Arizona republican., 1920-07-26

cleanliness of mind and cleanliness of body. a location where for more than seven months there has not been a single call for a physician to combat diseases of the body except where chill dren have come to the institution in bad health.
 In such an environment, working out of doors most of the time, the boys have developed into splendid gardners and farmers or indoors have learned mechanical trades. while the girls have become cooks and seamstresses whose work is creditable throughout.
 The boys not merely work the farm which turned out last year all the truck that was used by the institution but they are learning to be carpenters, shoemakers, they run the power and heating plant and they do all the plumbing. The laundry work for the two departments is Zone altogether by the boys and girls and the school is as near self supporting in it's daily needs as any state school can be made to become.
 In amusements they are given free vent with baseball for the boys. bas- ketball for the girls. both uniformed, and above all the splendid 25-piece band which is literally one of the finest I in the state.
 ternoons are spent in the spacious big ! hall where music, recitations and games are enjoyed and which is really the meeting of an adolescent literary and musical society.
 Under such conditions it is manifest that there should be cooperation on the part of the state officers. responsible for this situation, to improve the phys ical surroundings of these boys and girls. Much has been accomplished l in the past IS months.
 A swimming pool. 50 by 200 feet with six foot depth was begun in January, 1919, and finished in August of last year at a cost of $1250. Filled with cold mountain water from Post Creek canyon it is a favorite place of sport of all the children in the school. l In connection with the 130-acre farm owned by the industrial home of which 100 acres were cultivated last year by the boys and a slightly smaller acre age this year, there has recently been established a chicken ranch where there are now about 150 full grown White Leghorns and 200 baby chicks which are tended by the boys and are completed this spring.
 / The new steam laundry, left unfin- l. ished under a previous administrative control, was finished early last year and all that work for the school is done by the pupils.
 Two magnificent new dormitories have been built. That for the boys which faces the quadrangle to the south is known as Ross cottage. It was begun in August, 1919. and fin ished the past month. It contains 36 rooms, each equipped with fine three quarter bed, a kitchen. reception hall layatory and every one of the bed- rooms is an outside room.
 The other. known as Campbell cot | hr.1 for. f hc girls a kitchen, lavatory music and reading room, dining room and is ele- gantly fitted up throughout. The cost of the two buildings furnished was S7S,940, a splendid investment as it re- suited in moving the children out of the old stone houses of the fort into l thoroughly modern and sanitary sur roundings. The girls dormitory was
 begun and completed at about the same time as was Ross cottage
 A minor change has been the in- stallation of fixed military drills which have interested the boys greatly and aroused the corps of honor" sense among them. Superintendent Larson also has installed a new moving pie
 ture outfit with which entertainments ! are given at least once a week.
 In the last IS months in addition to
 their other duties. the boys of the 1 school have cleared over 20 acres of
 new land which is being for the frs
 time this year SoWn 10 crop IWt
 acres of vineyard were also cleared bS
 them and more than 1000 vines have
 been planted and they have also de-
 voted a considerab ble time to the care
 of the orchard which contains about
 10 trees. divided among plums, pears
 apples apricots and peaches. 7 Another improvement which was 5 made looking to the health of the chil-
 dren was the installation of an acety- Ienc tank at the intake where the ! water comes down from Post creek l canyon after d sheer fall of 300 fec from inc source
 ] The institution now has it's own dairy cows which are tended by the bovs and which furnish fresh milk and but ? ter for all their needs. Present plans
 Of the management call for the erection