Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-13
An Interesting Address BY Man Of
Philistine and RoycrOft
Fame,
THE ART OF DOING THINGS.
Splendid Tribute to Prof Stewart Of
The University Training School
-PhiIOsophic Views

most interesting lecture AZ the Assem-.
bly, Han last night under the ausplce.
of the Mutual Improvement lecture bu.
reau His theme was the Gospel of
Work. ana most instructive did II
prove to be. He demonstrated that d,
was an enemy 10 idleness and that til,
best educated person I'm the world wu,
the one who knew how to do something
His audience was large and intellec-
mal one, and, judging by the frequent
and hearty applause It approved OF
his doctrine which was couched I'm cpl
gramatic terms throughout. Follow
ing are some Of the sentiments he cN-
pressed
Tho people who take stimulates IN
the morning to stir them up and seda-
ives In the evening to settle them
down. are sure to get nervous pros
sooner or later What is nervous pros?
Why nervous pros is nervous proapcri-
tN-prosperity FOR the doctor and nerv-
BUSINESS for YOU
What do we do at East Aurora? We
DO things mauY things. We bind
q
books that cost from s. to $50 each.
You know there are few people I'm
this world who like good things. We
ind them in New York, Boston and.
Ogden
our people ia East Aurora are I'M
educated people, but they can work ana
work well even if they are the COM
mon people. The common people are
the tollers Of this world.
The educated man, the really educat-
ed man, Is the useful man. II he isn't
useful he isn't educated. ! don't care
" he is % college graduate, A col
lege doesn't supply an education, il
simply affords opportunity
When ! was IN Butte a few days ago
was told that there was "a genius In
that city, Now I have never seen "a
genius, though I have looked In the
glass for one a great many times.
When ! asked who this Butte genius
was, | was told IL was Mary McLauc.
You have all heard Of Mary, Wen, /
wanted TO see her. She is a genius.
and Butte IS a wide open town. But
that isn't essential TO Mary I hunted
up her house, ran up the steps, rang
the bell, ana her mother came to the
door. ! said, Where's Mary why.
Mary's IN Boston completing her edu-
cation" ] laughed The idea of any
one going from Butte TO Boston TO COM
plete their education, They can't do
It, But seriously no man ever COM
pletes his education,
Every man is his own ancestor. Eve
ry man Is his own posteuty Every
man Is his own record. lie is his own
recording angel
You can never down a cheerful loser
He may stumble, tumble ana fall but
he will always get up and go on.
Every man should go TO college 70
find out how utterly worthless they are.
You send a man to college hut you
can't make him think
Today the great question is. What
can YOU do? College degrees count for
less all the time. ASK for. a job I'm
a bank. Spread out all Of your de-
grees before the president BE win
tell you 20 take them away. They are
no good IN his business He wants a
man who can DO things,
talked with President Eliot OF Har-
ward recently He said he would new
en- be satisfied until half Of Harvard's
was wiped out. President
Hadiey ~ Yale told me that he got
much more out Of the man who work.
ed his way through college
II you ever get 70 heaven and sit
down "a rest and take IL easy an the
time, what will you nnd2 mi tell You
what you'll find. Youll find IT hell
That's what you'l find
Heaven is a place of progression. It
Is a place Of work II I. isn't I don't
want TO be there It is a place where
they DO things.
A philosopher has said; Take 70
men out of Harvard the pick of the
whole faculty and put them on a raft
and they viii all drown They can't
handle H. They only understand the
THEORY OF RATS at Harvard
one Of the professors at Harvard had
/ fine Jersey COW presented 10 him by
'ome admirInE friends She was sent |
ly express, When she arrived he was
lskod II he could milk her lie replied. |
No but I'm reading mp on IT," And |
{ tGnspired that he was reading |
Herschel on the Milky Way
Some people can do everything but |
make living That man who Is best |
educated IS most useful and the most |
Useful man tx the best educated.
At the John Dewey school what do
hey do? They work Books are Sec |
,ndary And they talk about their |
work. Thus It soaks through them |
md they learn how
II Is not disadvantage for a man TO /
row up In the country and have To /
work.. II is all 70 his advantage You
viii have TO learn 70 work some time.
( you delay II too long the process win |
ar you.
Let me tell you, you have got man
- here on the hill pointing toward the
tate university who DOES THINGS !
your man stewart lApplausc) lie
: one OF the best educated men In this
ountry. And he is doing some Of the |
est work that Is being done by the
ducated men Of this country, He 10 OF
he Stanley Hall type OF man. OF the
ohm Dewey class, / have been keen
NJ track OF his work for years. and ne
/ accomplishing wonders. He rs tcach-
lg the youth OF Utah what we are
aaching the youth of East Aurora.
ApplauseD We have no loafers there
no men loafers; no women loafers
" work. All have to. IL rs good. II
healthfuL II is life.
The man who wins out strong and
irikes 1S In this world is the man who
as always been helped by some mag.
ihcent woman
The boy on the farm who warns his
set where the COW has laid down Ia a