The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

who is behind his time Just as the poem
or essay which is Just beyond us is rele-
gated 10 the waste basket along with that
which is just below US. Good that we
must still strive for Is not yet ours All
real progress is. must inevitably be.
racial II is not the point which this
which the next is born. that measures
the progress Of the race. The cultiva-
ton Of race ambition. race progress. love
OF race. Willingness TO sacrifice for race.
live for il. to leave unqualified sensuous
longings. to deny himself that the race
may be exalted. that he may beausath
purer desires. increased seif-restraint. a
higher aud stronger intellectual and spir-
itual endowment 4 strong aud fair taber-
nacle of flesh for that higher mentality
the sons and daughters OF God.
Our Young people should be taught that
love for The race, for humanity, is even
higher characteristic than love OF coun-
try. and that sny real love will show
itself in an effort to make that race
noblcr, more God-like: that the surest
ourselves for it is only the virtues q man
is born with that count absolutely in the
progress OF the race.
Whit Race Superior.
If We were 10 take two babies. one the
child of highly developed parents in Salt
Lake and the other the child of a Ute
Indian. and surround the latter With
every advantage known to modern edu-
cation. while We gave the white child only
moderate advantages. we should still reap
far better results in the case of the white
child than N the case of the Indian. for
only that which is born with the child
can be developed All that parents. man
or woman. may gain after the birth OF
certain child counts for nothing so far as
that child is concerned il is not part of
his inheritance. The young man who
must SOW his wilG eats does not reflect
that the race will be the worse for his
performance.
We so seldom give these things a single
thought until we are confronted with the
responsibility OF educating our children.
linen no effort Is spared. no means lett
untried to make this generation all that
the fondest, most ambitious parent can
desire; but for much of our effort il is. too
late. The best things we can do for our
children are the things we should do for
ourselves. We cannot bequeath TO our
children strong, healthful bodies If We
have ruined our own by any form of SEN
keen. alert mentality if we have neg
lected to develop our own. In short their
inheritance and therefore their develop
ment. will depend largely upon what we
are before them come to US. Education
modifies type, mobiles very greatly
sometimes. occasionally. eliminates. or at
least leaves dormant certain tendencies.
but il never creates. nothing can be led
out that Is not within. Hence the prog
ress of the race is almost wholly from
generation TO generation. All the real
all the racial development we give to the
world must be given through the children
and must beyong TO the parent first. II
he would transmit a vigorous, healthy
body to his child he must possess one
himself; IL he would transmit intellectual
power he must have a keen. strong men
tality himself if he would bequeath
pure heart and an upright spirit he must
be one of those of whom the great teach
er i'm his sermon on the mount said,
They shall see God"
Speech by Fisher Harris.
Fisher Harris. secretary of the Com
niercial club, in a brief speech. showed
the purposes and aims Of that organiZa-
ton and its unanimity with all allied
organizations for the advancement of
the city's welfare. He said he brought
with him an olive branch in the shape
of an offer from the big club TO tender
the use of its rooms for any large pub
&c affairs to be given by the Ladies
Literary in honor of any distinguished
visitor to the city whether a man or
woman.
During the afternoon Miss Celia
Sharp played Leschettzsky's arrange
r1ent for the left hand of the andante
from Lucia for which she was hear
tily encored. Miss Pearl Rothschild. a
pupil Of Miss Gratia Flanders. played
I "Rigoletto" by Nerdi-Liszt receiving
an encore also. and Miss Janet Wittick.
che of George f. Skeletons violin pu-
/ pills. gave one Of Germans dances.
The club will hold no meetings dur
ing the holidays. the next being on Jan.
." 1908.