Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-24

that will depend upoa the people them selves-should have the future. Who has the schools? Germany and Japan. Who has the raw materials? This re- public and China. But it will be many long day before China will be able to effectively use her resources. The kaiser says: "A womans education should concern itself with the church. the kitchen and the children" l am not ready to limit a womans life work to. these spheres. hence have higher hopes and purposes in regard to her education. Still there is much in the kaiser's phrase
 The R's and the As and the Ills.
 I am still for the three R's. I hope to see them put back where they used to be. long to see the boys and girls write and read and do arithmetic bet ter than they do them today. Of course it is not easy to eliminate the three R's- Every one must learn to read and write and reckon I would add the three As. I would teach children to adopt, adapt and become adept That is at the bottom of Germany's and Japan's successes. I would add the three IFS. I would help the head and heart and hand. I would work on the whole boy and the whole girl would never forget or neglect the fact that each child is a moral social physical, intellectual and esthetic being.
 The Law of Life.
 Life's Jaw was uttered a. long time ago. It runs: .In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread" In stead of being curse, that law is, or was, a blessing. Last year, as 1 lis tened to the lamentations about the hard row Lincoln had to hoe, laugh ed- I had to. One man told 1000 boys about the way hard work had stunted Lincoln's hfe-the largest life ever lived in this land Why, the thing that made Lincoln was hard work Hard work never hindered any mans prog ress- It is all wrong this crying down hard labor.
 One of the curses with which this wonderful country, Gods country. is threatened is the doctrine too often in dulged in that to work at d trade is disgracefuI. Our greatest and best men were workers. It has come to pass that merchants and manufactur- CTS prefer boys from the grades to boys-bigger boys-from the high schools Why the high school boy wants what is called a white shirt job. He is unwilling to do any work that will dirty his fingers. He is unwilling to pull off coat. collar and cuffs. Why? because society is silly enough to look down on boys and girls who earn their living at hard labor
 The nousemaid, familiar with the family secrets. who is nearly nurse to tthe children, who is almost as a child of the family, is treated with contempt by InistresseS who should have been servants, and who. but for a fortunate turn OF the wheel or tate III Inelr fathers lot. would have been servants or-shopgirls.
 Will Industrial Education Pay.
 Will the kind of education I com mend pay? It has paid in all parts of the world. It is behind the phenom- enal success of Germany and Japan I am ready to put down 75 if not S5 per cent. of GerTnany's success financially, industrially and commercially to her industrial. industrial and technical schools Had I time I believe I could prove that her nasterly movements and successes in war were based upon her marvellous educat-onai system. In 1876 she (Germany) came to at Phila- deiphia- When the fair was over her representative. Rouleaux. upon his re- turn to Berlin reported as the result of the empires efforts, Exhibits cheap and nasty" Instead or getting angry. Germany sent out experts to find out the secret of the English, French and other success. The result was the mag nificent movement from one end of the empire to the other in favor of the schools under discussion here. indus trial industrial-art and technical schools. The record reads like TO-