The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-13
OKLAH0MANS
MAY VOTE ON
'.-..3 8 MEASURES
Petition for New Laws and Con.
StitutiOna| Amendments Being
Circulated

If petitions now being circulated
among the voters OF Oklahoma. re-
ceiye the required number of sigma
lures. the people will have an oppor-
tunity probably at the next statewide
primary election next August. TO vote
upon three proposed laws and consti-
tutional amendments.
Campbell Russell of Warner is cir
culating petitions fer constitution
al amendment which If adopted will
have the effect of recalling the pres
ent state board of agriculture ano
changing the method of which mems
bers cf the board are elected.
The high license and local option
advocates are circulating petitions
for an amendment abolishing state
wide prohibition and substituting d
system OF .ocal option and high Ii
cense in its steau.
The latest measure is offered BY
Representative Akin of Norman. Ii
proposes 10 abolish large number
"a the state educational institutions.
Many Sign for Recall.
The Russell amendment probably
Will get the support necessary for its
submission, as its author, Russell,
aiready has obtained almost enough
signatures TO put it before the peo-
Pile The circulation OF petitions for
the local option and school bills has
begun only recently and il is impos-
sihe 10 predict me result. However,
these promct ting the initiative meas
ures in oklahoma seldom fail to finn
plenty CT people ready To affiX their
Signatures
The Akin bill has created the great
est furry, as it strikes At number
OF state institutions that are the
very life-5loCd ol the communities
in which they are located What is
alarming these communities most is
tat the bill has the support OF the
present administration, and il ap-
peals especially TO the taxridden
farmers, few of whom ever have an
opportunity Of sending their children
to state educational institution
East Wanted Some.
The sentiment Is general over the
state that The legislature created
too many educational Institutions,
O...ahoma territory had three state
normal schools. located at Edm 40,
Alya and Weatherford, a state uni
yersity at Norman, an agricultural
and mechanlcai college at saltwater,
and university preparatory school
at Tonkawa The east side of the
state, formerly the Indian territory,
had no such institutions, as it was
an unorganized terrDtory prior to
statehood.
Ar hi hn
legislature felt il Ecombent upon
itself to give the east side some state
educational institutions and conse-
quently it established an eastern pre-
paratory university al Claremore.
state school of mines at Wiiburton,
e.4ree state normal schools at Table
quah Ada and Durant, and gave the
east side three district agricultural
schools, at Warner Tishomingo and
Broken Arrow.
Responded to cIamor.
This action was due 10 insistent
demands OF representatives from
former Indian Territory and to a de-
sire Of the west side members to ap-
pease the Fasteners. These con-
siderations apparently had more
weight than did the actual education
al needs OF the state in the minds Of
the legislators For good measure the
legislature gave the east side the
state penitentiary. the state training
school for boys, the school for the
blind the eastern hospital for the in
sane, the state orphans home and
a school for the blind deaf and or.
phan negro children In order that
the distribution of institutions be not
over-balanced former Oklahoma ter
ritory was then given the Fort Sup.
ply insane asylum state institutions
for the feeble-minded. three district
agricultural schools, the state school
for the deaf and the state reforma-