Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-21
IDEAS AND IDEALS.
Frank L. Greene Of ST. Albans Speaks
before Brotherhcod.

house Monday night, during which mu
sic was discoursed by the orchestra, and
a hundred banquetters enjoyed a feast OF
good things material, accompanied by q
genial flow of soul.
After the supper an adjournment was
taken to Chandler Music ball, to which
the public was admitted for the address
Of Frank l.. Greene Of st. Albans, who
was introduced by c. e. Roundy, presi-
dent OF the Brotherhood, and proceeded
to give one of those famous talks of his
in which sparkling wit plays over a bed
rock of sound sense.
He first expressed his qualification at
seeing the Parish house and its Brot her
hood workings and at finding them more
than realize what he had been led to ex-
pect. He was glad to learn that this
community was not leaving to the powers
of evil and darkness all the good things
in which young men with blood in their
veins delight. He cited an instance of q
church club that he once visited whose
game room struck him as being nearly as
cheerful as q receiving vault and where
he saw q couple of homesick-looking
youths playing q spineless game of parlor
croquet. He was told that pool table
was tabooed in the club because pool was
associated with evil and it would never
do to put temptation in the way of the
young, while all the time his guide was
speaking he heard the click, click of ivory
balls in places OF evil resort, where were
collected the boys-too much alive to en-
joy parlor croquet. No game is bad
simply because somebody sometime has
made bad use of it.
Since he had expected to address a
company Of men, Mr.. Greene alleged
that he felt q little embarrassment in
trying to get the last word with the rest
of his audience, and then.held them all
in close attention while he took up the
new movement in education, beginning
with the pointed question, "How many
of you have been back to the old school
house since you left it as a pupiI?''
Three hundred years ago Shakespeare
noted the schoolboy with his shining
morning face creeping to school at
snairs pace and that has been the boys
cause he has to, because il Is a sort of
mental vaccination it is necessary to en-
dure, and he longs for the moment when
he can burst through the doors into lib
erty. We Of mature years know that
when the school doors open out, they only
open into that sterner school of expert |
ence where some of us sit on the Ounce 1
block all our lives.
When asked once by Superintendent |
Stone as to what he considered the chief |
beauties of education, Mr.. Gfeene had |
promptly replied, ssThe schoolma ans. /" \
and he strengt hened his position by say |
ing that, though the boy regards his |
teacher as a tyrant in petticoats, female /
despot, she Is usually sweet and gentle
the most helpful woman that
comes into a mans life except his mother
and his wife. How many times by the
domestic freside fathers and mothers
hold conference over little Tom end Dick
and their little idiosynorasies that pro-
vide food for anxious thought. When
their parents, who understand those little
minds better than anyone else, find occa-
sion to worry, what shall we say of the
who has all the Toms, Dicks
md Marys in. the village in her charge
With the responsibility resting upon her
If turning them into magnificent men
Ind women at s6 per week. Fathers and
mothers never go near her to help her
mould those little lives Alright. The
chool teacher is the village hired girl,
md usually the only times her employers
ees her out is when they are mad about
omething. The day is coming when
Vermont will be ashamed of this attitude
oward the teacher, ashamed to pay a
,arber more to cut the hair of a boys
read than they pay woman to put ideas
nto it. Make friends with the woman
Who is trying tc make friends with your
hildren; let her have your confidence.
There are many things the children's
mother can tell her, and perhaps there are
ome things she can tell the mother,
which il mothers knew, many and many
pair of little> feet would be set on the
light path before it is too late. A young
ter may behave like an angel in the ,
morning and he another angel at night, [
when, in the hours between, sometimes ,
My God who watches over the angels
,nows what he has been up to.
We are teaching our children a wrong 1
dea of success-that to be successful they
must acquire property or go into politics; !
ave money or authority in the govern {
nent. We are teaching them to worship &
he great American god, Success, spelt
With capital s and two straight lines !
rawn perpendicuIarly through it. We
re teaching them to think that il they :
My go through school they can be any ,
hing they please from a railroad msgnate
o president of the United States without
ny natural qualifications for either job.
we are fitting all the round
oles we can with square pegs and call it
success. We are spelling good shoe
Makers to make cheap ministers, when a
ood shoemaker who can make soles that
'ill last in this world is infinitely more
I success than misfit minister who
uarantees a soul in the next world. We 4
re spelling good carpenters to make
heap doctors, who look wise and scare
heir patients into fits because they know
ow to cure fits, and we are spelling al
lighty good stone masons to make poor I
ewspaper men.
A definition of success that has never
zen improved upon is found in the
ords of Christ to those who reproached
he woman for breaking the ala abaster box 4
lat she might anoint his feet and wipe
lem with the hairs of her head-"She
ath done what she could" No words
nee can ever take from, or add to. that
lblime definition of success.
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