Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 199, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 30, 1920 Page: 2 of 16
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' SUNDAY MAY 30 1920.
Allen Albert Foremost Sociologist
Pays High and Merited Compliment to
Ardmorc School System and Faculty
In Address to 1920 Graduating Class
Hi nimi'noi'miiH exerois of j
Anlmore puMIr srhuols were held
Friday nitiht at . Convention Hull
when the larem wnlor class of Ard
more IukIi school ami the largest
class from the (?rammar schools in
the school's history received diplomas.
Allen P. Albert of Chicago one
of the foremost sooiolotrmls of the
country deliver! the commencement
address while V. It. Bumltt presi-
dent of the board of education pre-
sented the diplomas.
alcilictory mid Salutatory
Miss lona Hello Lynn daughter of
Mr. nnd Mrs. Y. B. Lynn ranking as
the hiRheKt honor pupil delivered
the valedictory address the. second
honor ffolnif to Mian Minnie Hum
who made the salutatory. Both of
these youiiR women delivered splen-
did addresses in a most dlpnifled and
plensir.B manner. They have made
enviable records In their school work
and the honors accorded them at the
clasa of school were well deserved.
The program i opened with a selec-
tion by tte High School Orchestra
Pol M. Lowenstein director .is the
sixty seniors with stately dignity and
In the handsome costume of caps
and (owns marched in and were
eated on the stage. After taking
their places the grammar school
graduates who occupied a section
reserved for them in the orchestra
se:its amid enthusiastic applause
marched in. With Noun Cisco prin-
cipal of First ward at the lead. 52
graduates from hirst ward came in;
th?y wire followed by 3" pupils from
the Second ward with Mrs. C. K.
Washington principal; the Third
ward" with the largest class of 61
member.- then came with J. H.
Johnston principal: the Fourth ward
followed with IS graduates J. C.
Sltthl principal.
Selections were then given by the
Kis?h School Mixed Chorus and the
Hiiih School Ciirls (ilee Club Miss
Ellu J I'eterson. director.
In ihe presentation of the olas
address and the dipb tnus Mr. Albert
id Mr. Burnilt took occasion to pay
high tribute to the excellent leader-
ship of C. V. Kichards puperintun-
dent of schools. The 1S191820 school
term of Ardmore public schcols was
one cf the most successful in the
ach'Kil hWtory attested by the large
number of graduates and the record
of progress made throughout the
yenr. .
The invocation and benediction 'Was
pronounced by Dr. Crayton S. Brooks
pastor of First Christian church.
"Education is the only cure for
bolshevism socialism communism and
all the other isms and ists" Mr. Al-
bert said in his address "and you
America the class of 1U-0. with cour-
age must stand for the better things
in life 'Usefulness' Is the new key
to happiness and new life in Ardmore
und Tstfulness' is the fruit of edu-
cation." Resume of Address
"Members of the class of 1920 you
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ONCE again we have gone through our entire stock with the bar-
gain knife and trimmed it even more close. Think of it! Right
now in the height of the season you are able to save money on Shoes
you WANT and NEED.
This event has served its purpose of usefulness. Thousands of dollars worth of im-
mediately needed Shoes have been distributed among the people of Ardmore vicinity at msney saving prices
SALE EVPS SATUR-
DAY NIGHT JUNE 5
Ladies' $6.00
Pumps
Men's $12.50 Hamilton Special (Tf7 -I A
Oxfrd in gun and kid D ' 1U
EVERY
are graduated tonight into a group
of Americans winch is relatively
both great and small" he said.
' No one knows accurately how
many of the adult citizens of the
republic have completed high school
courses. Probably the number will
not exceed five persons in each ono
hundred grown ups.
"In Ihe aggregate this percentage
mounts of course Into the millions.
So that neither this class here in Ard-
more. nor another class in Illinois
which includes my own son nnd
which " like this is being graduated
this evening confers upon its mem-
bers the privilege of flaunting their
pride upon the community.
An Academic Course
"The significance of your progress
however is great for you for the
city for '.he nation. A modern high
school education comprehends a
londer range of subjects a better
quality of teaching u more practical
preparation for useful citizenship
than did a four year course in a
university a generation ago.
"you are tonight advancing into
the company cf those who are quali-
fied for the directing of the nation.
"We are inclined to think that
American public school teaching in
the grades fits the student mainly for
labor unskilled or halfskilled; that
Ihe first years of the high school
equip the student mainly for com-
merce; nnd that those who complete
the high school course have been the
widest human range of selection for
their labors.
An Knviable Honor
"In a very practical nnd enviable
sense your preparation In the high
school of Ardmore justifies In you
a beautiful pride. For the system
in which you have lcen educated is
in several respects favorably con-
spicuous among all of the school
systems of America. It is enviable
In tiny enre t0 be graduated. It is
particularly enviable lo be graduated
from one of the most progressive
and most successful school organiza-
tions that your country has produced.
Arclinore u Precedent Maker
"These are words of high praise. I
Intend you shall accept them as meant
literally not as agreeable compli-
ments only. In several respects has
your diploma special weight.
"Here In Ardmore in Oklahoma in
a territory not open for settlement
nt a time when many other school
systems had established their tradi-
tions has Ix'en developed in prac-
tice a twelve-month school year.
Othtr communities have established
44-weeks-school yeur and several are
preparing for a year of 48 weeks like
your own. Ardmore has acted how-
ever with characteristic western en-
terprise while other communities mad"
ready or merely marking time.
"This Is more than a mere differ-
ence in administrative plan. It is a
definite economy for the community
a definite personal gain for you. It
makes feasible the . adjustment of
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White Canvas
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$2.65
PAIR OF SHOES GO.
mam m
grades every 12 weeks. It asaisis
the students to be u breast of his
course by extending the school year.
It reduces ' from four to three the
number of calendar years required
for a subj'-el. For students of spe-
cial aptitude it makes easy the carry-
ing of five majors instead of four.
"To be sure ull of this is not
achieved without extr.i money cost
r opposition upon oilier grounds.
Your presence on this platform is
I roof that Ardmore is willing to pay
i for the education of her children
and still more strange has courage
to Kt.tnd against opposition In behalf
of their children.
"Another rispcrt in which your di
ploma is especially significant Is that
the hich school of Ardmore repre
sents a larger average of promotion
to the school system than is usual.
"Ordinarily onlv nine students of
each 100 of a school enrollment In
his cr.untrv are in the high school.
An average above 11 is regarded with
envv by most cities.
"Leavenworth in Kansas has an
average of 17. The Newtons in
Massachusetts have an averago of
approximately 24.
"Hut Leavenworth and the ISew-
tons are not usual communities. The
former city fills its high school part-
ly with the children from the offi-
cers' (I'Hirters nt Ft. Leavenworth.
The Newtons fill their high schcol
with the children of especially privi-
leged class.
"As far as my knowledge goes
among cities of a general population
no public school system In America
has a more creditable average of
high school enrollment than has Ard-
more in Oklahoma. Here 13.1 per-
sons out of every 100 in the entire
system nre to bo found in hlg'i
school. Upon this fact were I a
resident of Ardmore I should depend
to engage the favorable attention of
the world before I made mention of
th oil field or the new office build-
ings or any other of the city's out-
rtaniling assets.
Most Progressive System
A third respect In which your di-
ploma has especial character is that
here in Ardmore the most progressive
methods of modern pedagogy have
been consistently and conservatively
and yet resolutely employed to fit
the course of education to the child
rather than the child to the course
:f educatoln.
'Partly is this achieved through
the introduction Into the school
course of a limited amount of voca-
tional training. I have been person-
ally n0 little apprehensive of the em-
phasis put upon what is called prac-
tical teachini.-. We do not live for
the 'Three R's.' We do not live to
make a living. Above everything
we do net live for money. Hut we
cannot get along without the 'Three
HV without making a living with-
out money. Now a trained vocation-
allst Is ns conscious of his deeper
need as anybody else hut it Is devo-
tion to what he calls practical train-
ing that he Is in danger of swing-
ing so far as to distort the purposes
of the student.
"On tha other hand it is not to
be questioned that learning lo set
type does leach a child to spell.
That learning to be a carpenter does
teach a boy the use of tools and give
him a disposition toward mental ex-
actness as well as physical. That
Ladies' $12.50 Black Kid
Beaded- Tip Pumps
WEfflSMA
YNW
One lot of $10 Oxfords while d0 QK
they last 4)0.iJ
teaching a gjr! to design u dress will
make her not only mote competent to
make er own viol lies but competent
lo nroke clothes uf belter design.
' "The course of wisdom thus lies
somewhere between the school with-
out any vocational training which
will uncover talents and the school
like Hint In (Jury which covers over
discipline and mind for Hie sake of
frerdoin from discipline and training
of hind. A median course has been
admirably developed by the board of
educaticn aid superintendent in Ard-
more. "The system Is suited to the child
still further by the pioneering pro-
gress which has licen made here
through psychological tests.
The Slate Nirmal School of Kan
sas has undertaken various parts of
Ibis scheme in various cities ot inai
state. S'miU.rly the present heads
of the dermrtment of education of
Yale Introduced some of these tests
into the schools of Minneapolis rea-
body Institute for Teachers at Nash-
ville. Tenn. has used them In its
model school. In California they
have been somewhat extensively
adapted. How evident it is then
that the schools of Ardmore are in
this respect In the front lino of all
the schools of America!
Doubly Fortunate.
"You nre fortunate further In com-
nletlni? vour course in the public
school In a day when the old und
hest standards of life have an cm
iilmsls thev have never been given
before. Do not permit the confusion
that it is in the air the whirl of
accusation and sensation the increas
lug complexity of life to make you
think that other ages have been more
honorable more rich in' opportunities
finer than this."
In conclusion Mr. Albert repeated
by request the story of tho Jury of
a wounded British soldier at tne com
tnir of ihe Americans In the war
It is a storv strong in its nppeal of
what it meant when America enter-
ed the battle for humanity. The
speaker wits visibly nffecled with the
memory of the occasion and In a
Wauiiful Illustration expended his
hands to the senior class of l:o anJ
said "You are America."
Washington. Chairman Kahn of
the military affairs committee Intro-
duced ti resolution in the house pro-
viding for a congressional Investiga-
tion of the recent escape from cus-
tody of H rover C. Bergdoll wealthy
Philadelphia draft evader.
BeautifyComplexion
.IN TEN DAYS
Nadinola CREAM
Toe Uaequled Bcutifitr
Vmd and Endomd!
By Thousand
Guaranteed to remove
tan freckle pimple
liver-spots etc. Ex-
treme cases 20 davs.
Rids pores and tissues of impurities.
Leaves the skin clear soft healthy. A
leading toilet counters. If they haven't
it by mail two sires 60c. and $1.20.
NATIONAL TOILET CO.. Pari.' Tnn i
cold by Kinder Drug Company City
Drug Store Frame Drug Company Har-
rell Drug Company Coleman Drug
Company Ardmore Pharmacy Johnson
Drug Company and othera.-adv.
I1(G TIE HKH TM
$5.95
Ladies' $15.00 Black and
Brown Pumps
ACHFIOES
HEBE'S A POLITICAL
SNARL WHICH SEEMS
LIABLE TO KICK UP A
IN THE PRIMARY
There Is considerable discussion go
ing on among interested candidates
for county office whether there will
be s general registration of all vot
ers before the primary election or not
and so far very little information can
bo obtained on the subject.
County Attorney Brown stated Sat-
urday that he had taken the matter
up with the attorney general nlso
w.th the chairman of tho stato flec-
tion board but has been unable to
secure any material satisfaction.
Under the law no general registra-
tion throughout tho state was to have
been held this year but it lias been
intimated that tho matter might bo
tnken up by Individual counties and
voters registered provided money
shall be subscribed to pay the ex-
penses of registration.
Since the lost general election there
has been many changes mnde in the
general attitude of elections and un-
less some Immediate steps are taken
a great many may be denied the bal-
lot at the comtng primary.
The women vote Is going to tut
quite u figure if they are permitted
the use if the ballot and unless
they nre granted the prlv lege they
are liable to start something that the
old-time politicians und those who
oppose woman's suffrage cannot stop
they are going to be thcro or there
abouts according to lest Information
obtainable und are going to be grant
RAILWAY TIME TABLE
SANTA FE RAILWAT
North Round
Train No. S Departs 12:27 a. ro.
Train No. 18 Departs 11:62 u m.
Train No. 12 Departs 3:05 p. m.
South Bound
Train No. 5 Departs 3:58 a. m.
Train No. 11 Departs 1:25 p. m.
Train No. 17 Departs 4:4S p. m.
ROCK ISLAND RAILWAT
Train No. 652 Departs T:00 a. m.
Train No. 684 Departs 12:40 p. k.
(Mixed Train)
Train No. 693 Arrives 12:40 p. m
(Mixed Train!
Train No. (51 Arrives - 8:00 p. m.
FRISCO RAILWAY
Train No. 706 Departs 7:60 a. m
Train No. 774 Departs 11:35 a. m.
(Mixed Train)
Train No. 77fl Departs 4:50 p. m.
Train No. 773 Arrives 7:30 a. m
(Mixed Train) '
Train No. 775 Arrives .10:15 a. m
Train No. 705 Arrives. 7:30 p. m.
OK LA. NEW MEX. PACIFIC
Train No. 1 Departs 7:00 a. m
Train No. X Departs 2:30 p. to
Train No. I Arrives ..11:00 a. tit.
frain No. 4 Arrives . 1:11 p.
AMI SAVE
$8.95
Men's $18.50 Edwin Clapp; (P-jO QC
broken lot all sizes- $LfVO
NEW SYSTEM SALES COMPANY
ed the privilege of the ballot or know
the reason why.
In all probability the matter will
be adjusted some way but It must
be untangled from th-) present mess
If any comprehensive record is se
cured of the .legal voters of Carter
ccunty because at the present lime
there Is none and no one seems to
know where the records here vanish
ed to.
It Is estimated that the vote In
Carter county will be Increased at
least 60 per cent if the women and
those who -have become of voting age
since the last election aro permitted
Bring tfilir
lo u$. We use fl
Pure Fresh Drugs
We take. C
When your physician "prescribes" for you or.
your loved ones you want to BE SURE that
the medicines you get are full strength and
pure. ...
You take no chance when we fill your pre-
scription ; we take just as much care in filling
them for you as we would in doing so for our
own use.
Yet we make only a moderate charge for the
scientific compounding we do.
Let us fill your prescriptions and KNOW they
are filled right.
Frame Drug Co.
SALE
Ladies' Patent and Kid Pumps 31 QP
French and Baby French heels vlS7tl
500 pair Men's White Sport Ii QP
and Palm Beach Oxfords Pltl
0..jSA..j..j
to vote and It Is a mutt guess thai
a majority of them w going to
want to know why tlley re denied
if thy ure denied.
The county election board will
the matter up immediately und have
it definitely se'tled one way or an-
other In order that all may know
just what its attitude will be In tu
coming elections.
'
I'arU The chamber of deputies
gave the ministry of I'retnler Miller-
and a vote of confidence 615 to 8.
The uuified socialists voted solidrf
against the government.
ENDS SATUR-j
DAY NIGHT JUNE 5 1
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Easley, John F. Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 199, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 30, 1920, newspaper, May 30, 1920; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc158528/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.