The Winslow mail., 1923-06-29
CORKHILL WRITES
LETTER TO EDITOR
Winslow, Ariz., June 2S, 1872

Winslow, Ariz., June 2S, 1928.
Dear Mr. Editor:-
| presume you know we had
bond election on the 26th at least we
advertised it in your paper the num-
Der of times prescribed by law, and
l thought possibly you might have
remembered getting the business, at
least you probably will remember
when it comes time to send the
School Board your statement, because
even a printer needs the whereWithal
to buy his pork and beans" these
days However Mr.. Editor, what
am getting at is this, about three
months ago some of the mothers of
the community asked the school
board to buy two blocks in the Hicks
estate west of the Washington
School for play ground at present,
and later to be used for School bull
ding sites if needed. We agreed with
the ladies who were so interested
that their proposition was all right,
but to buy this property it would be
necessary to call bond election to
get the necessary money, $6,00000
and that before the School Board
would call for the said bond cleo
the legal voters of the community,
to present us with a petition deman-
ding that we call this election ac-
cording to law Several ladies start
ed out with the petition and in a
little while they returned the petit
tions with necessary 100 names or
more, so we were duty bound to call
the lection afore mentioned as hav-
ing happened on June 26th. Incid-
entally we spent about 5000 of the
tax payers money and a whole lot
of time and energy which last doesn't
amount to anything as far as the
School Board is concerned as it
comes free. At last the day of the
election arrived, the clerks and
Judges took their places anticipat-
ing a big day at the poles, l presu-
me. All through the day from A.
NJ to P M. they stood by their
posts, one man without any lunch,
expecting at any minute to have to
take care of the great crowd who
were so anxious to get additional
play ground for their children. Just
before P. M. | went to the school
house and cast my vote, and waited
until the poles closed and the ballots
were counted which didn't take long
The returns showed that 43 people of
this community had actually sum-
moned up enough courage to go to
the poles that day. Nineteen votes
were cast for the bonds twenty four
against One woman, without very
much effort, decided for the people
of this community as to whether the
bonds should carry or not, and
could have easily in fifteen minutes
swung the election any way | wished
Now my friend this bond election
doesn't interest me very much one
way or the other, although | am very
sorry that we were compelled to spenC
$4,000 of the tax payers money fol
nothing, and there is nothing tC
prevent this being repeated, if en-
ough people make up their minds
they are going to have another bone
election there is nothing to keeI
them from having it. OF the origin
al 120 who signed the petition asking
for this election, six found an oppor
tunity to vote, / suppose the Others
were all too busy. It is a bad state
of affairs either locally or nationall,
when the people show such lacl
of interest in proposition tha
should be of some interest to every
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munity. Our rights to vote as fret
Americans did not come without
struggle, and a hard one, and if W.
wish to retain this priceless birth
right we must use it Intelligent.
when the opportunity presents itself
If we do not exercise our rights
when we have them the first thin,
we know we will be losing some o
them and we will have no one tt
blame but ourselves. This, is n,
news, it is all old stuff and you pro
badly wont get much thanks 70