The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-03
MONEY POWER
Of EDUCATION
Address By Attorney Gen.
eraI T. w. Beckett
Commencement At CARY
Fifteen Bright Boys and Girls Receive
Certifcates.-BFilIiant Debates, Re-
ritaIS and MUSCaleS.-Ine Frs1
Public High School in North Caro-
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cary, April 29.-The week Of feS-
Invites, the seaso of delights III TINS
cultured community, is that IN Whlch
occurs the commencement OF tne
Gary Public High School, for nearly
a dozen years the splendid Baptist
preparatory academy, occupying 8
position in the front rank Of North
Carolina SCHOOLS. The exercises,
which began Wednesday,, were con-
Guided today with interesting cere-
monies, fifteen young ladies and gen
tle/len receiving certificates as gradu-
ates. Large numbers Of visitors,
many of whom were formerly stu
dents at this school, have been in at
tendance throughout the commence
ment, and the citizens from miles
round were spectators, some as par
ents Of pupils, at the brilliant clos
ing exercises.
Acknowledgement T. w. Beckett de-
liVered the commencement address.
When the Democratic State COnven-
ton met in Charlotte in 1905 one of
its chief achievements was the dis
covery of Mr.. Beckett, a strong n
Learned lawyer and eloquent orator.
Few men IN North Carolina now re-
ceive more invitations to deliver ad-
u oSC tlioII nc. oLA ot1 vi N1C z
crets of his increasing popularity is
that he always has a message to speak
and speaks it with power. AS a plat
form entertainer he belongs to the
first class. Today he spoke on the
proposition that Education is eman-
cipation,' saying there We're two
kinds Of slavery left in this section
OF the planet: slavery to debt and
slavery to appetite. Education, he
said, would emancipate the people
from those two remaining types of
slavery.
Education emancipated from debt.
in other words, education paid, and
ought to pay he said. If a orpora-
ton paid no dividends soon the jaws
OF that modern dragon, the receiver,
would open and devour it. Saint and
sinner, he continued, concede that the
judgment pronounced against the bar
rem fig tree was h very essence of
Justice. Education deserved to be
Judged by the same test. Unless it
yielded a fair return for the amount
Of money invested in it, either the
matter laugh or the method OF
teaching 1t deserved utter condemna-
ton. ought TO pay in dol
lars and cents. 1t is up to education.
Mr.. Beckett declared, TO teach the
people first how TO make money and
then what to do with II. The dollar
sins but is also sinned against. A
dollar honestly earned has a value
entirely independent Of its purchaS-
ing power. The man who goes into
the wilderness or great marts Of trade
and carVeS q fortune is worth some
thing more than the sum total Of his
property on the tax books. Intelli-
gence, energy, character, success are
assets to the community in which he
lives.
The speaker did not the
"a - AS
that money and the ability to make
it had q rational place In civilized So
ciety. In every town, he said, there
are men who can tell what ought to
be done with money but not how to
make il. The creation of wealth must
precede its regulation. The first
thing to do with the dollar is to make
The educational system that fails
to recognize this primal proposition,
he stated, must die, or be born
again. 1t is the imperative duty on
the part OF the State to train and
equip every child SO that on arrival
at maturity he will be able to make.
his own living. each child should
receive moral, mental and physical
equipment. IN the ability to make
q living. he said, something Is involv-
ed infinitely higher than the ability
itself. It Is impossible for a. man or
constantly Inundated by being
unable to o for common necessi-
ties.
n exercises commenced with
prayer by Rev. t. w. Fisher, after
which a quartet Of sweet singers,
mixed voices, sang Fearis' beautiful
Come, Sweet Spring" Goldbccks
concert Paraphrase was charmingly
rendered by Miss La Rue Hunter. of
Cary.
Aforementioned Beckett was pre-
scented by DE-. J. M. Templeton. who
remarked Cary High School was al