THE CHANDLER NEWS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1905.
The High School blection.
The recent election which was
held in Lincoln county for the pur-
pose of determining whether or not
a county high school should be es-
tablished, resulted in an overwhelm-
ing majority of the votes being cast
against the proposition. If one may
judge from the local press reports,
there was a strong showing of activ-
ity on the part of both friends and
1 opponents of the measure. 'The
fact that there was one or more votes
cast for the propsition in every vot-
ing precinct in the county shows that
the question was decided on its
merits and not merely because of
the proposed location at the county
seat. o
Since the county high school was
passed by the legislative assembly
in 1901, five counties have voted on
the proposition of establishing coun-
ty high schools. In two instances
the proposition carried and in the
other three they were defeated. It
is doubtful whether such a proposi-
tion can be carried in any county in
Oklahoma at a special election. But,
while this may be and probably is
true, it does not signify that the
people of the «county at large are
non-progr^sing or lacking in pub-
lic spirit or an appreciation of the
value of suclj institutions of learning.
•On the contrary, it would rather
seem to mean that in the sober,
conservative judgment of the majori-
ty, th • policy is defective in that it
seeks to establish such an institution
at the expense of a whole county
when, in the very nature of things,
but a comparatively small part of
its inhabitants can avail themselves
of its benefits. In other words, the
opponents of the measure hold that,
though the establishment of such an
institution may Jpe a good stroke of
enterprise fot the particular com-
munity in which it is proposed to lo-
cate it, yet, in the more remote parts
of the county, the resul'ant benefits
will not justify the outlay on the
part of the average taxpa\*er. On
the other#hand, it mayobe argued
that the county high school is bring-
ing higher education closer to th;
people than can be done only through
the medium of a necessarily limited
number of state institutions of learn-
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ing. Taken all in all, there is wide
room for argument on this question
as ft is by no means a one-sided one.
It iS the belief of the Farmers
Magazine that the time has n<?t ar-
rived for the establishment of coun-
ty high schools.in most of the coun-
ties in Oklahoma. The reason for
this assertion is manifest in the fact
that the r^al demand for schools of
such a type or class can only be ex-
pected to be heard after the common
•school system has been re-organized
upon,a more rational basis, and
more especially does this apply to
conditions in the rural districts.
The foundation of our whole educa-
tional structure is trie common school
system, and until it is strengthened
to the point of perfection, the super-
structure of higher schoolsT
academic, normal and ^collegiate
can never attain unto ideal excell-
ence and usefulness, it has been
charged, and not without some show
of just reason, that in establishing
her educational system, Oklahoma
has begun at the'top and tried to
build down instead of beginning at
the bottom and building up. If this
charge be true it is indeed time for
the thinking citizen as welf as the
educator to give this matter his seri-
ous consideration and that, too, with-
out temporizing or unnecessary pro-
crastination. *
The re-organiaation of the com-
mon school system along the lines
of efficiency must comprehend, first
and foremost, the consolidation of
rural schools. This is now a l^gal
I possibility in Oklahoma. During
, the last session of the legislative
[territorial assembly the writer* had
personal oversight of a number of
important measures which were con-
| sidered and passed by that body but
j he is constrained to remark tha( one,
of the most important, if not the
most important, of the bills that
were enacted into law in the session j
of .1905 was the rural school consol-
idation measure which was intro-
duced and, passed as the result of
the efforts of Representative Bone,
of Custer county. This law should
be studied by school patrons all
over the territory. Right now,
while the subject of better educa-
tional facilities is fresh and warm
in the minds of the people of Lin-
coln county, it would be a timely
move to agitate the consolidation of
the ryral schools of that county into
larger districts with more perfectly
graded courses of instruction and
greatly improved teaching facilities.
The promoters of the county high
school proposition, who have been
and this is an opportune time to in-
augurate it. With such a system'of
common schools perfected, the es-
tablishment of a county high school,
with courses in normal and indust-
disappointed in the results of their rial training, would follow in natural
efforts to secure its establishment, sequence, while the state institutions
cannot demonstrate their public eg; learning, including the agricultur-
spirit and unselfishness in a more al and mechanical college and the
appropriate way than to lead off in university, would soon .have no
such a movement. The Farmers further need to maintain preparatory-
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county set the pace for the rest of Finest made. Pure and whole-
the territory in this great movement some. 3t
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