Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
WARE CLAIMS 7. R.
IS GREAT TEACHER.
Educator, Speaking at City Club,
Ayers Roosevelt AWakens
Civic Responsibility
URGES NEED OF CLEAN CITY
DR.. Watkins, Kentucky College
President, Says Race Prob
lem Solved by Prohibition
URGES NEED OF CLEAN CITY

Bringing the schools more closely in
touch with the real problems of life
was the theme Of Prof. Allison Ware,
candidate for state superintendent OF
schools on the Good Government ticket,
who addressed the City club yester-
day. Prof. Ware chose as his topic
.'Civic Responsibility and the Public
Schools and brought cheer after
cheer from his audience when ne men
toned the names Of the men VINO nave
been chiefly responsible in AWAKENING
civic cOnsCiences. ~
"The greatest factor in awakening
the sense of civic responsibility, the
greatest teacher of his age, has been
Theodore Roosevelt" said Prof. Ware
.'There are two kinds Of patriotism
The Fourth of duly brand responds TO
the call of martial music ana thrlilS
over conditions Of the past But the
stories and traditions of the past VIII
not fight the battles of tomorrow Ihat
is not the kind of patriotism that
America demands of her sons ana
daughters.
What we need is the patriotism of
peace, the useful patriotism, taught
bv Theodore Roosevelt. We need such
natriots as Booker Washington, who
is helping to solve our great race PROB
lem; as Jacob Riis, who did Sc much
for the condition of the tenement
dwellers in New York; as Judge Ben
Lindsay whose juvenile court is DONG
so much for the youth who has slipped
into bad ways, and Clifford Plnchot,
who has taught us the necessity 1or
conserving our natural resources.
california has her individual prob
lens as important as those l have
mentioned, and it is our duty to see
the generation that follows us small
know more about them than we do
ourselves. One lesson they must learn
is that beauty pays and that the clean
community, clean morally as we'll as
physically, is coming to be social
necessity.
1--WE ought to know the problem Of
our states prisons and address our
selves to correcting the evils Of them.
We need to teach the caring for our
commonwealth Of water Water for
power may prove to be an enemy as
we'll as a friend, If it comes within the
control Of one big corporation, as is
now the case in the northern part Of
this state.
This arousing of civic responsibility
has a great deal to do with our schools.
The schools must feel the force OF the
awakened intelligence. We school men
need to come closer into touch with
life and its problems and we need the
peOplc of the land to tell us that we
must We must make up our minds
that our schools must teach such mat
ters as how to prevent disease IN our
cities, how to manage its public fran
chises and how to handle the bonding
power of the community. So shall we
see. following in our footsteps, new
generation better than the old"
Prof Ware was followed by Dr. A.
S. watkins of Asbury college, Ken
lucky, who delivered short temper
ance lecture DIR. Watkins was can
didate for vice president on the ma
tional Prohibition ticket two years ago.
He told how the south was trying to
solve it's race problem in two ways.
one way was Booker Washingtons
plan of teaching the negroes they must
work and the other by stamping out
the open saloon that debauches the
negroes. He declared that the race
problem was caused by a small por-
ton of the negroes who patrOnized
these saloons, and that the south was
sure of solving its problem as soon as
the saloons are driven out.