Arizona republican., 1919-01-26
The Lacy Bill

There is such thing as being able to ascertain the exact distance between two inaccessible points both of which cannot be from the same point But it requires lot of calculation The main thing though, is that it is not impossible though it may seem so Do those who know nothing about trigonometry and ahe use of ogarthms. These two inaccessible points may be made familiar with each other.
 So the most diverse points of view may be- though 3here seemed an impossible gulf yesterday between ahe points of view of those who advocated the Lacy hil establishing minimum salary of $lOO a monoth lor teachers and those who opposed. Each from his point of view seemed unassailabe.
 It could not be said that S1 200 year is extrava- ant salary who has spent years of preparation for the teachers vocation especially in this time of the high cost of living On the other hand, is apparent that many school districts by of their poverty pf pupils only could support $1O0 teacher, but could not maintain a school for more than six months year.
 These were the two arguments for and against the bill, and both seem incontrovertible There can be no compromise between them. They cannot both le from the point but, after aI there is way to estimate the distance between them. and when we have done that we can go a great WAY toward bridging the distance
 The argument against the bill rests upon the as sumption that our present system of raising school funds and distributing them is unchangeable. If it is not course, the Lacy bh must remain impossible But is not our system changeable:
 It ought to be any rate for it is far enough removed yet from the system which antedated our public school system when every family paid the education of it's members There was no educa- tion for those who had money. Then, We suppose str before we had a public school system. some ar tangement made in communities by forward looking members of it, by which all the children in
 
 Such an arrangement not necessarily altruistic but businesske It not good thing to have ig- norance in the community.
 Then we had the public school system with it's districts There were rich districts and there were poor districts. The former be the en- frightened, naturally, and the poor districts became drag on the now larger community. In the evolution we have not got very far beyond that primary stage of the school system. Now have in this state arrangement by whics the money paid into the whole county for schools may be apportioned to the district the basis of the school census This still deprives the sparsely settled communities of the ad yantages which the more popuous enjoy. We have gone still little beyond that in the creation or State school fund which it is proposed to increase to s1OOOoOO annually, but we apporton that in the old discriminatory way, which see is not wholly removed from the prehistoric family plan of cd1co- ton. Should not go farther and cease penalizng communities for their poverty either of material wealth or school children?
 The Lacy bill, of course, would add measura5ly to the expense of conducting our schools, but
 nk the greater cost could be offset by saving ulng of the amount which has been so freely poured 5ut and wasted under ruinous general school system. A reform of it has been proposed in other pending bills.
 That the Lacy bill would give higher grade ef teachers is ndisputable, and in consequence we would have higher grade of schools