The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-23
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Address Given at Formal Opening Of
Vinita High School, February p,
BY Wm. n. Talmage.

ment in the direction of university ex-
tension in conjunction with the mod
ern idea of creating in our public
schools social center" for the editi-
cation of the public.
In Oklahoma we enjoy the priceless
advantage of being fairly Independent
of moss covered customs and ossified
ideas in legislative and educational
matters. We can in our formative
period easily secure benefits which if
neglected now would later require tre-
mendous effort and expense to obtain
If we could obtain them at all.
For twenty years the New England |
states have been talking university |
extension" i. e. extending the advan-
tages of higher education downward
TO the public schools And the near
est they have come to the idea is the
correspondence method or the lectures
delivered in public schools by uni
yersity professors.
The social center movement is an
excellent idea in the right direction
land aims to make all these costly pub
lie school buildings of greater prac-
Itical good to parents as well as pupils
, by opening them up at night for the
, discussion of live subjects and for
} entertainments and debates designed
} to interest the public.
} Let Oklahoma seize the opportunity
} which is now hers for the asking, and
} secure the combination of both these
Ideas and, in addition, secure a thou
- sand times greater benefit than the
h originators of these two ideas have
S suggested.
e Let us begin to use these magnihcen'
g public institutions which now make
d lOklahoma the talk of the world, for the
o greater good of the entire public in
/. Istead Of standing empty and mute
If Imost of the time and when filled at al
s. are filled with children and the few
" lyouths who remain for the graduating
is classes.
1- we never DGNOlliO wv SAN ~
At Nor to be amused. Are the father
d. land mothers and tax payers who mus
IS toll for the support of the family du
q. ling the day and pay the bills to b
r. forever penalized and denied furth6
re Ieducation and further amusemeI
%. when one little remedy applied to OF
in educative plan would bring these ben
ne fits to them Iree of charge?
nr Moreover these parents are annua
M IIy paying out an unnecessary bill
to Iexpense which could be saved the
75 Amounting to many times that whi'
lis would remedy the defect and bring Il
a.. leducation of the universities to the
re- very doors
on propose the following method
on extending the university to the mass'
yhr Iold and young, so that all may be
as lstructed during life free of charg
a Let a department be added to o
nm state university to be known as t
20 "University Film Department viii
prS snail GOODtldlt WIN 49, -"
RI school within the state, which sh
,se Ihave general oversight of the din
re lent branches of education to be taus
i've Iby the films, rent manufacture a
80 assist the local high schools in mi
ing ling the reels and to attend to tn
proper circulation.
10 asfp nf
nge The cost OF TINS department VI
YER university which would soon instr
Re a million students, would be aim
ten nothing. One manager, coach ant
but photographer would constitute the
her partment. That which we spend
foo this state in one night for entert;
~ ment in moving picture halls, silly
rect yapid as these often are for lack
ska direction. would be sufficient to enc
son the department and furnish to our
ayy tire population a superior set of RE-
tbs. and practically without cost to Il
City at all.
the The moving picture film is one
! TO the miracles of our age. 1t is g
babe" only ten years old. And
e at lurally we have scarcely had time
, 10 think of its adaptability to uniyer
cad. education extension and social va
ddle All objects contained in all
is museums and laboratories and u
last which are yisable on the earth and
) 80. der the seas, all that are yisable
) TO aid of the telescope and the microst
rag and all that scientists can imagine
and artists picture could, II we had
at university department at Norman
d of made visable in every common sc
house throughout the state. Surt
operations can be represented to
tion. eye anywhere in the inhabitable W
and at any time after the operat
moe have been performed. About all
the can be done in laboratories and Il
reso- dustrial arts could be witnessed
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