Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-27
WAR ON EVIL ID G0 0N
Roosevelt Says There Will Be No
 Let Up In Fight on Wrong.
GIVES EDUCATORS ADVICE.

President Urges National Society to Teach Pupils Dignity of Labor and Puts Hoboes and Idle Rich In the Same Class.
 Washington, Feb. 27. That there will be no let up in President Roose. velts policy of warning against rot tenness and corruption was emphat. ically declared by the president in an address to the delegates to the depart ment of superintendence of the Ma tional Educational society during their reception at the White House; also MT. Roosevelt gave his views on edu- cational methods at considerable length and with characteristic vigor of expression. The president said:
 'Of all the bodies of citizens that have received here at the White House there is none which occupies mora important relation than yours. I own six of the children that you educate, and I am prepared to extend cordial sympathy to some of you.
 Educate For Farm and Workshop.
 Seriously, friends, it is idle for any man to talk of despairing of the future of the country or feeling un- duly alarmed about 1t if he will come in contact with you here and with the forces that you represent. Fundamen. tally, this country is sound; morally, no less than physically. Fundamental. ly, in it's family life and in the out. side activities of it's individuals, the country is better and not worse 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 is worth while to smite the wrong for the very reason that we are confident that the right will ultimately prevail. You whe are training the next generation are training this country as it is to be . decade or two hence.
 AS a layman let me say one or two things about your work In the first place, I trust that more and more our people will see to it that the schools train toward and not away from the farm and workshop. We have spoken a great deal about the dignity of la- bor in this country, but we have not acted up to our spoken words, for in 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. The great nations of mediaeval times who left such marvellous works of architecture and art behind them were able to do so because they educated alike the brain and hand of the craftsman.
 .. Teach Dignity of Labor.
 "One thing that I would like to have you teach your pupils is that whether you call 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 with your head only, it does not atone for it to call the smaller amount salary.
 Teach the boy and. the girl that their business is to earn their own livelihood; teach the boy that he Is to be the homemaker, the girl that she must ultimately be the homekeeper: that the work of the father is to be the brsadwinner and that of the mother the housekeeper; that their work is the most important work by far in all the land; that the work of the statesman, the writer, the captain of industry and all the rest is conditioned first upon work that finds its expression in the family, that supports the family.
 ''So teach the boy that he is expected to earn his own livelihood; that it is a shame and a scandal not to be self in- dependent, not to be able to hold his own in the rough work of actual life. Teach the girl that. so far from its being her duty to try to avoid all labor. all effort, it should be a matter of pride to her to be as good housewffe as her mother was before her.
 Links Hobo and Idle Rich.
 'we have all of us often heard some good but unwise woman say. I have worked hard; my daughter shant work the poor woman, not realizing that, great though the curse of mere drudgery of overwork is, it Is not so great as the curse of yapid idleness. and 1t does not make any difference whether the idleness is that of the hobo at one end of the scale or the gilded youth at the other. Do not waste time in envying the idler at either end of the social scale. Envy Is not the attitude toward them. The proper attitude toward them Is a good humored but thoroughgoing dlsap- proval of the man or woman who Is 90 blind not only to the interests of soci- ety as a whole. but to his or her own real interests. as to believe that any. thing permanent can be gained from . fife of selfish and vacuous idleness."