The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01

resources, he said, must depend upon
the development of the in
the mind and heart of the little child.
In them lie locked the veal or woe
of this nation, and in them are the is
sues of lie or death.
DR.. Joyncr spoke upon the import
ance and necessity Of training minds
and hearts Alright. All want to get
rich, he said, to make money for their
families, for the State, for the ma
ton, for all humanity and for God. 1t
is noble to want to make money for
those but there is only
one way in the world to make money
out of matter People ak
about the splendid of the
State in the soil, minerals, trees, wa
ter-powers and the sea, but the only
way to make one out Of them is
to mix brains with them. Intelli-
gence will transform materials into
serviceable and more valuable mat
ter. There is only one way to mix
brains with it, and that is what is
called education, the training of the
mir That alone enables men to lay
hold of matter II by applying to 1t
intelligence it is transformed into
wealth and power and money.
Men, said DR.. Joyner, want educa-
ton first because they want money.
Matter is dead till men make it alive
by mixing with it the stronger thing
men call Intelligence. Occasionally a
man is heard to ''cuss' about having
to pay taxes for the support and main
enance Of local schools, saying they
are too poor to GEAR the burden III
this be true said the speaker, I'VE
are not too poor to educate the
children, but too poor not to educate
them, and the reason that we have
been poor in the past is a we
have not educated them"
DIR. Joyner used apt illustrations to
carry the great truths home. He
showed how we may get twenty dol
lars for a ton of pig iron, which Is
shipped North, where brains are mixed
with it, and the application brings the
NOrtherner sixty dollars. The tariff
ignorance levies on the people, he de-
clared, is too great for comparison
with men-made tariffs. It exists be-
cause of the superiority of brain over
matter, and men must become intel
Hgent If they expect to get rid of this
tariff. He told how a celebrated art
list with raw materials whose cost did
not exceed a dollar and a half, with
genius, culture, education, mixing
brains with matter, transformed a
canvass and some paint into a work
that recently sold for one M
thousand dollars. The only link in
the world between brain and dead
IIldlteE, ne SdlC, Is VIVA men caI
training and education.
All over the earth today, he said,
men are calling for the sort Of edu-
cation that will mix brain with mat
ter and make money out OF it. In the
first stages Of education 1t was con-
sldered as q special privilege of the
few and the masses were left untrain-
ed. 1t then took in the pulpit, the
law and medicine. and the curricu-
luTnS Of the colleges were shaped so
that men were fitted for only one Of
these professions. This is largely true
today also, he said. But the commo
man stood up and saw what sort OF
education was taintine his children.
taking them off the farms and ending
them TO The cities, putting them in
the pulpit the law or medicine or
worse, making counter jumpers out Of
them. and that it vas not touching
the masses OF the people. That sort
Of education tended to overcrowd
some Of the professions and leave un-
touched the great industries of the
"oflu. II was seen that education
must be shaped to meet the needs Of
the ninety per cent. of the pe0ple. 70
NJ 'hem better for service, TO give
hlsher planes of intelligence and
sk1ll, SO that they might get more for
tnelr Sailed labor. This demand Of
the common man IS being heard all
over the world.
Ii second step in universal edu-
cation, DR.. Joyner stated, is all sorts
OIL education for all sorts of peoDle
ana educational forces must not DO
SNAPPED TO n needs Of only ten per
cent. Oh n population, but to meet
the needs Of the great industrial class
es, the ninety per cent. To provide
this the course of studies must no
changed. Education must stop crowd
ing the learned profession-"ve
nave been crowding them till
some OF hteln are almost stary-
ing TO death" Many men IN
some of them nave an education
"1thou q vocation. The courses Of
study in the schools, colleges and uni-
Versltles will be changed so as to Mace
IN reach or the children of h farmer
ana mechanic the kind of education
they need. A peoples school Is naad
ed IN every county, and they are eoinp
to be eSta lliShed sid u. - oS