The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-27
EDUCATORS AT
 WHITE HOUSE The President Gives His
 Views. TRAINING OF CHARACTER Will Continue War Against s'Rottenness and Corruption President Declares That They waste Their Time Who Ask fIim to
 wtihhsia HI. Hand From
 DeaIlng Therewith.
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Washington. Feb, 26--That there will be nd let-ups of President Roosevelts policy of warning against "rottenness and corruption" was emphaticaily de- clared by the President today in an address to the delegates to the Depart fnent of Superintendents Of the Ma flonal Educational Association during their reception at the White House
 Continuing. the President gave nis views on educational methods at con siderable length and with characterts- tic cathoiicity of thought and visor of expression.
 At today's business session of the Association. Oklahoma City was select ed as the neAt meeting place and of ficers vera elected as follows: Presi- dent ". IT. EIson. Cleveland. Ohio: FlFst Vice. President. David D. John- son. Rock Hill. Ss C.; Second Vice. President. Miss Ida BedisF. Buffalo, N. Y.; Secretary A. C. Nelson. Salt Lake City, Utah.
 President Roosevelt said in part:
 Tt Is idle for any man to talk ot despairing of the future of this coun- try or feeling unduly alarmed about tt. if he will come in contract with you here and with forces that you repre- sent. Fundamentally this country is sound: morally no less than physically. Fundamentally, In it's family life ana in the outside activities of it's inde- pendent actions of its individuals. the country is better and not worsa than .it formerly was. This does not mean that we are to be excused if we fail to war against rottenness and corruption, if we fail' to contend effectively with the forces Of evil; and they waste their time who ask me to withhold my hand from dealing herewith. But it fa worth while to smfte the wrong for the very reason that We are confident that the right win ultimately prevail. ..
 Tralning The Ceantr5.
 You who are training the next gener- ation are training this country az 1t is to be q decade or two hences and while your work in training the intellect is great tits not as great asyyppv work In training character. MeKe than any stlElssa aNs fIt e ae* tssn pQAlHe school turn 8Nk Nm A08 Mna #sft %lh when man and women will Ada t6 the sum of good cftixonship or tho nation.
 T trupt tbat more and more our De0. pie will see to 1t that the schools train toward and not away from the farm and the workshop. We have spoken a great deal about the dignity of labor in this country, but we. have not acted up to our spoken words: for in our education we have tended to proceed upon the assumption that the educated man was to be educated away from and not toward labor.
 f'Onesthiug that would like to have you teach your pupils is. that whether you calE the money gained salary or wages does not make any real differ- ence. and that if by working hard with your hands you get more than if you work Mfth your head only. It does not atoue for it to call the smaller amount salary. The term dignity of labor ir1- plies that manual labor Is as digniiied as mental labor; as of course 1t ls. In- deed the Highest kind of labor is that which makes demands upon the quanti- ties of both head and hand, of heart, brain and body
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 ''We have all of us often heard some good but unwise woman say, T never worked hard; my daughter shan't work; the poor woman not realizing that great though the curse of mere drudg- cry of overwork is. is that 1t is not as great as the curse of vapid id1eness; and 1t does not make any difference whether the idleness is that of the hobo at one end of the scale sor the gilded youth at the other. Do not waste time ip envyfhg the idier at either end of the social realm.
 'So my plea Is not that homely due ties are all sufficient but that they are a necessity based upon which to build the superstructure of the higher life; our children should be trained to do the homeIy duties in the first place and then in addition. to have 1t in them to carry themselves that collectively we may well and htly perform the great and responsible tasks of American citi- zenship 't gr