The Parker post., 1913-05-24
TO THE VOTERS
OF YUMA COUNTY

and my plans in part III another col
umn OF this issue. | ask you to read
it carefully, and to consider in an
unbiased manner the merits the
same.
| | have conducted the duties of the
OF an assistant has been imperative
at all times, this deputy or assist
and | have furnished at my own eX-
pense. The total appropriation for
deputy hire for this office, is 500.
| per annum. Yet | have kept con
stantly employed in the office, a
! deputy, or assistant help at an aver
age of about $50. per month, or
! little more than one half the entire
salary of the office The correspond
ence Of the office, classification and
selection, and direction of applicants
to the proper clerk Of the school the
applicant is fitted to serve takes con
stantly the service of a good stem
ographer. This is the only way in
which the corps Of Teachers in the
county may be kept up to the stand
ard, the only way to prevent the
selection Of Teachers from degenerat-
ing into haphazard selection, with
out unity, and without plan By
such classification, and careful di
rection | did succeed in securing a
''better class of Teachers for Yuma
County. And the result of such care
full selection has been distinctly felt
throughout the entire County A hap
hazard Teacher is a ten-fold loss.
In what other way is such haphaz
ard selection to be avoided?
The educational work Of this office
has been pronounced by the leading
educators Of the state, and by the
Governor Of the state to be the best
presented in the State of Arizona
The detail work of the office has
been performed with scrupulous
fidelity, eXactness and thoroughness
1t being thoroughly established that
the work Of the present incumbent
of the office is of a high order, it
remains only to determine whether
incumbent OF the office whose recall
right in the matter involved in the
dispute between himself and the
School Board of Yuma If right,
he should be indicated by
the electorate Of Yuma County. He
should be retained in office on May
3lst No right minded man or right
thinking woman should ask the recall
OF an officer just in order to place
in position friend or faVorite
A great principle is involved. For
the candidates before the Public
have only. the highest regard. They
are all worthy, Well qualified kindly
women, with high ideals, and lofty
ambition; and in an ordinary elect
ion | should refuse to compete with
them for the position they cOVet. !
In the present instance | am forced
10 protect my name. 1t is not a
question OF who is most fit for the
position, it is admitted that the in
cumbent's administration of the OF
flee is above the average, the ques-
tion to be decided is this:
"WAS HESS RIGHT IN HIS RE |
INSTATEMENT OF THAT DIS |
CHARGED TEACHER? If right, he
should be indicated, as a matter
o. principle, even if the President OF
Harvard University offered to take
the place. If Hess believed in the
Innocence, competency and fitness OF !
Ihis Teacher, then it was his i'm |
peratile duty to protect and to re-
instate her whatever the consequent |
ccs might be. Her competency is be- |
yOnd question. The writer unqual-
lfiedly states he never saw her sJs-
perior as physiology Teacher, /
which WAS her speciality. Dr. Clay
ton, the Principal Of the Yuma |.
Grammar Schools, stated to the |
writer that she was one OF the best |
Physiology Teachers he had ever
seen in graded school work AS TO /
her innocence, Doctor Ray Ferguson
Of Yuma, one of the leading physiu- |
ians of Arizona, has issued his GER
tificate and has authorized the use of .
his name as her attending physician
while sick in Yuma for three weeks |
before her mother removed her to .
hospital on the coast, where she .
languishcs, her very life trembling
i'll the balance, that she was without |
question a virgin girl, pure and clean,
free from any sexual or Venereal |
trouble. Her nurse, a we'll informed |
woman past middle age, is emphatic
in her corroboration. Her physician
now in charge Of her case stands
ready To further cOrrObOratp. Sattla-