The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-07-30
An Education
While You Wait
Salem, July 2s, 1903.

Salem, July 2s, 1903.
Ed. Journal: To even a casual OBJ
server IL must be apparent that the
country is suffering from some subtle
error. and no one thing appears more
conspicuous than the fact that the
country Is burdened with knowledge.
While II can safely be assumed that
we need the righting of many open
wrongs, yet the weightiest wrongs. the
most important and needing quickest
legislation, are matters more or less
largely of opinion. However. none can
deny that we are suffering from "doo-
dies" of knowledge. The young man is
staggered at the array of necessary
studies" when he gets old enough to
aspire to a name in the world. Let
him examine any one department of
either the professional or ordinary
lines, and he is at sea because of the
various methods for quick learning
presented to him. II he chooses the
mastery of musical science. he glances
over the field and. after recovering his
equilibrium which he upset by the vol.
umes of musical scores. he finds Prof
A. Sharp teaches the only metohds
With this professor you can learn ev.
erything from greasing frog's-leg fid
die to beating Quack Was frying-pan
or keeping up steam on calliope. and
all within ninety days. Then comes
Prof. Boozembatsky with three vol.
umes entitled pieces Never Played" ,"
Should Pianists Pare Their Nails with
Knife or Scissors?" Advantages Of
Having Two Hands," and so on
through n list as long as from here to
Jerusalem on the turnpike of the past
and To the New Jerusalem on the
homestretch. The reading matter
alone would consume about fourteen
years itself, to say nothing of tuning
up the jewsharp The aspirant soon
sighs for escape from this sentence In.
lnitely worse than ten years in the
pen. In the law the student is hauled
through Col Blackstone a time or two
and then turned loose to mete out jus.
tlce and equity TO property-owners at
large and with the admonltion to read
all the court decisions he can. Never
mind the principles OF law. Get the
decisions. for these will constitute
your authority" when you have a case
to try. In the medical world things are
still worse for. while In the law only
temporary injury can occur. the new
doctor might send you TO that country
where. as the Chinaman said. I'VE fly
round ketchum star" The old maxim
of "A little learning Is n dangerous
thing" Ats more closely TO this last
profession in whom the world has for
years vested its life. its ailments. its
imaginary woes and It's purse. Leav
ing the professions. we find we are
wading middle-deep through almanacs
through patent medicine advertise.
ments and books on Care of Dogs"
and things to do and things not 10 do
The world teens with advice But
alas we do so need the wisdom to &C
with Il. Everywhere and on every
hand we are met with oracles and In,
splred "lobsters," who are giving the
world, free. the results OF their life's
work Now, every young man don't
know which are good and right
Therefore. we spend about half our life
here trying to get right. and the other
half getting ready for the next. The
ponderosity of this widely spread ad
vice and Talks 10 Soand-So" would
make n man stoop-shouldered II he
couldn't get ahold of DIR. Skinnum's
natural body brace. Talk about con
sistency being jewel. what would you
call the pure. simply unadulterated
truth? When will the world drop this
crusade OF rank deception and get at
and give out the true?
CHARLES MILLER.