The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27
President, Addressing Edu-
Gators, Says Fight on Cor
ruption Will Go On.
MUST SMITE THE WRONG
THAT RIGHT PREVAIL
In Earnest Address Mr.. Roose
Welt Appeals for Education To-
ward Farm and Workshop,
and Extols the Dignity
Of Acknowledgements
in Attendance.

.ASHINGToN, February 2s-
Nv That there will be no let
NM up in President Roosevelts
wv policy OF warning against
rotteness and corruption"
was emphaticaily declared by the
President to-day in an address to the
delegates to the Department of Su-
perintendence of the National Edu-
cational Association during their
reception at the White House. Con-
tinuing, the President gave his views
on educational methods at considerable
length and with characteristic catho-
licity of thought and yigor of express
sion.
At to-day's business session of the
associa ton, Oklahoma City was Sc
lected as the next meeting place, and
officers were elected as follows: Pres!-
dent, w. II. Elson, Cleveland, o.; Firs.
Vice-President, David b. Johnson. Rock
Hill, s. c.. Second Vice President. Miss
Ida Bender, Buffalo. N. Y, and Secre-
tary. A. C. Nelson, Salt Lake City.
Utah.
President Roosevelt said in part:
rhc Prcsidents Address.
'It is idle for any man to talk of
despairing of the future of this coun-
try or feeling unduly alarmed about
1t, If he Will come in contact with you
here and with the forces that you rep
resent. Fundamentally this country is
sound; morally, no less than physi-
cally. Fundamentally, In its family
life and In the outside activities of its
the country is better and
not worse than it formerly was. This
does poe mean that We are to be eX-
cused X we fail to war against rotten
ness and corruption: if we fail to con
tend effectually with the forces of
evil; aud they waste their time who
ask me to withhold py hand from deal
ing Herewith. But 1t is worth while
TO smite the wrong, for the very reason
that we are confdeu: that the right
Will ultimately prevan.
You who are training the next gen
GRAFTON are training this country as it
is to be decade or two hence. and
while your work in training the intel
lect is great, 1t is not as great as
your work in training character. More
than anything else I want to see the
public school turn out the boy and girl
who, when man and woman, will add
to the sum of good citizenship of the
nation.
II trust that more and more of our
people will see to 1t that the schools
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 Tor
our education we have tended to pro-
ceed upon the assumption that the ed
ucated man was to be educated away
from and not toward labor.
Salary and Wages.
THE one thing that would like &c
teach your pupils is that whether you
call the money gained salary or wages
does not make any real difference, and
that II by working hard with your
hands you get more than If you work
with your head only. 1t does not atone
for 1t to call the smaller amount salary,
The term dignity Of labor implies
that manual labor Is as dignified as
mental labor; as of course 1t is. In
deed. the highest kind of labor Is that
which makes demands upon the quail
ties Of both head and hand, OF heart
brain and body.
1--WE have all of us often heard