The Lake Charles echo., 1893-03-24
ANY BOY MAY LEARN.
ONE WAY or BECOMING AVAILABLE
NEWSPAPER WRITER.

How Country hoy who Is Net able TO CO
to College HTay Train His Mind soas 20
Be Able to Enter Journalism Acquire
information ON Every Subject.
Let me point out way in which the
lad on q farm or in a country village, who
does not see his way clear to college
education, can get another kind of edu'
cation that will serve him about as well, 4
and in some things better, when he be
gins 10 do newspaper work
Remember that education has gener-
ally two purposes--to train the mind and
to store It with knowledge My plan fol
the country boy does both. Here 1t Isl
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
bIblus lulb ~ Wuhb u oNbAblb3lhb WhAlN
call determining the relation Of the indi.
yidual to the aggregate or the relation Of
man to society, Let us explain the proc
ess a little,
You will DO 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 II yuu are a country boy,
there ia probably a prudential commit
teeman in your district Ask him what
he has to do, Then get at the sHperin-
tending committeeman and ask him
questions.
Find out where the money comes from
to build sGhoolhuuses and pay the teach
er. If You live in village large enough
to have graded schools find out how the
system is organized from the primary
grade mp to the high school Letnathing
escape you that you can possibly learn
Then the churches in your town--study
them You may not find II easy to get
at the differences Of belief that separate
the Methodists from the Baptists and the
Congregationalists from the Presbyteri-
ans, but your minister or any minister
will probably lend you books that will
tell something about Greeds and faiths.
Then make yourself a master Of the
system Of government or control IN the
various churches Inquire what churches
have bishops, what ones elders, what ores
deacons, and what the powers and duties
of these church officers are In short,
learn in how many ways, and go as far
as you can, why one church organization
is different from another.
| Next comes government. II is a big
subject take IL up in detail Your father
is county commissioner or a selectmap
or town clerk. That is capital oppor-
tunity. Get him to tell you all he knows
about the duties of town and county Off
GERS who lays out new roads and closes
old ones, who sees to it that the paupers
are housed and fed, who determines how
large q sum shall be raised by taxes IN
the town, how much each Taxpayers
share shall be and what shall be done
with the money.
If one of your fathers neighbors Is q
member Of the legislature, persuade him
to tell you how bills are introduced, re-
ferred tocommittees, reported, discussed
amended and passed or enacted as laws
He will tell you that bills, after they
have been passed by the assembly o.
house Of representatives, must be passe6
also by the senate and signed by the gov
ernor, but that only opens up new. field
for your investigation.
If perohance another neighbor is t.
go as delegate to the Republican or thl
, Democratic convention to help nominati
his party's candidate for the presidency
! get him 10 tell you all about the partl
, machinery by which conventions are as
semblpd and candidates named abou
the town caucuses, the county or distric
convention, the state convention th
: national convention and the delegates Il
2 1t, their number and their dutieai ais
E about the electoral college and its work
This win lead you into inquiries an
studies in respect 10 parties and polite
hAlti obsAAS hAAu tAAAbAhA FAf',
Twill be IN the highest degree interestini
and profitable
So III regard to business. Ask ID
village stoFeieeper where be buys hi
cloths, bis croclsery, his molasses and hi
Y hardware, and where they were BOT u
Z the man of whom he bought them, an
i 50 Oh until YOU have traced them to thei
origin. You will IN this way learn sont
thing Of wholesale trade andSmanufa(
z turing, something about notes, credits
insurance, transportation BY rail am
i water and quite likely something abop
!, the tariff.
I Opportunities for this kind Of hon
study and training viii multiply as yo
follow them up until the field of researc
broadeps out surprisingly. Your min
, win broaden with IT, and III followip
out these pleasant paths ~ commo
knowledge ven will acquire 4 fund (
Il information that will be constantly us
y ful to you 10 future years of newspaps
! work Henry r. Miller IN Youths Con