The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-06-02

neVed JnaC the requisite discipline can
be secured oy manual training if it is
taught properly
Vocational training should not go so
far as to say that the son should follow
the trade of his father but it should
leave him to follow his own inclination.
We should avoid anything that leads
to class distinction. In Germany the
habit of the son ia following the trade
of his father has led to a sort of cast
system that is abhorreht to Americans
In that country at a certain social func-
tion in which an employer had as
guests his laborers and members of
their families, the latter had to stand
while those who we're considered of
higher quality remained seated. Such
sentiment should not be fostered by
limiting the vocation of the son to that
of his father.
President Axline closed his address
by an outline of the progress of Albion
State Normal School in which he show
ed that this institution is keeping mp
with the latest advancement of the
times.
Prof. SouIen on PAY Your Debts"
Prof. Soulen of Moscow was the last
speaker His subject, 'Pay Your Debts
was not directed toward those who are
delinquent in their financial obliga-
tions. The debt meant vas the obliga-
tion which we are under to those who
have toiled aud sacrificed in order TO
give us our present privileges and
blessings. Children never realize what
a debt they owe to their parents for the
care and toll which has been devoted
to them from birth TO the time when
they can make their own way IL the
world. We eau not realize what we
owe to our fellow man for our uecessi
ties aud luxuries, till we stop to think
of the pains and labor necessary to
supply us with them. Coffee alone re-
quires the labor and skill of many peo-
pie TO grow and harvest it, then the
work of many others to bring it from
its far away land to our homes
The postage stamp has required the
labor and thought of many people and
it gives us the privilege of communi-
eating with our people ia any quarter
of the globe.
We may look upon the statues of
great men but cannot realize the
thought which they have h ID to give to
secure FIR us the priceless blessings of
our civilization.
How may we the debts we over
By striving to do for succeeding gener-
ations what has been doue for us. We
should begin by right thinking, for the
Importance of our thoughts caunot be
overestimated. Nothing should be al
lowed to enter the mind that cannot
stand st. Paul's test: Whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good
report; if there be any virtue aud if
there be any praise, think on these
things.
Thoughts, like seeds, are the begin
uings from which great things result.
If you plant thought you reap word;
if you plant a word, you reap deed; if
you plant deed, you reap habit; if
you plant habit, you reap character;
If you plant character you reap a
destiny.
Does it make any difference what
boys thinkH How many grown persons
really think? ask man why he is a
Baptist or by be is democrat Nine
times out of ten he will say, if he tells
the truth, "Because dad is"
Thoughts and environments mould
character. 1t has taken centuries to
change the wolf to dog. The present
luscious apple which we now enjoy at
our tables required years to develop
from small and unpalatable crab.
We, ourselves, have developed from an
cestors who, only few centuries ago,
drank wine from dippers made of hu-
man skulls. Children should have
good environments in order to make
them types of pure manhood and pure
womanhood. Many young people are
led to lives of shame because some one
does not pay this debt of humanity to
humanity.
Character cannot be formed in a day
nor moulded by takinga single thought.
1t requires the environment of centu-
ries to leave individual traits. The tre-
mendons consequences of being started