The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 241, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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NORMAN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
Schools Devoted to
Vocational Education
By B. H. Lunbee. Philadelphia, Pt,
Pennsylvanjana are get-
ting ready to take advan-
tage of the state law now in
effect which provides for the
establishment of schools de-
voted to vocational eduea*
tion. The state's ochool offi-
cials have been notified by fifteen districts that evening classes ui indus-
trial education will be established this fall. The districts are all in the
mining regions, and the pupils will be miners. Other districts have indi-
cated that they will organize classes in industrial work, agriculture or the
household arts. The schools may be the all-day school, the continuation
school to supplement the regular course, or the evening class.
The state board of education has approved a bulletin prepared by the
industrial and agricultural education experts of the department, which
defines vocational education and "gives the interpretation of the law passed
by the last legislature.
Attention is called to the fact that the commonwealth, under the
terms of the vocational school act, will give school districts and unions of
school districts maintaining vocational classes an amount equal to two-
thirds of the sum which has been expended during the previous school
term for instruction in practical subjects and closely related technical and
academic subjects, but no district will be paid more than $5,000 a year.
The law makes no provision for reimbursement for the teaching of
manual training and domestic science as generally conducted, and, in
order to be approved for state aid, the courses must be strictly vocational
in nature and carried on in accordance with state requirements.
Vocational education, according to the bulletin, must give definite
preparation for a definite occupation and the teaching of agriculture to
come under this provision for state aid will have to be placed on a voca-
tional basis.
OF
MEDIUM SIZE
Constructed to Secure Comfort
for Horses and Cows in All
Kinds of Weather.
STALL PARTITIONS OF IRON
41
America's Supply of
Horses Holds Good
By H. A. DEVERY, Dallu. Texas.
No matter what tbe de-
mand or the response to it,
the European nations can-
not exhaust or even embar-
rass the horse market of the
United States. There has
been a big demand for
horses from Europe, and, according to the government statistics, about
75,000 animals were exported in the last month of last year. Since then
probably 100,000 have been sent abroad to be sacrificed to the god of war.
The purchase and shipment of horses here has not affected the market,
because most of the animals sent to Europe were of a kind that ordinarily
could not be bought in the open market. They were not first-class horses.
Owners of the best horses did not send the animals to market because
they realized they could get better prices in this country later on.
According to the government figures there were in this country the
first of the year more than 24,000,000 horses, or about one for every five
persons. We could sell ten times the number of horses that have been'
purchased by foreign nations without appreciably diminishing the supply
in the United States.
The big demand for horses, in my judgment, will occur after peace
has been declared. When that comes the countries at war, with the excep-
tion of Russia, will probably be short of horses for agricultural work.
Russia had, prior to the outbreak of the war, about the same number of
horses there are in this country, and in the whole world there are perhaps
100,000,000 horses.
It would be impossible to kill enough horses in the war to make any
marked impression on the world's supply, just as it would be impossible
to kill enough men to threaten the extinction of the population.
In Every Way This Structure It
Adapted to Bring Profit to the
Dairyman and Meet Require-
menta of the Board of
Health.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr William A. Radford will answer
questions and *?tve advice KKKK OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building work on the farm, for
tha readers of this paper. On account of
his wide experience as Editor. Author and
Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the
highest authority on all these subjects.
Address all inquiries to William A. Rad-
ford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago,
111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for
reply.
There is a growing demand for me-
dium-sized farm barns. Real barns
are wanted to comfortably house
horses and cows where they may be
made comfortable in all kinds of
weather.
A combination farm barn and stable,
34x44 feet in size, is shown in this
design.
It is a style and size of barn that
Is well calculated to fit a farm of from
20 to 40 acres. There are a great
better grades of condensed milk ar« j
Just as rigid in their stable require-
ments as the boards of health in cities.
Such boards of health are also inves- i
tigating the methods employed in pro- j
ducing cream that is shipped to va-
rious creameries.
The manufacture of homemade
farm butter also is coming in for its
share of dairy inspection. The idea
la to furnish American citizens with
the best and cleanest milk possible to
produce.
This little stable is provided with
two ventilating flues to carry off the
foul air. They operate on the usual j
plan of removing the foul air from
near the floor behind the cows. The :
flues are built into the walls and fol- j
low the rafters to the metal ventila-
tors on the peak of .the roof. There
are Intake pipes in the Bide walls and i
in the wall at the silo end of the J
stable to admit air from three dif-
ferent directions.
A stable built airtight like this one
and filled with cows should have a
liberal supply of fresh air at all times,
but especially at night when the cows
are left to themselves without atten-
tion for six or eight hours.
The upper part of this barn is made
into one large mow that is free from |
cross timbers or obstruction of any
kind. Such a mow holds a good deal
of hay and straw for winter use. It
is put in by horse fork through the
large doors at the horse stable end of
the barn. This doorway when both
doors are wide open is 12 feet wide
In the clear.
The mow is lighted by four windows
built into the roof in dormer style A
barn as well built as this is too dark
to work in with comfort without some
means of lighting the upper part of
the mow. It is difficult to place win-
dows lower because when the mow is
Salvation, a
| Matter of Fact,
I Not of Method
Br REV. J. H. RALSTON
Secretary ol Corropoadmc* Dn*rm«at,
Moody Btbl* Ids tittle of Chios*)
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Flies Have Place in
Economy of Nature
By R. T. AISTON, Atlanta, Georgia
Do not swat the flies—
swat yourself. There are no
flies where they are not
needed.
Do not swat the germs—
swat yourself. Where germs
can grow, there they should
many such farms, where a dozen cows
are kept and accommodation is need-
ed for 4 or 5 horses.
The foundation is of concrete with
a heavy wall extending all around the
outside of the barn. This wall also
Includes the silo and feed room be-
tween the silo and the barn.
The floor, both in the cow stable
and horse stable, is of concrete made
In sections to prevent cracking. The
floor in the horse stable end is made
level and even across. The concrete
floor in the cow stable end is higher
in the middle to raise the feed alley
and mangers above the gutters and
alleyways behind the cows.
Thirty-four feet in width gives room
grow. You may be assured that flies have a place in the economy of j for a center feed alley and allows 2
nature. They are not an enemy of man. They hold the same relation
to us as the scavenger men do. Do not kill the buzzards. Eemeinber
that if flies torment or in any way disturb you it is not the fly, but it is
yourself that is the tormenter and disturber of yourself. If there be
no breeding place and nothing for them to feed on, there will be no flies,
and if there be a place for them to breed and something for them to feed
on, then it is well that there are flies.
If you do not wish to be tormented by flies, then keep pure. You
are more apt to be disturbed by them if you are ill. If you are pure, sweet,
clean and healthy and your dwelling is likewise, no flies will stop over on
their trip to your neighbors, where is filth in body and dwelling.
Because a cat has a germ or two in its whiskers it does not necessarily
follow that the cat should be "swatted." That I have germs in my beard
and hair is no reason for "swatting" me or having my hair or beard shaved
off. Why, these are all methods of distribution. These seeds may fall
where there is no soil and they die. If they fall on good soil they live
and reproduce themselves and destroy the soil. This is well.
Clean up the abodes of your bodies and the abodes of your souls, and
keep them clean, and there will be no flies to swat.
Teach Spanish in All
Public Schools
By Baron Ludwigde Leopold, Baltimore, Md.
Spanish should be taught
in every school in the Unit-
ed States. I am a French-
man, but, in my opinion,
every citizen of the United
States should have a knowl-
edge of the Spanish lan-
guage. The increasing trade between the United States and South Amer-
ica can only be retained by American merchants who study Spanish and
learn the customs of the people with whom they have to deal.
When a foreign merchant buys goods he will go to the merchant who
knows his language and understands the customs of his country.
For many years the United States made very little progress in dealing
with merchants in foreign countries because the salesman sent out seldom
knew the language of the country he was in and had to talk to them
through an interpreter.
Every year the merchants in the United States are getting closer to
the trade in the Spanish-speaking countries, and it will not be very long
before a large number of merchants from Central and South America
•will visit the United States each year to purchase goods. If the merchants
in this country hope to do business with the men from the Spanish-speak-
ing countries they must have a knowledge of the Spanish language.
Already a number of the public schools in the United States are teach-
ing Spanish. When the institution becomes general it will not be very
long before the United States government will be able to make an inter-
esting report upon how the trade with South and Central America ha a
been increased through the teaching of Spanish in the schools.
feet for each manger, 5 feet for the
cow stalls and 16 inches for each gut-
ter, and leaves 5 feet 8 inches for each
alleyway between the gutters and the
outside walls.
The foundation wall extends up
above grade about 20 Inches or 2 feet.
FTom the top of the foundation wall
to the peak the building is constructed
of light timbers on the plank frame
construction plan. Each pair of raft-
ers forms a truss with the feet resting
on the sills. These trusses are tied
together crossways of the building by
the 2x10 Inch joists that support the
floor. These joists are 12 feet long
and are spiked together where they
pass each other at the girders.
The stall partitions are of iron The
whole interior of the stable is lined
with a smooth finish, carefully painted
with three coats of lead and oil paint,
carefully worked into the matched
TEXT—But how he now 8eet.li we know
mot.—John 9:21 R. V.
These words come in the story ot
the healing of the man born blind, and
to whom sight was
given by Jesus
Christ. The im-
plication in the
words "now seeth"
amounts to a di-
rect affirmation
that the man saw.
It was a fact. The
other words of the
text are a distinct
dental of knowing
how the fact was
produced. Run-
ning through the
chapter it is quite
remarkable to Bee
to what degree
this Inquiring as to "how" obsessed
various classes. At least five times
was the question asked in one form or
another.
The Troublesome "How."
That little word "how" has been a
great troubler. It is often asked with
reference to the actions of God. The
Christian church, backed by the Word
of God. teaches that God is all-power-
ful and all-loving. Now comes some-
one and asks, "How can you reconcile
that teaching with the fact of so much
suffering on this earth, and that on
the part of people who suffer for no
fault of their own?" "How can you
reconcile that with the doctrine of
eternal punishment of the wicked?"
"How can you reconcile that with the
cruel death in the Cross of Calvary?"
"How can the blood of Jesus Christ
have any connection with the forgive-
ness of a man's sins?" "How can sim-
ple trust in Jesus Christ result in sal-
vation?" Are such questions justi-
fied?
Be Sure of the Fact.
In the Scripture case the man hau
been born blind and everybody knew
it. He met Jesus one day and in a
very brief period of time was made to
see, a fact to which there was no con-
tradiction. Now this is a most impor-
tant matter in the application of the
text to moral or spiritual transforma-
tions. The genuineness of these are
usually supported by some radical
change In a person, and also by the
permanence of the change. The per-
manent change being established, no
one questions the fact. If it is an in-
dividual that Is interested in this mat-
; ter, he may simply ask himself the
question, "Are things different from
what they were?" He can usually an- |
, ewer that question with the greatest
| positiveness. He knows what he now
! loves, and what his life is as compared
| with what it was, and he has hopes
I for the future that give him a satisfac-
1 tion that he never knew before. In
IS
ON HER DEATHBED
Mother of Nine Is Cleared in Ex-
traordinary Marriage in
North Carolina.
ELOPED 20 YEARS AGO
filled with hay the windows are cov-
ered over.
There is a feed room between the
cow stable and the silo. The chute
from the silo and the hay chute from
the mow both deliver into this feed
room. The hay is brought to the feed
room chute by means of the same
horse fork that fills the mow in the
summer time. Modern hay forks work
much better than the old-fashioned
kind, because the tracks and the cars
are better made. The tracks are true
and the car wheels fit the track. It
is so much easier and cheaper to do
lifting and carrying by horse power I
that farmers are figuring on just such short we can 8a>'' He knottB that he j
a saving when plans for barns are be- 13 8aved. 19 a fact" Job knew that
ing selected | h!s Redeemer ltved- Paul waa fuI'y
This feed'room Is another require- Persuaded that the good work had be-
ment of dairy stable inspection. When \
hay is pitched down from the loft into 1
a dairy stable the dust flies in every
Told Friends They Were Married Ac-
cording to South Carolina Law—
Honored and Respected by
Their Friends.
Salisbury, N. C.—A most extraordi-
nary death bed marriage was solemn-
ized—that is the word—at Woodleaf,
N. C. Usually such marriages take
place when one or other of a young
and loving pair, who have plighted
their troth, is about to pass into the
unknown. After such a marriage the
one left fefls a flrme/, if invisible,
bond to the one who has departed.
Just before sirs breathed her last
Miss Lucy Litker was married to A.
C. Gibbons. Yet In the eyes of the
world they had been man and wife for
twenty years. Dwelling together hap-
pily, nine children had blessed them.
But knowing she had only a short
time to live, Mrs. Gibbons yearned to
free her soul of its stain, to clear her
conscience and, not least, to legiti-
matize her children. Gibbons, weep-
ing and remorseful, instauly compiled
with her request.
Beginning of Romance.
Gibbons and Miss Litker were
sweethearts twenty years ago; he was
twenty-five then, she a pretty girl of
nineteen. They "eloped" to South
Carolina where, in those days, it was
not necessary to take out a marriage
license. Returning, Gibbons and his
"wife," told their relatives and friends
they had been married In strict ac-
cordance with South Carolina law.
Kverybody believed them, everybody
received them, for the girl was re-
garded as a model of propriety, the
young man was industrious and self-
contained. They lived well, and as
the years passed educated their chil-
dren 4ud brought them up to be reli-
gious.
Nevertheless Mrs. Gibbons—to call
her by the name she longed to bear
rightfully—had been in failing health
for some months. It became plain that
she had tuberculosis of the lungs and
soon, that she was doomed. As the
direction. Dust carries bacteria. Bac-
teria get into the milk at milking
time and make trouble. For this rea-
son some boards of health refuse to
certify milk manufactured in a dairy
stable where the feed is stored over-
head, but a barn built like this with
a dressed and matched overhead floor .
< a „< i!incT the r own convers on they had no
and a dressed and matched ceiling, . ' „ , _.
.. . . . . .. - . .... „,.,h ! claim to be called chldren of God. The
finished as described in this plan, witn
gun In him. John knew that he and
other Christians had passed from
death unto life.
As to the outward steps that matf
have to be taken, they may be known,
as in the case of the man born blind.
In most cases of genuine conversion
the outward steps can be seen, but so
much has been made of these that
souls have been made to believe that
unless they could see the steps In
kt
a hay chute at the end of the mow
which delivers the hay into the feed
room that is closed by a door against
the feed alley, meets all requirements
of the most rigid inspection.
There is an overhead stable track,
which carries feed and bedding from
this feed room to the mangers and
stalls. The same track extends
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Ground Floor Plan of Horse and Cow Barn Design.
ceiling boards to fill all the cracks
and crevices. Dairymen are becoming
more particular all the time in regard
to the Inside finish of a cow stable.
Satisfactory prices for milk or cream
are only secured oy men who have
the proper stabling, facilities for hous-
ing, feeding ana milking anc keeping
the cows clean.
Dairying requires close application
and long hours. Dairymen are follow-
ing the business because it pays, and
they want every modern improvement
to assist in the work of producing a
satisfactory high grade commodity
that will satisfy the most particular
city inspector. Manufacturers of the
through into the horse stable to de-
liver feed directly to the horse man-
gers.
All outside doors are made in
halves, one above the other, so the
upper half may be left open in sum-
mer. The windows are made double
for warmth in winter. This is not so
important in the horse stable end of
the barn, but to get the best results
from the dairy cows they must be
kept warm and comfortable. Cows in
a stable like this may be fed in such
a way as to produce as much milk in
winter as in summer, but it requires
good stable management and good
feeding.
books that have recently appeared,
such aa "Twice-Born Men," by Harold
Begbie, relating moral and spiritual
transformations, have left the impres-
sion on many that they must pass
through similar experiences. In Bhort
they must know "how."
In genuine spiritual transformation
the work is that of the Holy Spirit,
who works when and where and how
he pleases. It must be kept in mind
that the Holy Spirit is God, and God
has always reserved to himself the
right to keep his purposes secret, and
as well his methods of operation, and
it is more than foolish to try to enter
where angels fear to tread.
Why Not Ask "How?"
j Summing up these thoughts, we may
I observe that the asking of the ques-
tion "how" is frequently a mere quit)-
I ble, the avoiding of the main proposi-
tion. It is oftentimes not sincere, the
purpose being other than getting an
answer for proper ends. In the case
before us the question was asked to
Involve Jesus In some technical breach
of the Jewish Sabbath day.
There is great impertinence in ask-
ing the question, for it may belong to
the secret things of God. The physi-
cian does not ordinarily feel under any
obligation to tell the patient how the
medicine works.
Sometimes the answer of the ques-
tion would be the disturbing of the
comfort of the inquirer, and it is mer-
ciful in God to keep the process a se-
cret.
The asking of the question and
awaiting an answer are not only a
waste of time, but may be the taking
of some of God's time for service,
for every moment of the after life be-
longs to him.
No toil can shame thee—idleness Is
eha«e.—Heriot
The Deathbed Marriage.
disease progressed the thought of her
false marriage preyed upon her mind
more and more, gnawed her con-
science.
Finally she could conceal the secret
no longer, and, calling her closest
friend, whispered to her:
"Before I go into the presence of
my Maker I must make a confession
to you. We, my dear husband and I,
were never married. I will die happy
if he will marry me—if, at last, I am
his lawful wife."
"Poor dear," said the friend strok-
ing Mrs. Gibbons' forehead soothing-
ly. "Her mind is wandering. She has
been married for twenty years," and
the friend told Gibbons, adding, "I'm
afraid she will not live until morn-
ing."
"Her mind is not wandering,"
sobbed Gibbons. "She speaks the
truth. We were never married. I
could not have loved her more If wa
had been married a thousand times.
I could not have tried harder to make
her happy. So her wish shall be
granted. We will be married at once."
There was need of haste. A mes-
senger was dispatched for a clergy-
man; two of Gibbons' friends speed
ed in an automobile to Salisbury and
secured a marriage license As the
minister pronounced the last word
that made her a wife Mrs. Gibbons
smiled happily, circled her husband's
neck with her wasted arms and whls
pered:
"My husband, my ows, true bus
band—at last."
Soon, still smiling, she ceased to
breathe.
"High Target" With Old Musket.
Sayville, N. Y.—Using the musket his
grandfather used in the Civil war,
Herbert Feldmeier made a "high tar
get" at the prize ihoot here.
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