Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-26
THE SUPREMACY OF CIVIC CULTURE
Paper Read Before the Municipal League Thursday
March II. 1898. by Professor Joseph Whtely

, dicntlons OF impurity. small thefts. and
trllling crueltics, which. II allowed. soon
acquire a vitiating domiuancy, and
alas too frequently ovcrrun the entire
! organism of the spiritual nature. Lit
| tie white" Hes may all too soon de-
vclop into black lies until the whole
life Is darkened by falsehood and du
pliclty.
If these moral parasites start i'm the
home they spread rapidly to the school
inc observant teacher soon finds out
defective or improper home training.
And since religion, technically ut least.
IL excluded from the school, 1t be-
comes all the more urgent that In
moral principles our youth are all the
more carefully trained and strength
ened. The home and school are init
mntely related and should be cooper
IaatlHc. Parents can greatly aid the
teachers and where parents are wise
they will do everything in their power
to strengthen the love and respect Of
their children towards their teachers.
This briGhtens, gladdens and greatly
aids the teachers in their work and
makes success In goodness all the more
possible for the children.
II | may be pardoned should like TO
say here, though l may be mistaken.
| hut ! speak alike from experience ana
observation, that there IS a serious de-
feet on the part Of parents. a lack of the
hA' tpIifNlhAANll VI wv Aftl'llf lS WI II
and relationship to the family life Of
. the pupils There should be no family
guest more welcome or more honured
than the teacher. All forms Of life re-
duire the warmth and the brightness
| OF sunshine. Happy relationships are
the sunshine OF citizenship. The home
life and the school days should have
this sunshine IN rich abundance.
From such garden of civic culture,
the young citizens will enter the open
forum of the city fortified and quail
fled for their widening life and
responsibilities made strong In their
first sprlngtime; strong in truth. honor
and generous conduct they will be
strong In their growing manhood. The
honor of the city will be their honor.
| This is all work of growth culture
proper and not an acCrrtlon: II is
! growth alone that gains the strength
for the resistance of the adverse the
falacious and impure. DEVELOPMENT of
citizenship with such n foundation of
ethical principles IL citizenship that
will stand firmly when the storms OF
evil gather.
THE EDUCATIONAL REQUIRE
MENTS OF CIVIC CULTURE.
At measurement Of the actual con
ditions of modern society and more
especially so in the large and crowded
cities there Is much to chill the warm
tunHtely and to the credit of humanity
there are born to the race souls whose
reforming, phianthropic and educative
enthusiasm cannot be crushed out.
I They are the saviors of the world.
They rttise the ensigns for the nations.
They bear up the standards FOR higher
good They lift up higher the ideals
| Of the city. the nation and for the
world.
Their principles become ours and we
| live in the richer fruits OF their labors,
We reap what they have sown. 1t is
the manifest destiny of creation to
move forwards to more abundant
| beauty, power and goodness. The old
est known record of the earth was one
of chaos and darkness II lntelllgences
| saw it then and see 1t now and II they
have seen the ceaselessly evolving
| how deepened must be their profound
admiration Of the wondrous wisdom of
| the divine order.
! Are we not justified In supposinE
J that the self same principles are em-
| bedded in the world OF humanity?
| have to work their way from lower to
| higher forms. from tribal groups to
: patriarchal betterment and order;
| from patriarchal simplicity to national
| completely, Then within the nation
| there grows the city life. the life In
| lens of the city life are those which
| now demand our thought.
Educated citizenship IL the grand
| dlsideratum 1t sometimes appears as
/ though we expected citizenship to
reach its best by allowing 1t to take
care of itself, TO grow up and spread
| in the manner of the wild fruits and
! the sage brush,
We educate for almost every earthly
J thing and for some few heavenly
| things, but how strangely we leave out
| educated citizenship. Do we this from
! folly, from ignorance or from culpable
stupidity? one Of the most instructive
discoveries made by the Satire CULVER
was that of an island the inhabitants
/ of which were n wry necked people,
ON reaching their metropolis. CULVER
noticed that all the streets and public
squares were ankle deep In mud on
getting his explanation of wry necks.
he found them TO he n nation of as
tronomers, born to the study of the
heavens. Their faces were all turned