The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-14
STATE SCHOOLS
require Relief
CLARK ASSERTS
Legislature Must Provide Ad-
ditional Facilities to Avoid
Congestion in all Sec
tions Of State.

OKLAHOMA CITY - one of the
most pressing problems which will
confront the state legislature when it
meets next year is the matter OF APP
propriations for building additional ia.
cilities ~ state schools to provide that
every youth in the state who desires
may have higher education, accord
ing to George f. Clark. chairman of
the state board of public affairs.
Every young man or woman in the
state who wants to go to college. nor
NAL school or the university should
have the opportunity, and that is not
possible now" said Clark Our
schools are so congested that they are
turning away great numbers of ap.
plicants for admission, and many de-
! serving young people are not able to
get the education they want and which
the state must furnish them because
creased costs caused by congestion.
cannot lind room in the schools If
they cannot pay, and do not have
enough money TO go 10 private
schools"
Normals Need $500 .OO0
The most pressing needs of the
schools are generally for AN increased
number of class rooms and for dor.
mtory facilities. according to Clark,
This is especially true at the six nor
NAL schools, he added. However, he
pointed cut conditions are no better
at the Oklahoma Military academy at
Claremore, and the orphan homes and
at homes for delinquent children, at
the three insane hospitals, at the
school of mines, at the Oklahoma Col.
lege for women at Ghckasha or at
the colored agricultural normal school
at Lankston.
An appropriation Of at least $500.
600 for building Of class room build .
ings at the six state normal schools !
is needsd, Clark estimates.
Negroes Are In Need.
About the only school in the state |
at which facilities now are nearly ,
adequate is the business academy at .
out in this connection that the school |
had only recently been established .
and is growing so that its facilities
Will be exhausted in comparatively |
short time.
At the colored agricultural and nor.
nal university at Lankston; a dor
mitory is in operation and although it
fc ,Ha IN ba 4
are paying from s22 to SIS a month
for room and board, according to Mr.
Clark.
Additional class rooms and an en-
gineering building are the chief needs
at the state university at Norman, Mr..
Clark said At the university several
churches and lodges have built dor.
mitories and the congestion in Nor
man has been partially relieved in
that way.
Favors Consolidation
That the school OF mines ut Miami
should be combined with the one at
Wilburton, in order TO cut down the
duplication of overhead expenses is an
angle of the school problems of the
state as seen by Mr. Clark. Wilbur
ton is mis- choice, he declared. for the
central school OF mines because 1t is
the older of the two schools and is
in the center of the coal fields. At the
military school at Claremore there are
facilities for the care of nearly $50
students he said and applications for
entry now on file are from 800 pros
pective students.
As for needs at homes for delin-
quents, Clark said that children who
ranging in ages from u TO l5 years
had been ordered TO those homes,
were being held for months in county
jails because the homes were too
crowded 10 receive them Many or
phans cannot be accepted at the or.
phans' homes because OF inadequate
hospitals, he said, and at the insane
hospitals patients are being cared for
on cots IN Railways because the rooms
are full.