $400. Adding these items of expense we have total of $l0,502 as the cost of maintaining s separate high school.
 The real question to be decided by the taxpayers in tomorrow election is, therefore, whether it were better to make provision for the education of s4 high school students, or for 994 children in the graded schools. There should be no hesitancy upon the part of the voter in deciding for the accom-. modation of the greater number. The high school is of secondary importance and should remain so until the district has made ample provision for the care of the rapidly increasing number of children eligible to enter the common schools
 Taxes are collected on property with in the Globe school district of the as- sessed value of $4,2l2,635 The levy for the county school fund is 50 cents on the $l00; for Globe district No. |, II cents for interest on bonds and to provide sinking fund, and five cents for the high school fund, making a to- tai of 66 cents per slO0 collected from property taxpayers in this district for SC chool purposes, or total of $27 ,S03.39. Globe school district now has bond ed indebtedness of $59,000, on which the interest up to the date for their redemption will amount to $35,000
 Instead of voting bonds for high school building, the writer is in favor of calling an election to vote an issue of $lOO,00O bonds, $6o,OO0 of the pro- ceeds to be expended in the purchase of suitable ground, centrally situated, and the construction of school build ing of fourtees or fifteen rooms, of which two or three could be devoted to