Arizona republican., 1913-11-04
EQUAL TO BEST
 BETTER THAN MANY
Nearly Every County Rep resented With Unique Exposition of Practical and Worthy Work Done In High and Common.

Judging in the educational exhibit began yesterday. It is the largest exhibit of it's kind that ever has been gotten together in the state, and so impressed was Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the Journal of EducatiOn'' of Boston with the exhibit as he was taken through it, that time and again he stopped to express his ap- preciatton of what Arizona has done in the way of education.
 He freely expressed the opinion that the exhibit was equal to many, and better than many, others that he has seen in the east and middle west. Dr. -WinShip comes to Phoenix for the purpose of attending the meeting O. the joint teachers institute of the several counties of the state, which opens in the high school auditorium this morning.
 The exhibit of the educational de- partment of the state at the fair this fall is complete. It is complete from the first to the last booth and has in il representations from nearly every part of the state, from all classes of citizens, English and English speaking. It comprises the work of all the schools of this county, and of
  other counties in the south, of several of the complete counties of the north, and of districts from all the north.
 Taking the booths in the order in which they were visited, Mesa is the first and be it said, it is one Of the best of the exhibits in the WOm1 ans building. The high and tho grammar schools are combined in the one booth, and were it not for the culling of the material and the classy arrangement in the booth, it would at least appear over crowded. On the other hand, it is as cozy a little booth as could be desired. It has the work of the schools from the first grade to the highest grade, including the domestic sciences and manual training departments. But the chief interest centers on the fact that this is the only public school exhibit which shows it's crops grown ir it's own fields by the students in the agricultural department. There are samples of grain and corn, as well as other samples of crops and vegetables hung above and in the booth, showing how the Mesa schools help their prospective farmers and the work these farmers are now doing.
 Osborn booth is a very good and complete one, comprising exhibits from the academic, domestic science end manual training departments. The most noteworthy, of the exhibits of this school are the drawings and the miniature rugs of an Indian weave. These latter are woven as it appears on the looms as used by the Indians, and are so exact and
 .J. Te. almost impossible to tell them from the real and original article.
 There is a special competition booth where are arranged all the specially entered articles entered for prizes The exhibit includes work from all grades, but it is most re- markable in the manual training de- partment. The articles are from the first to the last the better, or the best, that has been done in that special line in which they fall in each of the contesting schools. One i,. particular which attracts the eye is the free hand paper cutting picturing "In Our School Yard"
 Tempe public schools and Tempe union high school are entered in the same booth. But the entry of the two schools, if it were spread just T little, would be big and comprehensive enough to fill three booths well. It is made up of the work of all the grades, from the tots to the seniors in the high. including in it's lists all lines of work generally done in school of the best class. There are exhibits of the handiwork of the manual training and domestic science departments. of drawing, writing, mapping and what not. In the man uaI training and domestic science de partment the frame work is the most impressive to the visitor, while the manual drawing work on one side Of tho booth attracts immediate and