The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-20
AN EDUCATOR
Of HIGH ABILITY
STATE SUPERINTENDENT WILSON
is so RECOGNIZED IN ALL
QUARTERS.
HAS SERVED STATE AcCEpTABLY
For These and Many Other Reasons
His Friends Believe He is Justly
Entitled To Another
Term.

State Superintendent r. H. Wilson,
who is asking for denomination at the
hands of the Democratic party Aug.
I, 1914, was born In Kentucky in 1873.
At the age of IS years he moved with
1is parents to Texas, where he com
pleted his college education and en-
cred the teaching procession to which
le has devoted his life After resi-
ience of twelve years in Texas, dur
ng which time he alternately attend
ed and taught school, he moved to
Chickasha, Oklahoma, where he
taught in the city schools until the
coming of statehood when he was
elected County Superintendent of
Grady County. In that position he
showed superior ability as an execu-
tive and organizer and placed the
schools of that county upon a plane
second to none. During his admins.
tration as Superintendent of Grady
county, he placed his county in fourth
rank so far as the number of first
grade teachers employed was con-
eerned, with the average term Of
school longer and the salaries paid to
teachers higher than those Of the
average counties of the state. despite
the fact that Grady was a newly or
ganized county, and the entire educa-
tional system had to be built from the
ground up
Mr.. Wilson's broad experience as a
county school teacher, city teacher,
principal Of schools, county superin.
tendent, member of board of educa-
tion of the city of Chickasha. and
president of the Oklahoma School
officers Association, eminently fitted
him for the office of State Superin.
tendent when he Mas selected four
years ago
In addition to these qualifications.
he now has had one term, of expert
ence as State superintendent, and he
has given the state as much service
as has been given by any other officer
in the same length of time.
In view of this. his friends do not
hesitate to urge his reelection to the
office which he has filled so well. The
schools under his administration have
developed as they never developed be-
fore. The work done during his ad-
ministration has received national
recognition. The teaching force of
the state has increased fifteen per
cent in number and the efficiency has
increased in greater proportion. This
Is demonstrated by the fact that all
of the increased number of teachers
have been of the first grade certif.
cate class and college graduates.
Oklahoma cannot afford to take a
step backward educationally, and the
reelection of Mr.. Wilson guarantees
to everyone in the state a continual
tion of the progress made in the past
with increased efficiency. due to his
increased and ripened experience as
an administrator of large school af-
fairs.
Mr.. Wilson is in the prime of life. |
a young man, six feet tall, brown eyes |
and black hair sprinkled with gray,
and weighs 200 pounds. He is a hale |
fellow well met. and his friends all |
delight to call him Bob He never |
stops to ask the question whether or I
not thing can be done, but only /
determines whether or not it is right. |
kind father, a devoted husband, a |
model citizen with the white rose
of clean and noble manhood upon his
breast; a man fearless, serenely
poised calm and patient under the
of false and slanderous enc
nies. evenly balanced alike in defeat
md victory; kind aud accommodate
ng, ready and willing to forgive those
who oppose him; one who never takes
lie time from his work to worry over
What those who oppose him may say;
devoted to his duty and to the peo-
lie who elected him: a strong execu-
i've. loved and respected by all who
Inow him, a natural leader OF men;
uch man is Robert III Wilson, State
OF Public Instruction
u Oklahoma. in, whom the boyhood
md girlhood Of the state have their
Iopes.