The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-12-02

was followed at once by the es!sab-
lishment of system of local schools
which is still the glory Of America"
! Every township" it was enacted
latter the Lord hath increased them
to the number of fifty householders,
shall appoint one 10 teach all the
children to read and write; and when
pany town shall increase to the num-
Der of hundred families they shall
set up a grammar school" They not
only built the grammar school, but
the College and the University as
well. Horace Mann the prominent:
educational reformer said: 'The
greatest thing in man is mind
1 whether this be the whole truth or
not, we know that the fathers did
not neglec> the culture OF tie mlno.
! A traveller once going through tAc
rugged country of ore of the cas-
ern states said to a settler: YOU
Esurely cannot raise anything here
how do you live, what do you DO?
!. The set ler replied: I'VE 'bulia
school houses and we raise men.
a. school is to be judged at all by tht
I kind OF men and women it sends ou'
!, into the void we may well be proud
of our schools and colleges. FROM
one of the later American schools
1.comes Frances Willard, whose mem
orv the whole wide world delights
to honor. From our own schools
comes Julia Ward Howe, who dn the
dark hour of he nations history
wrote:
SIN the beauty of the lilies Christ
was born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom that trans
| figues you and me,
! Az he died to make men holy, let us
| die to make men free,
While God is marching on:
| In taking a trolly ride from Wash
|ington to Mount Vernon one can look
of to the right and see the dign1neo
old institution which lis the Alma
Mater of thai! Prince OF American
preachers Phillips Brooks Har.-
ward and ,Andover Seminary botf
ieraduated the author of "My Coun'
try IT'S of Thee" DR.. Oliver Wen
|dell Holmes, classmate of the au-
thor three wears after graduation in
Ibis famous reunion poem said:
"And thevks a fine youngs er OF ex-
cellent pith ...
Fate tried to conceal him by naming
him Smith"
In 1894 DR.. Holmes again said:
I"Now there's Smith" HIS name
will be honored by every school child
lin the land when have been for
gotten a hundred years. He wro-e
"My Country IT'S of Thee Harvard
Ialso had the honor OF graduating
that later American who has always
Ishown himself to be the MAN OF the
lEas:, first in war, first in peace dig
busy brawny, brainy-Theooore
Roosevelt.
Sometime ago I met a gentleman
who had recently come fom Dublin
ireland. Though his was the Brit
ish flag and mine the stars and
stripes. we discovered that we held
something in common for. we dfscov-
cred that we were members of the
same worldwide fraternity. In dis
cussing I.he work of this fraternity
he said ct notice in your country
you use your money in building
magnificent temples, in our. country
we build schools" I asked: What
kind of schools?' and he ep1ied: "Pri-
vate schools for our children. the bet
| ter class do not attend the public
schools Then said: eve do not
need to use our money for that pur-
pose, for there is no caste system"
And this is the glory of our coun-
| try. Free schools, free books, free
speech. The, children Of the peas
/, ant and the, poet and the preacher
and the president, all attend the pub
lie school which is second to none
under Gods heaven. The question
asked the school boy in our country
is not are you the son Of a nobleman.
but rather: can you get your les
sons?" The question asked the
young man as he goes forth from col
lege lis not: "who is your fa.her?'
but rather: what are you?"
Thank God for the land that gives
every man the right to home
! "That spot on earth more dea" than
all the rest" and the right tc wor-
ship according to the dictates OF his
own conscience. "One appreciates