The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-30


fright living. With each scientific dis
closure Of ones past as instruments
and medical skill can now make, the
examination with view to license will
become a great confessional and many
a harmful error will be left out of
iyoung lives as this becomes recogniz-
led.
| The next necessity for good citizen
ship is a good development of the en-
tire being-physical, mental and spirit
IuaL There must be a good body, for
first of all, man is an animal We
must be strong and well nourished.
with good heart. good lungs, good
stomach, good nerves, and good spirits
with whom ii is a great pleasure to
Ieven live. Such people as this have
1.-THE ground work for the high develop
ment OF their better natures The
mind must be developed through
much study wisely directed-not by the
child itself but by the best of educa-
tors. 1t should be made compulsory
by what possible argument can we
lsanely leave such a matter with the
Ichild who would Of course rather take
to the woods or fields than be confined
in a school room? Yet a matter of
law this is gravely done in many
IpldceS OF leII 10 the CdprlceS or par
Ients who themselves see nothing
higher.
Then the spiritual which is the
highest part of man must be cultivat-
led. Un-American laws have almost
Ibanished the Bible from our schools
millions of our children never get to
Sunday schools or any church service,
land sadder still, if possible, the Bible
has long since been lost out of num-
Iberless homes with all of its blessed
Influences
Now here is a boy who has been
drought up in such away. During his
childhood and youth he thought moth
ling of it-indeed, enjoyed his freedom
from any irksome training and discip-
tline. But now he has become a man
and begins to waken to the fact of
the fatal mistake of his life. He sees
that he must take a back place in all
1.-THE higher pursuits, and that now it is
too late to do the preparing that
lshould have gone on from childhood.
lOthers far less gifted than he will
rank ahead of him because of the
training that has been denied him and
that he did not know how to value. His
wages will be scarcely one-half those
of an educated person. His society
Twill be of the same level as himself,
with a lifelong denial of the peculiar
refining influences that come from
disciplined minds. Over and over he
will suffer humiliations of many kinds
land always with a feeling that some
great thing is lacking. He will al
ways see others stepping into the good
places ahead Of him and will be CALLED
at the defeats in the best things of
life that nipht
lessary. Finally in bitterness and de-
, lspair he will succumb to the inevita-
BILE, perhaps sink into a life of squalor,
and live the rest of his life in the
slumS either of city or country. Such
lis the life of, not thousands, but mill
lions of American people on this In
. dependence Day of 1912! What should
be done in the above mentioned case?
II would solemnly aver that the man
in such position has by right of JUS
tice a good damage suit against the
commonwealth for many, many thou5
sands of dollars. He has been blight
ed and MANNED and crippled for life
, and the crime is not that alone of his
: parents, but of the whole community
They an saw him brought up in his
rags and dirt and grease, in unhy-
lgienic and unsanitary ways. They all
. saw him by the roadside and in the
woods losing the time he should have
, been spending in school
) They all saw him misspending the
r Sabbaths, perhaps hunting, or fishing
or roaming the fields. Hence all are
2 liable. OF all things in our country
5 needing protection the child cannot be
= given second place; and. If in common
: justice, it could recover, the little
lampn6S a LARGO n
give it for such criminal negligence
$ on the part of the commonwealth. bet
ter plans would soon be made for oul
= growing young.
S Your speaker once saw white
S squaw in company with her copper
icolored sisters in western store. She
= had the usual stolid look, the Indiar
j icostume including earrings and bead
ed work and paint, but yet was white
= Then 1 was informed that she was no
e Indian at all but white by birth. Sh,
d had been kidnapped as a child anC
r raised in the tepees. But now she wa
e truly enough an Indian squaw. Now
:, she could carry the loads of wood anC
Y water till her back was bent nearl!
h dou ble-she could skin carcasses ano
n cook at the campfire with the dog
and papooses running every side
n She could be the lowest kind Of drudg,
5 for her lord and master, who would b.
r lying in the shade smoking cigarette
Tor gaily attired be off on the chase
n She could even be mercilessly strucl
s in the face by her own sons and offe
d no resistance. What made the differ
# lence? 1t was education, or rather tn
e lack of it; simply a matter of bringin,
up. We have seen others who wer
s Indians made into whites by educa
ltion. Do not look at their color o
= skin and you will think they are a
IL white as you. They will sell good
II lover the counter as graciously and in
e itelligently as any white person
It They will play the piano, teach school
e lspeak the dead languages, includin!
', the finest use of our own, as agains
r the grunt and sign language an
g lstoical silence of their own race. Wha
: has made the difference? Education!
II And education will make such
e difference the world over. How neces
e isary then that all of our children b
y lgiven the schooling that they need.
e we give it to them some day they vii
= rise up and call us blessed.
e In the third place there needs to b
II la happy citizenship.
a This is the quest Of mankind and n
= nation on earth can be said to be sue
: cessful without measurable degre
l. of it. The antecedents of diseas
l. found in the foregoing parts-a prope
l. being and a proper development. Civ
d en- everything else but these, happi
e ness cannot be true.