Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-25
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

GET DUNN TO BUSINESS
 Enthusiasm is contagious and calculated to al least temporarily influence.
 The other day number of prominent citizens got together, talked the matter over and decided that the time was ripe to spring a county or dis trict high school building and ask the people tC vote a bond issue of $100000 for the purpose oi acquiring a site and constructing this education al edifice
 The Silver Belt, perhaps like many others recognized the necessity of increased high schoo facilities, and without mature deliberation en dorsed the scheme for county building and g bond issue of $100,000 for the purposes named
 But the Silver Belt, during the past few days has been thinking about this matter very seri ousy and weighing out conditions thoroughly
 We are still favorable to a high school of : capacity and equipage ample for the present and sufficient for a number of years to come. Bu we are opposed to county or any other kind o1 bond issue carrying $100,000 for this purpose
 It is not at all likely that signature for sucl an undertaking as this can be secured in the northern part of the county and when we con sider the matter we're not going to blame the people for their refusal to contribute toward the enterprise. So let us not be blinded by enthusi asm or imagine for minute that we can take snap action and push the enterprise through be fore the people of northern Gila really under stand the nature of the undertaking. Let us be honest with ourselves and frank with the tax payers in this matter There isn't man il Globe who does not know that high school or ar advanced education can be more cheaply secured by the children ofupper Gia in Phoenix or Tue son than in the city of Globe. It is truth equal ly as potent that local environments are not such as to prompt many parents to send their chil- dren into this city alone for educational pur- poses. Globe in this respect is not as bad as many mining centers, but still the influences are not what could be expected in more prosaic places like Tucson and Phoenix And again the cost of living in Globe is more than at many other places and especially the cities named. It isn't pleasant duty to recite these conditions but it would be folly to deny their existence or pass them by unnoticed, believing that we are deceiving outsiders.
 This high school matter, then, honestly con- sldered, IS local issue, taking within its con- fines, perhaps, Miami and Copper Hill The Rooseveltian idea of race suicide seems to be the Globe idea and there is going to be greater in- fuX of little men and women to the schools of Globe for the next few years-that is the per centage of increase of little people will be great CT than the percentage of increase among those approaching the threshold of manhood and womanhood. Now, don't get excited; we are not going to advocate the building of a gram mar school to the exclusion of high school; we are going to advocate both and along lines that would appeal to any individual expending his own money for similar purpose.
 The present central or high school as it is called, occupies one of the finest sites for high school building in the city. The site and the sur rounding grounds could not be improved upon. The location cannot be duplicated at any price m the city. The present building is in good con- dltlon, but, of course, is too small and the pres ent floor arrangement is not what it should be-. Twenty-Five thousand dollars, however. expend- ed on this building, will give to Globe one of the finest and best equipped high schools in the ter ritory. Physical development of children from fifteen to twenty years of age is quite as essen tal as mental. The grounds surrounding the present high school are ideal for the purpose, They are suited for any outdoor sport known to school or college life. Of course rebuilt struc- ture doesn't sound well in the ears of the effete. who, as rule do not pay the freight but the Sil-