Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-07-07
DUTY OF SCHOOL
TO CITIZENSHIP
DR.. Nicholas M. Butler Tells Educa-
tors They Assume Greater
Responsibility.
MUCH SOCIAL UNREST ABROAD
Colorado Man Says Eer = NOls Are
More Effective Tn. g< e.
FILL THEIR MISSION u TER
One Educator Talks on N of
Eliminating Degenera, "a
URGES SCIENTIFIC ME.
MUCH SOCIAL UNREST ABRoA1
URGES SCIENTIFIC ME.


URGES SCIENTIFIC ME.
Would Have Expert Reports on the
Causes of Delinquency or Back
wardnesa in PupiIs--COIIege of
Arts IA Criticised.
DENVER Colo. July s.-Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president OF Columbia univer-
sity was the principal speaker at the
general session OF the National Educa-
tlonoial association this afternoon. In
his address. the subject of which was
"The Call to citizenship" President But
Ter said the educational inatrumentalities
of the country schools. colleges and uni
yersities alike have before them here
task which takes precedence OF all ques-
tions of school organization and manage
ment of programs of study and curricu-
lum. of teachers salaries and tenure OF
office, of general versus vocational train
ing, Of secondary and sncilliary questions
OF every sort---the task, namely, OF pre-
pairing intelligent American citizens to
take up each his own share of the ma
tions responsibilities. tt.t
"The unrest which is abroad in the
world, and which is found alike in Eu-
rope and in America, in the unchanging
east, as we'll as In the restless and rap
idly-moving west. is in no small part due
to the lack OF understanding of what is
going on in the world and what has gone
on hitherto" said the speaker. "The
world has been for more than a hundred
years under the spell OF abstract princi-
pies, admirable in themselves, and yet the
world in large masnre lacks the ability
or the capacity so to organize itself and
its business that those principles shall
find just and equable expression. Every
wheer old beliefs, old traditions and old
customs are giving way before the cor
roding tooth OF time. and, as the time
honored creeds. political, social and re-
ligious lose their hold, others equally
controlling and imperative do not come
forward 10 take their place. Immense
fasses of men are left therefore. with al
most boundless opportunities for good or
evil. but without guiding principles With
which to work. This leads to intellectual.
political and moral restlessness.
danger OF DemagOgs-
There are many who feel that the ris-
inE generation OF Americans is growing
up without any proper knowledge Of the
fundamental principleS of American In
stitutions and American government Be-
cause OF this lack of knowledge we'll
meaning men lend ear quite too readily
to demagogs who propose TO them all
sorts OF schemes without any relation
save one of antagonism. to establish po'
ntical principles. From listening to dem
agogs 1t Is but a short and easy step &c
a state OF mind in which envy, greed anC
hate are elevated 20 the lofty place which
should be occupied by respect and conf
dence, as we'll as by political insight po
litical knowledge and political experience
The Americans OF an earlier day got theil
training in the fundamental principles o.
citizenship from the stern facts which
faced them. Today. however, one hear
much less of these fundamental princi
PIE There are those among us, some o.
them in places OF responsibility and grea
influence. who cali them eutworn, an
tiquated obstacles to popular government
and who would substitute the passing
desire of today for the carefully wrough
design of all time. The courts are at
tackled as usurpera OF an authority whicl
the people themselves have given then
for the peoples own protection. Tn
carefully built guards which have beel
put about Individual rights and libertie
are denounced as fortresses of privtleg
by those who seek privileges for them
selves at the expense of the rights o
others.
City Had for Chudrea.
The city does more to cripple the chill
mentally, physically and morally. than an
other agency" declared Prof. G. w. 4
Luckey OF the University Of Nebraska &C
day before the physical education depart
ment OF the association. on the Dues
tion OF whether hygiene should becom
= part OF school work. Prof Lucke
declared that such teaching will be IN
emily relief for children crippled In min
and body. He asserted that the ratio c
persons living In cities is so great as /
leave no argument against the charge ths
the cities and city life are responsible 10
lowered physical standards among schoC
children ana he believed It the coming dut
OF the schools TO provide a means of es
cape from the threatened scourge OF veal
ened people. w. q. Garrison. presider
OF the New Mexico College OF Asricultur
also spoke on this subject
II was announced last night that z. ]
Brown, United States commissioner OF q,
ueation. had withdrawn his name fro
consideration by the nominating commi
tee for the office OF president. This d
elsion resulted because opposition TO hi
had developed in certain quarters.
Race Types in Schools.
'"rhe school life OF white children Is lei
adapted to fit them to meet the condition
OF the white mans wori1 tran is the be-
type OF school life enjoyed by the so-csll'
child race, because sch rolls tor viii
children aim mainly to develop scholar
while schools for colored ehildI,n aim
develop useful manho ID and wemanhoS
through essential training for the whi
mans world" This was the declaration
Charles Bartlett Dyke. head piaster in Il
state Preparatory school. Boulder. Colo
In his address At the convention Of n
National Education association today.
Mr.. Dyke said that today Americans al
attempting TO educate every race und,
/, the sun, with extremely limited knowledl
Of race differences and race possibilitie
zone school OF theorists. said he. ID
Inands Identical education for all, In col
formity with that equality postulAted /
the Declaration OF Independence. Anoth'
school pleads for the development OF Il
best IN the Indian. the Negro. the Filipin
the Hawaiian. instead OF his eommersis