The Springfield herald., 1916-11-03
The Two Buttes
Sentinel on tn.
Legol Norm al


The CHEF distinction of the
Sentinel editorial of last week on
the legal normal proposition is
that it doesn't begin anywhere.
and e,ids the same way it be-
gins.
The oditor's feelings though
are IN The back ground, and as
nearly as they are traceable,
hey are decidedly hostile to the
teuchers OF the county in their
attempt to get the benefit of the
county's normal funds for their
county normal school, Jones
wanting them to support their
own normal out of their own
pockets and stop whining about
It.
The objection of making the
normal legal and thus keeping
oNr normal money at home is
that they can have better nor
u'i' elsewhere. and that the
r.chsls. the county have no
business 10 stay away.
The proposition put up by
.Ioes to the tescheys of the
iaunty is that, notwithstanding
+he rrohibitive cost, it is their
duty to, and they should get out
of the business if they don't. at
tend the district normal. Then
they should come home. pay for
their own county normal, and
attend that.
The average term of school in
the county is six months, and
the average wage $50-$30O per
year. The lowest board possi-
BILE is $4.00-$2c8 per year.
This leaves $92 to buy clothes
which probably Jones thinks are
superfluous, and to attend the
district normal. and to hire in
structors for their own normal,
and to lay up something for
rainy day.
The most remarkable thing of
the Sentinel expose is that it
night ne possible to get an ap.
preparation of some kind, by
some how, and from somewhere
for our county normal.
We don't know what this med
icine is for, or whether it Is to
be taken internally or externally
or even seriously; but think
actually it was intended to take
the place of argument.
We have been having appro-
priations. The county. while
s'nding its normal funds 70
kingdom come, has been appro.
priating money each year tow.
ards our county normal-ard
Jones says this thing must be
kept up ad infinitim.
PresumiIg that an appropria-
ton is possible under any cir
cumstances. it Is q great deal
more likely with recognized le-
gal normal than with an Illegal
one; but what Baca county
wants first is the money that be-
longs to her, and sure it is If the
state won't give that up. it won't
give up any that doesn'B belong
to her-and any other talk is a5-
sured.
We are sorry that Bro. Jones
has turned his heel on the
teachers and schools and tax
payers of Baca county in this
way, and that Earl Denney has
followed his bad advice-sorry
his election means there is to be
no legal normal in Baca county.
the county's normal funds are to
continue to go elsewhere, and
that the teachers and the county
will have to keep up "heir cou'n..
ty normal without the nurpls l
money that belongs to them.
Teachers, parents, tax pay e,.s.
this is the proposition st, ai.yht
from the shoulder. If Earl q.
Denney is elected the cour,tv's
normal funds will cont me In oo
elsewhere, and the teac hers
county and tax pr .yers com.
PEELED to support To cir own nor
NAL. If Jent and his demo-
cratic colleagues. are elected.
they will do eve thing possible
to keep our normal funds at
home.
That's the proposition in a nut
shell, and or the 7th of Novem-
YOU viii have tho r,p,ort,,r;-