Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1910-03-18
NINTH ANNIVERSARY
Beach Council, No. Isl, Jr. 0. U.
A. M. Celebrates

with their ladies took their places at
the tables and the other members with
their ladies then filled the other tables,
remaining standing while Rev. s. A.
Harker asked grace.
Members of the Daughters of Ameri-
ca, the sister lodge of the Junior Me-
chanics, attended TO the cooking and
serving part of the supper and a very
pleasing menu was placed before the
guests. 1t was as follows:
Cream of Celery Soup
Gherkins Saltines
Sliced Ham
Mashed Potatoes Cold Slaw
Chicken Fricassee
Celery Cranberry Sauce
French Rolls
Potato Salad
Fancy Cake Cheete
Ice Cream Fruit
Coffee
After the supper Councillor George
H. Davis, acting as toastmaster made
a few remarks and then called on the
Universal quartet, composed of Miss
Mary Evans, Mrs. Robert Bond, Rob-
ert Bond and Howard Evans, for a selec-
ton which was so we'll rendered that
they were called a second time. Vice
Councillor John Bright was then called
on for an address on 1.-THE Ladies'"
This is always an interesting subject
and Mr.. Bright handled it to perfec-
tion, causing many smiles and touch
ing gently on the many ''good" quail
ties of the weaker sex. Rev. 3. A.
Harker was called on for an address on
'tTrue Patriotism and he thrilled the
hearts of all with his excellent speech,
setting forth the things we should do
and should not do to make ourselves
true patriots. Miss Rosalie Washburn
then favored the guests with a soprano
solo, entitled Nightingale Song"
which vas very p%leasingly rendered
and Miss Washburn received much
applause. Samuel Roberts gave an
address on 'Our Boysn which was also
well appreciated and gave the guests a
hint as to the great possibilities before
the boys of today. A male quartet
consisting of Messis. Howsrd Evans,
miSiIliap Rnpkss Rahest Bopdaad
Samuel Norris, rendered two selec-
tions and were justly a%pplaudeds
Junior Past Councillor LannIng Myers
then gave a stirring address on ''Our
Public Schools and We herewith print
his speech in full:
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BROTHER COUNCILLOR, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN:
A man with the genius of Caesar, the
~eloquence of Webster and the rhetoric
of a Lord Macaulay might we'll stand
in awe if announced to speak, as l have
been this evening on our public schools.
With my feeble ability if l can get you
to think for yourselves on this impor-
tant question l shall deem my efforts
not TO have been spent in vain, though
/ make no p~retense of being able to
cope with the subject.
The late President Woolsey of Yale,
one of the ablest writers on state ques-
tions that this country has ever pro-
duced, maintained that the state has not
only the right but the duty to educate
the child and fit him for intelligent
and useful citizenship. This is the
business that confronts us. How is the
child to be taught ? Of what shall the
education consist 4? There are those
who contend that the three "R's" are
the essential things IN the course of
study. Again others maintain that
the task of the school is to furnish its
pupils with such an education that
they can go right out in the world with
their diplomas and exact the value in
cold hard cash.
But the opinion of men who have
made the subject of education and of
school a careful study is that our
schools fundamentally should be not
workshops put "thinkshops." That
the business of the child in school is
not necessarily to build a house, to
pave a street, to bake a pie, or make
a Partisan or some other kind of gown;
but to learn to apply his mind to a
difficult proposition, something per-
haps that he does not like. In short
to learn to think.
We, as men and women do not think
enough. We arrive at our conclusions
in some fashion-goodness only knows
what-and cling to them as the bull
dog holds to the bone. We need
thinkers. The crying need of the times
is thought. The mere matter of BE-
ING at all is a problem. Life is filled
with puzzling questions that require