The Nevada County picayune., 1922-08-03
FOR WHOM SHALL WE VOTE
 CURAGE OR HILL?

next Tuesday, but not one which IS more important than the question which forms the caption of this com municat ton.
 Many important interests are in volved in this forthcoming election, but it will hardly be questioned that none of them can compare in import ance with the cause of popular edu- cation. Our splendid Governor has never failed to recognize this fact and to push the cause of education into the foreground on all suitable occasions. Under the laws and usages of our state our whole system of public edu cation heads up i'll general officer who is known as the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This officer IS elected by the people The voters who take part in next Tuesdays election will have the privilege of choosing be- tween two men for this high office Which one shall be choose? Mr Gran vile Cubage is making a most specta- cular and vigorous campaign for our support His one chief claim for our votes is found in his opposition to Amendment No. II By every token this amendment is very unpopular measure The men and women who They meant 10 prepare measure which would meet the approval of the l great body of the intelligent voters of the state and which would. when | adopted. prove boon to the cause Of our public schools. But, the adage | Too many cooks spoil the broth people had hand in the preparation | of this amendment Thousands of the | best citizens of the State. including | both Mir. Cubage and Mir Hill, signed | the petition for it's initiation, or sub- | mission to the people, with out making l any critical examination of its form | tunate measure had been completed l and was presented to the people they | began to study it carefully with the | result that a wide spread protest arose 1 from all classes of people and if soon became apparent that the amendment could never be adopted in it's present | form. This protest is in no sense due to the influence of MT. Cuhage. He | did not originate it and it would have been overwhelmingly defeated even if | Mr. Cubage had never said one word | about it. Mir Cubage seems to be about the only man in Arkansas now | who does not understand that the | amendment is dead. It is rather pitt able to see man wasting his energies in fighting a corpse.
 But. whatever measure of credit | may or may not be due to Mir. Cubage | for his opposition to Amendment II there are number of serious reasons why the people of the state should | not elect him to the important office to which he aspires.
 First of all there stands out the stub born fact that he is not professional teacher but sort of combination of teacher, politician and business man. This combination would not be so bad 1 if he had succeeded in his many sided activities It is to be hoped that his ventures in business have been more successful than were those which he put forth in teaching and in politics. Does it not seem just d trifle pre- l sumptuous for a man who has been defeated for the state senate and for the office of county superintendent of schools tO ask the people of the state to place him at the head of the educa tiOnal work of the whole state?
 But a record of political failure is not the most serious handicap which Mir. Cubage must carry in this race. 1 It is a well known fact that he is out harmony with the great body of the teachers in the state. l am not un- mindful of the fact that good many thoushtless people applaud him for this attitude towards the teachers but after all is there any sound sense in electing a man to lead the teachers of Arkansas in their work when we know that he iS not in line with the teach CTS that he does not repesent their choice of a superintendent and that