The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-20

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! the bad literature we put on our read
| ing tables for children to read, for
! instance,
I believe the religious world today
needs gratitude and less petition The
difference between the educated mind
and the uneducated is the difference
between petition and gratitude. The
! unframed mind asks for things. he
never could use The trained mind
gives thanks for what it is given.
There is another disease beside
, that of mental confusion which we
wish to quarantine against. shall
call it the dashboard disease. All
autos first made in America had dash
boards on them These dashboards
we're on buggies to keep the mud
out Of your faces. That is the trouble
with US, we can't forget, we can't
make our mental states clean That's
why we have conservatives, that's
why we couldn't free the slaves for
fifty years; that's why its taking US
hundred years to fight the saloon.
The dashboard is the thing that keeps
US In poverty That man does to-
morrow what he did yesterday and
follows the "law of copy
Never Too Old to Learn.
"The chautauqua motto is You can
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twenty-five. In the past the brain
power from twenty-five to death was
wasted. People put their books on
the shelf and thought they couldn't
learn any more But now we are
studying all the time. Are our.
dreams going to come true? Yes, be-
cause we are educating ourselves, i'm
proving our own minds. If they'll
let US alone at Washington Well
solve our own problems.
You can't run a civilized country
with men who are rattle Drained.
Why? Because we are going to
climb and we are going to insist on
it. You don't want a man running
your machinery. or driving your street
cars who comes out of a saloon Our
entire attitude is toward efficiency. 1t
used to take weeks to go to Chicago.
Why even love goes around the world
on a wire Automobiles ought to
run, flying machines ought to fly and
every one ought to work and do 1t
right It's bad habit OF ours to
condemn the man who succeeds and
gets rich. But I'm sure the rich
community that the ne'er-do-well has.
We ought to apply efficiency to educa-
ton, and religion. A monster who
| is a loafer, wasting his time among
/ old people when he ought to be saw
I ing young generation the community
4 has right to throw him out. You
/ never used to criticise the teachers,
/ but now If you make a mistake the
/ community knows it. We teachers
have the race track disease we
teach the same subject till our minds
go round and round. Why we are
/ even applying this doctrine OF eff
ficiency to our chickens. II they
don't lay two hundred eggs a year
4 thew have to get off the earth. When
/ thew tell me man is big man in
the community / ask what does he
doc That is the new test of eff
/ cheney, what a man has done for his
fellow men.
I'VE know why we are going to
4 solve our problems of today because
! we have the experience of the past.
Don't worry about your coal supply.
The white coal of the Mississippi will
warm you long before the black coal
goes out. There isn't anything we
can't do, if we have faith In our
/ selves. Believe, have faith in yourself.
/ Many a man over fifty thinks its too
! late to make a start but now Is
your best time. The follies and pas
/ sions of youth are past. You are
I looking with clear vision into the fu-
ture.
at takes time to think. Your teach
ers don't give you time, that's why
you can't get your lessons. Charles
Dickens only wrote eight pages day
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his brain warmed up to the task. The
child movement of your age is a trib-
ute to Charles Dickens. His charac-
I ters lived in his mind, and now we
put him on the shelf.
Here are two pictures, one by
Remington, the other one by God.
Remington gives US the picture of an
Indian tribe crouching down awed by
a storm The elements are bursting
in their fury and they are afraid
! Their young chieftain feels that he
must do something to save them and
he climbs hill and shoots an arrow
right into the heart of the storm king
A great fash of lightning and peal of
thunder answer his shot and gradual