Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-02

duty. The farmers are especially ben
Gifted by weather intelligence, and the
faith that the public has in predictions
is shown by the fact that i'm every
newspaper Office the one item that
must appear without fail. in some
fixed prominent position. is the
weather report. Every year there is
development and more scientific ac-
curacy in pecring into the future. A
fine policy of the government is the
putting of competent men in charge of
weather stations. and keeping them
there. Politics should never lay its
hand on the weather department.
~SA
Within the last rev years the value
of a college education in business has
been more widely and vigorously chal.
lenged than at any other time in the
history of higher education. Timidly
and cautiously at first. but more boldly
and defiantly us their Investigations
have progressed. certain men who have
attained large success in the industrial
world have bantered the college pro-
fessor into an attempt to show that
his goods" are worth the price. One
prominent manufacturer has gone so
far as to class the college presidents
and professors with clarlatans who
obtain money under false pretenses.
There are abundant signs that these
assaults are to have an effect upon the
colleges very similar to that produced
upon the church by the assaults of the
late Colonel 1ngersOll. They arouse
the loyalty and zeal OF college men.
They awaken the colleges to the neces-
sity of bringing their instruction into
closer relation with the times aud
with the work of life. They develop
q discussion which inevitably results
IN a wider public intelligence regarding
the real purposes and aims Of college
education. correcting the manifest err
rOrs of its assailants and placing the
are measured by culture and breadth
Of attainment rather than by financial
or Industrial achievement. The most
valuable contribution to this discussion
Is made by the United States Bureau
Of Education In a report which gives
the results of Investigations extending
to the lives Of 10000 typical successful
| Americans. The report shows that "a
college education gives a man 300
times as many chances of success In
| life as that Of the common schools and
Is ten times rs valuable as u high
school training The report shows. In
fact. that college men are In the lead
In the various lines of endeavor COW
cred by the investigation. Even though
IL Is shown that the majority of the
10000 successful men are college grad
yates. 1t does not necessarily prove
that the college training was the key
to their success. While the statistics
are no doubt Interesting and valuable.
It is u safe guess that they will not
disturb the now generally accepted tru-
ism that whether n college education
Is an aid to success or not depends
largely upon what Il man starts out to
accomplish In life.
~6
Said President Roosevelt. in his ad
dress at Gettysburg: "'rhe men who
We mt into the army had to submit to
discipline. had to submit to restraint
rs the price of winning. So we can
preserve our liberty only by exercis
Ing the virtues of honesty, self.re
straint and fair dealing. We can max,
and keep this country worthy OF the
men who gave their lives to save II
only on condition that the average man
among us does his duty bravely. loyal
~ and with common sense In what
ever position life allOts him." There Is
q lesson for us average men In the
Presidents words which many Of w.
need to take to heart and ponder care
fully. For In the failure of us aver
age men to see our duty and do II
bravely. loyalty and with common
sense II the source ana the strength
Of the social and political evils from
which we average men suffer most
For example. why is the government
OF our cities 80 wasteful. inefficient
ana corrupt; Why IL 1t that we aver
age men do not get what we pay fol
there? Largely. II not wholly, be
cause 30 many of us average men, wht
would not think of swlndling or steal
ing from our nelghbOrs individually
are Indifferent, are tolerant, are evei
amused. often applaud, and sometimes
share In the plumber, when we and ON
neighbOrs are swlndleti and stolen from
collectively. When one of MS individual
~ buys u carpet he insists on gettin,
the carpet he buys. But when som,
hundreds of us collectively buy
bridge or street pavement. few O
. us take the slightest interest In see
Ing to 1t that each OF us gots what w
} ali buy. Yet. when all OF us ar
robbed In that way each is robbed
! And 80 1t goes all around. HOweve
, personally honest we average men ma
, be, we often lack that collective hOi
/, esty through which alone II homes
4 government possible. However pei
= sonally self-restrained we may he. W
| often lack that cole ctlve self-restraiI
0 through which alone Is efficient govern
: ment possible. The greatest need {
= civilized society to-day Is that Il
4 average men shall awaken to an abb,
q ing sense of their responsibility 4,
- each other ana to each other, and sha
:, exercise that responsibility with con
II mon sense.
Il %SA
t AS Russell Sage Is regarded all Ov,
o this country AS II parslmoni0us ma
Y | from whom nobody ever eXDectpd