The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-21

have had TO drop out of schoo
because they had not the means
to go away. Conditions will be
more ideal when some means
may be contrived by which that
money may De retained within
the county and added to our lib
eral school fund and aid in build
ing up High Schools in our
midst, so that more may be bene
flied thereby, and the pupils not
! required to leave their homes
just at the age when most need
ing home influence and watch
fulness.
To the class let me say: don't
for one moment be lulled into
the belief that you are now edu.
Gated. You have merely laid the
foundation stones. True, this is
no small part when well done
yet do not be satisfied till YOU &c
on and rear the structure
noble, well-developed manhood
and womanhood, able to take
your place in the community and
do something for the bettering
of conditions in it.
Your next effort should be to
secure a course in High School
work something which every
energetic boy or girl can have,
though your parents may not be
able to send you and pay your
expenses. There are numerous
ways in which you can work
your own way.
When you have secured what
the High School can give you in
the way of power and trained
thought, you have within your
own hands the means of securing
a college education.
Doubtless the question has
already risen in your mind does
a college education pay ? Let's
see. A mathematical calculation
based on the census shows that
an uneducated child has but one
chance in every one hundred
fifty thousand of attaining dis
tinction as a factor in the pro-
gross of the age. A common
school education increases his
chances four times; high school
education increases eighty-seven,
while q college education in
creases his chances eight hun
bred times.
So many people make the
mistake Of thinking that the use
fulness of Il college education is
limited to the facts which a
student carries away with him
from college, and unless he in
tends to enter some of the pro-
fessions it is a waste of time and
money. The most valuable re-
suit of any course of training is
the power acquired, the brain
developed, the trained ability to
think and think to some purpose.
1T is no argument to say men
have reached eminence who have
never been to college. Such men
have been students they have
studied as college students do,
with an energy and persistence
that but few of US possess. The
men who do this must be of the
genius of Lincoln or Benjamin
Franklin and there are not many
such in any one age or country.
To cite men who have sue
ceeded in business of the past
half century is misleading. Bust
ness in mere money getting sue
cesses is not the highest form of
life. Often the man with his
millions by the time he reaches
the age Of fifty would give half
of his wealth for the culture of
his better educated brother.
Even in this respect the age is
past when the boy or girl with
out an education starts on an
equal footing with his more for
tunate brother.
Although millions of men are
out of employment and always
will be-yet at the door of every
profession there is standing
advertisement: Wanted. Men
and women of better education,
of finer discipline" The world
is looking for better men, better
women, better managers. Larger
prices, greater salaries than ever
before await the young men and
women of the future, but they
win have to be prepared for
them.
AS q rule the reason young
men remain at the bottom of the
ladder is because they fail to get
a good practical education when
young. They preferred to earn
a few paltry dollars at some
cheap job instead of going to
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