Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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FIFTEENTH YEAR NO. 31)
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 190(3.1
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Now, Just Before the Boom, is tlie Time to Invest in Gnthi'ic i'tiil Estate
Five Hundred Families Asked For By
Logan County Farmers to Move Crops
Logan County Farmers Cooperative Associations is advertis-
ing for five hundred families to move this seasons crops, it will
help to locate permanently in homes on their farms.
This necessity is so pressing that at the last meeting of the
association resolutions were passed with the Guthrie Commercial
Club or any organization that would bung this desired immigration
immediately into the county. A. C. Titus, secretary of the associa-
tion was in the city Wednesday conferring with President Douglas
of the 50,000 club and other members to enlist the club s assist-
ance. «
"We can use 500 families—not persons—in Logan county to
handle the frui't and the agricultural productsbeing produced. The
capacity of the county has simply fun way from us farmers and we
are not able to handle what the land produces. It means that we
wjll have to provide permanent residence for farm labor or reduce
the size of the farms. Owners of land are trying to farm too many
acres. It is a waste of land. Too big a per cent of each seasons
crops is ruined for inability to take care of them."
Mr. Titus said that the Farmers Cooperative Association would
see that such families induced to come here would have homes,
There were enough places where prosperous farmers had two
houses on the place, having recently built new and better homes,
which would leave the old ones to let out. In time, he said such
families would grow into homes of their own, as the number of
acres that could be handled in a single farm was bound to decrease.
The State Register some weeks ago made arrangements with
Gus Hamil, president of the Fallis bank to get foreign immigrants
into this country and he is now 111 Germany getting such coloney
from his birthplace. But these will not come in time to relieve
the present distress of the farmers. Th.' 50,000 club should send
somebody to the Uuion depot and di'.ert a portion of the thous-
ands of excursionists going to the Panhandle Texas and Picos
Valley New Mexico, as shown elsewhere in this issue.
An Appreciated Ap-
preciation.
Ponca, Okla., Aug. 12, 1906.
The State Register:
I believe the Register his a mis-
sion if you will continue to expose
graft wherever found and stand fi r
the rig) ts of the co ti non people. I
believe that a'l fair minded men ad-
mire an eiitor who h 13 th ? courage
of his convictions to h; .v t> tne line
and let the chips fall where they
may. With success to the Register
and its fearless editor, 1 remain
yours truly,
J. A. Blubaugh.
Southwest Flooded
With Homeseekers.
50,ODD Cliib Effecting Real
Movement In The City.«
Kansas City Star: To-day was Home-
seekers' day at the Union depot.
Every train from the East biought in
brOnze-faced farmers traveling from
points a day's journey from Kan-
sas City to the land of promise in the
West and Southwest. They in extra
cars attached to the regular trains and
in special trains. From the Kansas
City gateway they departed in as many
different directions as they entered the
city.
"Where are you going, pardner?" a
bearded young farmar asked, speaking
to another man in the throng. "If
this crowd lets me git anywhere," the
answer came,, "I'm going down in the
Panhandle. You see there were three
of us boys and when we came of age
pa give each of us eighty acres. I got
; as pretty a piece of Illinois bottom
Territorial Notts.
"Uno" I know is intoxicating," siit!
Agent Ret Millard, of the Osage
Agency, and "Uno" that the depart-
ment at Washington has ordered him
t > close all the joints.
Retired on the generous bounty,
gained by the good—bad?—graces ol
the republican parly, Bill Grimes
scorching around in his costly auto-
mobile from one summer resort fo ay
other—writes long letters to the King-
fisher Free l're3s puncturing the re-
publican party-to the delightof the
democrats.
Writing to Jake Admire William
Grimes says he has seen political organi
zatior.s work for twenty eight years
and never saw such action as the early
congressional cenvention. But Bill
was never present at the oirth of a
state when two children were to be-
come one with not even Siames link
between them.
The several guardians of the Pawnee
Ji.dian children have been asked to re-
sign by Attorney Embry and they will
be placed in charge of the Indian
JVgents. It is said the best of care
has not been taken of their interests.
The school land department has filed
on all the school land granted Okla-
homa by Congress and there are several
thousand acres still left in western
Oklahoma.
The Wichita Eagle should take
notice that C. Porter Johnson has not
been a citizen of Oklahoma for a year,
is a trust attorney in St. Louis, and
that it is under no necessity of defending
him when handling Oklahoma politics.
FAMILY GOVERNMENT
BY HERBERT SPENCER
The following chapter on family government is taken from'Herbert Spen-
der's special consi ieration of the eclucation of the child. This treaties on
famly government can hi carried into wider applic ition of municipil, state an i
ational governments and it will be found that the same rule will apply.
Tyranny begets rebellion, force begets force and violence begets violence. In
the long run education is the only method of changing people out of one into
another condition. Forcing upon a people by legislation laws, their moral
conscience docs not accept, is not reformation but coercion which b> teds other
evil traits worse than those desired to be cured Oklahoma legislators should
bear this in mind. Editor.
WAGENE3S begets savngeness
There are now nearly 500 mem-j secretary. A constitution was
oers signed the 50,000 club. At ] submitted and adopted and dues
(he big meeting
,st Friday in
the City Hall, J. L. Douglas was
elected president and his election
was an inspiration that is making
everybody jo;ti the club, lhe
serious business of the club now
is to elect a competent secretary
at the meeting next Fru'ay. He
should be a man that is full of
schemes, capable of intiative, who
will waste little time on office
details but be a real promoter,
capable of attracting outside
interest to himself and the city.
He should equip a downstairs of-
fice and the place should be a
regular information bureau for
business.
Dr, Hamil again piesided as
chairman of the meeting Priday
night and Mr. Detrick acted as
fixed at So cents payable month-
ly. John (iolob:<* placed J. E
Douglass in nomination for presi-
dent and F IL Greer Dr. John
R. Hamil. Mr. Douglas was
elected. Dr. Hamil was then
unanimously elected vice presi-
dent and Mr. Dedrick treasurer.
The bylaws providing for bond-
ing the secretary and treasurer in
the sum of $5,000, Mr. W. H.
Coyle offered to bond them with-
out cost.
The meeting was a very enthu-
siastic one and many addresses
were made pointing to the oppor-
tunities the city has under the
enlarged commercial life oppen-
'ng before it.
All the members should attend
the meeting Friday night.
ap-
y
Teachers Are Mixed
Guthrie Correspondent to the J
Oklahoman: The teachers of the
territory, the county' superinten-
dants and the district school
boards are all parties to a general
misunderstanding now existing,
that in all probability must be
settled by the courts. It is all
the more interesting tor the rea-
son that the school boards as a
rule, have bv this time employed
their teachers for the insuing
school year. The entire matter
hinges on the proposition as to
wheather or not a teachers, for
the ennting year. The entire mat-
ter hinges on hinges on the pro-
position as to wheather or not a
teacher's certificate, granted in
one county following an examina-
tion at the close of a teachers'
normal institute, shall be recog-
nized in any other county of the
territory.
The teachers have maintained
that by securing a certificate in
such a manrer in on- county it is
legal in any county, for-the reason
that such a procctlurl to obtain a
certificate is authorzed and fixed
by the territorial board cf educa-
tion. The matter first came up
over a year ago, and the teachers
asked Territorial Superintendent
I„ W Baxter to pass on it. Bax-
ter in turn passed it up to Attor-
ney General Simons for a legal
opinion. Mr.Simons after a very
careful investigation anounced
that the law was so obsecure that
he could not give a postive opin-
ion as to the meaning. In order
that no inju5tace be done he reco-
mended, hSwever, that certificates
issued in one county under such
conditions should be recognized in
other counties.
At the time of the annual con-
vention of the Oklahoma teach-
ers' association, last December at
Enid, the county superintendents
discussed this queslion and decid-
ed to refuse to recognize any cer-
tificate issued outside their respec-
tive counties. This was at logger
heads with the recommendation
of Judge Simons and has only still
farther complicated matters. A
great many teachers, who have
secured certificates in one county,
have been employed to teach by
district boards in other counties,
and the countv superintendents
are refusing to honor their certifi-
cates. From all parts ot the ter-
ritory a scarcity of teachers is re-
ported, and this quarrel between
the various officials only tends to
lesson the number ontitled to
teach.
Really, the correspondents shouldn't
have sent out Tom Woosley's name
among the "Old Guard," at that El-
Reno meeting. Tom is too good a fel-
low—and follow.
L. D. Bolton, who killed Carl Gilg in
New Mexico, has been released on
finding that it was an accident, he has
been adjudged insane.
Larry W. Reedy, convicted of felo-
nious assault in Oklahoma City, has ap-
land as you most ever see. But my j plied for a habeas corpus on the ground
ife and I 'lowed that if we sold our 1 that tha court "fcouse where he was
ghty the money we got fot it would j tried is not on legal ground. It is on
buy a mighty lot of land down in the an addition to Oklahoma City ^.r.d not
Panhandle. Ar.d we sold out. Got ?80 only the original plat {established by
an acre for the land, too. We brought 1 cyngress.
the two children along. VVe got men- j Capt. John Pershing, formerly sta-
ey to huy land. By the time the child- | (joned a{ Oklahoma Citv, is to be ap-
ren got big enough to go to school we'll :pointed brigadier general over the
have school-house. We won t be lone- j heads of 1 666 ranking Offioers, 10G col-
some. -ome of our neighbois are one)a) jo? lieutenant colonels, 361 ma-
down there already and mo;e of 'em jor8, and 1 072 capUjna who vvere
are coming. I don t know that it is pointed ahead of hjm
exactly God's country we are going to, .
but it looks pretty good to us." ' j T >ere '<af ^een a 0 epd,t°
leaving the old homes. ! cl >' ?<f ■ * a.
T, . , u j White being succeeded bv J. E. Jenk-
It was a typical case. Hundreds of |, b
farmers are speeding westward to-day
from Kansas City. They have sold
their farms in the East, many of them. Notice of Lessees' Meeting
They will be buying implements in | 0
Kansas City market before long and
later the Kansas City grain men and
stock yards will be reaping the pro-
duct of the land the settlers of the
West and South a est are buying.
Some are going to the rich lands of
j Oklahoma and the Indian territory,
! some to the Pecos valley in New Mex-
ico, others to the new land opening
around Amaiillo and Hereford on the
Santa Fe; the Rock Island is carrying
hundreds to the country around Strat-
ford and Dalliart in Texas; Eastern
Colorado is the destination of some and
others are going to Arkarsas. The
Frisco and the Missouri, Kansas Sf
Texas are taking many to points on
the Southwest.
The Rock Island and the S mta Fe
ran extra trains last night and this
morning to accommodate the crowds,
and the Frisco, Missouri Pacific, Santa
Fe, Rock Island Missouri, Kansas &
Texas and the Union Pacific used all
their available equipment this morning.
At the Secjnd and Wyandotte street
depot the Kansas City Southern had
extra equipment to carry the home-
seekers to Arkansas, Texas and other
points on the system.
The Santa Fe had a special train
of sixteen cars from the east this morn
ing with homeseekers for Roswell, N.
M. The Santa Fe had two other trains
from Chicago of thirteen cars each
destined to New Mexico and Texas
points.
and gentleness begets gen1 leness.
W I Children who are unsympathetic-
ally treated become relatively un-
sympathet'c, whereas treating them
with due fellow feeling is a means of
cultivating their fellow feeling. With
family governments as with political
ones, a harsh despotism itself generates
a great part of the crimes it has to re-
press; while, conversely, a mild and lib-
eral rule not only avoids many causes
of dissension, but so ameliorates the
tone of feeling as to diminish the tend-
ency to transgression. As John Locke
long since remarked, "Great severity
of punishment does but very little
good—nay, great harm—in education;
and I believe it will be found that,coeteris
paribus, those children who have been
most chastised seldom make the best
men." In confirmation of which opin-
on we may cite the fact made public by
Mr. Rogers, chaplain of the Pentonville
prison, that those juvenile criminals
who have been whipped are those who
most frequently return to prison. On
the other lianJ, as exhibiting the bene
ficial effects of a kinder treatment, we
during their childhood; but as they are
by and by to be freemen, with no one
to control their daily conduct, you can-
not too much accustom them to self-
control while they are still under your
eye. This it is which makes tne system
of discipline by natural consequences so
especially appropriate to the social state
which we in England have now reached.
Under early tyrannical forms of
society, when one of the chief
evils the citizen had to fear was the an-
ger of his superiors, it was well that
during childhood parental vingeanca
should be a predominant means of
government. But now that the sitizen
has little to fear from anyone, now that
the good or evil which he experiences
throughout life is mainly that which in
the r.ature of things results from his
own conduct, it is desirable that from
his first years he should begin to learn
experimentally the good or evil conse-
quences which naturally follow this or
that conduct. Aim, therefore, to di-
minish the amount of parental govern-
ment as fast as you can substitute for
it in your child's mind that self govern-
ment arising from a foresight of re-
will instance the fact stated to us by a suits. In infai.cy a considerable
French lady in whose house we recent-
ly stayed in Paris. Apologizing for the
disturbance daily caused by a little boy
who was unmanageable both at home
amount of absolutism is necessary.
Lastly, always remember that to ed-
ucate rightly is not a simple and easy
thing, but a complex and excremely
and at school, she expressed her fear I difficult thing— the hardest task which
that there was no remedy save that devolves upon adult life. The rough
wl-i.'h had succeeded in the case of an ' ar>d ready style of domestic government
elder brother— namely, sending him to |'s indeed practicable by the meanest
an English school. She explained that | and most uncultivated intellects. Slaps
at various schools in Paris this elder ! ar,d sharp words are penalties that sug-
brother had pn v-d utterly intractable, j Kest themselves alike to the least re-
I that in dispair they had followed the j claimed barbarian and the most stolid
: advice to send him to England, and! peasant. Even brutes can use this
i that on his return home he was as good method of discipline, as ; ou may see in
ins and Frank C. Money succeeds him
as business manager.
There will be a meeting of the
school land lessees of Kay county
at Newkirk on Saturday, Sept-
ember 1st. at one o'clock p. m.
for the purpose of electing dele-
gates to the territorial meeting at
Enid September 18th and the
transacting of any other business
of the association.
All lessees should a'tend.
J. A. 15LUBAUGH,
President.
Notice Farmers Union.
Pleas* send me the names and ad-
dresses of all farmers who are needing
help to work in cotton, corn, hay or
fruit, and would advise the immediate
preparation of tenement houses for the
accommodation of white families now
being advertised for. Please give the
number or name of local.
A. C. Titus, Secretary-Treas ,
Logan County Farmers Union,
Crescent, Okla.
as lie had before been bad. And this
remarkable change she ascribed entirely
to the comparative mildness of the En-
glish discipline.
He content with .moderate measures
and moderate results. Constantly bear
in mir.d the fact that a higher morality,
like a highu' intelligence must be rea-
ched by a slow growth, and you will
thi n have more patience with those im-
perfections of nature which your child
hjurly displays. You will be less prone
to that constant scolding and forbiding
and threatning by which many parents
induce a chioiic domestic irritation, in
the foolish hope that they will thus
make their children what they should
be. This compara'.ivly liberal form of
domestic government which does not
seek despotically to regulate all the de-
tails of,a child's conduct, necessarily re-
sults from the system for w' ieh we
have been contending. Satisfy your-
self with seeing that your
child alwajs suffers the natural conse-
quenci s of his actions, and you will
avoid that excess of control in which
so many parents err. Leave him,
wherever jou can, to the discipline of
experience, and you will so save him
from that hothouse virtue which over-
regulation produces in yielding natures,
or that demoralizing antagonism which
ic produces in independent ones
| By aiming in all cases to administer
Old Soldiers
Reunion at Geary.
The Old Soldiers Reunion of the blue
and gray, at Geary, O. T., on August
30 31 and September 1st, promises to ! the naturafreactions to yourchild's act
ions, >ou will put an advantageous
check upon your own temper. The
method of moral education pursued by
many —w fear by most-patents is lit-
tle else than that of venting their
anger in the way that first suggests
itself. The slaps and rough shakings
and sharp words with which a mother
commonly visits her offspring's small
offenses-many of them not offences,
done to ! considered intrinsically-are very gen-
erally but the manifestations of her
, . , , 1 own ill controlled feelings, and result
beautiful camp ground has been Be-, mucy, more from the promptings of
cured and plenty of tents will be put those feelings th#n fr«r h • wish to
up for all old soldiers and their fami- ■ benefit the offenders. While they are
lies, and rations will be served free. I '"j""?.1" l° he'',,®WJ: f"1m f,?
......... ebullitions tend by alienating her child-
A corps of the best orators have ren and decreasjng their respect for
her, to diminish her
be one of the very biggest events
ever pulled off in Oklahoma. This re-
union embraces all tha districts in
western Oklahoma ar.d all the old sol-
diars and their families will be in at-
tendance.
Geary is rraking elaborate arrange-
ments for entertaining the visitors and
everything possible will be
make their stay in Geary pleasant. A
been securad for the occasion, includ-
ing such men as Governor Frantz. ex-
Governor Ferguson, Hon. Wm. Cross,
Hon. D. T. Flynn, ex-Senator Gore
and Congressman McGuire.
influence over
them. But by pausing in each case of
transgression to consider what is the
natural consequence, and how that nat-
ural consequer.ce may best be brought
home to the transgressor, some little
A first-class carnival company has ' time is necessarily obtained for the mas-
been secured Mid will p , on . d ■« £=1n
line of shows during the reunion. | a |esg yghement feeling, and one not so
There will be good ball games every likely to mislead you.
day and big parades and platform j * * *
dances at night. There will also be: Bear constantly in mind the truth
horse racing at the Geary fair grounds that the aim of your discipline shomd
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crowd of three thousand will be in at-1 by otherg_ Were your children fated to
tendance. The railroads are making1 pa93 thesr lives as slaves, you could
very low rates for the occasion. ! r.ottoo much acaustom them to slavery
the growl and half bite with which 1
bitch will check a too exigent puppy.
But if you would carry out with suc-
cess a rational and civilized system, you
must be prepared for considerable
mental exertion, for some study, some
ingenuity, some patience, some self-
controll. You will have habitually to
trace the conscquences of conduct, to
consider what are the results which in
adult life follow certain kinds of acts,
and then you will have to devise meth-
ods by which parellel results shall be
entailed on the parallel acts of your
children. You will daily be called upon to
analyze the motives of juvenile conduct;
you must distinguish between acts
that are really good and those which,
though extern: lly simulat'j g them,
proceed from inferior impulses; while
you must be ever on your guard against
the crual mistake—not unfrequently
made—of translating neutral acts into
transgressions or ascribing worse feel-
ings than were entertained. You must
more or less modify your method to
suit the disposition of each child, and
must be prepared to make further mod-
ifications as each child's disposition en-
ters en a new phase. Your faith will
often be taxed to maintain the requis-
ite perserverance in a course which
seems to produce little or no effect.
Especially if you are dealing with chil-
dren who have been wrongly treated
you must be prepared for a lengthened
trial of patience before succeeding with
their methods, seeing that that which
is not easy even where a right state of
feeling has been established from the
beginning becomes doubly difficult when
a wrong state of feehng has to be set
right.
While some will probably regard this
conception of education as it should be
with doubt and discouragment, others
w.ll, we think, perceive in the exalted
ideal which it involves evidence of its
truth. That it cannot be realized by
the impulsive, the unsympthetic and the
short Sighted, but demands the higher
attributes of human nature, they will
see to be evidence of its fitness for the
more advanced states of humanity.
Though it calls for much labor and self-
sacrifice, they will see that it promises
an abundant return of happiness, im-
mediate and remote. They will see
that, while in its injurious effects on
both parent and chiiu a bad system is
twice cursed, a good system is twice
biessedrit blesses him that trains and
him that's trained.
We have said nothing auout the tran-
scendental distinction between right
and wrong, of which wise men know
so little and children nothing. Nor
have we introduced the religous ele-
ment. We have confined our inquiries
to a nearer and much mole eglected
field, though a very important one.
Our readers may supplement our
thoughts in any way they please: we
are only cone rr.ed that they should bi
accepted as far as they go.
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