Arizona republican., 1915-04-19
PURCHASING BOARD
 TO BE CONTINUED
County School Trustees Name Three Members to attend to Buying of
 School Supplies.

Continuation of centralized purchas | ing for county schools was decided ! upon at the annual meeting of county school boards held Saturday at the 1 Monroe school, and a purchasing com ! mittee for the ensuing year was chosen. Approximately sixty trustees attend ed the sessions, and listened to discus sions of domestic science, manual training, and the work of the parent teacher associations. The law provid- ing for the semi-annuaI payment of taxes, and the chances of it's modifi- cation in the near future were dis cussed by T. T. Powers, who told of it's effect on the school fund situation. and the need of modification.
 The purchasing of school supplies through a central board was brought up for discussion under the subject of economy in school management, in which number of trustees took part State Examiner D. F. Johnson endorsed the system. as one making for economy in school operation. County Superin tendent Higgins told of the working of the plan, which has been carried out for year under his direction. Frank Dykes. representing Prof c. O. Case, read the following communication from the state superintendent of public in struCtion:
 To the School Boards of Maricopa
 County.
 l regret my inability to meet with you the 17th owing to an engagement made before I knew of your meeting.
 Probably there is no one thing more needed for the benefit of our schools than the more general and frequent meetings of school boards. These meetings in fact should be called an- nually by the county school superin- tendents of the state.
 I had the privilege of attending your meeting last year and noted with ap- proval the work that was done. The cooperative movement that resulted in a plan for large purchases of school supplies l regarded as especially com endable
 There is no reason why the school boards in every county of Arizona should not hold meetings this week and follow your initiative in the effort to secure savings in the purchase of school supplies.
 have not favored the idea of creat- ing county purchasing board by an act Of the legislature until it has first been tried out at least in a cooperative way by the concerted and voluntary action of school boards.
 In this way the plan. it's details what is good or bad about it. what should be held and what discarded, it's faults and merits can be better known and then when ,he plan is better known if it stands the test in this democratic way it can later on be more stably estab Iished by legislative enactment.
 c. Q. CASE
 Following the discussion, it was vot- cd to continue the system for the year t915-16 and J. w. Eter. A. s. Reed and w. A Hood were named members of the purchasing committee for the en- suing wear
 A feature of the all day session was the domestic science demonstration in the form of a luncheon at the school building the meal being served at a cost of but twenty-four cents per plate.
 Plans for a permanent organization of the county trustees were discussed, and steps taken to insure the forma- ton of one in the next year. Among these present at the meeting was C. Louise Boehringer. superintendent of the Yuma county schools. The pro gram follows: