The Holbrook news., 1920-08-27

Dear Editor:-Please tell the voters of Navajo couny that Alfred T. Bond is in the school race for the following good and substantial req sons:
 |. Navajo county, with it's four high schools, should certainly have a college man with fine skill in the various modes of thought-expression, broad intelligence, professional train ing, and successful experience not only in the common school subjects but in general high school and cOl- Iege work.
 II. He is not only a graduate of two standard normal schools, one of international repute, but college man who holds a life high school dip lOma, with 8 years of efficient ser vice in all tire grades; 5 as prin- cipal; 8 years in all the basic and several special subjects as teacher and principal of two high schools and two academies; years in a normal
 
 structor and supervisor in manual training; Specialist in drafting, en- gineering mechanics, physics and mathematics; and trainer and coach in gymnastics and field and track athletics winning the first prize in drawing, jumping, and running, get ting the highest percent in drafting, civics, and music, and completing his course in one year less than the pre- scribed time and taking three ex- tras-paying his own way both in Salt Lake and Chicago by doing odd jobs on the side.
 III. He has taught penmanship, bookkeeping, and typewriting in two ness college; has had practical ex- perience as a bookkeeper for two business firms, an engrosser of school diplomas for the University of Utah, the Jordan High School, the L. D. s. Hospital (nurses' class), several coun- ties, and the Salt Lake Litho. Co; has held the office Of county recorder, also stake and ward clerk, stake se- cretary, S. s. and M. I. "teacher trainer" and "class leader; is a school architect and builder, "a mechanic of no mean order, "few can surpass him in cabinet work, having helped to design and super wise the building of the beautiful Snowflake Academy, outlined the plans of the Normal Building of the University of Utah, planned and built the famous "Jungalo" and the up-to-date school house at Lakeside.
 ". He has invented and con structed several important musical and mechanical instruments, etc, among them being a. "BondJo"; swimming buoy or life preserver' a water swing for children and grown ups; a shaving catcher for planes; a botanical kit; a geological press; a monocycle Gift. circular racer; al spiral plane or safety first" flyer; an angle divider and protractor for use in architectural and mechanical drafting and engineering, surveying and astronomy, the only instrument in the world that will automatically trisect an angle; a problem that has been tried in all countries ever since the time of the early Greek mathematicianS
 " If, therefore, the voters see fit to elect him School Superintend- ent, he will not only inspire the little childern to study and think originally, but the high school girls and boys to new and higher thoughts in the arts and the sciences and to make something different, useful and original, cultivating the inventive, creative Spirit of Modern America; the why of winning in peace as well as in war.
 Now Dear Editor, and Voters also: If you have read this with careful attention and believe it (and which believe you will dol, and base your ballot only on professional "qualifiea- tiOnS and fitness for the office" (which in justice to the schools you should dol, I shall be satisfied with the results of the election on Sept. Eth.
 Sincerely and Thankfully,
 ALFRED T. BOND,
 Democratic Candidate