The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 2 Thursday, November 4, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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?Ye Little 01c Home Paper'
Vol. 7. No. 39
DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915
$1.00 per year
EDUCATION IS CHEAPER THAN
JAILS AND PENITENTIARIES
By J. GARFIELD HOLLAND, Supt. Davenport Public Schools.
It will be found by reading
the latest report of the State
Superintendent that the amount
of money spent by our state
educational institution is onlv
about twice the amount spent
by the state for maintenance of
penal, correctional and elee
mosynary instPutions, although
there are nearly four times the
number enrolled in the state
schools as there are inmates in
the penal, correctional and elee
mosynary institutions.
The per capita >;ost of main-
taining^ prisoner is $108.83 as
compared with $01.15, the per
capita cost of higher education
to the state. We have no way
of arriving at the aggregate cost
of the criminal to the tax payers.
The court costs, expense of keep-
ing in jail, rewards offered for
the arrest of persons suspected
of having committed crimes,
and the trial and expense of
Keeping persons wrongly accus
ed of crimes, would, no doubt,
bring the total cost of crime up
to an amount greatly in excess
of that spent by the state for
educational institutions. Rut
using the cost of maintenance
alone, we see that it costs the
state very little more to educate
three young men or young wo
men than it costs to maintain
one prisoner in the penal and
correctional institutions. The
citv can provide educational ad-
vantages for six of its pupils
with the money required to keep
one prisoner one year. The
rural district can give one year's
schooling to fifteen pupils for
the cost of keeping one prisoner
one year. Nine teachers can he
trained one year at Central State
Normal for the money required
to keen one piisoner.
the average in some respects,
especially in the length'of the
school term. The per capita
cosr, of university training in
Oklahoma is about one-third of
flie average per capita cost in
the United States, while tlie
average per capita cost of nor-
mal training in the United
States is six times as great as
the average per capita, cost of
normal training in Oklahoma.
We have a larger enrollment in
our normal schools in proportion
to the number of teacher^ em-
ployed in our public schools than
any other state in the Union.
The elementary and high schools
in Oklahoma cost an average of
*15.85 per pupil each year as
com pa ted with an average of
$28.02 in the U. S. at large
The average length of school
term in Oklahoma last year was
136 days as compared with 158
for the entire United States.
The difference between the per
capita cost in the public schools
of the Unired States as a whole
and Oklahoma is $12.17. If Ok-:
lahoma paid as much as the'
average for the United States,
there would be more than
enough money raised to keep
the schools running twelve
months in the year at the pres
eut prices, and under the pres
ent conditions.
The cost of education in the
United States for the year 1913
was, in rouud numbers, $750,-
000,000.00—only three-fourths as
much as it cost to run the
National Government, less than
oue third the nation's expendi-
ture for alcoholic liquors, and
only about three times the cost
of admissions to moying pic-
ture shows in the United States
for the same vear.
f^rrish
ELETE SOCIETY GIVES GOOD ENTER-
TAINMENT—TOO MUCH NOISE
By OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN
In the Auditorium last Friday | less wretch; Elmer Moore was
uight Doyle Kerns, the president Offys Head, a "wehopeyett;"'
Have Opened- a
New Oil Field
A special report from the
Warden of the State Penitenti
ary at McAlester shows that on
July 1, 1915, there were confined
in that institution 1,818 prison
ers. Of these prisoners 381, or
29 per cent, could neither read I Hallett, Okla., Nov. 3.—There
nor write when received In j8 no doubt in the minds of the
addition to these, 125 others j0ji men that the striking of oil
making a'
could read very little,
total 50G, or 38 per cent, who
were practically illiterate at the
time they were sent to the peni
tentiary. Our rate of illiteracy,
as shown by the Federal Census
of 1910, was 50 per thousand of
population ten years of age or
over, or 5.(5 per cent illiterate,
for the state as a whole, as with
an illiterate population, 38 per
cent in the penitentiary.
No thinking person will say
that education does not lead to a
decrease in crime. It is much
better and more economical for
the stale to spend money for
schools than for jails and peni-
tentiaries. It is realized now
more than ever before that there
is a relation between ignorance
and criue. Money spent for
education by state and local
authorities is the most valuable
investment that can be made by
the tax payers.
Education is a national neces
sitv. The future of the nation
and its institutions depend upon
an intelligent educated citizen
ship. Our system of public edu
cation is pre dicated upon this
truth. Oklahoma, as a unit in
the National nysteui. is below
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS:
in the Baker well has opened up|
a new field While the well has
not been completed yet, it has*
proven the territory around this
well to be very valuable. There |
has been quite a number of :
leases taken the past week at
good prices. Practically every-j \vt> have taken the agency for
thing i<< leased around this well, Carbo Steel Fence Post and
except a couple of small tracts.; wi!l carry a full stork of Corner
The well will no doubt be delay ;(i;lte, Line Fo-ts.-Hog Anchors,
ed until the leases are all got in1 <>tc.
shape to suit them. We under! We will erect a demonstration
stand that locations has been fenci in a short time at our
made for two ofset wells, the, vanl, arid il >ou are interested
material to be hauled out at once, j , seeing this fenct erected and
^ ERE is a story of love and war
told in the way that only Ran-
dall Parrish can tell it. A Con-
federate spy and the daughter of a
Federal officer, neighbors in child-
hood, are the two leading characters.
Then there is a murderous gang of
bushwhackers. There is action and ex-
citement all the way through. You'll
not be troubled with ennui while
reading it. By all means read
73he
Red Mist
Our JSejct Serialt XXJatch for the
Opening Installmentt
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
second and
Rev. J. P.
Preaching every
fourth Sunday by
Faith.
Saobath school each Sunday
at the usual hour.
Pravpr meeting every Tuesday
"veiling >t 8:00,
We
findin,
had the pleasure
out just how nice
(?) of
it was
The drill rig to put down
waterworks well arrived on
t'ack here last Saturday, but M:. Iglad to
Howartb, the driller, was unfor j see it.
tunately delayed by his necessary '
attendance at the beside of a
near relative, who underwent a
surgical operation in a hospital
at Oklahoma City, Monday.
The rig was uuloaded. — Wells-
ton News.
' tested, if you will ( ill or write
the me I will let you know what to drag a ent,ion hack and gather
the day this will be done and will l e inthedownv '.hit/- staple last
have you come in and Saturday, when we took a day
off and picked cotton. We shall
Yours ti uly,
The J. W. Oraves Co.
C. H HESSER,
Local Manager.
not tell you just how much we
picked, but those few cents we
ear/ted shall go into our collec-
tion of keepsakes and he re
membered always as the hardest
earned money we ever made,
fiom Lexington, where he hat Q^gb, but we were sore Sunday,
Ed Jones returned Sunday-
he
been working for some time.
Saturday night was Hallow Your prescription is
e'en and the boys sure had their handg at M()()re,8 gtore
fun. Well, boys will be boys,
and as far as we can learn no Ye Editor was in Chandler ou
serious damage was done. I business last Friday.
and we're not entirely over it
safe >'*'• NeveraKain! 1 :
TO TRADE.—8 lots, houseand
barn, for horses, wagon and
names?.—Mrs. C. E. Temuiinp.
of the Elete Liter ry Society,
opened the program with a
short, spicy little speech, calling
spectal attention to the motto of
the society: "Excelsior "
The Glee Club, which is com
po63d of a dozen girls and four-
boys, sang the o'd fa%'orite:
"When You and I Were Young
Maggie.'' Aj nn encore Martin
Pace gave a whistling solo,
while the balance of the club
hummed an accompaniment.
Inez Richie's reading "Aunt
Polly Green" showed quite
plainly how some neople can
imagine some dreadful things,
as did Aunt Polly. Encore:
"Bill Mason's Bride" which was
also good.
The vocal duet by Loys Pr ice
and Bonnie Roberts: "The
Quarrel," was extra good.
God by Terrill gave a dramatic
reading: "My Captain,'' which
showed tint it is possible for
sorrow to accompany victory.
Sena Nash's piano solo "The
Oklahoma State March," and
encore "I'ipperary" were both
good.
The drill "Overall Boys and
Sunbonnet Babies," by the little
folks was sure cute, and spoke
well of the patience of the teach-
ers in training the little tots.
Between this and th? next act,
the society, under the leadership
of Eva Bell, made the Auditor-
ium ring with several of their
yells.
The "Mother Goose Comedy"
was a very laughable affair.
May Robberson was Little Miss
Muffet. who was always in
trouble. Allen Cage was thin
Jack Sprat, and Elizabeth Myers
was his fat wife, while Loyd
Terrill acted Old King Cole to
perfection.
Flora Massey's reading "A
Little Girl's Lament'" was cute.
Elnia Mae Hall read "Old Jack
in the Well" anu made It seem
quite real. She also gave an
encore but we failed to learn a
name for it.
A chorus composed of 30 girls
and four boys sang "The Moon's
Beaming O'er the Lake," and
"Science Hill."
Lois Moore's reading: "Sher-
man's Cyclone" was so realistic-
ally given as to almost make
you think she'd been there and
seen the awful havoc of the
storm
Clernniie Jones' newsoaper
was full of good, but harmless
jokes, and showed that much
time had been spent in its prepa
r'ation.
The program ended with a
nice little one act comedy, en-
titled "Fuss vs Feathers." The
plav is dated A. D. 1950, and is
supposed to show the result of
woman suffrage. The ladies
had not only supplanted men in
all walks of life, but had actual-
ly disfranchised them. Eliza-
beth Edwards played the part of
Elsie Helitrope, the Magistrate;
Pearl Robertson was Georgiana
Wrenn, court clerk; Eva Bell
was Miss Hennessey, the couit
officer and strong arm specialist;
Ralph King was lam A. Fuss,
whose affections had been
blighted, while Fleinruiu Jones
was Atrtsoh F-ith- r«. it hear'
Harold Hall acted Jacob Blow-
insky, whose troubles were too
numerous to mention, while
Edgar Allred was Harry Frill,
who didn't eveu get a chance.
The whole thing was funny.
Miss Ada Nickell played piano
accompaniments to all drills,
marches and songs.
We would suggest that the
next time a program is to be
given in the Auditorium, the
proper authorities should have a
couple of companies of the State
Militia present to keep order.
The evening's entertainment
was almost ruined by the noise.
DOLLAR DAY AT
NEW ERA OFFICE
Saturday, November 20th will
be dollar day at the New Era
office. We will make the same
proposition that we did on Oct.
23rd, almost. You can get the
New Era three years for one
dollar. Also you get the 5000
votes. But there will be one
restriction to this offer. The
paper must go to someone in
Lincoln county. Anywhere in
the county three years for one
dollar, and 5000 votes thrown in
for good measure. This offer
will be open from 9 a. m. until
5 p. m. on Saturday, Nov. 20.
What we want to say is, that
we want to increase our circula-
tion. The doctor says our circu-
lation is good, but we want to
improve it. We want the New
Era to go into every home in
Davenport and Lincoln county.
That would make it more inter-
esting for us, so we could make
it more interesting for you. And
it would increase the value of
the advertising space.
Another thing we wish to
speak of is the importance of
getting away from cheap adver-
tising. Cheap advertising makes
a cheap paper, and a cheap
paper makes cheap advertising
high. When people tell ua how
cheap they used to get advertis-
ing space in the New Era, we
want to remind them how cheap
the paper was then. Also com-
pare the price of cotton now and
a year ago, and the price of
meat, and drugs, and clothing,
and everything else then and
now. It costs more to print a
newspaper now than it has in
the past ten years.
We intend to improve the ap-
pearance and the circulation of
the paper as we eo along. We
added almost half a hundred
new names to our list in two
hour a week ago Saturday.
Also remember that it is to lie
strictly cash in advance after
December 1st.
When tin; contestants come
around to see you on this "three
years for |l" deal, you'd better
take it for tins is absolutely the
last offer of this kind you'll ever
get from us this year.
1 am at the old stamj and will'
save you money, ami treat you
courteously. Come and see us.
Abe Tryou is spending
tck in Wtii.uu.
th<j
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Tryon, W. M. The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 2 Thursday, November 4, 1915, newspaper, November 4, 1915; Davenport, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110023/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.