Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-23
AKIN BILL WILL
Be LAW HE SAYS
WORKER FOR MEASURE IN run
sA DECLARES In WILL GO BE
FORE THE PRIMARIES.
EXPLAINS ITS PURPOSES
Says II VIII Mean Much Better Ed
u'a'ional system For State, with
Lowering of the Taxes.

That 80 per cent of the persons
whom ho visited in oklahoma are
in favor OF the Akin bill. is the slate
ment Of w. b. Moore OF Broken Ar
row, who Is IN Tulsa in the interest
Of the measure. lie has been in the
and is now in the eastern part of the
state ascertalning the feeling of the
people in relation to the proposed
legislation
In speaking Of the bill and of the
manner in which IL is being received.
Mr.. Moore yesterday stated that there
is two-fold purpose TO be found at
the base of the movement.
"One Of these purposes, he said,
is the lessening of the tax burden.
This Is one phase of the question,
however, that those behind the bill
are not agitatlng, and while every
body is getting about tired OF paying
such heavy and increasing taxes, yet
matter of money and education
should not be garbled.
Explains the Purpose.
bill though, is to remedy the educa-
tional system TO make inefficient one
system Of efficiency. This is pro-
posed to be done by eliminating thr-
teen secondary schools throughout
the state. The schools which viii be
affected are the preparatory schools
at Tonkawa and Claremore, the in
dustrial institute and college for
girls at Chickasha the normal schools
at Alva. Ada, Weatherford and Table
quah, the school of mines and metal
lurgy at Wilburton, and the district
agricultural schools at Warner, Ts-
homingo, Broken Arrow, Lawton, He
lena and Goodwell.
However. the work In the Chick
asha school affected, Is intended to
be continued as a part of the cir
riculum of the A. & M. college at
saltwater, and full courses of nor
NAL instruction will be continued in
the Edmond and Durant schools. The
state university at Norman will alb
sorb and teach the work of the school
of mines and metalurgy, so that on
the bare face OF the proposition, the
people OF the state will not lose one
bit of education now offered.
Seeks For Better System.
"On the other hand, there will be
evolved a system that is many times
better for everybody. These schools
hoped to be abolished, are merly To-
cal propositions, and are favred alone
by persons living In the towns in
which they are situated, whose chill
dren can stay at home and yet go
TO these schools. Take the man llv-
ing ten or twelve miles away from
these schools, he must send his chill
dren there and keep them there. His
expense is just the same as though
his children We're going to good
university, where the best would be
offered them at the same price which
he is paying for preparatory edu-
cations.
THE Akin bill provides for the sale
or lease of the buildings in which
these schools are carried on. as well
as the land on which they are stu
ated, and the moneys derived there
by is to go into the consolidated
school district fund. There It will be
used for the purpose of building up
these rural schools whose efficiency
is now almost on par with that Of
the secondary state schools"
According to Mr.. Moore, enough
names have already been procured q
initiate the bill, and he believes that
the proposition will be presented to
hn Of hn TO Of ha
August primary.