The public school system that Bend has been working up to such a marked degree of efficiency during the past few years is attracting the attention of outside places and the neighboring papers are making favorable mentions of our schools. The Bulletin reprints this week two articles from the Madras Pioneer and the Laidlaw Chronicle, which speak in very complimentary terms of the Bend schools. It is natural to suppose that the home paper will always boost its own local schools, but when papers in adjoining towns join in praising the same institutions it is very good evidence that the school is all that it is claimed for it in the matter of efficiency.

There is one thing that Bend is determined to have and that is an educational institution in its public schools that will be able — both in the efficiency of its teachers and in its equipment — to give the children of the community as good a high school education as they can secure anywhere. The local schools have made marked strides forward during the past two years, but they are only just getting started in the pursuit of what they will some day be. At present they fulfill the requirements of the state law of Oregon as to the efficiency of high schools, and have been declared the equal of the county high school at Prineville.