The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-04

Rapids, which has taken up technical
training out of nothing and built up great
work shops where skilled labor makes
things of beauty, which'ar a Joy forever. 4"
IL has done for France, Germany, and
Russia, what it is now doing for England,
and has begun to do for America. That is
to teach the student not alone the sources
of the Nile, and the height of Chimborazo.
but TO teach him how to earn his bread by
skilled cultivated labor. Unite handwork
and brainwork. Without such union there
can be no diversified industrial develop
ment, in which largely is involved our
material prosperity Huxley the English
scientist, says; IF the boy chose to be-
come teacher he should have the chance
for 80 doing. Finally to the lad of genius
the one in million, l would make ac-
cessible the highest and most complete
training the country could afford whatever
that might cost, depend upon 1t the in
vestment would be good one Iweigh my
words when say that. if the nation could
purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or a
Farraday, at the cost of hundred thous-
and pounds down, he would be dirt cheap
at the money. 1t is mere commonplace
and every day piece of knowledge, that
what these three men did has produced
untold millions of wealth in the narrowest
economical sense of the word. If you de.
sire to elevate your masses make the labor
er or mechanic an artisan, and the artisan an
artist in his special work. Let our American
homes be adorned with forms of grace and
beauty, and make them tasteful and
picturesque, and by this silent force you,
teach your children ito find tongues in
trees, books in the running brooks, ser.
mons in stonses, and good in everything"
Technical knowledge lies at the base Of
all broad culture. and the foundation Of
technical knowledge is industrial drawing.
l commend to you these advances in true
education. Let your common schools,
your high schools and universities (all nec-
essary parts of one educational system)
teach the eye form and beauty and the
hand dexterous skill, for by so doing, you
you will advance the Republic abreast
with the cultured nations of the old world.
AS an evidence of what special or techni.
cal education is doing for our young men,
| desire to speak of the Orchard Lake
Military Academy near Pontiac, in this
the fourth year of its existence. At the
commencement June Goth 1882 the great
company of visitors, were amazed at the
proficiency Of the students not only in
military discipline and instruction, IN tac-
| tics, manual of arms, and infantry and ar.
tillery practice, but in industrial drawing,
designing and drafting and in the high
er branches Of these arts, as applied to
architecture, to engineering, building of
bridges etc. and in just such measure fit
ting the student to succeed in after life,
in any department of industry that requires
not alone knowledge of form and quanti-
| ty, but, with these the cultivated eye, the
trained hand, the educated brain. the ready
skill to make thing of beauty" which
is Joy forever" Beauty is its own ex-
cuse for being" We commend this young
seat of learning and elegant letters as des-
tined to become one of the Growing gores
of our growing west.
Governments are made up of peoples
| each individual man molecule or an atom
of the vast aggregate; each individual man
mot living for himself nor dying unto
himself" but forming part of the great
whole, moulding, moving, changing.
shifting all his neighboring atoms and so
on, on to the whole mass just as the stone
dropped into the waters of md-ocean sends
its ever widening ripples to the Arctic and
Antarctic seas. Just as thought is immor-
tai, just as conduct and life are constant
examples, Just as the world moves, as
its peoples cause it to move; so govern
ments advance or halt or retrogress, as the
individual man and the aggregate men
press on or halt in the way of right and
righteous government.
Therefore this day strive to teach goa,
aoh0 are the gocerRm6nt, that upon you
rest the covenants and the obLgationsfor its
well.being. The nation that does not
deserve to live, dies. The nation that re-
spects not law, that glorifies not the Sab
bath, that does not do right and righteous
ness, that advances might and blood be-
yond right and justice, the nation that
forgets its glorious past, and takes no heed
of its solemn warnings, the nation that
cares not for its children, that drift into
license and extravaganza and crime, the
nation that forgets the economic lesson of
the thrift of its fathers, and dashes on into
vicious enterprises to crafty its greed for
gold, the nation that forgets there is no
royal road to wealth, that undignifies
labor, does not deserve to live. 1t will
die as have the effete despotisms of the
past. And therefore each mans thought
and act of this free government of ours be-
comes just so much of the common thought
and the comman act of the nation.