The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-02
WILL ATTEND ANNUAL
SESSION OF TEACHERS
AT ENID
SCHOOL LANDS QUESTION
Their Retention or Sale VIII
be Discussed.

! 'fNNs -.--A NUif =. NJ. ArIlIltN,
presidcn4 OF the Oklahoma Teachers as
sociation. announces that the fifteenth
annual session OF the teachers win be
held IN Enid on December 27 ana 2S.
and the meeting promises TO be one OF
the most Interesting held in the terri
tory. A very extensive program OF dis
cussions Of the various branches Of ed
ucation and lectures by distinguished cd
ucators and professors mas been ar
ranged by the officers Mr.. Griffith the
president. is a member Of Tho faculty OF
the preparatory university. and the
other Officers are Il. NJ Frost OF Ia
oga, vice president; Mary d. Couch Of
Oklahoma City, secretary: Eva n Ali
son OF Guthrie, treasurer and C. d.
Moss Of the Central school at Edmond.
Keeper Of the archives. The local COM
rnittee for the entertainment OF the
Neachers Is composed Of Superintend-
ents J. S. Clifford and George Rainey Of
Enid j. T. House president Of King
fisher college; w, p Stewart OF Ho-
bart, and W, S. Calvert, president OF
the Logan County high school for the
executive committee.
The executive committee has been for
tunate In securing for the annual lee
ture Prof. Graham Taylor OF the Chi
cago university, the renowned student Of
social problems. author of the Chicago
Commons movement and famous
throughout the central west as an edu-
Gator. His lecture win be the feature of
the session. all Of the other lectures
and addresses being delivered by terri
torial men OF prominence. including GoN
ernor Ferguson. David II. Boyd, presi-
dent OF the state university at Norman:
a. c. Scott, president Of the A. and NJ
college at Saltwater: ]. M. Campbell.
president OF the Southwestern normal at
weatherford: T. w. Conway, president
Of the Northwestern normal at Alva,
and L. II. Umholtz. presidesI OF The
Central normal at Edmond
The school land problem will be up
for discussion. with Judge c. b. Ames
Of Oklahoma City as the principal
speaker. The question OF the new state
holding schol lands or selling them and
keeping the proceeds for a permanent
school fund is one Of greatest interest
at the present time to all teachers. rhe
| lessees Of the territory. composed OF
eight thousand persistent men, are de-
manding that the lands be sold and that
they be given the preference right TO
purchase them over all others on the
other hand are numerous advocates OF
the new state holding the possession OF
the lands and Use the rental therefrom
to maintain The common schools.
ITO What Extent Should City SUI
perintendent Of Schools BE a Poliu-
cian?" is another interesting subject for
discussion, and 1t win be handled prin-
cipally by e. s. Mecabe and J. NJ. Rule
superintendents. respectively. at King
fisher and Hobart. Scientific temper
ance in the schools will be discussed by
Miss Alma Carson OF Guthrie, one OF
tAe leading Womans Christian Tenn
perance union enthusiasts OF the south
west.
A topic Of general interest among the
teachers is that OF the consolidation Of
rural schools. At the last annual meet
ing the teachers endorsed such a propo-
sition and recommended that the iegis-
lature pass a bin providing for the con-
solidation Of rural schools. Through the
efforts OF b. b. Bone. an educator of
Custer county, who was elected TO the
Legislature such a bill was passed. and
already throughout the territory numer-
Gus districts have taken advantage OF
the bilrs provisions and consolidated the
schools Of several rural districts at a
point equally distant. so far as possible.
from the extremilies OF each district
The plan has worked well wherever
/ adopted in this territory The combined
| district furnishes free transportation for
all children living any distance from the
school house. The manner OF consolida-
ton viii be discussed at the Enid meet
ing BY Prof. L. W. Cole Of the state
university and by S. II Barrett, super
intendent Of the Lawton city schools.
The general session OF the associa-
tion VIII be held on the evening OF De
yember 81, with an address OF welcome
~ Hon. Edmund Frantz, a brother Of
Oklahoma's next governor. and the re-
sponse by J.. w Baxter. territorial
superintendent Of pubic instruction.
The city superintendcais, The county
superintendents and the rural teach
ers are organized separately, as wen as
combned in general organization, and
each department VIII hold It's special
session and carry out a program.
The failure Of the fast legislature 10
rass compulsory education law Is
n uch regretted by the teachers, and
solae recommendation along this line
win sc made TO the next legislature.
Representative r. r. Fuller Of OklahoInh
City had the bill IN charge ia tie last
assembly, ana although II nassed the
house IL was defeated In the senate
The teachers win urge that such a clause