Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-18

hands, his mind, and all his faculties
to the best possible advantage for his
own success and happiness. The
Manual training school may solve
this partially. We do not like to see
the boy of today starting into the bat
tie of life neglecting to arm with those
weapons without which he marches
to sure defeat And this the boy does
who fails to train his intellect. The
Boy of Today must not only have the
proper accouterments for his battle of
life but he must get the early start
which the experience OF Others fur
nishes. He cannot always afford to
pay the tuition in the school Of eA-
perience, it is too high. He must
rather profit by the conclusions 9TH
er men have reached by costly trial.
He must make their highest attain
nents his stepping stone and thus
climb to heights Of grander and truer
success. Nor must lie think he can
escape the early struggles and toll Of
life. These are the very things neces-
Sary to develop true worth. He
must be worker.
Another way TO help our boys is
we'll put in the words of the United
States Secretary of Agriculture, James
Wilson, When asked recently how he
would spend a million dollars in the
interests of science, he replied: vi
would spend it along the line of teach
ing the people who live by working in
the fields with their coats off the sci
ence that relates to agriculture.
would teach the people about the land
they walk on and from which they
draw their sustenance. Secretary
Wilson and the Experiment Stations
are rapidly changing farming from
the old ''hap-hazard trusting to chance
and luck for some sort OF "A crop to a
science pursued in accordance with
we'll known PRINCIPLES and with
crops no longer dependent entirely up.
on weather or soil. Practical agri-
cultural questions are being studied
in scientific and technical manner,
and this is leading to more intelligent
methods and better returns. Farm
ing is rapidly becoming scientific
pursuit. And not only farming, but
all other kinds of work in which man
has a part are receiving this same
careful and systematic study. Every
where the expert is taking the place
of the unskilled workman. The more
complicated the machine, the more
intelligent must the operator be.
The tradesman who is displaced by a
laboT-saving device, must learn anouh-
er trade or learn cooperate a machine
or remain Idle. Here again. in he
greater power Of adaptability. the
trained mind has decided advantage.
The man of unframed intelligence
today works, and votes under the d.
rection of braipy, but selfish fellow
creature, d;mly conscious that he is
being worsted, that he is earning the
others luXuries and enjoying none
himself. But in his ignorance he CON
dennis anything and everything in
the existing order of affairs except
that which is chiefly the cause his
own ignorance. He cannot see that
it is because Of his own ignorance that
others are enabled to trampie upon
his rights. to take advantage of his
weakness. He tights blindly every
thing but his real enemy, with that.
his unlearned condition he lives i'm
peace and contentinent If our boys
could only realize that many of the
men who are idle, cannot find employ
ment because they are not competent
that many draw poor pay because they
are not intelligent enough to earn
more, they would strive harder To be-
come capable. Oh that we could
make our boys see that there is
great demand for brain power in all
kinds of work. That people will pay
generously to him who can do we'll
what they want done, that the earth
will yield abundantly of her good
things To him who seeks perslstently
and intelligently.
And 80 in all departments of life
the need of the times seems to call
for q more thorough preparation be-
fore attempting ones work, a greater
mastery of self, ,nOre intelligent use
of reason, a larger dependency upon
brain power by the man who, hereto
fore, has worked with Drawn only.
May the time soon come when
Americas sons, each and everyone
will train to a high degree OF prof.
cheney his reason that faculty which
man from the brute.
at the same time a deep
and holy reverence fo- that Supreme
Being who endowed him With that in.
telligence, and also a high regard for
the rights and privileges of his fellow
creatures. When The boys of today
nave accomplished this aim, then, and
not till then, will the men Of tomor