The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-29
Industrial MeAOriSn1 is Needed
Is Essential to Every City And Is Pointed Out That
Education Must Show Worth of Factory Work.

Chicago, Nov. GO. Edward Full
Ter, in an article in the Tribune, says:
The claim of meliorism is not that life
is good or bad, but that it can be
chooses from the families, races,
classes, casters, and cults the strong
est persons, making them friends and
exercising them in consideration for
one another.
This constitutes dependable selec-
ton and seems now to be the social
line of least resistance, since eugenics,
as we'll as natural selection. appear to
lack efficient adaptability to present
emergencies.
In the effort to effect and maintain
national equipoise do we not need less
iv'dualism and more amalgamation
of the fillmore team work?
If so, then the sooner advanced in
dustrial meliorism is gracefully &C
cepted as a blending and binding
force the better for mankind at large.
1t is either a new industrialism or the
old militarism, the softer arts, cults
the easy things-having failed to
bring honorable tranquility.
Shy at Work and Trade.
gard industrialism with pride but shy
at reference to work" and trade.
Art and culture we conjure with, like
takers in front of side show. al
though we draw our food and clothes
from work and trade; while past his
tory indicates no future prospect OF
the solid furnishing forth of a worthy
wholesome respect for the wage earn
ers.
The course of the nations is strewn
with wrecks of culture. and no dom
mating art exists today-nothing but
fragments. There never will be endur-
ing art and culture until the people OF
a nation grow up to them as a whole,
and through adequate vocational pride
and skill. perhaps. but certainly not
through parasitism or partial views.
Japan has shown US. Germany is
teaching us. and our disjointed nation
al educational system is in sore need
of proper articulation with a growing,
vitalizing industrialism based upon
meliorism in the factory, the ware
house, and the store. but detached
from tricky and sordid forms of mere
commercialism.
Detached From Trickery.
1t is the hope of scientific melior.
ism that mankind has reached an
epoch of betterment by a controlling,
conscious evolution acting with nat
ural evolution, and it is believed that
only through enlightened industrial.
ism shall we find that state of things
in which it should be impossible for
any one to be depraved or poor
Industrial education which will i'm
bue city bred young men with due re-
spect, even reverence, for the hard
wrung secrets of nature that are prac-
teal to the artisan and dietitian is the
need of the hour and century, when
scientific and deadly competition with
at least two great empires is to be
met in battle royal for business and
national life worth living.
Let there be no coddling delusions
in happy homes about this world fact.
and let it be seriously felt that it is
none too we'll nor too soon that a city
like Chicago has adopted industrial
education as part of her public
school system and is awakening to the
auxiliary value Of her Libraries and
museums in school work.
There are plenty of evils in the fac
tories to be overcome, which, how
ever, belong to sociology and human
nature more than they do to indus
trialism, per Sc; but the trend of fac
tory development is steadily uplifting