The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19
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came from the country with abso.
lutely no preparation for city life.
The flower of the country, of the
United States, should be and is the
young man on the farm; and if we
will give him a chance-that is all he
needs, a chance-this country is going
to be what the founders intended IL
should be, the land of the free If
something isn't done, gentlemen, to
make the country life more attractive,
this is not going to be the land of the
Free 1t will be the land of ignorance,
for with all our boosted educational
facilities i'm this country we are not
by any means reaching the masses Of
the people today. Our educational
system is an education for the classes,
not an education for the masses, as it
should be. Our educational system
is planned for the boy and the girl who
are going to college, not for the boy
or girl who must leave school long be-
fore they reach college. The edu-
Gators are beginning to see the mis-
take, and the pendulum, gentlemen, is
beginning to swing IN the other direc-
/ ton.
| l thought this matter would be of in
| terest to you, especially in Oregon,
= where you have an empire that is as
yet undeveloped and that is undoubt.
eddy to be possessed of six millions OF
people in the future. l thought it
would be interesting to you bankers OF
yourselves, and not to take the con
- illusions formed by Minnesota people
as you are perfectly capable of form
ing your own conclusions. What
- came two thousand miles here to ge
the bankers of Oregon to do, the bank
ers of Minnesota have been doing fol
Il three years-studying this question
. Senator Late Young, ex-senator now
u of Iowa, made the statement shortly
HI after his return from the Philippines
q that the Empire of Japan with thu
II forty millions of people, live on les
Y than the American people throw GU
" of their back doors every night of thu
- year.
:. Has education anything to do will
r this? 1t certainly has. The girl mus
X have a little better show than she ha
~ had, in the domestic science courses
n that have been adopted not only b,
4 the high schools of this country, bu
X in the village schools as well. Evel
v old sleepy New York has found on
- that the educational system we hav
20 in this country doesn't fit the times W
q are living in. The statement has bee
z made that twenty years ago 40 pc
g cent of the clerks in London wer
& foreigners. They didn't raise boy
& and girls in their schools to do tn
BE work demanded by the merchants, an
= the London Chamber of Commerc
9 twenty years ago took steps I
S change the situation. At the close {
y the Franco-Prussian war Bismarc
4 said that France would never be abb
II to get under the war indemnity levie
g by Germany. She has done it, An
* how did she do it? Simply by putin
- industrial training in her schools an
by teaching scientific agriculture. An
today the average peasant of Franc
100 has more than the average man in tn
United States of America.
~ Germanys Technical Education.
At the time of the Philadelphia e
position, that is, the Centennial Exp
sition, the representative of German
after seeing the exhibits made the
by America and other countries,
furniture, took the German furnitu
show out completely. He didn't wa
OF to compare it. 1t wasn't up to grad
Germany started in twenty-five yea
ago, as the result of that Philadelph
exposition, to put industrial trainil
in her schools, and today is a beehiN
When down in Panama four years az
and again this winter, in talking wi
the business men there and with O
consul, | was told that the reas
America cannot do business wi
ng. South America is because we cam
- compete with Germany. Germany
training her travelling statesmen in h
schools. She began twenty years
W fore we began. The American cons
at Panama says that as a result
such training the German traveli
statesmen can go into the busine
mans office in South America, and
that business man wants an engine
particular type of engine, for sol
practical kind of work, that salesm
can sit down, draw his plans, make
. figures and give a price on that n
nm chine; while the American traveli
salesman has to come clear to n,
~ York to have drawings made, and tn