Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-04
PRESIDENT IS
SPEAKER At
OHIO COLLEGE
GIVES ADVICE TO STUDENTS OF
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY;
DEPLoRES THE UNDERTAKING
JOURNALIST.

Ada, Ohio, June 3.-President Taft,
in an address to the graduating class
Of the Ohio Northern university here
today, gave world of advice to the
young men and women and discussed
at some length the opportunities and
limits of various professions and busi-
ness pursuits The law, the ministry,
medicine, teaching, journalism, farm
ing and modern industrial conditions
all came in for a share Of treatment
in President Taft's remarks. Discuss
ing journalism the president took oc-
casion to denounce Undertaking" and
expressed the belief that this unjust
phase Of newspaper activity soon
would be thing Of the past. He
praised Roosevelt's crusade against
muck rakers in this connection. So
cialism was denounced by the presi-
dent, but was referred to as one Of the
problems that will have to. be consid-
cred during the next generation.
Taft's Daughter Hears Address.
Philadelphia, June 3.-The presi-
dents address to the students of Bryn
Mawr college, from which class of
seventy graduated, was Of added in
terest because of the presence in the
audience Of his daughter, Helen, who
is a student there and will graduate
next year.
"Woman's College Education" was
the presidents topic. He said, in
part:
1T is suggested that the higher edu-
cation Of women rather units them to
discharge the duties of q wife and
mother; that in some way or other it
robs them of a charm and gives them
an intellectual independency that is
inconsistent with their being the best
wives and mothers.
II utterly dissent from this view.
The companionship Of married life is
the chief charm and reason for its be-
ing, SO far as it relates to the two per-
sons concerned. The enjoyment of the
home, with children, and the training
of them are, of course, among the most
important duties and pleasures Of
married life; and It's certainly does not
detract from the power Of woman to
make a good companion or to teach
ideals that she should have the ad-
vantage Of the higher education.
TT is not essential that a woman
who knows much must conform to the
unattractive manner and ways Of the
conventional blue stockine. that she
should make the extent of her knowl-
edge source Of discomfort to those
with whom she associates, or that she
should lose her interest. in the senti-
ment and emotions Of life or fail to
have an appreciation of beauty and
romance.
Il am quite ready to concede that
marriage and motherhood are moral
status for woman, and, other things
being equal, she Is happier in that con-
dition than in any other. But this is
far from saying that woman's life is
failure because she has not married,
and that her life may not be failure
because she has married.
Lauds Homo and Family.
"The home and the family are the
nucleus of the highest happiness, but
If circumstances are such as to force
women to accept husbands whom they
do not respect and love, and whom
they would not marry except to escape
a life of poverty, the home and the
family are not likely to be a model or
to furnish an ideal.
Zone of the great advantages Of the
higher education for women, in my
Judgment, is in the independence that
it gives her in the choice Of the kind
Of life which she is to lead.
IT do not think we can estimate the
enormous advantage that the present
generation has enjoyed and thta the
future generations are to profit by In
the increasingly sound and thorough
education Of the mothers Of families.
"I do not think we can estimate the
increased happiness that men and
women have experienced who, as hus-
bands and wives. have enjoyed the
higher sence of .companionship that is
made possible by the intellectual SYM
pathy and association of ideas be-
tween two thoroughly educated peo.
pie"