Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-25

TONS welfare as many Of the investi-
government?
1t will necessitate also the adninistra-
ton of perfect impartiality and absolute
Justice in order to create or restore con-
fIdcnt faith in receiving absolutely lair
treatment Under these conditions, cach
will work, not to keep the othcr from
learning what he himself knows, but 70
combine their knowledge for. the aclhH-
ing of greater knowledge as dIV'"cl"A
on their original investment. Economy
will result which will beneft each ana
all Every department Of machienry ana
scientific knowledge will be perfected
En,. illustration. there are many types Of
machinery patented by various indiVi-
duals. Each succeeding inventor. whi'e
incorporating his own invention, in ma
chnery, in his efforts to avoid infringing
On other patents must often use awkward
contrivances to complete his machine
while were it possible to combine thc
most nearly perfect of each kind much
better machine would result, ana would
be the standard upon which improve
mcnts would be directed. The time spent
in trying to discover Il way to AVOID u"
infringement on other peoples patents
could be better spent in perfectlilS inc
standard machine which would result
from the combination of the best IDEAS
of each type of machine, and the awk-
ward setting and misunderstanding of
the valuable contrivancc would be super
se,led by the best that mind anu kho"l-
edge and skill could make. 10 apply the
same idea. ito copyrighted articles ~
valuable articIc-appears i'll a magazine or
newspaper which would be of ineStlma-
bic value to every Individual in the
United States Could newspapers copy
these, could they be distributed so that
every individual could use whatever por-
ton nc needed or could teach to others
who needed it. people would acquire
knowledge which would save them from
injury, from sickness, from death, from
poverty and from many disasters due en-
tirclv to lack of proper education which
people are paying taxes for and sending
their children to school to acquire but
which is withheld from them because
each portion has to be paid for a prom
bitivc price to secure it. Even as one
cannot view the entire landscape Dy
keeping the eyes constantly fixed on one
point. so the inspection of one scientific
truth of problem without the oppor-
tunitv of combining or contrasting II
with others becomes of far less value.
sometimes even to the degree of useless
ness. Conflicts like that recently begun
between the various medical school was
equally accessible to the others. RellS-
ions which emphasize one point of the
truth and ignore the balance and only
half religion. knowledge founded on
what other people don't want Is poor
sort of education.
One school teaches its pupils only on
condition that the student shall not i'm
part his knowledge to other would-be
learners, regardless Of the fact that their
school would not be able to hold all tn"
students who are DESTROYS Of obtaining
that class of knowledge as well rs to
poor to pay the price which is demanded
for the courses taught. We wonder how
the school acquired such information as
they teach
Could not some system of taxation for
education he comprised that would per-
nit the government To buy and develop,
under the peoples direction. for the peo-
pies benefit, the knowledge which every
Individual could utilize and add to, and
the profits from which could be distribu-
l,uted among the individuals as share
holders in some just and equitable man.
ner?