The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-26
TO THE TEACHER

Just word to the teachers 70 Ard
within few days enter upon their
school work for the coming year.
Being a plain. everyday editorial
writer, not fitted by either inclina-
ton or disposition to wrestle with
the problems which confront the
teacher, we feel ourself peculiarly fit.
led to tell you how you should con-
duct yourselves and study in order
that you may gain the best possible
results from your years work
We express ourself in this manner.
after due consideration and careful
thought For we have noticed that
it is always the fellow who has never
pursued n given avocation, who is
always able to tell the other chap
how to handle his affairs.
We VIII venture the assertion. and
entertain no fears OF even .contradic-
ton, that we have had more school
teachers and more farmers and more
lawyers and more doctors and more
blacksmith's and more chauffeurs and
more liverystable chambermaids and
more milliners and more millmen and
more booze peddlers and more merch-
ants and more railroaders and more
preachers and more embalmers an1
more tombstone dealers-wholesal and
retail-and more woodchoppers and
more photographers and more film
stars and more theatrical managers
and more circus magna;es and more
miners and more oil men and more
day laborers and more real estate
dealers and more booze-imbibers and
more politicians and more gun men
tell US how to handle the editorial
end of this game, than you could
count in a million years, beginning
nj one hundred thousand and count
ing on in blocks Of ten thousand
Right here speaking parentheti
cally, we listen to every bit of ad
vice which is given us, taking that
Of the gun man, as rule, because
Of his peculiarly convincing ma-oer
of arguing his points.
Now, if alb the above enumerated
classes and individuals feel and be
!ieve and know that they can tel
us how to write editorials and news
stories and heads for the telegraph
news and political dope and disserta
tions on medical science and lecture!
upon the intricacies Of Jurisprudence
and epitomized calculations Of week
ly pulpit oratory and political out
looks, and why Bailey should anC
why Bailey should not be made gov
prnor Of Texas and why Cox rur
Harding off the front porch, out into
The rain, we ask you, man to man
friend to friend, why we should not
be worthy and we'll qualified to tel
you how to conduct yourself when
you start in to make Of yourselves
useful men and women?
We have noticed that the man who
edits a farm paper, as n rule doe;
litL hltuh Allt AlllltitllNt btNMt'll
rutabaga and a turnip tree. that hC
cannot tell which end Of the horsl
70 put the bride on. that he believes
the purple bloom cotton is more pro
life than the other kind and canno
distinguish between the boil weevi
and q night.blooming mosquito.
We have also noticed that the fei
low who wants to argue with thC
preacher upon the divinity Of Christ
cannot tell you whether the Children
Of Israel crossed the Red Sea in
boats or walked between its receding
walls Of water. and don't know any
thing about now many times th'
fiery furnaces were heated, moi
whether the monster which appeared
to st. John, the Evangelist, ha,
seven heads and seventy'horns ol