The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-10-31

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The State Superintendency.
Reasons why r. II Wilson should
be reelected.
Not because he is a Democrat for
this office is one that ought to be as
far removed from politics as possible,
for it concerns the welfare Of half
million school children Of the state
The future Of Oklahoma will be de-
termned in large measure by the
kind of education and training the
boys and girls of today receive in
the schools of the state.
4. R. H. Wilson ought to be re-
elected because on the whole his ad
ministration has been satisfactory
No doubt there were some things
done the first year that ought not to
have been done. But this very fact
is another reason why he should be
returned.
2. 1t takes a man about year or
two to get the state school situation
in hand, and for this reason it is not
wise every four years to break in a
new man Private business concerns
when they find a suitable man, one
who makes good, do not turn him off
at the end of four years, but aim to
keep him as long as he is efficient.
Efficiency in public school matters
can be secured in the same way
3. Every state, If its schools and
educational affairs are to be progress
sive must have the leadership of
some institution which comes close
to the people of the state, and at the
same time is capable of such leader
ship. In the Central Mid Western
and Western states the state Univer-
stiles are closest to the people, and
exercise the educational leadership of
the state r. II. Wilson, as state
superintendent, has taken the Uni
versity Of Oklahoma ont OF politics.
The result is that the University has
taken on new life. No longer is it
composed mostly of students who are
not high school graduates. It is be
coming a great university. No one
is admitted to the University of Ok
lahoma unless he is graduate OF
four years high school course. The
university is not the high school for
those communities that do not care
to go to the expense Of maintaining
a high school The enrolment under |
the new policy has increased in the |
past two years nearly hundred per
cent. The past year it was 1877. The |
present year it viii be about eighteen |
hundred Instead of these folks go
ins odt on tne state and taking aw.. I
from the state that much money they |
are spending it in the state Supt. |
Wilson estimated from a careful in
vestigation that about five hundred |
thousand dollars annually have been |
spent by oklahoma college students
going TO other states for their educa-
ton. These folks would not go to
our own state university as long as
it contained a preparatory depart
ment, and as long as men held posi-
tions on the faculty by virtue cf their
political fitness. rather than their
educational fitness. Since the change
in conditions over two years ago the
young people Of the state are going
20 the University Of Oklahoma. IL
this alone We're the good things ac-
complished taking the University Of
oklahoma ont Of politics and making
.t possible for the young men and
women OF the state to get their uni
yersity training in the state. thus
leepins the money in the state. and
lroyiding for the educational inter
'sts OF the state and institution ca
able leadership il this We're all r.
l. Wilson had done It would merit H
Is re-rl lection II
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da are maintaining high schools Of
le.r own so that their high school II
udents are not receiving their ed
alton Co. the state normal schools u
.Catei there Taxpayers OF the
ate object TO paving taxes for state
'rmais that are hizh schools for
e towns where normsE schools are
Gated a. Ala and Ada these
ans Gave their own schools. instead
snonehs OF the state for hish
hcol facilities And this is but a