Arizona republican., 1919-09-08

A surprisingly large number of peo- pie, however. have never visited the school. and of those who on occasion, have driven through it's pretty campus or witnessed the long lines of boys and girls standing in rigid line at retreat very few have any conception of the history of the school, it's organization or its ideals of useful manhood and womanhood for the Indian children who frickle in singly, in pairs, or In ltte groups from reservations throughout fine country. to begin their terms of academic and industrial instruction.
 Founded in 1891
 Hugh Patton. father of Sarah Patton, married last week to Johnson McAfee, q graduate of the school, and now q urosperous merchant of Sacaton, was the first teacher at the Phoenix Indian school, opening school for AZ boys in the West End house at the corner of Washington street and Seventh avenue on September 1, 1891.
 The first building begun on the pres ent site was the present girls dorml- tory. started on the then Hatch ranch the same autumn. and completed at cost of s1S,000 This building was oc- cupied for the first time the following May.
 Land and buildings were added by congressional legislation from time to time through the years that followed. until at the present time there are 5e buildings of the campus. valued at ap- proximately S300,000, and 249 acres of land including so acres occupied by a from tuberculosis. The total value of land and buildings included in the Indian school and sanatorium is S629,531- 43, according to the annual statistical re- port for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919
 No Indian child enters the Phoenix Indian school except by his own ex- pressed desire, but when he enters, he must enroll for a period of three to ten years, as he prefers. Most children en- ter for period of three years, and are permitted 10 return to their homes in the summer for a month, if they do not reside at too great a distance from Phoenix.
 Entrance Qualifications
 A pupil must have one-fourth Indian blood in his veins to enter the school and at the Phoenix school 9S per cent are full bloods. Ordinarily, he must have completed the third grade at some day school or boarding school near his home, before he is accepted Certain exceptions are made to this however Tribes such as the Navajo or Papago live in arid, little populated regions where the schooling facilities are very poor. and they are accepted at an earlier stage in their education, many EsroIich ot fhc fir0n 0f T7- roIlment.
 Exceptions are also made in the case of orphans. who are received at the age of ten and upwards. By a new rule oi the commissioner of Indian affairs ef- fective this fall, all pupils who have ample means are required to pay 8 tuition of S200 year. Very few south. western Indians are able to do this however, and it is estimated by the superintendent this year that not over a dozen students at the Phoenix school will be affected by the new ruling.
 pupil at the Phoenix Indian school receives, therefore, clothing, food, med ical attendance, and an academic and industrial education free, the only thing which is asked in return being consci- entious application co his studies anG to his work. In the maintenance .oi the school the government IS paying sl42.5o0 during the present fiscal year and an additional s12,50 has been ap- propriated by congress for repairs and improvements.
 Many Tribes Represented
 Pima and Papago children comprise the greater number of the student body but there are many Hopi from the mesas of the north, Mohave, Apache Maricopa. Yuma, Zuni, Pueblo. Pawnee Digger, Mission, Navajo. Piute, Sioux Klamath, Cheyenne Kiowa, Creek Choctaw, Comanche. Wichita, Cherokee Chemehuwei, Walapai and Hoopa-
 Work at the school is divided into departments. A student goes to schoo rom noon to noon, and then work. until the following noon. Girls art taught housework, sewing. laundering domestic science, fine needlework ant dressmaking and the rudiments of mil llnery A limited number are given { preliminary course in nursing. Foul graduates of the school entered profes sionaI nurses training in Kansas Citl last July
 The boys are taught farming, dai