Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-07
HEALTH IN SCHOOL
Teachers With Round Shout
ders and Hacking Cough
Should Be Barred.
DENVER DELEGATES TOLD
Nicholas Murray Butler DcnOuncc:
, Demagogues Whose Only Object
is to Tear Down.

Denver, July mo teacher with
round shoulders and a hacking cough
should be permitted in the school
ROOM
THE city is responsible for lowered
mentality and a weakened body in an
increasing number of school children -
Give the physical body its educa-
tiOn as You feed the brain it's words
and figures
When William V. Hastings of Spring
field. Mass, urged these precepts at
the convention of the National Educa-
ton association here yesterday scores
of teachers applauded. The sentiment
was general for a more hygienic
school room. both from the standard
of the scholar and the teacher.
Sees Colleges as Failures.
The question whether the American
college has failed i'm it's mission de-
veloped a debate in the department of
higher education. Samuel Wendell
Williston of the University of Chicago
delivered an address on the subject.
THE American College of Liberal
Arts has lamentably failed as a popu-
lar institution of higher education" he
declared, lin that it trains less than 1
per cent of our young men and women,
but one-tenth of / per cent of the
population. 1t has permitted various
institutions. notably correspondence
schools, private business schools, in
dustrial and agricultural schools, to
usurp its functions because of illibcr-
atty"
Nicholas Butler Speaks
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia university. was the principal
speaker at the general session in the
evening In an address on THE Call
TO Citizenship" President@Butler said
the schools. colleges and universities
have before them here a task which
takes precedence of all questions of
school organization and management.
the task, namely, of preparing intelli-
gent American citizens to take up each
his own share of the nations RESPONSE
bilities
He said. There are many who feel
that the rising generation of Ameri-
cans is growing up without any proper
knowledge of the fundamental princi-
pies of American institutions and
American government Because of
this lack of knowledge, well meaning
men lend ear quite too readily to dem
tt-b. &c,
of schemes without any relation, save
one of antagonism to established po-
litical principles. From listening to
demagOgues, it is but a short and easy
step to a state of mind in which envy,
greed and hate are elevated to the
lofty place which should be occupied
by respect and confidence, as well as
by political insight. political knowl.
edge and political experience.
Courts Are Attacked.
The courts are attacked as Usurp-
ers of authority which the people
themselves have given them for the
peoples own protection. The care
fully built guards which have been
put about individual rights and liber-
ties are denounced as fortresses of
privilege by those who seek privileges
for themselves at the expense of the
rights of others.
The perpetuation of democracy de
ponds upon the existence in the peo-
pie of that habit of will which is JUS
tice. Liberty under law is the process
of attaining justice which has thus far
been most successful among civilized
men. The call to citizenship is call
to the exercise of liberty under law:
call to the limitation of liberty by
law, and call to the pursuit of JUS
others