The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-05-07

/ GUS dppiduse Hdu uleu uOWU lHe gov
ernor said in part:
/ That is was indeed with the great
est and most sincere feelings of pleas
ure that he had accepted the invita-
| tion to address the people of his old
! home upon so auspicious occasion.
| That he was an Ardmoreite-alway
had been and always would be and
chat he had never changed his opip
ion that led him to settle here when
he first came to the old Indian Ter
ritory, that Ardmore was the best
! town in the southwest Other towns
might spring up and grow into cities;
! might thrive and flourish as the pro
verbal green bay tree, but none OF
| them would ever be the equal, much
less the superior, of Ardmore. To
any who doubted the public spirit of
! this city all that was necessary TO do
was to stand today and see what we
We're doing for the education OF the
young men and women OF today.
Compare the building that this will
be with other buildings of its kind
anywhere and then draw your con
clusions of Ardmore.
Il am not against the idea of
progressive education as is being ad
vocated by many, but I must say that
like the old style system. The
system where the pupil learned one
thing and learned it well. In the
good old days when there was no
great amount of surplusage in the
matter of education, the boy or the
girl who went through the old Butler
spelling book knew how to spell"
| The speaker said further that he
thought that every child should be
aided to decision early in life of
what should be it's chosen life work
and then pay particular attention to
preparing and perfecting its mind up
on that one subject. The education
of the young men and women was
a matter of the greatest Importance
and environments of a good, clean
and moral town was also OF great
benefit to the after-life of the COM
ing generation. Too much care can
4 not be given to the moral trainine OF
our young people The educated man
with the right sense Of right and
wrong the educatci man who was
conscientious. Goifcarins, law
abiding citizen was the kinG CT a man
that was needed in every country,
He belonged to the class of men who
had carved this great nation out of
the wilderness and placed 1t at the
head of the nations of the earth. But
the men with the education and not
the sense of right and wrong, was
not a desirable citizen. The edu-
Gated criminal, man or woman, was
the most dangerous OF all 'criml-
mails. With the brain developed in
the schools and colleges of this day
and the heart undeveloped, man was
but an educated beast of prey upon
his fellow men. The population of
the state prisons today are largely
made up of the educated criminal,
the criminal whose education has en-
abled him to walk for years In paths
of aw-breakjng before detected. Had
more attention been paid to the de-
velopment of the morals of these per-
sons, their lives, fitted as they were
with superior education would have
made them ornaments to society and
not beasts of prey. Therefore it might
not be amiss to say that in educating
the minds of our young men and wo-
men it would be well to look to the
| training of their hearts as well. The
! sneaker did not know of town that
stood better anywhere as a moral
town than Ardmore. It's reputation
as such was not confined to this state
alone. but was known in other states
as we'll Being such town, surround
ing our growing children with pure
moral atmosphere, it was most fitting
| that we shall have such place with
in our corporate limits as will he this
school when completed
The governor next called attention
to the large number of school child
rem who had turned out and said that,
saying nothing of the many other
children who were yet too small to
attend school and who were, by rea-
son of their infantile disabilities un-
able to be present and participate in
this event-eliminating these small
er ones altogether-even the only
and irrepressible Teddy would be sat.
isfied with Ardmore and would. per-
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