The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-26

b1NphN NhuNehttH anu Alits Will Dt as
clean as possible. Diseases that now
scourge the country will be made prac-
tically harmless and the span OF life
will be greatly increased.
Public schools advanced along such
lines will lay excellent foundations for
the higher educational institutions.
There will be many great universities
and colleges in the United states nine
ty years from now, but the glory of
the nation w be its technical schools
Every college man will take a post
graduate course in technics. Special
training Will not be confined to law
yers, doctors, preachers and engineers
The farmer will not consider himself
feeling the blows being dealt by girl
teachers all over the country. Chill
feet upon the body of the continuous
use Of alcoholic stimulants, and 1t Is
drilled into them that that effect is
wholly bad.
The schools likewise teach that
much harm may com, rom overcat-
ing. This will have its weight in
counteracting the American tendency
toward gormandizing. The American
people eat nearly four times as much
per capita as the people of the rest
OF the world. We eat eight times as
much meat as the other nations, and
each one of us eats twice as much
sugar now as our fathers did in 1860.
The cooking schools and the school
hygiensts will help to stop this ten
dency.
dergarten that certain laws of nature
must be obeyed II disease and death
are to be avoided. The daily bath will
become an absolute essential, because
the law will force every child to go
to school and the fhool will not let
an unbathed chi come in, The
qualified to tai y his fathers plow
handle until after course in tech
nical institute. No boy will leave
school without special knowledge OF
how to do some one thing well enough
to make his living at It. No girl will
leave school without a knowledge OF
the science and art of cooking, and
the craft of housekeeping.
The nation will advance toward a
paternalism in educational matters of
which 1t does not dream these days.
The statesmen of the future will re-
cognize the fact that Industrial ed lca-
ton is necessary, and that the more
widely distributed the opportunities for
acquiring II the better for the nation.
HaphaZard ways of doing things will
be abandoned. Already the civil SER
vice Is becoming exacting in its de-
mands. Already the technically train
ed man is outstripping the academ-
will 90 on. There will never be a time
when man whose mind is well train
ed in the beauties of the classics will
not have an intellectual advantage.
But in the competition OF the future
he must also train his hands to do
some useful task or the world will
neglect to note his existence.
II hasn't been long since it was be.
lieved that esScation was not only un-
necessary. but positively harmful for
a farmer. Now the country is begin
ming to awake to the fact that the
good farmer must be highly educat-
ed man. The college farmers who
were sneered at by the "b'gosh" bri-
gade a few years ago have proved
their superiority by acquiring the
lands of the scorners. Ninety years
from now a non-college farmer will be
as rare as non-college physician to-
day.
Ten boys are in technical schools to-
day where there was one twenty years
ago Ten girls are in domestic science
schools today where there was one
twenty years ago. This proportion is
being increased rapidly, and the next
generation will expect every child i'm
the country to be trained from the
kindergarten up. The hgh-school
graduates of a generation hence will
be required to furnish other proof OF
their fitness for a diploma than the
mere passing of a written examina-
tion. The boys must present a con-
crete exhibition Of skilled handiwork
The girls must be dressed in gown
of her own making.
When the United States reaches its
estate of full grown manhood and II
has the 3S5,OOO,OOO people predicted fol
the end of the century, there will bt
new responsibilities for the commune
ty. new burdens on the individual. The
broadened sphere of national activity