The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-15

run out as finely as educated folks
as you manufacturers do luxuries and
yet you spend six billion more in one
year on your product than you want
10 spend in our product in the whole
500 years of our nations history.
say to you it's not good business, it's
the poorest kind Of business | ever
heard from business men-it is abso-
lutely ridiculous and you and l know
now who is to blame for inefficient So
called school children. Why business
men the position OF the average busi-
ness man relative to money for educa-
metics than we do for teachers. 12 ,0o0,-
600 less than the total amount for
public elementary and secondary
schools spent in 1913. Verify, business
has put cosmetics above the very train.
ers Of the builders and bulwarks Of
the nations citizenship. We send l00,-
10000 more in jewelry than for sala.
ries Of all public school teachers in
1918, and chewing gum, oh, thou gum,
sublime, financially worthy Of the
great poets lyrics, we worshipped thee
with 2h times the total expenditures
for all normal schools which train
the teachers of our children and almost
exactly as much as our bill for all
state and city appropriations for high.
er education. Worshppers of Baal
come TO Ardmore and build you q god
of chewing gum-build him great and
strong OF Spearnint for the legs for
that is straight and strong as an ar
row, build the abdomen Of Juicy Fruit
to digest the banquet spread daily
at thy feet, and build the heart of
Sweetheart Gum for many shall love
then, and build the head of Beemans S
for ii shall be as busy as a bee man
collecting the sacrificual offering of
$50 ,e00,O 900 year. Oh, chewers of gum,
behold thy god.
And We men, We courtiers Of the
world, courtiers to lady Nicotine, we
blew away in smoke of cigars and
total Of all education in 1919.
Howiers Of high taxes for education,
where now is thy howl.
Asks Aid of National Body
Men Of the advertising world, have
brought you these facts to ask for
your help. / had to tell you this hor-
rible, disgraceful story, the greatest
crime Of civilization, the story of the
greatest murder in the ANIMALS Of the
American newspaper because / want
you to advertise the story, the facts
to the world and correct the evil. And
why do come to you? This Is my
first opportunity to come to any ma
tional body and this is a national
problem, national crisis, q national
Danger, a national cancer. And you are
the doctors.
The Publics Schools
Experts in education through years
OF study and experiment have evolved
standards and methods and plans in
education far ahead of the public SEN
timent and public wish. The public is
not yet willing to give full support to
its schools. Have you ever thought
what we call our great school system,
The Public Schools Of America, when
really il is the public schools. The
greatest individual point of education
for the people Of America to learn is
this statement, originated, believe, by
DR.. Winship, editor of the Journal of
Education, Boston. THE public schools
are the public's schools" What a slo-
gan for the ad man, for the poster
ad man. for the magazine man and
the newspaper man. And the next is
that the public is responsible for all
that is done or not done in their own
schools.
Educators Not Statesmen
Men if the public understands and
realizes the menacing situation, have
just described to you--who but the
public does not understand teachers
have the facts, the department of edu-
cation in Washington has the facts,
but in language of the ad man-who
can sell the public's schools to the
public. the very owners, and how can
1t be sold? Men, statesmen, psychology
lists Of salesmanship, advertisers, mass
sellers, selling is your speciality. ad-
vertising is your mass selling business.
selling TO millions day, tens of mil
hons a week. Educators are not sales
men, they are educators. Some OF these
educators say to get the teacher to
sell education TO his community Bosh,
do you think would call on teacher
OF foreign language to sell and play
the Selling Of Coco Cola If / owned
this plant. Not on your life, I'd get
the greatest salesman and ad men
Of America, Just as the Coke men have
done