The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-30
A TALK ON ORGANIZATION.
Professor Niustou's Address to the
Teachers Association.
INDIVIDUAL EFFORT Is uNAvAlLlNG
solely Through Oraaniautiom.
Ics~uns from the Late War.

Austin. TeSas. December aa.--president
Winston Of the State university tonight ad
dressed as follows the State association OF
school superintenden;s and principals in
seni-annual session In this city:
I 1t is both pleasure aud privilege to
participate in the annual meeting of the
superniendents and principals OF the pub
lie schools of Texas. ! welcome you most
heartily TO the capital OF our State and the
halls of our university.
This association represents the two great
I est factors in modern prcgress--education
and organization. Strictly speaking, these
two factors are one, for education is a
( means to organization. An educated man
is one whose senses and faculties are not
only trained and developed 20 a high de-
gree Of Individual proficiency. but are also
thoroughly organized into harmonious ac-
iion and mutual cooperation. No human
faculty is independent: 1t works most eff
oiently when organized with others The
eve can not see without reason to guide
u reason is puwerlcss without memory,
and memory, in turn. depends upon the eye.
tue ear, the nose or other special sense.
Man is the most highly organized animal
on the globe. Others can see further hear
better feel more delicately or exercise TO a
aish dassee the sense OF taste OF smell, but
no animal possesses senses so efficiently
organized and correlated rs mai
There Is marked difference between
races in power Of organization What a
contrast Is there between the Irish race,
without power OF organization. but eudow-
ed Individually with every virtue that
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English race. slower. duler. coarser, but
rising through organized effort TO the mas
terry Of the GLOBE The history of this race
mas been tho story of ever increasing pow
er, produced by ever increasing organiza-
uon- They have organized the largest city
on the globe with the best sanitation, the
cheapest and most efficient government and
the greatest store of things contributing 10
the welfare happiness and refinement OF
humanity Through military organization
they can resist ten-fold their numbers
through naval organization they possess the
waters Of the globe through commercial
organization they have become the bankers
and the merchants Of the world through
political organization they have created a
government combining In the highest de-
gree individual liberty and national power.
through the organization OF intellect in
education. literature, science and art. they
have lifted humanity upon the highest
plane OF civilization. The distinguishing
mark of this race is the power of organi1a-
tion. and as the ascendency of this race
Is the greatest fact of the nineteenth cen
fury. so the distinguishing characteristic
of this century is the extension in all di-
rections of the power of human organiza-
ton.
1t is impossible for a race that is inc Up
able OF organization to survive the ire
mendous struggle now going on between
Ii ~.
ization. The Inlian, the negro the kclt,
are rapidly passing away before the ire
sistible power OF more highly organized
races. Individualism can not prevail against
the highly organized and complex mlchin-
cry of modern civilization. The battle-aX
has yieldo to the bank note and the click
of The telegraph Is more potent than the
voice of the demagogue.
Power unorganized Is no longer power. a
handful of birdshot can not be made to kill
a man one hundred yards. even though a
pound of powder furnish the power. Take
the sane shot and melt them into one solid
ball; you may now kill over nile. 1t is
even so with life. What a difference be-
tween ten men working separately and the
same power controlled as one unit by
iAuSANi ht luDutiu EdlIit VI lDbl-
ball, much abused but little comprehcnded
surpasses in its beneficial effects all other
games and sport. because it surpasses them
In the power OF organization. 1t is the only
game in which eleven men, after developing
the highest degree of individual quiclkness.
GOODNESS, fortltude, strength, endurance.
self control and judgment, train themselves
to act together In perfect harmony and
unison. each EilbQrlin inc bic
feelings, inclinations and desires under the
command of the captain, to promote the
common aim. In its quick adaptation of
means to ends, in its perfect subordlnation
or the individual to the common plan and
purpose. and in it's thorough organization
of complex forces and movements football
is more typical of modern life and modern
power than any other game. This is doubt,
less the secret of its popularity, not only
with the Intelligent, ambitious, cultivated
and thoughtful College students, but also
with the crowd. This Ia the reason, too
why football ilourishes in colleges and uni
versities rather than in The usual sporting
circles. II requires for its successful per-
Torrance n perfection and compleXty %.
organization which can be reached in a
high legree only by men Of strong in
tellectual training Other .hings being
equal the best universities will furnish the
best teams. II is no accident that Harvard
Yale. Princeton, Cornell and PonnsylVanla
have so long and so easily Won the vic
tory from other colleges.
superintendent and principals, you stand
for organization you represent the power
of organization applied to education; you
are directing the greatest force in Southern
life; you are supplying the greatest need OF
the South. Tor two centuries the South has
lacked organization. Upon this continent,
In two different and widely separated set
Elements, members OF the same race, po-
ssessed OF tho same intellectual, moral and
physical power began nearly three cnatIr-
lea ago, two dis'not civilizations
The one was based upon the idea OF CO.
operation individual subsection, orsani1a-
lion; 1t began with the public school, the
town hail. and the well kept public high
way; IL grew and prospercd in every form
OF human power, wealth and prosperity.
based upon common effort and thorough
organization, in factories in commerce, In
II machinery in savings banks, In technical
schools, In public high schools, in collosos
and universities. The other settlement was
founded upon the idea of iDliyiduaiisul,