The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-23
Words on Use Of Brain in IndQSt
rial Pursuits.
TO PUPILS OF TWO SCHOOLS
Direction BY Thought-Combi na-
ton for an Achievements
cation i'm Old Hawaii.

In his address to the pupils of the
Kamehameha schools on Founders
day, December 10, 1898, w. y. Arm
strong said:
Girls and boys. Mr.. Dole was as
signed a certain subject upon which he
was asked to address you and 1 was as
signed 10 speak on another subject
but he has occupied some of my ground.
1t is a case of getting into my taro
patch and taking my goods. And there
sits his Attorney-General without max
ing any attempt to arrest him for lar
ceny.
/ wish to talk to you about the brains
and the hands. The hands are only the
slaves of the brain. Cut the hands off
and the brains can work; and do great
things. The Herrishoffs who make the
swiftest yachts in America are blind.
Their brains work for them. Fasten
only the slaves of the brain, and can
do no more than the brain tells them
to do The ape has a small brain and
therefore his hands do little work If
he had a large brain, his hands would
do better work. When you climb
cocoanut tree, for the first time, you
twist off a nut. 1t falls and breaks
Then the brain works, and says to the
hands, "let us try another plan, give
the nut a twist when it starts down"
The hands do it, and the nut strikes
on it's point and does not crack. The
hands did not train the brain.The brain
educated the hands. Practice and eX-
perience teach the brain how to direct
the hands. If the brain knows how to
work it can direct not only the hands
of its own body, but the hands of other
people-sometimes a hundred hands
sometimes a thousand. Mr.. Brassey's
brain directed 10000 hands in building
railroads. Here is a piece of iron ore.
1t is only worth ST a ton. The hands
that showed the ore got 80 cents per
day The brain behind the hands does
not know much. The hands get tired
and ask the brains to do better. The
brain then goes to some school and
studies the making Of iron. 1t tells
the hands how to mix lime and char
coal with the ore. Out of this ore then
comes iron worth $40 and the hands
are paid So instead of 80 cents. Then
the brain gets more education and
learns how to make steel, and the
hands earn more. The brain gets more
education, and teaches the hands how
to turn this SO worth Of iron into
| $500 of iron goods. Then into a $1,000
worth of goods The hands and brains
earn more money but the brain really
earns the money. There are few peo-
pie in the world who can live without
| the labor of the hands. Of the 10000, 600
| OF people in the United States the great
majority must live upon the work OF
their own hands. So must you. And
! YOU must keep in mind that it is your
| brains that give value to the work OF
your hands. If you stop planning and
| thinking and comparing, then you give
YOUR hands poor work to do, and when
they do poor work, there is only poor
| pay. Work in the machine shops, and
| on farms does not train the hands, but
! it shows the brain just what should be
done; and the brain holds to this
knowledge and directs the hands.
| When the New England pioneers went
| Westward 1000 miles, they settled on
| the prairie and they had little money.
But the brain knew how to clear land,
plant corn, take care of stock, raise
! !,
emigrant knew how to do it, and if the
/ hands were cut off, it could use other
! hands. Manual training is really the
| education of the brain. In France there
are 100000 of farmers. The size Of the
average farm is 80 acres. Yet the
French farmers are the richest farmers
in the world. They paid in ten days an
! indemnity to Germany Of $1,000, OO0, 600.
/ The French farmer gets more out Of
/ his little lot than the American farmer
gets out of fifty acres. His hands are
not better than those of the American
! farmer, but his brain is better trained.
! Put his brain into the head Of the Am
/ erican and he will do better, until the
! American brain is trained, and then it
! does the best of all.
You young Hawaiians are in the
world with brains and hands. You
must make your living. You cannot be
professional men, but working men, as
a rule. You are in strong competition
with other races. Your brains must
take care of you. You need, first of all,
/ homes-small pieces of land which are
your own, are to be your homes. Get
these places upon which you can live,
and be independent. Raise first that