The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-12

been turned away for lack of room.
The school has never had serious
/ accident not a death, nor even
fire, though heated at all times by
stoves, and for many years lighted
/, by lamps 1t is the only school with.
in the state that has prospered sole
ly on its own merit 1t is the only
|. private institution in the state that
has had annually the Endorsement of
the United States government by a
contract for the education of a num-
ber of its wards.
Students of El Meta Bond are
found not only all over the state or
Oklahoma, but also in many other
states, and they follow many differ
|, ent lines of activity Besides, they
are everywhere loyal .imerican cfti
zens More than a hundred of her
sons carried Old Glory into the very
teeth of tne enemy in the World
War.
Meta Chestnut Sager was the
first advocate in the state of Okla
homa for domestic science, manual
training and elementary agriculture
in the public schools She was Sc
lected by the United States Super
visor of Schools in Territorial days
to prepare and read a paper on that
subject before the Teachers asso-
citation which met at Marietta and
Chickasha. The present state super
intendent will recollect the great
opposition expressed to such train
ing in the meeting at Chickasha in
those early days of educational
thought.
The first money for schools for
both Indian and white children, alike
appropriated by the congress of the
United States for Indian Territory
was largely the result of the efforts
of Meta Chestnut Sager. She was ,
ir Washington several times in the ,
interest of school matters for Indian |
Territory, and at one time spent
thirty days. All these trips were at |
her own personal expense. She did
not get the Indian nor the white I
man to pay her expenses, but when /
she thought she could do something
for tAe children who had little or no |
opportunities for an education, she |
got up and went. 1t was through 1
the kindness of Hon Charles Curtis,
Commissioner Jones, and With a
God speed" from even Sec. Hitch
cock and "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to-
gether with the influence of many
that a bill was put through
that gave access to federal aid for ru-
raj schools for both Indian and white
children. 1t vas not a sum of mil
ions, to be sure, but it was leak in
The dyke that has never been closed
but continues to bless the genera
ions that come.
Mrs. Sager has not only lrad the
necessary training in reputable
schools to fit her for the office
which she asks of the voters of Gra-
ly county, but she is prepared by
ravel and by experience in govern
ng, and it has been her good for
une to come into personal contact
With many of the different phases
# educational thought in America
'he has no promises to" make bu;
o know the laws which the people
hall make, and to execute them, as
ar as in her lies, and to do so
ighteously and fearlessly. She will
axe into her duties a ripe expert.
nee of years of school management,
nd will enter into the task with
ody, soul and spirit.
If it be your wish that such per
on be your county superintendent
nce Mrs. Sager has given to Grady
ounty thirty of the best years of
er life, and since 10 this day she
as faithfully kept every promise
lat she has ever made, and has dis
larged every obligation that has
yer been undertaken. may she not
,asonably expect the voters of Ora
y county, both men and women. -