The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-28
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES THAT
CAMPAIGN AoAihsT coRRups
TON WILL 40 ON.
EARNEST SPEECH
Executive Takes Advantage 81 ocea-
sion a. Visit q Educators 70 f.
press His Views q 70 Character
Building and influences os WORK
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Washington, Feb. 16.-That there
will be no let-up In President Roose-
velt's policy o. warning against rot
tenness and corruption was emphAt-
cally declared by the president today
IN an address to~the delegates Of the
department of superintendent Of the
National Educational association dur.
ing their reception at the white mouse.
Continuing. the president gave his
views on educational methods at
considerable length and with charao
t~eristic catholicity Of thought and
vigor Of expression.
At today's business session Of the
association Oklahoma City was select
ed as the next meeting place and Of
ficers were selected as follows:
President-W. II. Ellison, Cleveland.
secretary-A. G. Nelson. Salt Lake.
Presldent.s Talk.
President Roosevelt, In his address
to the convention, said In part:
"Of all the bodies Of citizens that !
have received here at the white house
there is none that occupies . more
important relation than yours. ] am
tempted to say none has come that
has occupied as important a relation
to the nation, because you men and
women deal with education, represent
the greater American policy Of educa-
tion for all children, a relation to the
family, q relation to the future OF
whole people such az nc other like
number Of individuals q bear. I
own six Of the children that you edu-
cate and l I'M prepared to extend cor
dial sympathy to some OF you.
Seriously, friends, It is idle for any
man to talk of despairing of the future
Of this country or feeling unduly
alarmed about it II he will come in,
contact with you here and with the
forces that you represent. Fundar
mentally this, country is sound; NOR
ally no less than physically. Fundae
mentally 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 doesrnot mean
that we are to be excused it we fail
to war against r%ottenness and corrup-
ton, IL we fail to battle effectively
with the forces Of evil; and they
waste their time who ask me to with
hold 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 ultimate
~ prevail.
Salary and Wages.
zone thing that / would have you
teach your pupils is that whether you
call the money earned salary or wages
does not make any real difference, and
that II by working hard by your hands
you get more than IL you work with
your head only, It does not atone Tor
It to call the smaller amount salary.
1.-THE term dignity OF labor implies
that manual labor Is Is dignided 40
mental labor; as. Of course. It IL. In
deed, the highest kind Of labor 10 that
which makes demands upon the quail
tiles Of both head and hand, Of heart,
brain and body.
II would not have you preach an
impossible ideal: for II you preach an
ideal that is impossible you tend to
make your pupils believe that no
ideals are possible and therefore you
tend to do them that worst Of wrongs
Ito teach them to divorce preaching
from practice. to divorce the ideal that
they In the abstract admire from the
practical good after which they strive.
Teach the boy and girl that their
business is to ear their own living:
teach sthe boy that he ia to be the
home maker; the girl that abe must
ultimately be the home keeper: that
the work Of the father u to be the
bread winner and that Of the mother
the housekeeper; that their work IL
the most important work by far in
all the land; that the work Of the
Statesman. the writer, the captain Of
Industry and Ill the rest is condition.
ed n-st upon what finds expression in
the family-upon what supports the
family"
PROCEEDINGS
OF the Board Of Commissioners q
Yellowstone County. Montana.
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spseia, ssssion-ons nay.
Billings. Mont. February 81. 1908.
The board met this day In specia
session ct 1890 O'Clock =. M. pul
suaut 70 can and publication. al mem
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