Arizona republican., 1921-10-10

little girls, seven, eight and nine years old, are learning to swim.
 Because of the temperature of the water, the pool will be available to the girls far into the winter if not throughout the winter, he said. The water leaves the ice plant at a tenn perature of about 120 degrees. Ii cools considerably before it reaches the pool but water in the plunge. even now.- is about the temperature oi bodily heat
 School Ha. Waiting List.
 For the first time in the history of the Phoenix Indian school, the mum Der of applications for admission sur passes the school capacity. In fact there are nearly 100 Indian boys and girls on the school waiting list now John Whitwell, principal of the acs demic department. announced. The total enrolment at the schoo this quarter, which opened SeptembeI F is 736 as compared with the schoo capacity of 750 Of this number. 36i are boys and 369 girls. The enroll ment this year exceeds that of any previous year by nearly 75, Princi- pal Whiteweil declared.
 The Indian is rapidly awakening to the possibilities afforded him by the government in this and other similar institutions, Mir. Whitwel said. He has beguH-to realize thai the fundamentals taught here are al invaluable asset in life.
 1t was only three or four year: ago that we were obliged to make personal visitations to the differen reservations and plead with the par. ents of Indian children to send then to school here. But it's all differen now The parents and children alik' are, anxious and willing to take sad vantage of the opportunities offered by the school"
 Nearly All Full 6ioods | Phoenix Indian school outranks an. other institution of it's kind in Nortl America in the percentage of ful ! blooded Indians enrolled. All saw | five of the 736 students this year arr 1 full blooded American Indians. schoo records show, the percentage beins g9.45. MT Whitwell announced. Thre' hundred. sixty four of the 367 boy are fun biuods and 367 of the 369 girl. are full bloods. Of the remainin. | five, one is three quarters Indian ant 1 the other four are one-quarters Ii dian. Indians of less than one -quar ter blood are not eligible to enter tn
 school, Superintendent Brown an
 nounced.
 Twenty seven Indian nations ar represented in the school enrollmen students coming from seven state Of the. union. A big majority. c course. are from Arizona, with Okla homa Indians ranking second. Othe | states represented are California Oregon, Wisconsin, New Mexico an I Colorado.
 The Pima race has the largest rep
 resentation at the school with "A pupils. Next comes the Papago wit
 133, with the Hopi third with IT E Apaches, one of the greatest warrin nations in Arizona history, ran fourth with 5s.. Other nations reI resented follow:
 | Cherokee l; Cayenne, 1; Chicka saw, 1; Choctaw, 5; Comanche. Creek, 5; Delaware, 3, all from Ok lahoma; Eel River, 1; Hoopa- 2; frol California; Kiowa, 1; Osage l; Wicf ita. 1; from Oklahoma; Klamath. from Oregon; Maricopa, Al, Mohav 12: Navaho, 24; Walapai, 1, all frol Arizona; Mission l, from California Paiute. 1, from Colorado; Winn' bago. 1, from wisconsin: Wintun, and Yuma, 8, from California; ar Zuni, from New Mexico.
 150 "Upper Classmen" More than 150 of the 7s6 studen are upper classmen" or above .tf sixth grade, the largest percentai in the schools history. Princip Whitwell announced yesterday The school curriculum is divid' into two departments-academic al industrial. During the first if years at the school, the Indian St dent is trained on a general educ tional plan. Many of the studen are unable to speak English wh they come to the school, and so the progress is carefully supervised. T
 school work during this. period des primarily with generalities or fund
 mentals. The pupil is taught to re
 and write and grammar, geograpf
 arithmetic, spelling penmanship. a
 reading form the basic subjects of
 studies. By the end of the fifth yet | school authorities hold, he has d
 veloped sufficiently to be started
 definite educational program. Beginning with the sixth year.
 begins an educational program tf
 is destined to fit him for his If | work. Academic and industrial | vocational studies are assigned hi | after he has had an opportunity |. decide for himself what line of we