Arizona republican., 1921-02-23
TELL WOMEN IF; EDUCATION BILLS. IN LEGISLATURE
Elsie Toles, State Superin- .endent, And John D. Lo- per, Head Of Phoenix Schools, Outline Proposed

seariy outlining the bills pending iore esi' the legislature pertaining to tbe suutationai plant of the state ana tiIes' Elsie Toles, state superin iuent D or public instruction. and John so, Upper city superintendent of slup yesterday. After the discussion oy the school authorities the club re- ,erred the bills to the chairman of the
 eisiatiVe department of the state fed eration with it's enlargement. rSo sIaIman IS Miss c. Louise Boehringc cn,,r.' er or the lower house from Yui Sounty. who introduced a number of inc measures which the club reconmends for passage. eiio1s
 All or the bills are part of q plan snat really form a school code.' said @ r,iss Ioies In advocating the endorse s,,,.l,., vm. ot all 1T one carries. The state suPerlntendent confined her talk to senate bill 1O4. known as the Com munity Unit bill.
 believe the community unit system N the best solution yet offered for the ruTai school problem" said the speaker.
 m doing away with the numerous boards of trustees by having a county board, in the opinion of Miss Toles. the scnools would be better organized than under the present system. She sees in sne unit plan an improved system of buying, superintendent who is a trained school administrator and better teaching staff.
 Takes Office Out of Politics
 The bill which she discussed provides mat the board appoint the county scnooi superintendent. and she sees merit Tn this since it takes the head of tne county schools out of politics
 The superintendent would spenS more time doing things for the schools and less time in building political fences," she declared.
 MT. Loper touched upon other bills bending before the legislature bills that he said were endorsed by the State teachers association and based on rec -ommeudations made by .Iie federal government and the Russel Sage foun- dation surveys The bills, he said, were drawn with the view of making more efficient the school code of the state
 superintendent Loper first took up shouse bill 2, which provides for enlarE- sirg the duties and powers of the state board of education in the matter of Scertification of teachers and relative to Jnstitutes. House bill 3 was advocated Epy the speaker as taking schools out of politics by changing the personnel of Sthe state board of education which at present gives control into the hands of the governor. The bill provides for a sboard composed of seven members ap- pointed by the governor. the terms to sexpire each year. The board is author sized to appoint the state superin
 Mir. Loper voiced his approval of =house bill 2S which changes the date sof school elections and provides that sthe trustees take office the first of the year rather than at the close of the school term.
 Equal Chance to Every Child He gave particular attention to sen sate bill ss which, he held, gives every schild chance for getting an educa- Ston. giving the pupil of the rural school 'thc same advantage as the pupil of the city school. The bill carries an appro- priation of $30 for the daily average attendance and supplementing the states $S0 per capita, the county fund and district fund to complete the budget
 The program was not devoted ex- clusively to legislative matters the mu- sical features as usual contributing largely to the program. Miss Anna Marie Luke sang charmingly and piano numbers by Miss Elizabeth Phillips were we'll received. The community singing was led by Mrs. Henry D. Ross who also made plea for the Woman's Roosevelt memorial to which several departments of the club already have contributed.
 Forget politics" charged Mrs. Ross
 Forget Roosevelt was anything but 9 great American"
 Mrs. J. L. B. Alexander secretary of the association, spoke of the plan to restore Roosevelts birthplace in New York for school of Americanism
 At the conclusion of the propram which was presented under the aus pices of the home economics depart ment with Mrs. !. P. Ivy, chairman a reception was hold in compliment to Mrs. Ralph Cameron who is leaving soon for Washington to join Senator elect Cameron. The crowded reception Al r11- guest of honor who as head of the civics education department has maG<, a brilliant club record. The executive board arranged the event and presiding at the tea table were Mrs. John Aitken Mrs. D. F. Harbridge. Mrs. James H. McClintock, Mrs. A. G. Hargrave and Mrs. Herman Perry De Mund.
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