The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-02-24
STATE TEACHERS MEETING

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ton has a membership of fourteen
thousand teachers.
All sessions were held in the Ok
lahoma City High School auditO-
rum. except when the attendance
got SO large and oyeruow meetings
were held In the Christian church.
Excellent music was furnished
the convention by the Oklahoma
city schools and the State Normal
Of Edmond. The Rev. l. Frank
I Roach on behalf OF the citizens OF
| Oklahoma City. gave an eloquent
address of welcome, in which he
/ eulogized the teaching profession
boyhood most sincerely.
The new president. Prof W. G..
Masterson. superintendent OF the
| city schools of McAlister, gave a
very good educational address, in
which he gave some facts and fig
ures of Oklahoma's present educa-
tional status He said that Okla
homa ranked fourteenth in wealth
in the Union, and thirty-sixth is
, education. The state spends only
five dollars per capita on her boys
and girls while some states spend
thirty dollars. We spend only S77
per year on preparing our teachers
while we spend $256 year to
make lawyers and engineers, and
1910 TO make farmers, but we spend
s43S on our conyicts and inmates
In our penal institutions after they
have gone wrong. He says Should
we not spend the money on them
bClore they go wrong?" He also
gave a very striking example of the
teacher situation of the present. on
account Of the state failing to spend
, more on education. He said that
the teachers of this country would
extend over three hundred miles II
they were standing in a row side
by each. and you would walk over
| sixty miles and they would have
an eighth grade education; you
would go seventy-five miles and
| they would have only two-year
high school education, and you
would have to go over half the dis
tance and only normal school
| education. and you would have to
go over eighty per cent of the way
before you would reach the College
and University trained teacher. The
| life of the average teacher in the
| work was only four years. And then
there were some men in the state
of Oklahoma who were advocating
thc doing away with the Normal
| schools
Bishop Edwin ID. Mouzon of Tul-
sa. gave one of the most powerful
ana convincing addresses of the con-
vention. His theme was the teach
ing OF morals in our Schools" and
ne advocated the teaching of the
| Bible in the schools because he
said 1t was the only source of
morals. He clearly showed how
the Kind of education made in Ger
many and pagan in nature had
! corrupted us. How the same kind
mad failed in Greece. Rome and ev-
cry country that had tried IT, He
closed in quoting the president of
the Argentine Republic when he
was asked what was the reason
the U. 5. A. was so far ahead of
I his and every South American coun-
| Try, he said IL was because the foun-
ders OF tho United States were seek
ing homes and God, but those of his
country were seeking gold.
Other noted speakers were DR.
Stratton ID. Brooks of the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma; DR.. Judd of Chi
cago University; DR.. Bryan of New
YORK, man who refused the nomi-
nation OF the state for governor TO
I stay by his teaching. Hon. Geo. II
Schwabo. speaker of the House of
the oklahoma Legislature. ad-
dressed the convention on needed
legislation"
The committee on resolutions re
ported some very strong and good
solutions mostly along the line of
neeued legislation. A resolution
was passed TO have the Bible read
every DAY in the schools of Okla
homa without comment.
resolution TO appropriate one
hiiilon dollars for the current school
year Tor rural and small town
schools was passed.
resolution to do away with
.he 18th mill levy and allow each
,oraiity to vote what they needed
20 run their schools on a full eff
liciency basis.
A resolution to raise the stand
ard OF teachers so those who had
iu't me profession for other more
lucrative employment recently could
' N''.Ne'Ag SGT DuCk. n feSOlu-
tton to have the legislature annro-
PIRATE S50,000.00 for a state edu-
caionai survey which is very much
needed
The round table of the various
KIND OF teachers were held on Fri
day afternoon and this was one of
'hd most beneficial parts of the
whole convention. The city and
county superintendents held their
separate round tables and the prin-
cipais OF the ward and high schools
and the Science and Latin teachers
and English teachers had very prof
table times talking their respective
problems.
The convention closed and was
voted the most successful ever held |
and the time was thought better |
than the old one of being held at
the Christmas season.
beaver county had some half doz-
en- teachers in attendance which |
was better than any of the nam