The border vidette., 1919-10-25
WILL YOU HELP OR HlNDERq
Superintendent G. H. Madden Present:
 Reasons for Voting "Yes" Today.

In view of the fact that the board of trustees of school dis trict number one has called bond election for $S5, ,OOO, the public is entitled to know how this money is to be spent and something of the needs that con- front the public schools of No gales.
 The Elm street building will be completed, two additional rooms built on and a heating plant installed. A site in the northern portion of the city will be purchased and building of at least twelve rooms erected and equipped.
 AS the Elm street building now stands it is little more than mere barracks. The walls, both inside and outside, have not been plastered and no finish wood work put in. The rooms have no ceilings. There is DO heating plant in the building and with out ceilings the rooms are un- comforta ble in winter and very unattractive at all times. The exterior of the building will be completed so as to make it an attractive building.
 Few people know that nearly 500 children are daily in attend ance at Elm street building. As there are only 8 rooms this means that most of the rooms are used for half day sessions one group of children attending in the forenoon and another group in the afternoon. Even with this arrangement some of the rooms have more than 45 pupils. It is impossible for teach CTS to handle 'this number of children in the primary grades and get satisfactory results with an all-day session. They get still poorer results with the half day session. Pupils who are at tending only halliday cannot possibly complete the years work and must continue the work of the same grade next year until they have completed the work of that grade. If the bond election should fail and we cannot relieve this crowded con- dition it will no doubt mean that the half day session will be extended to the higher grades. This may come before the end of the present year, as it is bet ter to alternate the half day ses- sion than to require that the lower grades shall be the suffer- CTS all the time. They suffered from the halliday session last year. If your son or daughter, in the fourth, fifth, or sixth grade is allowed to attend school only 8 half day and will not be able to complete the work of his grade and a large portion of next year will be required to finish the grade that should have been finished this year, you will have no one but yourself to blame if you do not support this bond issue and give your own, as we'll as other children, fair chance to make their grades. Because of the failure of the school bond election in Tucson last spring the half day session has been found necessary in the high school. The upper class men are attending only half day.
 Not only do we find this crowd ed condition in the Elm street school but it exists also in the High School building. The din- ing room of the cooking depart ment has had to give way to group of grade pupils and the chemistry laboratory as we'll as the auditorium is now used for class recitation. The art room has had to go. This year the increase in the high school re- quired us to send one of the grades to the Elm street school and another must go next year as two divisions of the sixth grade will be promoted to the Junior High school, necessitating at least one additional class room.
 To relieve this congestion and give ample room for the proper kind of work throughout the school, a building of at least twelve rooms is needed, built so that additional rooms may be added later. The taxpayers of the district would not be asked at this time to further burden themselves with bonded indebt- edness if it were not absolutely necessary to give relief to the conditions that already exist. In