The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-08

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Ncompatmented the people OF this city
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tseTestssAs providing such a masnlN-
cent high school building and It's
e0aipmcnt, and he believed that In
the future years the Investment
would be reflected in the lives OF the
boys and girls who left its portals
with an education which would At
them to begin the higher life.
Prof. Nash said that his subject
for discussion was Dreams and
Dreadnoughts." 1t was q plea for the
restoration of peace. the laying down
Eof arms, and the higher progress of
the world on a basis where war has
no place. Beginning with the arriv-
al OF Columbus in this country he
passed rapidly owe the coming of the
various groups of people from the old
world, all of whom cante here for the
purpose of following their inclina-
tons in a religious way and in the
hope of living in peace. But each in
their turn met with war troubles, no.
tally in the revolution. the war of
the numerous Indian wars,
and the coming of the civil war,
which at its close and in the subse-
quent years put the north and the
south on a footing of friendliness,
which was we'll exempli1ed, in the
ISpanish-American war, when the two
united in joining in the suppression
of tyranny in a country adjacent to
our own borders.
Prof. Nash's review of the wars
was followed by a strong ~presenta-
ton of what our country was today
doing in the expenditure OF money to
equip the navy department. for the
maintaining of peace, which he de-
ciared was spending millions of dol
lars that could be better applied to
the educational interests of the
country. He expressed the opinion
that President Taft showed that he
was modern leader OF peace, and
that at the present time a peace pact
was being formulated between this
country and England and that
France and Germany showing
indications of Joining In the propo-
'sition. Prot. Nash gave in detail the
vast sums OF money that have been
spent In the preparation of war,
reaching into the billions of dollars.
equal, he said, to build five Panama
canals. With the expenditure Of
t45O,000.0O In a year in war equip
ment, Prof. Nash said that figuring
$3.50 as suficient to pay the expens-
OF one student for one year, 1t
would mean that 100000 boys and
girls could be sent to school for one
year. He declared that for the IF
teen and one-half months the money
spent in equipment of the navy and
army was greater than all the money
invested in all the lands, buildings,
books, equipment of all the higher
institutions in this coun-
try. He gave some interesting sta
Of the money spent for war as
compared with that spent for educa-
lion, stating that Al per cent OF the
appropriations made by the govern
ment was for the future and that the
BIZ per cent was for past vars. and
hat the balance was left for other
purposes.
Prof. Nash strongly decried that
yreat expenditure Of money for war
IF peace purposes. and declared that
{ the same rate were kept up the pic
in the end would be n OF
Kant and penury or the part of the
OF this country. He took up
he individual as the solution of the
question. and surrounded him with
he things with which he should be
in, the future to maintain
] peace standard. He urged that
honesty be the strongest point in his
makeup. that hope and courage and
economy should have a prominent
place. He hoped that generosity,
and with a due regard for
he rights and hopes Of others would
Ind a response in the actions of the
future individual. Above all Prof.
Nash considered education to be the
supreme element of everything in
with the future Of the
country. which was demanding some-
hing higher and better every year.
In closing he expressed some en-
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