Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-03-02
you CANT GET loo Much TRAINING.

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@@H HEY tell story in England that
IN once some American college OF uni
AA EfA veraity young students fell to ex-
E5k1HH changing notes about their fathers
f2YS1Gl u ways OF life, says the Chicago
.AAA4 - American. The father Of one was
!11 49, a lawyer, OF another a banker,Oi
-~rUG6ee anOher merchant and so on.
Finally one boy said his father
>Et-BSE was glass. blower. Then accord
ing to the story, this young man was ostracsed and
had to fight his way through college alone.
They tell this story in England where they dearly
love stories that seem TO indicate that In America
there is no real democracy, and are as snObbish
and as foolish about caste and aristOcracy as the
people Of England.
We don't believe the story. We don't believe
there is college university in America in which
the SON Of glass blower would not be on exactly
the same footing as the richest alive. A great
many OF our colleges teaches snobbery in It's worst
forms, bat the normal American boy is invariably
democratic
But the fact remains that there are very few sons
Of glass blowers that get a college education and;
while this story they tell in England is a mere,
fabrication it is quite true that should be aston
ished If glass blowers should begin to send their
sons to college commonly lawyers send theirs.
So what we wish to suggest to you to-day is one,
little question:
Whyf
Why should the highest form Of education be
confined to the well-tO'dOf AS a matter of fact
why shouldn't the state be Just as much interested
in educating all its children as in educating some Of
themi
Why should not education be compulsory in the
highest as we'll IN the lower gradesi Why should
not all children be started out in life with about the
same advantagesi
How can the state expect to get the best kind Of
citizenship when 1t permits the great majority Of
children TO begin life with only smattering OF what
they ought to knOWi
OF course We think that as things are e present
it s necessary for the children Of the poor 70 begin
/ very early to earn their own living Copseouentlv
they have the rudimeats Of training in the grammar
schools and 60 out with about one tenth tue equip
meat they ought to have.
The Law fxes an age limit ct which parents can
withdraw their children from school, Some dav
that age limit will be very much advanced
The Law also iOrbids the employment il mills and
factories Of children under a certain age.
Every two years certain wholly selfish men and
sap.headed women go to the Legislature to get that
age limit reduced 50 that still younger children can
be employed Ia factories Some daV inst Al ~ ho-s
ing reduced it will Be advanced Some day il will
be utterly impossible to take tenth-part educated
boy ont Of his school and cramp his mind and ruin
his soul by chaining him up in factory ten hours
; a day.
The state permits that now; then the state pays
the penalty in poor houses, lunatic asylums and
iails.
How ere you going to distinguish about souls and
mindss II one gets 3 chance IN the world and ten
thousand 90 not, do you think We have any partcu-
lar right to complain about ignorance and bad con-
ditiOnsi
Why should not glass-blowers be cOllege-bred as
much rs laWyersi Why should not ell men that are
Engaged in producing the things that the world
wants have the best Obtainable traiDingf WHY
wouldn't It be good thing for the world TO give.
them trained minds and active intelligence aud we'll.
developed bodies and all the vigOr that man NAV
] havei
We should not get any the worse glass for it, that
8 is certain.
There IS a foolish notion about that II ell men
we're well educated We should not have any work
3 men.
The people that talk this rubbish believe that so
e ciety ought to be divided into s'oasses."
3 In this country all men except few tramns. in
cOmpetents and idlers work In any rational stata
Of society work is the only truly honorable tbino
You can never educate normal minded Ameriosn
out Of the idea Of work. The more enlightened q
man becomes the more clearly he sees that labor il
g life Of the world. The more education men get the
more rapidly they will substitute machinery for the
labor that is drudgeFy, the more raDidlp men viii
pass into the kinds Of labor that require the brain
and hand together, the kinds Of labor that are in
teresting.
The world is pretty old to be digging sewers and
g breaking rock By hand.
, 90 We don't know any reason Why the sons Of ell
men, rich and poor, should not have The best educa-
/ ton II the world why the state should not fur
neh e 20 them and see that they getit We think il
would be extremely economical in the LONG run and
; give us better glass bOWing IS well as much better
Is government
e Governor Vardaman is still ,Runnin' Some. =