The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-01

DR.. Il. "A. Winship of Boston. emin-
ent publisher and lecturer, delivered
an address at Ardmore high school
his afternoon TO a large group of
teachers and paief.t5. He used for his
subject "A Better Education and
declared that education of children
should be the newest thing in the
world, for il is to prepare children
to be men and women of new times,
not Of these times"
DIR. Winship's address in part is as
follows.
Fifty years ago there were oxen on
every farm. Today practically no one
under 20 years of age has ever seen a
yoked oxen at work. What has be-
conn of them? No state in the union
has ever passed Il law against the use
of oxen. No convention ever passed
resolutions against oxen. Where have
they gone? Why did they so? People
stopped raising oxen and we eat the
steers. They went into the nowhere
because they were too slow for this
age of the world.
In November Of this year the SUI
preme court Of Alabama made the
Louisville and Nashville railroad cor
poration pay a woman $500 be-
cause the clock in one of their sta
tons was seven minutes slow. IL
we could make every community pay
$500 If its education system was
seven minutes slow we would bank
rupt q lot of cities, counties and
states.
I'VE would have different public
sentiment from what we have in some
cities if we could penalize voters who
school as slow as OK teams.
Why does a jeweler ever put a
wooden clock in. front of his store?
1t is always 20 minutes past eight.
Always has been and always will be.
He cannot wind it up and it car
neither run, nor run down. What
could be more senseless than to hang
out such a clock? But he thinks ii
pays because it pleases those people
In the city who want to see something
that has never changed.
Education of children should be the
newest thing in the world for it is
to prepare children TO be men and
of new times. not of these
| have heard a man say that
education that was good enough for
him is o denough for his child.
But his child is not to live in his
time, but in times to come.
The first gasoline motor car was
made q years Ago.. Now there are
5000 900 Of them in the United States.
Any boy of fifteen can learn 10 run
machine in half the time that a
man Of fifty can All aviators are
young men. No man of sixty wants 10
fool with a flying machine, but many
lad of sixteen can learn to handle
it.
Last April a vessel left Liverpool
a cargo for Norfolk. Va. In mid
ocean the captain received a wireless
message TO change his course and 60
TO Halifax for cable orders. At Halifax
he received a message saying that
there was a better market for the
in Montreal, so he went 10 Mon
treal. left his cargo and took a cargo
'or Antwerp.
Voters who want the schools to
AXE on the same old cargo they
.ook on and carry it to the same old
)ort they sailed for must realize there
S a wireless message for them TO go
o Halifax"
DR.. Winship addressed the student
'ody of the school al the chapel
this morning delivering an
Inspiring message which was enthus-
astical!y received. He spoke on why
he High School," and among other
hings said:
Every boy and girl should stay
n school until Is years Of age. If