Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-10

tai vigilance lakeS CoSHlAe'AI0 VI the boys earliest ideals, and, if these ideals crystaliZe about the clergy, parental alertness promptly begins to direct the boy in other directions. The youth is keen to see that the minister is regarded as an ornament, and an unfortunate person whom charity compels one to attend. The ambitious lad does not wish to become an object or charity or miss the opportunity to be as other men who have been pointed to him as the controlling factors in the worlds progress.
 Not ) per cent of those who at tend our public schools desire their teachers position, and scarcely can some petted rascals submit to be punished by the hands of one whom he considers so inferior to the rest of humanity.
 Encouragement to Teachers.
 What is more encouraging to the professor than to hear a lad scorn the idea of becoming a teacher and choosing a soda fount istead?
 This as Albert Russell so fitly says, 'I find Commercialism crowned, Politics prime minister. Two lessons are taught, get rich, get office. Those are the only tar gets worthy the aim of man. The big joss is the business man. How may you know him? By coarse complacency of face, by spirit of pork, by soul the height of his counter. He has made his money by scales and yard sticks-there must be a demon to hide and haunt in scales and yard stfcks-a demon that rusts every hand which touch- es it.''
 But let us view the other side of the picture, and state that which proves the contradictory element in mankind. Let us recount what mankind professes to be the crown ing work of man. There is a bright side, and to him who delib- erately adopts teaching as pro- fession upon it's merits and not as stepping stone to other fields of labor there is remuneration not gathered altogether by hands, but richer than silver or gold.
 We must recognize another standard of greatness if we would properly measure success.
 Character an Essential.
 Character must be that which decides our estimate of men. Hor- ace Greedy exclaimed when dying: Fame is a vapor, popularity an ac- cident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures-character ;"
 Character is the product of abil- ity multiplied by activity. Both neg ative and positive elements here combine. The aim of character, or the effect of character does not cul- minate in character per SC, does not develop for it's own increase or is not selfish in it's formation. It's status is gauged by it's influence upon mankind. We are part of the great world about us, and by necessity, unit of a giant social or ganism. Our contributions to this social organism determines our character.
 "The valeney of chemical ele- ments we'll illustrates the point am endeavoring to make. Some elements are monvalent possessing only one combining unit. Some div alent, and some even multivalent. A man who impresses mankind but faintly or increases the sum in bo- mum may be called monad; and one who adds much to the worlds good may be called an element of great valency.
 Again, as electromotive force is measured by voltage so character is measured by the force it exerts
 ''Now, the true standard of suc- cess from the standpoint of use- fulness, is character, synonymous to mans worth to humanity. Then it becomes a question of what man adds most to the improvement of humanity.
 With a true standard erected, let us compare, the teacher there
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