The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-18

men and organize what is now known
as the Red Cross society.
"A pioneer in this work is Florence
Nightingale. When a young girl of 20
she conceived the idea of training
young women for nurses. She first
went upon the battlefield in, the Cri-
mean war. and by her energy and or
derby mind, her thoughtfulness and
kindness to all, gave comfort to the
suffering soldiers.
The American woman has more than
taken her part in this work of love
and duty by sending forth her loved
ones. She has been the angel of the
hospitals and would have been the
ministering spirit of the battlefield
t had her self-devotion been given full
limit
The noblest of these women. and the
one who first organized the Red Cross
society in the New World. is Miss
Clara Barton, whom the soldiers bless
Whenever her name is heard She, like
Florence Nightingale, began while
young to show her sympathy by kind
words and deeds.
From the time that the parent So
ciety was organized in Washington by
Miss Barton the organization has kept
itself before the public gaze by nu-
merous works of beneficence and prac-
teal charity. 1t has raised large sums
OF money for sufferers from famine,
flood, earthquake, fever and tidal
waves. In this manner it won the
sympathy of all kind hearted citizens,
and became identified with the best
tendencies of the commonwealth and
the century.
The declaration Of war on April o.
1898, served to increase the activity of
the Red Cross society, and it would
take an entire volume to tell the his
tory OF work done. Though the war is
pfactlcally over the Red Cross keeps
up its work and will as far as it can
heip the condition of Cuba
Reu cross is society which will
llouflsh more as time goes on, and
Wheh the seeds of peace which it has
soWh upon the earth have reaped its
harvest, and universal peace will have
spread over the world, of the honor
able Clara Barton we can say, with
George Eliot. She lightened the bur
den of lives to Others
Two interesting papers were read be-
lore the normal class by Carolyn Bow
man and Winnifred Bretherton. Miss
BoWman's theme was Moral EdEca-
ton upon which these thoughts were
advanced:
Inc greatest study of mankind is
man. ana the greatest study of man is.
himself To know ones self means a
knowledge and estimate of the mental
powers, and person acquires this
knowledge by means of education Plato
states that the object of education is
the perfection of all the powers of man:
Dante declares it to fit man for eternity
Few, however. seem to emphasize the
idea that its end is to advance the
youth in his efforts to become more like
the infinite. In His image is man Gre
ated, and every activity exerted should
be striving to realize the possibilities
thus assured
The education of child should not
be considered as simply fitting him for
making his way in the world, but should
aim to develop high ideals and char
acter full of nobility and force. In it's
true sense education means the growth
OF power, the development of character.
To turn out good, honest right-think-
ing men and women should be the prin-
opal aim of our public schools.
In this age of personal vanity and
love for the almighty dollar there is an
imperative need of the most vital moral
training possible and it is of the most
importance to the Wellbeing of our ris-
ing generation that teachers and school
authorities pay closer attention to moral
instruction, to character building. That
is the sore need of the world.
AS man thinks or desires in his
heart, such indeed he is, for then, most
truly because most incontrollably, he
acts himself There is in every moral
being faculty or sense by which he is
enabled to distinguish right from
wrong.
Education is such training. mental
and moral, as has for its end the maxi
ing of a good citizen-such training as
fits the individual to play helpful part
in the march of zation-that which
ho ty,., ,rrr1,
the rear and incites him to push for
ward toward the van, lending a helping
hand as he goes, for no man liveth to
himself alone, but that which he re-
ceives must he surely return again
into the world through the influence of
a. character moulded by his surround
ings.
THE best way for one to advance is
to take the forward step himself, rely
ing on the innate disposition of men to
do as they are done by.
" BE noble and the nobeness that lies |
in other men, sleeping but never |
dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine |
own"
Miss Bretherton considered the life |
of Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, as |
follows:
considering the large space which |
is everywhere given to Herbert Spen- |
Ger, the philosopher, it is somewhat |
and curious to find that so |