Evening journal., 1893-04-10
ANY BOY MAY LEARN.
ONE WAY OF BECOMING AVAILABLE
NEWSPAPER WRITER.

~ NtAitkt AAA1 MS NAAh0 ~ ~ ~
BE Able TO Enter OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Information on Every Subject.
Let me point out way in which the
bad on farm or in country village, who
does not see his way clear to a college
education, can get another kind Of edu-
cation that viii serve him about as well,
and in some things better, when he be-
gins to do newspaper work.
Remember that education has gener-
ally two purposes-to train the mind and
to store it with knowledge. My plan for
the country boy does both. Here it is:
Think of yourself as standing on one
side Of an imaginary line, and the great
world. with all its men and women and
governments and institutions on the
other. Cross the line and find out in
what way and through what things you
come IN contact with the world. Then
study those ways and those things until
YOU know all about them or until You
know as much as you can find out about
them. This is what sociologist wonld
call determining the relation Of the indi-
vidual to the aggregate or the relation OF
man 10 society. Let us explain the proc
ess little.
You will be pretty sure TO discover
that you have relations with the great
world through the school, the church, the
government, through trade or business,
and socially through your friends and
companions. That is not all, but that
will do very well to begin with.
First get all the information you can
about the school system of your state.
Ask the teacher all the questions you
can think Of. If you are a country boy,
there is probably q prudential commit
teeman in your district Ask him what
he has to do. Then get at the superin-
tending committeeman and ask him
questions.
Find out where the money comes from
to build schoolhouses and pay the teach
er. If you live in a village large enough
to have graded schools, find out how the
system is organized, from the primary
grade mp to the high school. Let nothing
escape you that you can possibly learn.
Then the churches in your town-study
them. You may not find it easy to get
at the differences Of belief that separate
the Methodists from the Baptists and the
Congregationalist from the Presbyteri-
ans. but your minister OF any minister
will probably lend you books that will
tell something about creeds and faiths.
Then make yourself master of the
system Of government or control in the
various churches. Inquire what churches
have bishops. what ones elders what ones
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Of these church officers are. In short
learn in how many ways, and 60 as far
rs You can, why one church organization
is different from another.
Next comes government It is a big
subiect-takeitu up in detail. Your father
Is a county commissioner or a selectman
OF town clerk. That is a capital oppor.
tunity. Get him to tell you ali he knows
about the duties of town and county of
cers-who lays out new roads and closes
old ones who sees to it that the paupers
are housed and fed, who determines how
large a sum shall be raised by taxes in
the town. how much each taxpayers
share shall be and what shall be done
with the money.
II one Of your fathers neighbors is O
member of the legislature, persuade him
TO tell you how bills are introduced, re-
ferred TO committees, reported, discussed
amended and passed or enacted as laws
He will tell you that bills, after they
have been passed by the assembly oi
house of representatives. must be passed
also by the senate and signed by the gov
ernor. but that only opens up new ieldi
for your investigation.
If perchance another neighbor Is Il
90 as a delegate to the Republican or thl
Democratic convention to help nominat,
his party's candidate for the presidency
get him to tell you all about the part,
machinery by which conventions are as
sembled and candidates named; abou
the town caucuses. the county OF distric
convention. the state convention. th
national convention and the delegates &
IT, their number and their duties; ais
about the electoral college and its worl;
This viii lead you into inquiries ant
stuJies in respect to parties and polite
and state and federal governments tha
will be in the highest degree interesting
and profitable.
SO in regard TO business. Ask th
village storekeeper where he buys hi
cloths. his crockery. his tnolasses and hi
hardware. and where they were got b
the man of whom he bought them, an
so on until you have traced them 70 thei
origin You will in this way learn som'
thing Of wholesale trade and manufa'
turing. something about notes. credit
insurance. transportation by rail an
water and quite likely something aboS
the tariff
Opportunities for this kind Of hon
study and training will multiply as yo
follow them up until the field Of researc
broaGens out surprisingly. Your min
win broaden with it, and in followir
out these pleasant paths Of commo
knowledge you viii acquire a fund
information that will be constantly us
ful to You in future years Of newspapI
work.--Henry r. Miller in Youths Con
panion.
Remarkable Unanimity.
Co., ~,,, ..-ritae from Tondon.