New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-10-08
of an active war organization.

Within the last few months the
government has surrendered its lease
on a large number of Office buildings
which it occupied during the war and
afterward. The next step, and about
the final one In connection with the
work OF getting back to normal. will
be the destruction of the temporary
war buildings that were put up. How
sOon this will be done no one at this
time attempts to say. The temporary
office buildings are still occupied. and
the temporary living quarters prOvid-
ed for government employees are also
still in demand. But the national cap
ital is beginning to insist that these
u~nsightly structures be removed, and
will bring the subject to the attention
of congress at the coming session.
Pershing's Map In Museum.
So It will not be long until the re-
minders of the war will be confined
almost exclusively to the national mu-
scum. One Of the most interesting ex-
hibits Of the thousands in the world
war collection now being gathered at
the museum is the "Order of Battle"
map used by General Pershing in di-
recting the movements of the Ameri-
can forces In France. The wall map,
eight by ten feet in size, together with
the walls. floor and furniture of the
room in which 1t hung at American
headquarters at ChaumOnt, was trans
ferred to the museum by the war de-
partment, at the request of the general.
The map was brought to Washington
and Installed in the museum by the
sergeant and three enlisted men of the
headquarters staff. who kept 1t cor
rected and guarded 1t throughout the
war. At Chaumont the map, when not
In use, was concealed by a sliding Sec
ton of wall, which Is installed in the
same manner in the museum.
The map shows In vivid fashion the
exact situation at the hour the ar
mistice was signed. with reference to
the strength and location of all divi-
siOns, both enemy and allied, on the
western front; the correct battle line,
the names and location of command
ing officers and locations of h~eadquar-
tiers and army boundaries. There also
is a considerable amount of detailed
Information regarding the American
divisions, as. for instance, the percent
ages of fresh and tired troops and the
length of time the various units had
been in the line or In reserve.
The war collection has already as
sumed such proportions as to make
necessary some new arrangement for
housing 1t. Many OF the exhibits are
now crowded into the ground floor Of
the new National museum building,
while others are In the old building
and a few Of the artillery pieces are
in the open air awaiting the construc-
ton Of suitable shelter. William De
G. Ravenel, the director Of the mu-
scum, says congress probably will be
asked at the mex session to provide
n building for the collection, which is
Of great historical value.
Public High Schools Increasing.
The federal bureau of education
has been making a study of the
high schools Of the country. There
are. It says, in the United States to-
day nearly 1900 public high schools,
an increase Of more than 452 per cent
since 1890. and a clearer conception OF
this immense increase may be gained
by noting the fact that every day of
Tho loct 90 re haC u,itnnSCnI TIM
establishment OF a public high school.
In 1890, when statistics of public
and private high schools were first
treated separately, only COS per cent
of the high schools of the country were
under public control, while In 1918
81 per cent were so reported. In 1890
also 6S per cent OF all high-school stu
dents were enrolled In public schools,
which percentage rose to Oh In 1913.
One-half of the 1851 public high
schools which reported to the bureau
have an enrolment of between 81 and
100 students, but 1t Is Of interest to
note that q few high schools have a
very large enrolment. Altogether $50
schools enroll over 800 students each
and 27S enroll over 1000 each.
The Larger the Better.
Upon the size OF the high schools
depends the possibility Of offering a
narrow or an enriched program of
studies, for with the large high school
comes a larger teaching staff and an
opportunity to offer commercial, home
economics, manual training and trade
work, while the smaller high schools,
with only two or three teachers. a n
not hope to offer so great a variety of
training and usually limit their activ-
titles to the academies, with possibly a
small amount of work In agriculture.
Athletics, too, must necessarily be re-
stricted in these smaller schools.
The number Of city high schools con-
stitutes less than 10 per cent Of the
total number of high schools, but they
enroll 50 per cen Of the total number
of students. Almost S5 per e of
the high schools are rural, but such
schools enroll only about 40 per cent
Of the students.
The average size of a city high
school is 653 students, while that of a