The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-03-17
American Students and tn. go

- soSo WITHOUT saying tNat it is II,
" pier in the American SUDDEN 70 .s,...
V NOtorlety by making pandcHoN.um IL
quiet towns and indu!ging in Other
reckless diversions than by plottiLp -:
SaSSlhatOn or egSing on asslSsjns a.
even cheering the aSsaSSin's foul deco
i when 1t is done. 1t is noteworthy. how.
ever Ill this age Of TIE multiDljcafj1r
OF the student class in American life
mat students hold aloor from poDuIar
movements here even Willie they mi.
lhire and praise the advanced .eas O;
students i'll disturbed countries abroad
Inc Russian student is looked moD
'S ii llperal and " patriot, and the same
mas been true in other countries where
MASSES are at odds with rulers. The |
French student, the German student
tEe Italian student, has had each his
cay as rcformer, agitator, reyoltion-
Isl or what not. Conditions in America
| no not call for student plotters, but
'Here are popular causes in this conn.
Try today calling for supporters, vet the
voice of the student as a student is sol.
dom heard. Nobody defers to the SIN. {
"eIt VI trleS TO make student converts I
Inc aloofness of the student class
from popular Recommendation that is
"hat II appears to be to outsiders E
HAY nave its saving side, but at tirsr 5
oltSh II seems to be abnormal The
students come from the people, and vot
II IS Il common sayiH" among colcoc a.
juniors even that the mass of the roo. e.
PIE are ignorant and don't know wb,r
IS %ood for them. If this attitude is . a,
mere Schoo!b0y conceit, to be abandon. .:
eu rs soon as the victim of it gets sa
proper view of his own Limitations til
'Lere IS no great harm to come from # "
" 'e'c 80 much Is made of college
training and Of education il is natural o
% TIE young man who separates from
'> F'aih KING TO enter the guild of Ii
'cnolars to foster loyalty to learning
uSt as he fosters loyalty to his alma
mater. q
nut extremes in this loyalty to learn.
rs Is not alone likely to beret on ovo,
'e'iiIhs self confidence. 1t may end
snobbery and wreckage of useful.
eSs' Cnlearned men have become
i'shincently great through Dover IN,
vi among the people. Lincoln be- ''
~ eu IN the people, and, first moving
lehl' he brought the educated wise
ell 10 his feet for instruction. Had
"co'h deemed the masses ignorant he
ouid never have launched the enamel.
tloh proclamation upon the uncertoir 7
'Ves Of popular approval and SIM |.
IT, Grant trusted the nobility of the LII
Hmon people and paid high trihuto
1t When at Appomattox he said
axe your horses home to do vonr
ring blowing" Had he deemed the
'SseS ignorant he would have sci f
es soldiers at work in the corn and E.
Ton fields under Federal guards. Ea
III OF scholarship is all right but if ESt
st not assume monopoly of all use- Il
knowledge or hold that learning is Y:
lystery sacred from all but the few '
priests. The father of certain
sht university boy who is destined
'ai'd nigh If he lives, gives him q
y calling down in this plain folk
'uaGe: IF you know at forty ono.
ureoth part Of what you think Won III
" nj twenty-five you'll be q great Ill
l.. This father carried sober q, VA
omattox' then shipped before the AE
Us real start in life. Although HI
or the ignorant" mass, he has
e enough money by honest means Keep
we his hopeful eight years uniyer- soll
ana professional training and led
TWO other children besides. He a.
ie KIM or man that it helps a Mn9l
'ht 10 rub up against and the kind WUN
round nowhere except in the
OF the common people, Should
Oh become another Webster it will
wing solely to the Ignorance" Of
'idler-sailor father Such is Amer.
life