The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-02
TENDERFOOT TED DISCOVERS
BERNALILLO COUNTY SCHOOLS
ARE AMONG BEST IN NATION

Dear Eddie. I wish you'd cancel
that urd'i FOR sts palm bench suns
which ! left with my tailor hoe Elms-
VIE. connecticut I hate 90 cause
YOU any troublc about b.. but YOU
probably remember that u was upon
your suugostiou tina I placed tho
urdct after YOU had pounded 10 mo
uN head that ~ would hc about no boa
the shade h"ro iu Albuquerque tins
wtutrr What yDu don't know about
Sew MoNico. Iii.r. wll nll an the
hooks that hIND b.'r written about
the state.
Now I've been here for two weeks
o. understand the whole southwest
Ike e book, figure that 7 know al
about u. but there's one thing 7 can't
quite got INTO my head and 5hat Ire.
d. Do $500 many OF the mon wear
boots 30 spurs when they drive cars 70
Ia Nou' last letter. Eddie. you said
sometime about Nour Aunt Kate
thinking of coming ou here Tor her
health aud bringing the children Ten
her That she doesn't need worry about
rot being able 20 educate them out
here.
WHY. Eddie. the schools Of Bornn %
MO county. that rs tho cOuutV Alhu-
Iuorguo rs lu, are some of The host N
the nttcd States. Right up TO the
minute. In fact. thcy are so modern
ana hHvc reached such IL point Of pro-
lCftuCN that some big bird bon the fed
crul school administration or some.
thing like That. who rs figuring out a
booklet on education ana wants 10 OK
plain system Of tho eight best pub
Nc school plans 900 the couitrv. has
written - the school man here asking
Tor e cumplct, history %: tho Bernahl-
10 schools that sort OF shows whore
the schools stand. nationally
SO Won fuW f4In nIHH amt NNaN 49,
% ton 10 one shot that the kids val
be better educated here than in the
schools I'm ElmsNillc Also. Harry. /
guess he's tho oldest ouc could go 20
tho state university. It's credits are
accepted anywhere. I understand
Say, Eddie, ! wish would tell mother
Do q she needn't have any fear OF me-
getting shot o., any OF tho Mexican
bandits on the border because tho
borders so blamed far away hat II
would take them ar age 10 get here.
Say, Eddie, ! Just found ont whl.
thoro isn't any rrnfi m politics here,
tfh because every ono is NO blamed in
t'restcd In getting good men into Of
nee ihut they have an appointed
themselves politicians 10 see that the
thlng'n carried out right
REV criing back 10 the subject Of
rcadin'. rttin' and 'Uthmetc, Eddie.
you tell your Aunt Kate hat thorc =
going 20 be n big pow-WoW here in De.
ccmbcr of the state educational asso-
ciutlon, composed OF mo- % but school
teachers, and that there viii be at
least 900 OF them here Tor three
days. Then YOU ask her how manS
attended the convention of teachers in
EimaNillo last year.
II She still has D doubts or New
Mesico'S public schools. ton hor 10
write me directly Why. EIdio. prac.
ticnlly all tho kids around mere speak
good English, good Spanish and a
bunch of thom talk pretty fam French.
"a YOU bca ~ talk Spanish so
dnrned poorly that most oi them can't
understand mo, ana / thought ! kncw
% lot about tho language until 1 got
out here
I'm sorry 10 hear that Nou am have
been hit so hard with tho thu there in
ElmsNillo and other places boz tho east
We've had quite a f.egc Of n h,re. but