The Holbrook news., 1920-08-20
THE BOND THAT SHOULD
 LINK YOU TO A CANDIDATE

Dear Editor:-When you said, "A candidate should acquaint the cleo tors of his qualifications and fitness for the office he seeks and put them squarely up to the voters that they may pass judgment on his right to the office to which he aspires" you stated Gods truth and His method, the only way whereby a man or a woman can get a square deal honest justice at the polls.
 And especially is this true in the case of great and important educa- tional position, to which I aspire, viz: The County Superintendent of Schools.
 No person should be voted for sim ply on the ground of state geograph- ical location, or church theological position, or political pull, or blood relation.
 Qualifications" are the pith O stuff, the soul matter, the body and spirit substance a school superintend- ent is made of and any other basis of selection or reason for election is petty politics, a fraud on the face of it, an injustice to the method of God and a silly, unfair choice; a judg- ment without reason, conclusion based on facts that are of minor inn port; an out-of-date way of voting for modern, civilized, particular people; those who really want, and should have, the best material obtainable in the county for a superintendent of schools
 Now therefore as you so clearly, and logically, and rightaously, stated sane Christian sentiments:
 Let each candidate send out his or her campaign creed or platform or scales of justice, the soul portrait. on which he or she proposes to stand, for fair and rigid examina- tiOn a scientific investigation, a pro- fessional weighing; and let the peo- pie see, consider and compare. And then decide upon questions of prep aratiOn, scientific training in sub iects of education, artistic skill in the modes of expression, "fitnesS" efficient experience in theory aud practice, precept and example pro- feSSiOnal "qualifieatiOnS".
 And if such a theological procedure is gone through, any fairminded man or woman will be satisfied with the results of the election; the wise choice of the people, the survival of the fittest, the real winner in a fair race. For when a person studies an other inteIligentIy, and learns the
 
 opinion is kind and pure, his politics clean and his judgment worth ex- pressing on a sacred piece of paper, the democratic ballot.
 Therefore, let no man, including woman, make his ''X' September 7th, simply because the name opposite iS a church brother, or a goodlooking lady, or a teacher in a central city, or someone who needs the funds to assist in the high cost of living, or even a good primary or grammar grade teacher.
 But rather see if he or she is or be prepared, qualified by theory and understanding, experience and profes- sional training to supervise, counsel and advise, instruct and recommend, and superIntend not only in the ele- mentary grades, but the various sub jects and departments of the high school: at least four of which were in the county last year, viz: Wins low, Holbrook, ShowlOw and Lake side.
 Is it a fair business proposition, or professional educational ethics for a college trained principal or high school professor to be supervised by a high school student with state cer- tificate; or a normal graduate with even a grammar RFaue II1o uipIOIha without high school training and ex- perience.
 Surely, Dear Editor, logical and capable, good spokesman on paper to and for the people; and also all ye citizens who mark or scratch the ballot, surely, I say, a proposed superintendent without efficient and sufficient "qualiflcatiOnS" can not win in Navajo county at the coming primary Septembers 7th, nor yet again in November, if qualifications are put squarely up to the voters that they may pass judgment on his or her