The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-14
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trict state agricultural school at War
ner Muskogee county. enters state
ment that the time when schools are
to be locatei TO please some partieu-
lar crowd or person Is over
If so. wnen did it passy
Last winter when the mempers of
the two houses we're fighting over the
location OF some three or four nor
NAL schools. ami hnndreds Of thou
sands were asked to maintain others
located in the day when Oklahoma
territory existed. The Leader called
for volunteers who would fight for one
great state educational institution.
in detail ticking care OF ali educational
requirements, from agricultural to
to the very highest science. Tho
Lealer even ventured few sugges-
tions along this line, and the silence
OF the tomb would be no more omni-
ous than that which hung around the
editorial thrones of our state contem.
porarles.
There is the same excuse for plac-
Ing a state agricultural school al
Warner as there would be of scatter
ing state schools from Alton to Man
gum; Kenton to Salisaw-no other
chan that someone asked the same to
be SO located.
1T is perhaps more convenient and
as well to have tate normal IN
each OF the four quarters OF the state,
and perhaps the state school of mines
should be IN the mining country. but
tie state of Oklahoma could afford TO
fburn down ner present state institu-
tons and make all of them located
at some central point. where an edu-
cation woul,i be possible for the stu
lent. and the state could vote enough
money each year 10 make 1t worth
while calling the institution one of the
those worthy Of being honored. and
where other states might take advan.
tage OF our superior equipment and
course OF study
For many years Yale and Harvard
were tne two great schools Of the Uni.
tel States: made so because they had
the facilities to aid the student, and
the talent required to teach, Then
came ths great California seat Of
learning at Palo Alto. the University
of Michigan. that Of the South, Prince
/ ton and many others whore the entire
state was toe power TO create and
make sufficiently strong TO keep Il.
breast OF the times
Oklahoma needs at this gool hour
men who will take the rebuffs Of their
I home folks 10 stand between partisan
I locations. and the making OF great
educational institution with as good
T facilities as can be found elsewhere
on the surface of the earth To scat.
+ ter these schools over the state,
/ wnere, each year the representatives
+ will trade ali other rights to secure
large appropriations for the school In
I their district. invites wrongdOing. de.
I ceit, and poor educational facilities.
In twenty years Rockefeller has
made Chicago University the best
! equipped on earth; his teachers are
/ the highest sslaried in the world.
and the interest on the funds Is sufh,
cient TO make the institution safe for
all time to come j. has so completely
lwariei other educational institutions
! In Illinois that they are seldom heard
/ o., yet the state university at Cham
4 paign Is one of the best I'm the United
States. and has some high talent on
It's list OF teachers
II the Times-Democrat wisnes IN
take that statement made as fact
and labor for the creation OF one great
state seat OF learning. It will serve the
state and It's progressive Muskogee
citizenship TO the fullest possible ex
tent.
But do not bother about Warner
The agricultural school will do a,
well there as IL will anywhere II thel
J are scattered about over the state
Tne San Aniusio Express declares
( us Democraca once each week bui
no coToboratiye evidence has been
introduced 10 back the statements Oi
I the Texas metropolis great news
I paper