Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-18
SHOW A
MARKED RESPECT
WHEN SUPERINTENDENT SPEAKS
THEY UNANIMOUSLY AGREE.
BACK TO SCHOOL Today
Five Hundred Resent Action Of school
Board iiy Srlllng-"Nlastcrs
Back on No SCHOOL,"

Due to the love which they held for
him and on. Of respect for his wishes
pnd command about five hundred
students OF the Tulsa schools who
went out ON strike yesterday fol-
owing tho noon hour promised su-
perintendent j. O Masters later in
the afternoon that they would this
,1orning swing their book straps over
their shou,lres and return TO tho
school room.
The strikers" yesterday were re-
rulted from the Central North Side.
owen, Llndfay and High Schools and
numbered perhaps from four to six
hundred
Following the public demonstration
which they had made on account of
the action ot the school board in re-
fusng to retain Superintendent Mas
ters at the head OF the Tulsa public
achool system, the striking pupils con-
gregated on the grounds OF the High
and Central schools TO twit the pupils
OF these SCI .ools for not leaving the
school room,
At that time G. n. Buchner of the
Y. NJ. G. A. OF Tulsa was conducting
contests In athletics among other pu-
pills on the grounds But there was
no more work of tn 8 kind after tho
demonstration arrived.
with the arrival OF superintendent
Masters few moments later, the
beating Of arse tin cans and the In
dian-llke whoops subsidized and within
ten minutes the five hundred striking
pupils were quietly lined up before the
north doors OF the Central school
building.
They wished to have O meeting.
present petitions and pass resolutions
and so forth. Up the stairway into
the main auditorium OF the building
they flled-suddenly transformed
from street Comanches into sober and
solemn dignitarles set out In great
purpose.
Mr., Buchner called them to order
In the assembly room and was given
rousing cheers from those hardly big
enough to give vent to squeal up to
the entorian-voiced parliamentarians
who had Joined in from the High
School. Their wish to petition was
finally overwhelmed with cries OF
'Mdstersl Masters" and when the
superintendent took the floor the very
walls OF tho building were shaken
with n joyous whoop and hand-clap-
ping that Increased for a minute or
more.
Mr.. Masters then began counseling
.hem. He told them that he thought
they we're doing wrong in remaining
out OF school and asked them IL they
lid not wish to do what was best for
them, for the teachers and for the
best Of all the schools.
They certainly did; anything tho
superintendent advised to do they
agreed to do.
Then go quietly home" said Su-
perintendent Masters, "and come back
to school tomorrow the same as
though nothing had happened"
And perhaps no greater devotion
was ever shown by body of incensed
pupils to their adviser than when by
Il unanimous standing vote 1t was
"greed as he had spoken.
There was trouble brewing yester-
day morning among the pupils OF
practically al of the schools of Tulsa.
Many Of them had attended tho mass
meeting last Saturday evening and
had heard the expressions Of their
elders relative to the action OF the
school board; and those who lid not
hear II first hand had read about It.
They did not think that the old folks
should do all OF tho resentng, so
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