The Star-Gazette (Sallisaw, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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THE STAR-GAZETTE
i"' NED BY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY SAUJSAW OKJ
Office on Elm Street Phone No 12
M U HIAKSJ VUAMK Kdllwul Hhlihar
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titlithed on Friday of each week and entered nt the Poat Office at
SalUsaw Oklahoma a Second Clau Mall Matter
SUBSCRIPTION 1100 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
FRIDAY JANUARY 7 INS
IN THE COMING CAMPAIGN
For President - WOODROW WILSON
ForVicffi President— KOHhKT L OWEN
Meeting Place uf the Democratic National (invention 8t louis Mo
Piatiorm1h Itecord of the Wilson Admimatiation
MrWrigley on Community Development
Th following paper wea read by
Jamca Wrlaley of Vlan at the Bi-
Monthly meeting of the Sequoyah
County Teaohera' Association held at
Salllaaw Ok la December 10 ItlS:
Friends:
I am tlways glad to claim friend-
ship with teachers I realize that
to be entitled to claim friendship
with them I must be in good stand-
ing in a general way With you
I feel that I am in pretty good com-
pany My respect and admiration for
you increases with long years of
observation and experience of all
the professions yours is the highest
and ihe best I appreciate the mo-
tive that brings you here today and
the attendant sacrifices in loss of
time and expense and the discom-
forts of traveling ovei long bad
roads oftrn tn the most crude nnd
uncomfortable conveyances
Notwithstanding my attachment
for you nnd your profession I shall
endeavor not to he carried away
by the sentimental or theoretical
phase of Ihe subject but to regard
you ns human with your points of
weakness as well as your poinls
of strength My paper is directed
more espeeinih to th" ming teach-
ers You know 111' re arc touchers —
and teachers just as there are law-
yers — and lawjers or farmers — and
farmers etc various kinds with
various ideas and notions and set
no one ever heard of a teacher en-
tering the profession from a bad
motive
Some young teachers cuter the
profession rather than to accept a
condition of more strenuous phys-
ical labor Inil these sildm get very
far as strenuous labor is Ihe ac-
companiment of almost every noted
success Some enter for the social
J standing it gives them— to he the
recipients of honor and influence
rather than to add to the honor
land Inllueiiee of (lie calling lint it
takes more than Ihe mere perfunc-
tory certificate of membership to
earn lasting honor r Influence
Some enter just because it becomes
handy and they do not know what
else to do and it they never come
to a helier realization they seldom
do much Rut a start often leads
them on into higher nnd broader
paths Some enter regarding it ns
merely a stepping stone to something
higher and sometimes that proves
to he Ihe case hut beware lest you
step down instead of up Some en-
ter for almost entirely financial
reasons and this motive actuates
all more or less It is proper that
it should for "he that provideth not
lor 'his own household is worse
Ilian nn infidel" according to holy
writ bill the teacher whose time
drags heavy and who is anxiously
wailing for four o’clock to coine
and Friduy night to come and the
end of the term to come without
much thought of value returned
will never lie an ornament to the
profession
The business man who succeeds
lies! is the one Hint is striving to see
how much rather than how little
lie can give for value received It
is this principle that lias built the
great catalogue houses of the coun-
try It is naluril for ail mankind
to lli'mk Dial lliev are Underpaid
Ihe laborers and meihanics the pro-
fessional man Ihe merchant and Ihe
J'iriper nil think that tlwv are under-
paid If we look al it from a dis-
iulerestcd standpoint I think wre
will come lo Ihe conclusion that Ihe
world pays her debts Sometimes
she mav seem lardv hut in Ihe long-
run she pay with lompountl in-
terest The real earnings of mankind are
very unequal Some can never be
paid in silver and gold some if they
git their hoard are that much ahead
and the earning power of some it
above price Akin to these is the
earnings of ihe aggressive wide-
a wok up-to-date and never-tiring
teacher who goes forth to so train
Ihe young minds us to raise the
xinndurd of citizenship and mold
the generations lo come
Doubtless some of you young
teachers are planning to change
your avocation perhaps to become
stenographers bookkeepers clerks
etc I ask you to compare the in-
fluence of Ihe average teacher on
society with the average influence
of nicmbeis of these other employ-
ments spoken of The ordinary
hook keeper or clerk Is something
like a cog in u large wheel— they are
a very small part of a machine and
their Identity is almost lost I wish
ito say to you who wish to leave
your impressions on the present
and future uges that there are splen-
did opportunities all about you
Not long ugo I read a letter writ-
ten by a lady and published in the
Farm and Ranch of Dallas Texas
in which she said: "When I was
young and in my teens I thought I
would nake a sacrifice of my life
by going as a missionary to heathen
Chinn Korea or darkest Africa
bui in inter years I found that there
was plenty to do near home and
that I could build a cottage by the
roadside for Ihe good of man” God
knows that we do not have to cross
cnnt'incnls and sens and oceans to
find missionary or educational work
lo do we do not have to leurn a
new language nnd strange habits
of an alien people or deny ourselves
Ihe friendship of our citizens for
Ihe opportunity is right here at
home It is natural for us to dream
of what wo would do under other
circumstances if we only had the
means— great wealth greater talent'
nnd more time etc instead of go-'
ing about it nnd doing what our
hands find to do Now is the time
nnd here in Eastern Oklahomn
where the percentage of illiteracy
and crime is the highest is the place
“The fields are white the harvest
is ripe but the laborers are few" 1
in proportion to the size of the har-
vest Now here we can build our
cottage by Ihe roadside for the good
of mankind We will have a belter!
influence on the heathen abroad by
building lip a higher civilization at
home The influence of a good '4a
ample is Ihe best kind of influence
in the world Gladstone the Eng-
lish statesman said "That one good
example is xvorlh a thousand preachings”
I do not speak disparagingly 0701 auyo&y is not the u uug point
our section of the state in the spirit j of "public graft" or at least has a
of criticism but to call your atten- lendeney hi that direction The
lion lo a thing that needs our co teacher making this kind of a re-
operation and influence to remedy quest In uo worse than the board
I wish to pay my compliments to
Mr Dodson nnd Mr Woiverton for
the splendid work they have done
in this county dufing the past two
yeari I believe that they have
planted seed that will germinate
grow and bear fruitage long after
their bodies have moulded in the
dust They need the teachers' hear-
ty co-operation to make their work
still more effective Howf you may
ask One way is to give your per-
sonal endorsement to their work
not only before the schools but be-
fore the patrons of the school and
jour friends and acquaintances A
second way is to help advertise the
meetings by explaining to your
school the advantages of literary
culture domestic science v scientific
agriculture and asking iho pupils
to he sure to tell Ihe homo folks
nnd friends about the meeting
ft is very discouraging to these
workers to travel long distances over
had roads and often in the darkness
of night und in stormy weather to
find an almost empty house for the
lack of advertisement as is some-
times the case
The teacher should bo an example
of high business ethics ns well as
literary culture Special cases of
late have come under my observa-
tion where teachers were anxious
to make a contract with the school
board for Ihe coming year and after
entering into n conlrnct were willing
to break it for very flimsy reasons
l’erhnps they had found out where
sonic district would pay a little
more Ilian ihoir contract called for
or where accommodations were bet-
Icr They considered the contract
binding on the district but not on
themselves They failed to realize
that "the validity of a contract is
the religion of business” ns Burke
staled it t
If lids practice should increase
it would not be surprising if school
boards began to demand that the
teachers make bonds for the faith-
ful performance of their contracts
and this would be a shim on the
profession nnd the legislature might
pass a law compelling the school
board to demand such a bond nnd
lids would be still worse
in some quarters it is becoming
quite a fad for some teachers to be
expecting or asking days off with
full pay nnd in many cases
Mhool board much against their
will yilhl to these requests I ask
that grant it for it hat no right
by law or equity to do ao god if
their own privet property were In-
volved they would! seldom do so
From the abovt it might be in-
ferred that I wat making a speelsl
attack on teachers but I do not so
intend it Tbey ar no worse than
any other class and not to bad at
some classes of public servants bui
as Ihe teachers of our children we
want them to be representatives of
the highest order of business ethics
The teacher should co-operate
with the county superintendent more
closely if possible In the way of
attending county meetings Organi-
sation is the one great force of the
age It is the superb military or-
ganization of Germany that surprises
ihe world today The teacher should
draw pay for the days spent in the
county meetings and not otherwise
unless it is impractible for them to
Attend on account of their own
school being in session
So great is the' Importance that
I attach to the teacher's profession
nnd such is my feeling of admira-
tion for it that in the incapacity of
old age where financial circum-
stances require I would favor a
pension for every life-long teacher
The district school house should
he the social center and the teacher
should be the leader and the exer-
cises should be short enough so as
not to Interfere with school work
nnd Ihe exercises should not be for
the large boys and girls alone but
for the small boys nnd girls as well
Here is a place for the exercise of
the teacher's tact and ability here
he or she can plant the flowers that
will fill the nir with richest per-
fume here they can erect an alter
to which memory will relurn to
worship in after yenrs
All these points that I have raised
and many more that I might have
raised will have a vital effect on the
teacher’s influence
JOE REEDER PASSED
AWAY LAST NIGHT
J R Reeder one of the aged and
highly respected citizens of ihe
Badger-Lce neighborhood north of
town died last night of Bright's dis-
ease and will be buried tomorrow'
afternoon nt the McCoy cemetery
lhef under the auspices of Sallisnw Lodge
No G7 I 0 O F of which he had
been n faithful and consistent mem-
if this conduct is not a sort of self-! her for a number of years
debasement or putting oneself on The deceased leaves a wife and
the level of the beggar Or if the two children to mourn his death
uraeiiee of accepting public funds with whom we sympathize most
without value returned on the part profoundly
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MRS ARKEY GAY DEAD
Mrs Arkey Gay aged 7 year
died al the home of her son Robert
Gay two miles north of town Tuef-
day evening after a short Ulaesa of
la grippe
Mrs Gay was bora In day county
Kentucky and after her Marries
moved lo Leslie county of that stat
where she resided until coming wt-h
her son Robert and bis family to
make their home in Oklahoma They
arrived In Sallisaw December l£h
last and bad just moved Into thoir
newly acquired borne when death
called her The funeral was held
from the home at one-thirty thlg
afternoon Rev Clinton D Bowman
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church officiating with Undertaker
E L Moore funeral director
Beside a large number of friends
and relatives Mrs Gay leaves live
children to mourn her death they
being Mrs Lucy Hacker of Weston
III Robert Gay with whom aba
lived Will Gay of Lillian Ky
Sheriff C M Gay of this county and
Shelby Gay of California
The Star-Gnzettc Joins in extend-
ing sympathy to the bereaved rela-
tives and friends t
MONTGOMERY PAIR
TWICE MARRIED
Muskogee Okla Jan (I— C H
Montgomery 32 and Mrs Maud
Montgomery 25 were married for
the second time last evening In the
office of Justice W G Miller the
latter performing the ceremony Ihe
Montgomerys were married several
years ago and divorced Their quar-
rel la said to have been the result
of a misunderstanding They be-
came reconciled and will give it an-
other try
The lady referred to in the above
dispatch wa formerly one of Urn
highly respected young ladies of this
city and her many fi lends here will
be glad to learn that her marital
bark has been repaired and Is again
smoothly sailing o’er life’s high sea
4 JOINT INSTALLATION
Rosebud Camp No 664 Woodmen
of the World and Magnolia Grove
No' 76 Woodmen Circle will hold
a joint Installation of bfllcers at the
Woodmen hall in the Hines building
Friday night January 7th at which
time the officers of both orders for
the coming term will he installed
The members arc kindly requested
to be present nnd visitors are cor-
dially1 welcomed
B Hnnsbro manager of the Big
Lake farm in the south part of the
county is a visitor here today and
called at this office on business
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Blassingame, M. S. The Star-Gazette (Sallisaw, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1916, newspaper, January 7, 1916; Sallisaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1839196/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.