The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-06
PROF. EVANS LETTER FOR EoU.
CATION.

Il am justly proud that / live in a .
city where the papers cry out very .
often TO the men at Guthrie BE .
ware. gentlemen, how you treat Okla. /
homas schools and children. r-Chas.
Evans supt Of Ardmorc city
Schools
The ArImorcite is In a reciprocal
frame Of mind this morning. It is.
equally proud that Ardmorcs superin.
tondput Of city schools so promptly
and so uobly responded to The Ard.
morcitc's appo.. with an assertion Of
positive favor Of Prof Cliuons call
for @ county meeting Of teachers. at
Ardmore. Saturday Fcbruaryr 2.
Says Prof Evans The editor Of
The Ardmorcitc seized upon call
made TO- all teachers within the con.
fines OF the county Of Carter by Nj.
W. II. clifton Of Bcrwyn and made It
% clarion note for one Of the best dec.
IaratIous of principles for public
schools that has been sounded. It
is q safe harbingcr for progress ln
any state when sincere and capable
press dcyotcs its energies and editor
ial columns to direct appeal for
schools"
The constitutional convention Is
now in session for the purpose Of
responding to the will Of the people in
the shaping Of their fundamental law
and it was a timely call to arms by Prof.
Evans, this. "G5 is well to give close pc.
rusal q, all reports coming from the
wor', IN the constitution convention i'm
Guthrie Never did people have more at
stake, never did a people have such
opportunity to build well for all time
Such assertions are not plauudes.
they are aXioms taken from of the
pages Of history But / question very
much the worth Of work at Guthrie
that will give the iudiciaryr or county
/ boundaries in their report more time
or consideration than tlht Of the
committee on education. IL Is a
work second to nothing TO form laws
so that every child born and reared
in the state Of Oklahoma shall have
the best chance in life possible. That
OF hopeless toll be reduced to a min
lmum.r
In very short time we can spend
a few hours every day or two giving
the members Of the Legislature ad-
vice. Many of them will need 1t, and
there is bundles Of advice lying
around loose in the heads of the dear
people. But Of the question of edu.
cation we must not stop at advice
We must make demands, demands
( that will count. We must present the
school question with great force to the
members of the convention and to the
members of the legislature, If We
would have them reflect the senti
mcnt of the people Of the state. We
are now at the point to rouse an inter
est in the public schools that will
/. compel the attention Of Legislators
and officials, We must, individually
and collectively, take the warmest in
tcrcst in all that affects the real in
tercsts Of the people of the state
, As to education, We must not halt tc
] consider from what source the money
Is to be derived. The state must dc
) all that It can for the schools and
, other good causes, schools first
schools, good schools, at the sacrifice
of high salaries, If We must.
out of Oklahoma's children We viii
{ make jurors, judges and voters. Their
. votes will control this state. 1t is es
scntal that we educate them. 1t 4.
me most urgent necessity.