Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-01-22
CONCERNING HUMAN ENERGY.
The Three RS" Not EnougI,-In-
dustriaI Education Essential.

r American people, now that we hav,
skinned the cream of our nationa
: resources, and are within 10 to Al
years of skim milk. than the lacI
Of thorough industrial training.
When "our fathers brought forth
upon this continent" the wonderful
nation that we see here today they
planned with supreme wisdom foI
the educational needs of their day
The prime needs of those days
and of today-was that of preserv-
ing political liberty, and this was
possible only through an electorate
sufficiently educated in the three
RS to be able to read and write
intelligently, understand what was
going on in the world, and with the
aid of the free press, forever avoid
the danger of the placing of shackles
upon the ankles and wrists of Lib
erty. The fruit of their work is our
universal public school system, a sys-
tenn which shall ever stand as a
guardian of freedom.
But with the opening of our vast
fuel and mineral resources with the
practical application of steam to all
kinds of mechanism, with the in
vention of cheap processes of manu-
featuring steel and with the null
tiplicity of labor-saving devices, and
Harvesting of electricity to the COM
monest needs of life, an unforeseen
era had arisen.
The age of machinery is upon us,
and we as a people have done prac-
tically nothing to meet the respon-
sibiIities of a world where the lib
erty conserving reading. writing
and 'rithmetic" of our forefathers
are wholly insufficient.
In the United States, we train the
children in the three RS and in adj
dition in the elements of music, art,
and other things valuable on the es-
thetic side II is a splendid thing
to give instruction in music and art,
to enable the American people to
the adornment of their
homes with good pictures and the
of their lives by strains I
of melody. But art and music in the |
home cost money, and we fail to /
give instruction that will help the |
young people to earn enough money /
to enjoy he luxury they have
learned about in school We get
them accustomed to lifes dessert
and then furnish them hardly
enough mental equipment to pay
'or their bread and butter.
Here is the opportunity for per-
letual usefulness, and here lies the
great work for which the Interna-
rational Correspondence Schools
we're founded.
To appreciate what the I. C. S.
means to the American people, pic
ure yourself, if you will, back in
he days before the nineties, in
,lace at the foot of the industrial
adder
You are in the picture. Maybe a
ommon laborer. You went to ,
chool in your boyhood, it is true, t
'ut before you had got very far,
ONE other boy put in your head the 7,
dea of making some money for a
ourself Against the advice of c
our parents, or perhaps through 7
ecessity, you broke out of school Il
nd ''got a job" where you could @
earn little You were a boy t
on did not know that that step of G
Ding out so early to earn little" u
leant that you would always be O
arning only a litule'-that you n
ad cut yourself off from any great a
disabilities of usefulness. =. a
You reach the age of twenty-five, Ie
hen suddenly Their dawns upon you Il
lie awful fact that the cards are ten
one that you can never rise where W
III will be earning more than "a
.tle," as compared to the boys who W
,cl, 70 scbooI and oot some ad- ia
uCk 10 SCuOOl anu gu SOL1t dQ-
need brain training. You go to FL
night school for while and BIZ
row that up. Perhaps you start 10
fight the way to an education 81
rough study of ordinary technical fo
oks, but you have to give that up, TO
cause the authors have figured on of
wing a teacher there to teach you
e things in the book. Finally you
row up your hands and lay aside
lbition forever. th
The Inauguration of the oppor- m
nifty for universal education at the of
hiding of the great institution at an
ranton was to hundreds of thous- co
DIS of ambitious Americans like Of
other Emancipation Day IS
Before that Declaration, by Thom- Ju
]. Foster, of the l. C. s., of in esl
strial independence for all the peo- SCI
it would have been an irony to BIO
"a hold ont hpf0ra fha Uorl.in,y I tiO