Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-18

be classed as useful activity; and yet
| America is full of it; and some of
| these who practice it have had the
training of the college and Sunday
schools. Steal a goose from the COM
non and you are thief and you must
GO to Jail for it. Steal the common
out from under the goose and you are
! a great financier and you must be
honored for it. Wreck train and
you are a dangerous criminal and
must go to states prison for it. Wreck
a whole railroad and you are a mil
l!Onaire and must go-to Wall street
for it.
The Beauties of business.
A young man of 50, a native of
Sweden, did a little business in cotton
lseed oil in the last few months;
bought up the available supply and
forced the price from So cents to 50
cents a gallon. few weeks ago he
settled with his friends" on the
board of trade, receiving their checks
for something over a million dollars
a.; a profit. Of course he never han
died any of the oil; he had no use for
it. but there were people who had to
sell and people ready to buy. He ac-
commodated them, "cornered" the
market, and made million. That is
business" but what is gambling?
Out of list of 10 stocks advertised
in one New York daily paper in 1900,
% eight not a trace can be found;
one of the other two is listed as fake
and the tenth is selling at , cents a
share 1t was sold in 1900 at ST.
Worlds Work, January, 1907.
Even the boys have caught the
, spirit and are trying to get without
giving
Help the pupil to discover what
f things are useful and help him TO dis
, cover himself-to find TO what line
of useful activity he is best adapted
ard then encourage him to fit himself
in the best possible manner for the
activity of his choice. 1t is the rec.
ignition of the necessity of educating
the young people in such manner as
will give them the desire and power
to do useful things that is the cause
OF many of the recent and proposed
} changes in our courses of study.
4 The Reason for Teaching Industries.
1t is this that is putting domestic
science into SO many of our schools
1 Il is this that has almost forced com
e nercial work into so many of ouI
: high schools. 1t is this that has pop
:. uiarized manual training, and it is the
/ lecognition of this same necessity
4 that is now forcing agriculture upon
/ the attention of educators.
: Having defined what is meant by
/ useful activity l am safe in taking
ground that all education should re
l. late itself to the doing of usefu
r things. Be not half men, be whole
e men. Make some little corner of the
i world richer, wiser. better, happier Oh
), less miserable because you live ant
Y learn and earn and expend wisely
/ lG1ve to get and get to give.
e Activity in earning makes half {
n man, wisdom in expenditure make.
h the other half.
8 What Prominent Men say.
y Governor Deneen.-"Teach then
t (the boys at Pontiac) to do some
S thing that somebody wants to have
a done and is willing to pay for
e President Roosevelt-"To trail
boys and girls in merely literary &C
n accomplishments to the total exclusion
A OF industrial, manual and technica
It training, tends to unfit them for in
It dustrial work; and in real life mos
work is Industrial
DIR. G. Stanley Hall.-"The germ
and extracts of as many trades as pos
sible must be introduced into tn
lcommon schools"
Dr. Elliot.-"The perception or dis
covery of the individual gift or ca
pacity will often be effected in tn
elementary school, but more generall
il the secondary school; and the mai
Ing of these discoveries should b
held one of the most important part
lof the teachers work.
superintendent Samuel p Orth G
cleveland in National Education a.
sociation. Our public schools Shout
seek to discover the aptitude of tn
/. .cfildren and then develop them a,