The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-16

the brightest boy in America cannot in
four years, take one-twentieth of the
course the big universities offer.
why, year or two ago one of those
fellows that delights in getting up
statistics that started people, figured
on the question awhile and announced to
the world that it would take very
smart man to complete all the course
offered at Harvard in hundred years.
Thereupon Cornell declared that by the
same method of calculation the same
sort of man could not complete its
course in less than 112 years. This
woke up the University Of Illinois, and
it announced 357 different courses and
added that it had as yet graduated nobody
who was able to figure out how long 1t
would take to complete them.
VALUE OF SPECIAL TRAINING.
"Once it was thought that only law
yers, doctors and preachers needed spe-
cial training. Now it is recognized that
everybody needs it, and the man who has
it not is left in the race of life"
The speaker gave a number of striking
and often amusing instances Of this
truth. Among them was the following:
Il had a neighbor, quite wealthy
man. Among his children was boy
named Burt. This boy was given the very
best advantages money and influence
could buy. He finished his education.
Nobody ever troubled themselves about
what that boy would do-in fact, they
didn't expect him to do much OF any
thing. What was the use? He had plenty
of money. But one day some one came
in and said, You'd never guess what
Burt's doing No. What? Sticking
hogs And sure enough that was what
he was demonstrating hogs in a great
slaughter house. And he kept at it until
he could do it better than the uneducated
fellows that had been doing it for twen-
ty years and more. Then he went to
scraping bristles, and from there to the
sausage department and on up until one
day the directors sent for him and put
him in charge of department, and so
on until today he is at the head Of that
great packing establishment, and no
man in that business gives greater prom
Use than that boy.
ut was not his wealth or his position
for he said nothing of either to his en-
ployers. 1t was simply that he knew, and
knowing was not afraid to do
Know your business. 1t will pay you.
Get all the education you can, no matter
how mental your calling in life. The
blacksmith without education and train
ing can never be more than a cobbler, at
best"
THE PROBLEMS OF THE NATIONS.
Then the speaker turned his attention
from the citizen to the nation, and speak
ing of the effect of special training, said:
America demands training of her men
and women today as never before. She
must have them in order to fulfill her
mission and she will succeed or fail, &C
cording to the way she accepts this mis-
sion. 1t is with nations as we'll as indi-
viduals. There is no nation in the world
that is secure or great that has not some
central idea or philosophy running
through every fibre of it's being.
England is secure because she has the
economic idea. In this she is equalled
by no other nation on earth.
Germany has a philosophic focus.
Every great leader in specialism in schol-
arship has come from Germany. Go to
the great universities of this country and
you hear two things above all others
How big the institution is and how much
the endowment has been increased in
the last year or two. / defy you to find
out how large a German university is
or what its endowment. We boast of the
numbers attending our universities, they
boast-if they boast at all-of the work
done. Why in Leipsic there is univer-
sity laboratory, from which never man
has gone out that has not thrilled the
world with his work or startled it with
his discoveries Yet there has never been
more than twenty men in that institution
at one time.
France has social focus and therein
she is great and secure. There is some
thing running through her being that
makes social rythm. Our women ask
Paris what they shall wear, when they
shall wear it, and how long. And if a
nation with the women of the world at
it's feet is not secure then 1 don't know
what I'm talking about.
"Is America economic? Not like Eng
land. We have not here the economic
genius and never will have.
Are we intellectual? Not like Ger
many. Several years ago we discovered
that we had produced great biologist
cabled back that IN the time it had taken
US due that one biologist they had
pl oduc 4 @sS equally as eminent. Since
tlcn We lave cabled no more information
OIL that subject
is there social rythm in America?
beg pardon for mentioning it.
A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH.
americas focus is none of these. 1t
is a racial focus. Here are gathered all
the nations and peoples of the earth.
Americas mission is to solve the problem
of humanity. And she will solve it. She
will do SO because she and she alone
can. There is not another nation in the
world that has the problem of races in
it's borders. And having them here we
will solve the problem for two reasons:
a. We can solve it; (2) We must solve
it.
Its a question of life and death with
u.s."
DR.. Winship did not speak of "eXpan-
sion" and Imperialism and "the Philip
pine question" by name, but he limited at
them and said:
america is developing problems very
fast. We thought we had a supply two
hut bovo reoent1v taken on