Imperial Valley press., 1922-08-03
SCHOOL BUSINESS
IS BIGGEST IN
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Record of achievement Makes
Supt. II. c. C0e a Logical
Man for Reelection to
office

While the people are occupy
! ing their thoughts with the con-
tests for sheriff, district attor-
ney and other county offices,
one of the most important plac-
es of all is receiving compara-
lively little attention. The
races in which there are
greater number of entries per-
haps have a larger sporting in
terest, but the selection of the
right person for superintend-
ent of schools goes to the very
foundation of our system OF
government. The schools have
the making of those who are to
succeed us i'm charge of great
matters and small and the per-
son who has the guiding of that
institution has greater respon-
sibility on him than dozen
sheriffs.
II. c. Coe is the present sup
erintendent of school and is
candidate to succeed himself III
that office. Mr.. Coe is sup
erintendent by appointment OF
/ the board of supervisors and
| now he seeks to become super
| intendent by choice of the peo-
| pie of the county.
| II. G.. Coe is a man of very
wide practical experience as an
! educator. He has laid a foun-
| dation for the work in which he
is now engaged by many years
of actual experience as teach
er, thereby establishing contact
with the heart of American
youth and learning the ways
for guiding the young idea, and
to this he has added years of ex-
perience in an administrative
capacity, directing the business
of school administration.
Mr.. Coe served as county sup
! erintendent in an eastern state
before coming to California,
giving him an acquaintance
with school affairs where the
highest standards are upheld.
Coming to California, Mr.. Coe
continued in this department of
school work and local people
will remember him as city sup
erintendent of schools for the
city of Ell Centre, serving here
acceptably for several years,
having under him large corps
of teachers and directing the
expenditure of thousands of
dollars every year.
Very few people have a full
understanding of what is in
volved in the administration of
the office of superintendent of
schools of a county in the class
of Imperial County. School ad'
ministration is by all odds the
largest business with which we
have to do. In dollars school
administration represents as
much as all of the other actiyi-
ties of the county combined.
The school superintendent ap-
proves more warrants than the
board of supervisors and it is
probable that a million dollars
has already gone through MIR.
Goes hands. A few days ago.
Mr.. Goes office made the proud
announcement that all of this
business, distributed through
fifty five school districts and
approximately three hundred
accounts had been brought
through the school year without
a single account being over
drawn or going either actually
or technically outside of the
lazy. If you don't think
| that is regular job in county
like this where there are fifty
five aggressive, enterprising
ambitious school boards all
anxious to do things--why, ipst
try it yourself.
And so the record shows for
itself, that Mr.. Coe has organ
.zed his office so that it "deliv-
ers the goods" in one hundred
percent fashion so far as is re-
vealed by cold figures.