The Deaf Oklahoman (Sulphur, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1916 Page: 2 of 6
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The Deaf Oklahoman
Published semi-monthly by the OklahomaSchool
lor the Deaf during the school year Subscript
Hon price 50 cents ayear Addressall communi-
cations to School for the Deaf Sulphur Okla
Entered as second-class matter August 24 1912
at the post-office at Sulphur Okla under the
Act of August 24 1912
1 W BLATTNER
WIRT A SCOTT
OWEN GCAKRELL
- - - EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
January 15 1916
JT the January teachers' meet-
ing one of the most impor-
tant discussions centered on lan-
guage work in connection with
the pupils’ letters Perhaps too
much stress cannot be laid upon
this feature Everyone likes to
receive a letter When it comes
from the dear ones at home it
brings up hallowed memories of
the parental roof Its lines are
read with avidity and not infre-
quently re-read until its words
its phrases and all its peculiari-
ties become a fixture in the
child’s mind It becomes a
standard for future efForts on the
child’s part In their letters
home assistance is frequently re-
quired of the teacher to express
the child’s thoughts The ex-
pressions are of the voluntary
kind differing from regular lan-
guage exercises which are writ-
ten under a degree of compulsion
The impression left upon the
mind is more lasting it is more
or less a personal achievement
For this reason nothing but the
most careful aid and criticism
should be extended But the
parents and guardians have their
part to fulfill also Not only
should they exercise consummate
care in syntax and orthography
but they should see that the child-
ren receive a letter at least once
in every two weeks Those who
live near and have frequent
chances to see their children
sometimes overlook this matter
entirely and their children are
losers in this particular matter
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Picture-Framing at An Occupation for
the Deaf
J'HE West Virginia School for
the Deaf and the Blind has
added to its industrial department
the occupation of picture framing
The Tablet says that the school
bought the necessary machinery
and tools and a stock of assorted
mouldings and other articles
needed and started the work in
the cabinet shop We believe
with the Tablet that picture fram-
ing is a good occupation for the
deaf We have seen furniture or
book stores even in small cities
where one man was kept busy
framing pictures But the work
is more than simply putting to-
gether strips of moulding and
inclosing the picture It is an art
requiring taste and good judg-
ment in selecting moulding of
proper size design and color to
setoff a certain picture to the best
advantage Not every boy would
develop into a good picture fram-
er In most schools for the deaf
the occupation would have to be
taught in the cabinet shop as
they could not afford to employ a
separate instructor But the
mattei of selection rf quilts an
expert in that linp one who pos-
sesses the artistic faculty to
match frame to picture and to
surroundings of furniture in a
room Not every instructor in
cabinet making and carpentry is
endowed by nature with this fac-
ulty or has ii developed by educa-
tion Where it is lacking or defi-
cient the assistance of the art
teacher could been listed In-
deed we believe the best results
could be obtained in any event if
both the cabinet-making and the
art teacher both took pare in this
work
New Primary Building at the South
Carolina School
J T seen s our ubiquitous friend
Laurens Walker has branched
out and done something out of
his ordinary beat that of teach-
ing supervising the educational
work in the South Carolina School
for the Deaf and the Blind writ-
ing pointed and other paragraphs
and controversial editorials for
the Palmetto Leaf whereby he
supplies his brethren of the I p
f with pabulum for cerebral ac-
tivity or keeps them provokingly
guessing at hidden meanings
rearing educating and providing
the means of sustenance for a
fourth generation of Walkers and
performing several other func-
tions worthy of a distinguished
citizen of the New South This
mystic philosopher has dreamed
a practical dream and the result
is a primary buildingat the Cedar
Spring school
It is not one of the Aladdin
kind but a real brick and mortar
affair and it is an accomplished
fact His ideas laboriously ard
systematically developed have
gone into this building which
will stand as a monument to his
thinking There was a cut and
a long description of the building
in a recent issue of the Leaf
From the description we judge it
is comfortable cpnvenient and in
every way suited for a primary
building It is an imposing look-
ing structure though we do not
greatly fancy the exterior design
if the cut in the Leaf is a faith
ful likeness
One good and helpful thing in
Laurens’ connection with this
building is that his ideas are for
once expressed in such form that
they can not elude us We may
have occasion to avail ourself of
them some time If we ever hap-
pen to be in your neighborhood
Laurens we shall make you -a
visit thoroughly inspect your
building receive an elaboration
of the p’ans from your own
mouth — not your faber — and
make several excursions— with
your permission of course— into
your box of havanas We would
even go out of our way many
miles for this pleasure
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Lilt Arrivals at School
The following from the pen of
Superintendent Goodwin of the
North Carolina school applies in
Oklahoma and we request that
those parents who have made a
practice of keeping their deaf
children at home will read it
carefully:
“A number of pupil who were in
last session were kept out at the
beginning of the session some of
whom are to return after Christ-
mas It is one of the problems of
schools for the deaf Those coming
in in January will be at very great
disadvantage They must drop
back a grade or drop in their for-
mer classes and often become dis-
couraged and too often it natural-
ly affects their whole educational
career Yet parents repeat this
practice from year to year The
parents who give us most cordial
support in our rules and regulations
get the most satisfactory results
and we are willing to be held re-
sponsible for the child whose par-
ents cooperate with us but the
parents who vill not comply with
reasonable rules must not hold the
school responsible for the child’s
progress and future success”
We desire to add to the above
our plea for the best interests of
every deaf child in this state
There is nothing in this world
that pays as well as a good ed-
ucation reinforced by character
and industry We can not give
the deaf child a good education
and even chance in life without
the cooperation of parents
Prompt entrance in the fall and
continued attendance until the
end of each term and of the
scholastic period is necessary in
order that these deaf children
may be fully prepared for the
duties and responsibilities of life
They are at best handicapped and
have a hard enough struggle to
win in life and the parents of
not one of them should be so
thougtiess as to add to the bur-
den What are a few weeks of
labor or a few dollars made by
keeping your child at home com-
pared with his after efficiency
and happiness? You will soon
pass from this scene of activity
and what little you have saved in
dollars and cents by keeping your
child out of school will do you no
good hut your child will struggle
on for many years after Can
you afford to take the responsi-
bility for his failure and wretch-
edness in life? Think of this
you parents who have been care-
less along this line you who have
kept your deaf child out of school
in the past and are doing so this
year
There is a law on the statute
books of the State requiring the
attendance at school of every
deaf boy or girl of school age in
Oklahoma Are you among those
who are violating this law? It
was passed for the protection of
your child It would be no pleas-
ure to us to invoke this law but
every violation of it imposes up-
on us and the authorities of your
county a grave duty We be
seech you to listen to the voice
of reason justice and humanity
and not put upon the authorities
the painful necessity of calling to
their assistance the strong arm of
the law It is our purpose and
earnest desire to learn as speedily
as possible of the whereabouts of
every deaf child of school age in
Oklahoma and get in touch with
the parents If any reader of
this article knows of a deaf child
not in school he would confer a
favor by notifying the superin-
tendent of this school
Th Error of Text-book
J" HE Alabama Messenger asks
the question “What is the
matter with the text-books?” and
then proceeds to give us a fine
dissertation on errors found in
hooks that are in common use
The errors in language cite d are
inexcusable They are especially
harmful when in the hands of
deaf children We strongly be-
lieve in placing correct models
before our pupils The method
of placing before them the errors
in composition made by them in
their efforts to express themselves-in
other words what are
commonly called muteisms— we
have always regarded as a vicious
method The hearing children
who use correct English regard-
less of their knowledge of gram-
matical rules learn it at home
It simply soaks into them and
becomes a part of their mentality
Text-books should be correct
But how about story books and
novels? The colloquial language
in them is patterned after that
supposed to be used by the char-
acters portrayed We can not
change them without making
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Blattner, J. W. The Deaf Oklahoman (Sulphur, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1916, newspaper, January 15, 1916; Sulphur, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2045539/m1/2/?q=Ardmore+ok: accessed June 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.