The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-27
SLEOGEHAMMER ADDRESS
 ID LEADING EDUCATORS
President oscourses Upon Duty Of Embryonic Citizen and the True object and Scope of Mod.
 ern Education.


 will be no let-up of President Roosevelt's policy of warning against "rottenness and corruption." was emphatically declared by the President today in an address to the delegates of the department of super- intendents of the National Educational association during their reception at tho White House. Continuing. the President gave his views on educational methods at considerable length and with choice cath olcity of thought and vigor of express sion.
 At today's business session of the asso- citation Oklahoma City was selected as the next meeting place and officers were elected as follows:
 President-E. H. Wilson, Cleveland, O. First Vice -President-David D. Johnson, Rock Hlll S. c.
 Second e-President-Miss Ida Ben- der, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Secretary-A. c. Nelson. Salt Lake City. Utah.
 Roosevelt's Declaration.
 President Roosevelt said in part;
 Tt Is idle for any man to talk of de- spairing of the future of this country or feeling unduly alarmed about it, if he wal come in contact with you here and wItl the forces you represent. Fundamentally this country is sound morally no less than physically. Fundamentally in its family life and in the outside activities of it's individuals the country is better and not worse than 1t 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 effective ly with the forces of evil; aud they waste their time who ask me to withhold mN hand from dealing herewith But IL $ worth while to smite the wrong for the very reason that we are confident that the right will ultimately prevail. You who are training the next generation are training this country as 1t is to be decade or two hence and while your work is in training the intellect it is not as great as your work in training character. More than anything else l 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.
 Object of Schools. T trust that more and more our peo- pie will see to it that the schools train toward and not away from the farm and the workshop We have spoken great deal about the dignity of labor in this country; but we have not acted up to our spoken words; for in our education we have tended to proceed upon the assump tion that the educated man was to oe educated away from and not toward labor
 One thing that I would like to hava you teach your pupils is. that, whether you call the money gained salary or wages does not make any real differ ences, 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. The term dignity of labor implies that manual labor is dignifed as mental labor. as, of course, it is Indeed the highest kind of labor is that which both head and hand, of heart brain and body.
 The Unwise Woman. We have all of us often heard some good but unwise women say, I have worked hard; my daughter shan't work the poor woman. not realizing that great thought the curse of mere drudgers, of overwork is. is that it is not as great as the curse of vapid idleness; and it 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 realm. HSo my plea is not that homely duties are all-sufflcient. but that they are 1 necessary base upon which to build tho superstructure of the higher life: our chill dren should be trained to do the homeiy duties in the first place, and then in addi- tion to have it in them to carry them selves, that collectively we may well and htly perform the greater responsible tasks of American citizenship