The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-08

Does the president OF our own
State University mean that he wants
Young men in that school to tea2h
them that when hey have eradN-
ated from the University that II
will be beneath their dignity to be
toiler, a laborer, clerk, pri'
vate. a subordinate or an employe
That leads us to the question
what is the object OF University
training? Is it not to broaden the
soul. train the mind and develop
the God-given faculty of intellect to
its highest point? TO train young
men and women for useful and IN
teligent citizenship, and not merely
to make money-making machines Of
them How must the instructor ap-
proaCh "a boy to teach him not TO
be "A toiler Or laborer? Is toll
beneath the educated man? Think
a moment and you will remember
more acQuaintanCes who have gone
through colleges that are taking
directions in business from the man
who did not have time to 90 than
YOU will remember college men who
are at the head of institutions. The
lawyers of this country who today
stand at the head of the bar are
men who did not have the advan-
tage OF University training. We do
not take the side of the argument
that University training is not use
ful, nor tha. the men who have
; grown great without it, might not
have grown greater with the train
ing. but We do take the position that
q it is a ruinous principle to incu.cate
{ into the minds of the young men of
our country that to be educated
3 unfits them for toll, that educaion-
| al training does away with the ne
cessity of toll with the "hands and
: the feet
? Does the University teach that
2 when the young man finishes that
{ school he is relieved of the necessi-
! ty of becoming an cmploye, is the
. young college graduate to feel that
+, if he accepts a position as an en-
Is p'Oye thlf he has lowered his dig
Is nifty and insulted the aims of the
~ institution in which he was educat-
II. ed? with the colleges that are be
A. ing built all over Oklahoma, Is it
$ not reasonable to presume thai we
are at the very threshold of the time
q. when every young man can have a
college education and when that is
accomplished, for which MI OF us
- -are striving every day, who viii
manage the milroads, the manulac-
turing industries, the newspapers,
' the mercantile establishments? Is
every man to be a boss? The rail
- road president of today is not nee
essarily the college man OF yester-
day, but he is the toiler He worked
$ his way up from the bottom rung of
. .he ladder b. T. Yoallum first rode
I on railroad train as a fruit tree
I agent. He liked to see the car
! WAS infatuated with the hopes Of
/ ome day working for a Iaiirr
, company From tha. beginning h,
1 made the man he is today. Did his
e mother teach him not to .he a toil
i er, ,aborer or an employo, did his
teacher strive to help him be use
e full or to teach him that labor was
- for the uncducated.
S VIII the S.ate University graduate
- in oklahoma be untitled to make
. wagons, plows. stoves, steam en-.
{ gines and roads and lay brick and
S mortar and build sky-scrapers O..
steel and cemento Is the boy from
. the University TO he taught that he
e must be the merchant after gradu-
$ alton and have those esS fortunate
a TO do the toiing with their hand
ana fec? Is the boy who steps
i'm his hand and not a cent in his
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e and his entire interests are wrapped
d mp in he people or oklahoma and
l. he will measure every step thar is
{ taken. and Lee Cruce will give Ok
q lahoma an administration that for
e dignity, honesty Of purpose and eN-
e ecutive ability will bring TO Okla
{ hcma the blessings of a government
e as perfect as the executive can
2 make +. and will bring TO him the
t blessings of her people
2 Long live Oklahoma and Lee
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