The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-09

the raising Of money by taxes to de-
fray the expenses of educational corps
| and buildings. It requires public sup
port in every other manner also.
/ But collective effort has not yet
| done enough. There Is much more col
| lective welfare to be gained. Can we
say that child's education 10 finished
| when II gets four or FIVE months Of
chooling a year? Can we say that
youths education is completed after a
course In high school? Can we say
that a young mans or young woman's
education Is complete when a college
| diploma has been handed to him or
her?
| Education Continues.
| No. indeed. Education is continu-
Gus and goes on through life. And the
best part of 1t, believe. gained after
school has been finished. Every labor
ing man and woman should have a
continuous education. Their public du-
| ty requires 1t.
IN Industries there should be also
collective effort. Yet this is aNvastly
more difficult field. The ethics that
| young person learns at school and
| home are often forgotten and replaced
| when he gets into business. Collective
welfare requires that this moral sta
| nina in the young person be preserved.
Nowhere is the truth of this more to
be observed than in the strife between
labor and capital. There Is quotation
in the Bible that says. Whatsoever thy
hand fndeth to do, do that with all thy
might That is right and makes for
collective welfare. But in many labor
unions, we find that the rules enjoin
| the members from turning out more
than a certain limited output per day
Another field for the collective eff
fort is politics. A great reform move
ment is passing over this country. eff
fecting honest government. We are
delivering the government from self
| ishness and dishonesty and making 1t
business like.
How are our collective efforts to
be made more efficient?
"Inevitably in every human society
there are different elevations of en-
ployment. We have not paid enough
attention to this important, democratic
fact.
I'm the little school-house Of New
England. we once thought that the
boy got enough education Tor any
occupation. But we have learned bet
ter. Now we are trying to make the
school more adapted to the natural
destination of the children; that is, In
their destination in their civic lie.
1--WE must remember that there is
a managing class. always to contain
but a comparative few; the skilled ar
tisans, many more in number; the COM
mercial class. with It's hosts of those
engaged In business transaction; ana
the great productive class taking up
every line of productive endeavor.
Now the children are going into
different lines, and, accordingly, con-
graduate the South that 1t Is making
great appropriations for the industrial!
mechanical arts. The universities or
Illinois and Wisconsin are annually re-
ceiving great appropriations LOT pioau
education. The University of Illinois
received at a single session 100000
from the state of Illinois. Last April
the head Of the Department OF Agrl-
culture received S250,0O0 for the ad-
yancement Of the people of Illinois IN
agriculture. Nor does the state neg
lect the so-called classic education.
In the same session the Legislature al
lowed $4,000 for the expenses OF the
graduate department of arts and
Sciences
This general tendency Is the surest
prophecy of collective development
There Is another virtue In free
people, that awakens collective et-
fort. 1t can not breed under a des.
potic government, or under paterhA
government. refer to that great
CdIlSu pAbAN
natural attribute of freedom.
TT has developed in both England
and America, but in this country even
more fully than in England: You see
evidences of 1t when citizens give
private money for public objects. NO
people do this like the Americans
First TO show Public Spirit.
The first example of this spirit was
shown in John Harvard, who early IN
the seventeenth century, left library
and 500 pounds to the college that
had been voted by the provincial gov
eminent of Massachusetts, two years
before. Nothing was known of this
man for oyer two hundred years ex-
cept that he was master OF arts from
Cambridge. Finally a man from the
class of 1855. by the most patient
study discovered his geneology. His
folks were all trades-people. butchers,
cloth weavers goldsmiths. Out of this
humble stock, came the first to show
what real public spirit is. He built
all unconsciously, as noble a monu-
ment as was ever erected to human
being.
In New Orleans and Galveston. 1
saw evidence of this private liberality
for public advantage.
There is another way OF showing
public spirit. Men band themselves to-
gether to improve public opinion.
Their efforts are to build up new i'm
provements through the action of
public bodies, Down here you have a
great example of the splendid spirit
ed. voluntary groups who have been
checking the curse Of alcoholic drink.
cloud applause.)
To abolish injurious forms of labor
among women and children is another
objection of these bands. They are
showing their civic spirit in their eff
forts to improve Industrial conditions
An Illustration OF what a small
group can do is found in the Aus
tralian ballot system. This was pro-
cured in Massachusetts,, the pioneer
State in this reform, by eight young
men who met every once in a while
to discuss the ballot system.
The first year, they failed. But the
next time both Houses passed 1t and
the Governor signed. Both parties
thought they saw something In 1t
making 1t favorable to them. =.
1t shows that men should never be
discouraged by the smallness of the
group, which Is trying to effect the
reform.
This pioneer work is the best means
of improving society. There may be
one pioneer, there may be a thousand
The public at large does not care. The
pioneer need not care. He must have
in himself that which the great mass
of people will follow All public
spirited people have is enlivening
faith. He must believe that his work
Is pregnant with great results
DIR. Eliots voice is most pleasing
and his manner of speaking we'll
modulated. He remarked after hIs