Arizona republican., 1919-11-23
School Insurrections

School insurrections
 The Tucson high school insurection has ended We do not know precisely what the grievances were for which redress asked. From such fragmen- tary accounts have had of the uprising, we have gained impression that the rebelious pupils believed that they had been subjected to gross inis tice and tyranny
 Perhaps they were teachers have ever been hard and tyrannical but the boys have always survived and perhaps grew sturdier under the tyranny; the finest patriots the world has known have been the products of tyranny. We have heard of a boy-that is, American boy-who was broken either in spirit or body by the tyrant of school TherA were perhaps, such tragic instances in the carly Yorkshire schools which so belabored by Dick in Nicholas Nickleby in his description of the school of Mir squeers
 We can think of nothing possible under the American school system that would justify an n- surrectien Of the pupils We might well expect an instruction in the in the home From what have learned of the Tucson case, believe that the trouble grew out of disagreement between the principal of the school and the president of the student body We cannot understand how such collision could have occurred For what purpose the student body organized? Did it assume some au- thority? If so, it in rebellion at that very in- stant for in school the authority of the head of it must be sole, supreme and unquestioned If there is in all this land who theoretically can wrong it is the head of a school.
 Not the least useful of the functions of the school the teaching and enforcement of discipline The pupil learn nothing in all the years of his tute age that will be valuable to him than discipline; than learning to and obey. Without this he command; he control himself or anybody else; without it he is fitted only to be hermit 8 hobo.
 This not the first educational instruction in Tucson. Some years ago broke out in the university. The students then had to fewer sports vents for healthy animal spirits than they have There little of baseball football, bas- ketbal and track team work There then inter school meets.
 The male students occupying the dormtory- in- stitued series of pillow fights which became every night events and were destructive of pill lows and so resulted in strewng the floors with feathers that they nterdictsd by the author- ties. When the students persisted they threat ened with expulsion and they, in their turn threat ened quit in a body. They long pieces papers about it, complaining that the course of the authorities was un- American czar-ke and not to be tolerated in the land of the free and the home of the brave: that the professors had hired be teachers and not masters and tyrans: that youth of spirit would stand for it.
 We advised with the disaffected at that t,nns and told them that the feathers which had become involved in the affair suggested other historic feathers those which have adorned the crest of the Prince of Wales since the time of the Black Prince, who them at Crecy and took them from the body of the dead, blind king of Luxembourg with the motto, 1ch Diem CT serve)
 It is the chief business of every boy in school from the time he enters the primary grade until he emerges the end of his senior year in the unver- sity to to obey, to be under authority and to acknowledge it. If he does not learn to serve and obey he has missed the choicest and sustaining article his educational menu