The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-24
THOUGHT OF THE HOUR.

As general thing a person visiting the
average dime museum can smell great deal
more than he can see, but the nose does not
appreciate the curious in smell.-New Or
leans States.
IT is gratifying to find that in many parts
of New England the industrial situation is
receiving intelligent consideration from the
Christian pulpit. 1t has not begun too soon,
nor is it likely to absorb too much atten-
tion.-Boston Herald.
THE Rev. John L. Scudder, of Minneapo-
lis preached on dancing last Sunday, an
said: There is line where safety ends an
danger begins. In dancing that line can be
definitely drawn, and the place TO draw it is
around the woman's waist"
THE proposition to extend the sessions of
Congress would come with more force il less
time under the present system were idled
away. Congress has now been sitting ten
weeks and has done nothing. If each House
paid strict attention to business the present
sessions would be found plenty long enough.
New York Herald
ALL social problems, indeed, grow more
difficult as life grows more complex, and
there is less room every year for demagogy
or for violence and more need for education
and good sense. Strikes never profit any
body, because they are illogical. The task
is to find a better means for the firm and self
respecting enforcement of reasonable de-
mand. That strikes are, nevertheless, so fire.
quent, is only a sign that we have all OF us
Il al, So
THE wise workingman understands that no
power of organization can maintain or per-
feet wrong. The skill and energy that are
given to the enforcement of an unjust de-
mand are worse than wasted. A ma
chine can not run if cog
is misplaced, and the more steam
that is crowded on to force it, the swifter
and more disastrous the crash that must
come Labor has enough wrongs to right
without neutrality-suspicious., Whenever
it does start wrong, it will be beaten and
overthrown, as 1t should be- 1t should COM
NIT itself to no policy without being sure
that it is right. Once committed, it should
proceed prudently and nationally. Prudence
begets courage, and reason begets frmness.
1t should resort to strikes as a last resort.
To violence, never.-Atlaata Constitution.
THE highly conservative colleges must real
ize the possibility of greater hexibility in
their programme, without an abandonment
of ali that experience and common sense
have proved 10 be desirable. The fish can
not be blamed for hopping from the frying
pan, but he NAV find a better alternative
than the fire. is there not safe medium
path in which our educators may walke
Must they go naked il their
long-worn garments are outgrown.
Surely there ought to be prsc-
ticable union Of conservatism and progress;
and administration that will continue to
recognize that youthful conceit needs repres-
sion; that youthful aspirations require
guidance, and that moral counsel is as
es entail as brain-stutfing to success in life.
Scientific pedagogy should have a sounder
growth than can be created by grating
/ Spencer's evolutionary panaees on Rous-
seaus sentimentalism. If not, then the pub
lie may look out for a surplus myopic
specialists and precocious pedants before an
other decade passed.-Cinoinnati Com
msrcial