New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-12
GIVE UNCRUDCINc SUPPORT
TO YOUR SCHOOLS

ards are high, the community so
served is progressive. alive, vigorous
and generally prosperous; for in some
way success goes hand in hand with
education in the mass lay of life; al.
though it does not always accom-
pany the individual highly educated
man or woman. One Of New Mex
ico's most serious handicaps has been
lack of educational equipment Until
recently there has been a lack of
interest in educational work, and as
natural consequence, not only edu-
cational but general advancement
has been slow. Under the territorial
government the community lacked
means of its own with which to pro-
vide schools. The aid extended by
the federal government was mea .,er
aside from the great land grants,
given chiefly for educational endow-
ment purposes. 1t is true that these
grants constitute a princely gift. and
il the same kind of efficient man
agement can be given the land grants
that has been given them during the
past ten years they will eventually
produce a splendid annual income for
our schools. However, until the past
four years the income from the lands
has not been sufficient to provide
any large sum for education pur-
| poses.
New Mexico is now throughly
awake to the need for educational
! equipment. Parents demand educa-
tion for their children and the child
rem themselves demand that basic
education which will give them an
equal chance in life with their fell
lows. We have but to continue in
the way we are going to place this
state on par in education with any
state in the union. and in a very
few years.
But we must keep on going. New
Mexico is young in development, in
fort The fine equipment we now
have is only beginning. The schools
we have built; the faculties we have
employed; the funds we have raised,
are only primary to the course of
educational building we must go
through
To provide properly for our educa-
tional growth we must spend more
and more money each year upon our
schools, from the rural district school
to the state university. Taxation for
school purposes cannot be and should
not be decreased for years to come
We should make an extra effort and
an extra sacrifice, if necessary. to
keep every department of our school
work at highest efficiency during the
war; because in doing that we not
only are doing the right thing for
Our children and our state, but we
are taking the sanest course to aid
in winning the war. and to make
proper provision for meeting the big
problems we must solve after the
war is over
1t was with the idea of bringing
home to the readers of New Mexico
Ruralist the thoughts suggested above
that the special educational section
of this issue was prepared. This
special school number shows the solid
groundwork that has been laid for our
common school system 1t shows the
fine equipment for training teachers,
for making soldiers, for giving techni-
cal and practical training in mining en-
gineering and agriculture. and for
tue broad, liberal education that We
classify generally as "a college train
ing"
Undoubtedly the people of New
Mexico may Justly take pride in such
an educational showing as this edi-
tion describes Undoubtedly they
will demand that it be maintained
and given all necessary financial
backing SO that it may proceed to-
ward broad. well-rounded develop
ment and healthy growth. They will
resent any effort to economic. even
during the war. at the expense OF
necessary educational equipment. and
they will. we believe. lend their sup
port TO those who insist that this
equipment be maintained and devel-
oped as rapidly as possible along the
present rational lines. 1t is for your
child and mine that this educational
equipment is being built up and this
educational work done We are for
it. We are proud of the progress it
has made. We will insist that it con-
tinue to progress along sane. COM
mon sense lines. until our New Mex
leo educational equipment is as good.
as through. as broad as that of anv
state in the union.-New Mexico
Ruralist.
SILVER SPEClU ATORS RARRED