Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
JUNKETERS FIND STUDENTLESS
 SCHOOL
LEGISLATORS, HOWEVER, SAY SUPERINTENDENT KEEPS SCHOOL IN GOOD
 FASHION
CFrom Wednesdays paiIy)

 school will not be recommended by the committee of the assembly ap- pointed to examine it, is apparent from conversations with the members of the committee who arrived here last night on their return to the capitol. Assemblyman Fred Sutter of Coehise, Phil C.. Merrill of Graham, and Frank J. Duffy of Santa Cruz are unanimous in the opinion that the cost of main taining the institution is a waste of the public money, taking into eonsid- eration the number of teachers grad uated.
 Professor Taylor, principal of the Flagstaff normal, informed the com mittee that the enrolment included a hundred young men and women, but Assemblyman Sutter was only able to find an enrolment of thirty.
 The normal buildings were found in excellent condition and in the opinions of the members of the committee suit able for almost any other public insti- tuition in the territory.
 Composition to any measure intro. dueed in a legislature appropriating public money for educational purposes by legislator, is generally disapprov- ed by the American people, especially by the residents of this territory" Assemblyman Sutter said. ''In the case of the Flagstaff normal school" he declared, ''I am compelled to ad- init that I will oppose any measure introduced in the legislature for an additional appropriation for the insti- tuition. I am not prepared to state the amount of the peoples money ex- pended in the construction of the buildings and the maintenance of the institution, but my visit to the place impresses me that the number of teachers graduated from the place could be educated at less expense to the territory in institutions of learn ing in other states.
 EProfessor Taylor informed my as- sociates on the committee that a hun dred teachers were enrolled. Person ally I found the number in the thir- ties. Two boys were met in the boys dormitory and three girls in the girls dormitory. Further search revealed the fact that only six boys lived in the boys department and twelve girls in the girls department of the insti- tuition.
 ''Cooks and walters in both diyi- sions of the institution showed that the boys lived as comfortably as New York club men.
 Personally l desire it understood that I am not eriticizing the conduct of the place, but there is no valid req son for maintaining the institution at such great expense to the territory, considering the small number of teach CTS graduated.
 CT am not in favor of the territory abandoning the place by any means or disposing of it. I consider it an ad- mirable location for a branch of some of the other territorial institutions. It can, for instance, be changed at req sonable expense to a branch insane asylum. A large number of the un- fortunates of the asylum for the in sane at Phoenix, who must suffer ago nies in the summer climate there, could be cared for in Flagstaff, adding mucn to their comfort. y
 Representative Phil c. Merrill of Graham county, in speaking of his in vestigations, showed that he is not as apt a girl hunter as is Assemblyman Sutter. He found the six boys in the dormitory but only nine girls in the girls department, where Mir. Sutter saw a dozen.
 ''I admit that it is unpopular to op- pose appropriations of public moneys for institutions of this kind," Assem- blyman Merrill said, "but in this case I feel it is my duty as member of the legislature to vote against any further appropriations for the Flag staff Normal. I am not opposing the appropriation merely because I repre- sent a southern county, only because I consider it a useless waste of the public money to maintain it any longer, considering the very few teachers in attendance.
 "People up this way" he added, "favor the establishment of a piOn- eers' home in northern Arizona. In my mind I believe Flagstaff is an ad- mirable location for such an institu- tion. Moreover, the pupils of the nor nal school can be educated as well in the Tempe normal as in Flagstaff and the normal school building in Flag