The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-19

n ANtAL training, the cdu-
~ eating in unison of eye,
4 y e hand, and brain, seems to
he coming to it's own to a
certain extent, an extent that gives
promise for the future. For instance
Philadelphias two marual training
schools in its public school system
sent out last week nearly two hundred
graduates. For the earlier founded of
these two schools this was the fif-
teenth commencement. At this COM
mcnccmcnt President Charles j. Har-
rah of the Midvalc Steel Works made
the address. President Warfeld OF
Lafayette college made the commence
ment address NJ the other. The eHer-
cises were held respectively in two of
the city's large thcatorS. The presi-
dent Of n" Midvair Steel Works told
his audience that on the classes of 1901
u )"0, from the preparatory schools
and colleges Of our land will fall the
hrunt ot the greatest battle for COM
n"rcial supremacy The world has ever
seen. lie warmed his listeners that
the araHcInont Of Europe over the
swift ana wonderful iudustrial pro-
ert ss nf his country has changed TO
II rSrntmrni "a II, tiis view Of the
future is that these nations will not
permit us tn keep markets already
won If they can defeat us hy treaty or
rs p'nhIbit'nS importation Of Amcrl-
""r products, or, failing that by vio-
l,n"r, Among other things YOU must
prepare yourselves for the latter. You
viii have To fight, and the conquered
VIII ho swept off the face of the
earth
lie dWells upon the commercial
(uture opcnins in the Orient and on
the necessity and the certainty of an
lsthmian canal built by this country
and under its sole control. Then he
,.ec.a'cs, taking a very different view
from that of Mr.. Schwab that the
youth 10 take full advantage of all op-
lortuniiles must be college bred.
Th"re is, he said, "a greater demand
Tor the college bred man tEan ever be-
tnrc. fou cannot hope to compete
with him if YOU begin business life
now and hope to pursue higher studies
At the same time. M man can work
more than nine hours day and 40
honest &ork, And what a man can
not do youth cannot hope 10 do"
As the grand finale Ia all this il is
interesting to note that Mr.. Harrah
told thc,'boys in closing that there is
only one thing worth living for and
worth Dying for---charactor" Presi-
dent Wsrfeld Of the Lafayette in his
talk to the other set of graduates said
rothins of commerce abroad or of col
lese But he dwelt instead upon the
actual value Of manual training.
Hitherto he said, 1--WE have disciplined
the mind and not the hand. We have
lacked that combination of mind with
matter which will make our material
industries a permanent success" AS
did Mr. Harrah in closing he specially
made impressive the point of char
acter, of moral development, as the
absolute basis on which all else must
rest, In his putting of II Conscience
must bea an integral part of every
success ,Of it. Civilization" he said,
divorced from conscience means
ruin"
Probably President Wariied, being
himself the administrative head of a
noble institution of higher learning,
thinks as highly of the advantages
that may and ought 10 be gained from
college training as does the presiden.
OF the Midvale Steel Works But he
certainly spoke I'm a view silSely 70
stimulate to their best work students
TO whom college is unattainable
1t IS assuFedly a matter Of the
personal equation" to a much greater