Arizona republican., 1910-09-25
.FAVORS SEGREGATION"
 MIR. HENRY C. WHITE
Would Use Madison Street School For
 Deaf Mute Children.
To the Editor of The Arizona Repub-

To the Editor of The Arizona Repub- lican:
 Sir-I see by your paper and others that the colored citizens of Phoenix object very much to the segregation of their children in one public school. which has been built for their special accommodation, but does not suit their purposes. Madison street school is a fine building architecturally, and l for one would not object to the
 segregation" of the deaf mute chil- dren of the territory within it's walls. With a few alterations, it could be made into a dormitory, with one or two class rooms
 Owing to the unfortunate framing up of the school law relating to the education of the deaf, which makes it mandatory on the territorial board of education to send all the deaf and dumb children of Arizona to schools
 in outside territories or states to be educated. the board cannot give any part of the annual appropriation of
 $3. 900 towards assisting a school for the deaf within territorial limits. The law is an injustice to the deaf mute children and their parents as it stands at present. The boards hands are
 tied until the law is amended or re- peaIed by the next legislature, but
 that is a long time off, and mean
 while there are but four children be- ing educated outside of the territory,
 while l have received enough names
 to show that there are still others left, growing up uneducated.
 i'm oil
 have established schools for the deaf
 at their own expense, and if the city
 of Phoenix or the county courts of
 the territory will pay a small amount
 per week per capita during the school
 year for each pupil resident in said
 counties, the problem will be solved.
 The territory is obliged by law to
 paw not less than $500 per capita per
 annum to outside states, especially
 California, for the education of it's
 deaf and dumb children. That is
 great deal more than the territory
 ought to pay for a school of it's own, as it is well known that the larger
 number of inmates there are to be
 fed and boarded. the less will be the expense per capita.
 As the annual appropriation is
 $3, 900, the number of pupils to be
 educated in outside states is limited
 to ten children. As there are 100,
 more or less, of them in the territory.
 it is obvious that all of them cannot
 get the priceless boon of an educa-
 ton If the city of Phoenix will turn
 over the Madison school To the deaf
 mute children of the territory, and l C x,riIl ha education of one to five pupils each,
 the territory will be able to point with
 pride to a school of it's own for it's unfortunate deaf and dumb children. Why not? The territory of Utah has had a similar experience. IL built up an expensive series of buildings in ogden for the territorial reform school for boys, but there were not enough bad boys in Utah (what a record for Utah and pOlygamyD to fill up the institution, which stood yawning and empty in all its splen- dor, and the whole thing was turned | over to the school for the deaf for | it's occupancy, and the school has 1 grown up to the needs of the state will take the Madison school off | the hands of our colored friends, if l the city council is willing.
 i As an instance of the sentiment of the parents or guardians of the deaf | and dumb children in Arizona, l quote | few lines from a letter l have just | received from a well-educated gen tleman of Tucson:
 q noticed an article in the Citizen
 regarding your wish to establish
 school for the deaf in Arizona, and I note that you expect to appear at | a meeting of the board of education | to urge the establishment of such a school. I have two children. a boy
 of F and a girl of 10. both now at | tending the California school, but l
 would be pleased to bring them back, 1 if we had a school here for them l am leaving for Phoenix tonight. and
 would be pleased to meet you, and l if I could be of any assistance to you | I would remain there until the meet | ing of the board"
 | This straw shows which way the wind blows. The children and their parents desire an education at home HENRY C. WHITE