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The real news
without waste
of words
TONKAWA CHIEFTAIN.
OFFICIAL PAPER
OF TONKAWA.
VOL. 8.--NO 32.
TONKAWA, KAY COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1911.
$1 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
AIKEN’S NEW MEASURE
This Time Bill No. 2 Is to
Carry a Trademark, and
Success Is Assured
The honorable Oliver H. Aiken
withdrew the so-called Aiken bill
No. 1 last week in order that he
might file a so-called Aiken bill
No. 2. Mr. Aiken informs us that
the two bills are as much alike as
two black-eyed peas, and-that he
only withdrew bill No. 1 for the
purpose of filing bill No. 2; and
then bill No. 2, he tells us, is to
have a trademark. Mr. Aiken also
informs the people that he had
16,000 bona fide signatures to the
bill which escaped without a
trademark, and that, if he can
get 16,000 names to a bill that has
no trademark, he will easily se-
cure 50,000 names to a bill orna-
mented with some beautiful em-
blem such as a university octo-
pus.
Of course,Mr. Aiken is only the
cat'spaw, as we have informed
our readers in several issues of
The Chieftain, but those in control
of the cat’spaw ought to give the
people an honest statement of
why bill No. 1 was withdrawn. If
Mr. Aiken had 16,000 signatures
to a bill that only required 20,000
and then withdrew it for the pur-
pose of placing a trade mark on
another bill, identically the same,
that he might not be tricked in se-
curing the remaing 4,000, as he
claims, the press of the state was
not far wrong when it classed
him along with those long-eared
animals so notable for their lack
of reasoning power.
No. Mr. Aiken has not been
permitted to tell the whole truth.
For if he could secure 16.000 sig-
natures without being imposed
upon by “spurious" petitions cer-
tainly he could have secured 4000
MIXED SCHOOLS
Negro Buck* Will Associate With
White Girls if This Bill Passes
Another initiated bill, this one
aiming at the abolition of both of
the negro schools in the state, was
filed in the office of Secretary of
State B. F. Harrison Friday after-
noon by T. N. Shaw of Walter, for-
merly editor of the Walter “New
Era.”
The bill provides for the elimina-
tion of the negro agriculture and
normal university at Langston, and
of the industrial institute for deaf,
blind and orphans at Taft, and if
adopted, is to become effective July
1,1913. The grounds ami buildings
now occupied by the two. institu-
tions are to revert to the state and
are to be disposed of in the manner
proscribed by law bv the next legis-
lature.
The proposed measure is a very
short one. no disposition being made
of the students now at the negro
university nor of the deaf, blind and
orphans at the Taft school.—Daily
Oklahoman.
Suppose such a bill should pass
in Oklahoma? What would be
the next move? Does anyone
doubt that this is only the prelimi-
nary step to placing the negroes
in the schools with the whites, as
is done in Kansas, Iowa, Colorado
and many other states? The bill
makes no provision whatever for
these negro students after the
schools are abolished. Does the
Dean from Iowa know anything
of this scheme? Is this a part of
his concentration scheme—con-
centration of capital and schools?
Does the Dean approve of the
white girls of Oklahoma graduat-
ing with negro classmates—both
claiming the same institution as
their Alma Mater? It is high time
the real friends of the university
were waking up. The Chieftain
warns Mr. T. N. Shaw that Okla-
homa is a Jim Crow” state and
will remain so for years to come.
In the Market for Feed
Oklahoma City, Jan., 15, 1912
Editor Tonkawa Chieftain.
Dear Sir: In your issue of
more and would have done so. January 4 I note you quote kaffir
We are going to give those in corn at 85c»s per hundred and prai-
control of Mr. Aiken a few more rie hay at $7 to $7.50 per ton. Can
days to tell the truth about this you give me the name of some party
new petition to be with a trade- " ho can furnish feeds at the prico
mark; bat if the truth is not forth- ‘looted t I am in tho markot for
coming very soon The Chieftain °J different kinds,
will expose the honorable gentle- ■ ' ery ti uly yours,
man's hand in the matter. ' PBobly, R R No. 9.
... ... . M , . . I Cole & Greeman, and H. H. Me-
U i* amusing to read Mr. A,ken s CubbiD5 of Tontawa no doub,
words with reference to the ras-, lw pIeased to suppIy youp wants._
cals who oppose his bill. Cer-: Kditor Chieftain.
tainly all horse-thieves, train rob- , -.-
bers, and hold-up men are sup Gore Opposes Hook
porting the schools of the masse . A letter to The Chieftain from
against the schools of the classes, Washington 4avs that Senator Gore
one must infer from Mr. AikenL ir>d others are going to make a
statement. They stand for the farm renuous light against Judge
school rather than the lawyer | 1 fook’s confirmation. They think
school, as criminals have no need 11,18 docis!ons,in the Oklahoma rate
ECONOMY IN EDUCATION
An Able Article On a Live
Question by State Super-
intendent R. H. Wilson
of lawyers. In fact, there are so
many bad men opposed to the
Aiken bill that Mr. Aiken finds it
necessary to withdraw it after
he has secured all but 4,000 of
the necessary signatures, that he
may place on it a trademark. Is
any man idiot enough to believe
that Mr. Aiken has told all be
knows?
Mr. White-man, the “big" schools
held up to you by this clique c f
school killers admit negro stu
use render his rppointment unde-
sirable. Mr. Taft declares that he
will nominate Hook in spite of all
protests. •
Blanks for School Census
A new departure in taking the
school census of Oklahoma is a blank
form prepared by State Superinten-
dent Wilson for the purpose of tak-
ing the scholastic enumeration for
1912. The blanks are new in form
and a great improvement over the
old form, as it guards against
frauds. One page in each blank
dents along with white students. | lj0®k 's tfiven to an entire family,
Dean Monnet's state does this very *nd;h® b*ck* oach book is an afli'
... „ t, 11 a a *i a- ,1. davit, to be filled out, to the effect
th.ng. Belle A. Aiken offers the lhat the enumeration asgivenis cor-
state normal of Kansas as a model rect. Tally sheets accompany the
and compares it with our normal b-anks on which the total results
are to bo kept.
school system. Yet the Kansan ---
normal has negro bucks enrolled Gratifying News
in the same classes with whiO This paper’s rapidly increasing
girls. The same is true of Chica- subscription list is very gratifying
go University, one of the big to tho publishers for it shows a
schools, as well as the Kansas spirit of appreciation coming as it
State University and many other ('oes w'^' 8b‘r't of well wishes
lartfp schools . Ifrom evor>r Pfttron 0f the paper. We
* are thankful for these expressions
Yes, Oklahoma has an educa-' hope to merit a
tional system different from the 1,n,inuunca_
states held up as models to you, $2,282.88 for Ed Stalnaker
Mr. Voter, and you may be very Josb Moope os corre8pondenl of
thankful that she has. If the bill. |0CB| Yoeman Homes tad, paid to
to abolish the separate negro gd Stalnaker *2,282.88 in full pay-
schools is adopted, you will ne*f mont as the beneficiary of his wife,
have a fight for mixed schools. | llessie F. Stuluuker.
Written for The Chieftain
The following article, written for
The Chieftain by State Superin-
tendent R. H. Wilson, will doubt-
less be of great interest to those
interested in any of the numerous
bills being filed to destroy the ed-
ucational system of Oklahoma.
Superintendent Wilson's econo-
my ideas are in vougue in our
state schools under the jurisdic-
tion of Mr. Wilson and Oklahoma
has saved more than $100,000 for
this year of his administration.
Since the beginuing of man, his
activities in self betterment have
been expressions of his instinct to
practice that principle which we
call economy. It is for the carrying
out of this ideal that governments
have been established and they are
successful to tho degree that good
economical principlesof government
are practiced by those who govern.
To educate is one of the most im-
portant functions of government,
andthe principles of economy should
most certainly be applied to this
work. In the beginning the work
of education was handed down from
generation to generation. No re-
cords were kept to enable those of
one generation to profit by the
achievement of the one preceding.
This occasioned a great loss of time
and energy. No financial system
had been established and we could
not argue that it was a loss finan-
cially, but economy in educational
affairs should include more than
consideration of expenditures of
money and the loss suffered by the
the people under the older systems
was greater than financial loss.
Socrates taughwby iudrividual in-
struction. which is perhaps one of
the best methods of teaching. But
for the sake of economy, of time, en-
ergy and finances, we have devel-
oped the present system of assem
bling those to be taught into schools
thereby saving the time of a num-
ber of teachers and the necessary
expense of employing this extra
teaching force.
The superstitions of the primitive
people, the ultra conservatism of
the church together with a very
strong inclination to follow the paths
of the fathers, has made education
and educational progress a very
difficult question. Even today
many are inclined to follow a set
way, marked years ago by some one
who was perhaps in his time a lead
er, but whose theoriesand examples
will not apply to modern day edu
cational conditions. Education has
within the last century become a
scientific profession. To make it so
has engaged the mind and energies
of the best men and women of the
age. That plan by which the edu
cational interests of all the boys and
girls of the commonwealth is best
conserved in the most economical
plan.
Such economy involves more than
the mere saving of money. The
problem we have before us is how
to give every American boy and
girl a practical education that will
enable him or her to become a use-
ful citizen, and to do this with the
least expenditure of money and in
the shortest time possible. With
the great majority, time is practi-
cally the only capital they have to
invest. Pupils of today may have
the benefit of all discoveries, inven
tions and writings of the past.
Practically all of the discoveries
and inventions in use today have
been made within your lifetime and
mine. We are almost the lirst gen-
eration of people that have ever
been permitted the privileges of
in creating sentiment for economy
in its highest and fullest sense
which is, as I see it, more than eco-
nomy of liuanee.
The most valuable asset of any
man of the present day is time.
Competition in every walk of life
demands that he be given the best
training iu the shortest possible
time. The success of a republic de-
pends upon the intelligence of its
citizenship. This being true, it be-
comes t he duty of the common wealth
to provide for the education of its
future citizens. The doing of this
is in itself a form of economy. The
real question is. how can this be
done and at the same time conserve
the best economical principles of
government. The attempt to meet
this issue has resulted in the es-
tablishment of what is known as
the public school system. This is
our most democratic institution and
bus continually grown until today
it has spread its arms to every part
of tho nation and offers every boy
and girl of the land the benefits of a
free school education. The marvel-
ous achievements of our govern-
ment is due more to our democratic
school system than to any other in-
stitution. Any force, that in the
name of economy, strikes at growth
of efficiency of this great institution,
is u vicious and dangerous thing,
and will ultimately reveal itself asu
very destructive power.
If the future of this nation de-
pends upon the intelligence of its
citizenship, it then becomes the duty
of the state to educate at any cost
and that system which serves the
greatest number is tho most oco
nominal system and should be
adopted. The first great need is a
supply of well trained teachers. We
contend that these teachers should
be educated at public expense and
that no amount of money or care
should be spared in educating this
most important element of our citi-
zenship. We have in this new state
544 650 school children. Less than
twenty years from today this band
of youngsters will rule this com-
monwealth. To a certain exteut the
future wellfare of this state depends
upon the opportunities which wo
give to this multitude of boys and
girls. Approximately 11,000 teach-
ers are needed toconduct the schools
of Oklahoma. Every child in the
state is entitled to a competent
teacher regardless of the price of
wages or the location of the school.
It would be false economy of tho
worst sort to fail to provide the
children with trained teachers. It is
soundest economy to judiciously ex
pend the public money to train the
necessary number of teachers. The
future development of the state de-
Continued on back page.
M'CUBBINSJURNED CALl f0R CONVENTION
H. H. Displays Great Pluck and
Thus Prevents a Big Blaze
H. H. McCubbins, tho produce
dealer, displayed true grit on Tues-
day morning and by his coolness
saved not only his life but aided
materially in saving his place of
business and the houses adjacent
to his property. Shortly after ton
o’clock Mr. McCubbins entered tho
room at the rear of his office and at-
tempted tostart the gasoline engine
After working around it for some
time Mr. McCubbins decided to till
it with gasoline. While pouring
the fluid from a large can a spark
from the engine sparker connected
with the oil, and a few moments later
the can he held was enveloped in
flames, and then exploded.
Seeing at a glance the danger the
place wus in Mr. McCubbins, al-
though badly burned, closed all the
windows to prevent the wind from
entering and fanning tho (lames
that were springing up in several
places on the floor. Then he rushed
into the next room where Joe Mc-
Fadden and Claude Moore pulled off
his overalls and jumpor, thus sav-
ing his life.
When tho whistle sounded the
alarm a number of men ran to the
building and with sacks assisted
Mr. McCubbins in beating out the
flames. The tiro department prompt-
ly responded but there was little
for the force to do. Mr. McCub-
bins went to a physician where it
was found he was severely burned
about the face and hands. He had
also inhaled considerable smoke.
Today he is around swathed in ban-
dages and loud in his praises of the
assistance he received from McFad-
den, Moore and the other volun-
teers. “Without their aid the place
would have been in ashes,” said
Mr. MoCubbins, ‘‘and I want to
thank all of them through The Chief-
tain for the splendid service they
rendered me.” He estimates his
loss at $50.
Democrats Notified to Pre-
pare for Election of State
and National Delegates
Persons in need of any kind of
printing in 1912 should not forget
to call at The Chieftain office.
Tho Democrats of the State of Okla-
homa Will Take Notice:
That your Democratic State Cen-
tral Committee, at u meeting held at
Oklahoma City on October 7, 1911,
passed the following resolutions,
among others:
“Be it Resolved by the State
Democratic Central Committee of
Oklahoma:
“That a state convention be called
to meet at Oklahoma City at ten
o'clock a. m., on the 22nd day of
February, A. D. 1912, for the pur-
pose of electing twenty (20) delegates
(and alternates) to the the national
democratic convention, to be held in
the year 1912; and also to select the
presidential electors; elect a mem-
ber of the national democratic com-
mittee, ami transact such other
business as may properly come be-
fore such convention.
‘That each county in the state shall
bo entitled to the following repre-
sentation in said convention: One
(1) delegate for every two hundred
(2D0), or major fraction thereof,
votes cast for the democratic nomi-
nee for governor at the last eleotion.
“That on Saturday, February 10,
1912, at two o’clock p. m., in the
precincts, under call of the several
county chairmen of the state, dele-
gates shall be elected to the several
county conventions, under such
rules and regulations as may be pre-
scribed by several county commit-
tees; and that the county conven-
tions, composed of the delegates so
elected at the precinct conventions,
shall meet on February 17, 1912,and
select delegates to* the convention.
That the chairman of this commit-
tee is authorized and directed to is-
sue a call for such conventions, set-
ting out the representation that each
county is entitled to under this re-
solution, and the secretary of the
state committee is directed to noti-
fy the several chairmen and secre-
taries of the county committees of
the action of this committee In this
matter.”
Now,therefore, as chairman of the
State Democratic Central Commit-
tee, and by virtue of the above reso-
lution, I hereby call a state demo-
cratic convention to convene st the
Auditorium, in Oklahoma City,
RAINFALL IN KAY COUNTY SINCE 1902
P. H. Albright & Co. of Newkirk send The Chieftain the following rainfall
table compiled by months and giving the total for each year, beginning with the year
1902. This measurement of rain is an accurato measurement as shown by the govern-
ment gauge sent them.
1902
1992
1903
1904
1905
1606
1907
1909
1910
1911
January
.95
.37
.74
1.50
.85
5.08
.34
1.00
2.92
.00
February
.60
1.4o
.00
.50
.32
.80
3.73
1.00
.25
4.79
March
3.22
2.38
1.09
4.30
1.59
.31
3.37
1.90
.49
.14
April
2.59
2.81
2.83
1.69
2.64
5.44
3.98
.91
1.19
2.62
May
14.06
8.87
7.36
392
.81
4.20
7.31
8.83
3.22
4.28
J unc
5.95
1.26
9.2s
4.14
5.07
7.85
12,15
3.76
2.02
1.55
July
0.00
1.43
5.35
1.64
5.70
1.47
3.16
6.56
2.02
4.85
August
3.92
4.56
7.30
2.35
4.15
4.45
.48
2.11
3.22
8.62
September
6.75
2.34
2.94
3.99
3.69
140
5.31
2.32
.60
2.75
October
1.02
5.51
.41
1.84
.78
5.77
s.36
2.73
.14
.97
/
November
2.39
.55
.00
2.80
3.41
1.34
5.62
5.36
.00
.61
December
1.49
.00
1.00
.38
.64
3.56
.06
.35
.28
3.15
42.94
30.91
37.25
28.66
29.65
41.67
47.87
36.83
16.29
33.00
They Mourn Mr. Mavity
Why
Is Campbell Russell ?
Okla., promptly at ten o’clock a. m.,
Whereas, God in his infinite wis-
B. J. LONG.
Editor Tho Chief-
on Thursday, February 22,191‘2;that
dom has seen
fit to remove from
tain.
Dear Sir:
1 read with great
said convention shall be composed
this life the
grandfather
of Mr.
interest your article on
Campbell
of delegates from
each and
every
Ralph Mavity, an honorary member
Russell last week, and the question
county of this state, which delegates
of our society;
aroso in my mind, Why is Campbell
shall be selected
in the following
Be it resolved, that we,
the Fer-
Russell ?
J
M. W
manner:
gusonian Society, do hereby extend
The
chairman
of each
of the
to him and his
relatives our heart-
Why he was created or
why he
county
central committees
of the
comparatively recent time if a man
were forced to undergo a surgical
operation he must do so without an
anaesthetic. Many maladies former-
ly considered serious are now treated
lightly.
The enormous reform and improve-
ments that have been made in the
work of the various industries and
professions have been made largely
as the result of a practice of what is
merely one form of economy. It is
just this kind of economy that wi-
nced in the administration of school
affairs. Advancement in any line
of activity has ever met with bitter
opposition and any effort to admin
grief.
He it further resolved, that acopy
of these resolutions be sent to him,
and, also, to each of the local papers
in our city.
John Payne
Committee Albert Ilousel
Blaine Smith
Call to Democrats
The state democratic central com-
mittee is hereby called to conveno
at the parlors of the Leo-IIuckins
Hotel in Oklahoma City, at 8:30
o’clock a. m., promptly, on Thurs-
exists we know not, unless it is to
weary the souls and try tho patience
of long suffering men.
City Bonds O K.
City Attorney W. W. Davis wus
in Newkirk on Monday and he re-
ports that Judge Bowles put his
seul of upproval on tho funding
bonds just issued by tho city call
ing for *15,000. After they have
inter our educational system on tho
high plane of economy of boyhood , ',\Vr ,, J 99 iqi V
and girlhood will also he condemned ''“S’- Februarv 22’ 191i'
by those who do not understand and
by those who may be actuutod by
selfish end ulterior motives. It is,
however, the duty of the teacher to
rise above any consideration except ...» . _
that of serving tho best interests Your poultry is not a paying
of the boys and girls who are to he proposition unless you are using
tho future citizens of this state Lee's egg maker. For sale at the
Teachers may be a powerful force , Owl Drug Store.
FRED B. BRANSON,
Chairman State Democratic Cen-
tral Committee.
state shall call their respective com-
mittees to meet as early as practic-
able, suggestion is made that they
bo culled to meet not later than Sat-
urday, January 27, 1912, and fix the
ratio of representation which each
precinct in the county shall have in
the county con vention.and shall call
a convention to be held in each pre-
cinct in tho county on February 10,
1912, to elect the precinct delegates
to the county convention; that each
been approved by the attorney-gen
oral and the state auditor tho city I county convention shall be held on
will proceed to dispose of them.
A letter receivod from Mrs. Chas.
Wilts states that winter reigns su-
preme in Illinois, tho thermometer
registering from 14 to 20 degrees
below MM
Let us figure with you on you-
Insurance or farm loan. Possibly
we eun be of service to you.
Shriver & Williams.
Saturday, February 17, 1912. The
respective county conventions shall
he composed of the duly elected
delegates from each precinct, the
number of delegates from each pre-
cinct boing in accordance with the
ratio of representation fixed by the
county committee.
The county conventions, held on
February 17, 1912, shall elect dele-
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