The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-26

| U. D. C. room in the memorial build | ing of the Falkner Soldiers Home.
 where they go as the guests of Col and
 Mrs. J. M. Falknen
 RABBI MESSING ADDRESSES
 MOTHERS UNION.
 The members of the Mothers Union and a number of outside guests met Ewith Mrs. Cadden at her home on Court street yesterday afternoon to enjoy an | address by Rabbi A. J. Messing whose subject was Education by Occupation. l. Dr. Messing said,
 l In the present advanced stage fo fertilization there can be but one view of the utility and necessity of edu- cation. Knowledge Is the handmaid of
 order, sobriety and thrift, the deadly kfoe of vice and crime. Educate any people in any section and you make them better citizens, purer patriots better neighbors and truer frienSs. whatever unanimity there may be , with regard to the advantages of edu-
 cation there appears to be, however. ! d wide divergence of opinion as to the things in which education consists.
 Many believe that education consists
 solely in intellectual acquisition, in
 stores of acquired knowledge, that in the last analysis education is merely A function of memory" and that no , man, however high his attainments may be, has a right to be called edu- cated who has not read a certain num- Der of books, is not acquainted with what are generally called the World s Great Classics" and has not aecus- toned his tongue to the shibboleths of the so-called higher culture"
 A man may know great deal about books and yet know next to nothing at all about life. From the professors of the college he may obtain the de- gree of "Bachellor of Arts;' but the great university of sfe, too. has it's professors The name of one is pow erty;" the name of another is sick ness" of a third, sorrow" and of the last, sin" It is the searching exam nation of these teachers he must pass before he can obtain his degree of learned in the art of life.
 The educational system of America is the most stupendous of it's kind in the world. There are here schools of all grades, kindergarten, primary, grammar, high, normal, collegiate and university. There are scholarships and fellowships, endowments running into millions. There are libraries and lec- ture courses, chatauqua and museums, art galleries and clubs, Yet notwith- standing it's comprehensfveness, its im- mense cost, and long continuance, what has been the outcome of this system? The result has brought only profound disappointment to patriots and put good men to shame.
 The New Orleans Picayune of yes terday says in an editorial that "the American people are the worst she'd ders of human blood in the civilized world" It is a reproach to popular education that the gravest crimes of violence are committed all over the limited States by individuals and mobs with a greater measure of impunity than ever before. The population does not seem to be intelligent enough to suppress or exterminate these crimi- naIs. The number of homicides and death by violence In 1905 were 9,2l2. The number of legal executions was f33. In the last ten years eighty-four women were ruthlessly murdered by men in the city of New Orleans. Not one of these men received the death penalty and the few that were even convicted were given light sentences The "hip-pocket habit" is the gravest impeachrnent of the intelligence of any people only savages fight on the least provocation Men with brains submit their difference to arbitration. None but a silly fool can expect to vindicate his honor by shooting down his tradueer.
 Another disappointment of popular education appears in this. We spent last year in this country nearly one billion dollars on liquor, to pour down our throats. The ordinary expenses of