El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-03

~ He other day a man came to me,
bringing with him his son aged
= Is. The boy was quite as big
as his father. The father requested
that would supply the young man
with q situation. in other words give
him a job.
quite liked the looks Of the young
ster and, also wishing to accommodate
the father. / cast around IN NY mind
for some place that the Doy could flu
And my first question was, What can
the young man do2'
And the father turE5d TIE calcium
on the situation by promptly. saying,
with Look OF surprise, w ny ne
can't DO anything he's Just OUT %
Recently the Associated Press flashed
the news that j. PlerponI Morgan Hau
given $4,000 TO the BOWery MISSION
for the benefit OF poor and neeoy
college graduates
And this was no pleasantly. As Tar
as 1 know, nobody lausneo- - ,,5
Why are college graduates poor ana
needy2 Why is anybody poor anu
needy2
There are two reasons that the IN
dividuaI hasn't anything that the Wor-a
wants and cannot do anything that
the world wants done ,.
an down the centuries, men divided
the world up into the doors ana me
thinkers The thinkers did no WORK
and the workers did no thinking Anq
The result was that bOlh the WORK ana
the thinking were very 4lly peILOi ln5u-
We are Just now realizing Tor the
first time in the history Of the world
that in order 70 do good thinking
man must work with ms nanQs d Ger
tain number OF hours each day ne
must live out in the Ope= and mix with
the world Of Workers-tne people VINO
are doing things, and the men anu
women who 90 forth 10 their laDors
until the evening
And thus out Of his experience MS
convolutions viii be caused 10 Vlprate-
The man who is going to 90 Sood
work must be a thinker ana the man
who is going to do good thinking must
THESE things now sound like pure
brOmfdes But II is necessary that they
should be affirmed again and again,
for even vet there are schools ana COL
7egeS that cultivate the education de
luxe that is supposed to tend toward
There is only one state in the union
where school gardens and actual out
door work for every scholar in the pub
lie schools, from kindergarten 10 nlSh
school, IS being provided
This is the state Of oregon g
have manual training here and there
and occasionally school gardens car
RED on by patriotic and public spirit
ed persons who form themselves into
At Jamestown, \. D. the Northern
Pacific railroad joins hands with the
public school system, and the result
is a most delightful exhibition right at
the railroad station Of what big bust
ness can do when animated with SOU
q thing which we have always Deen
Informed corporations do not possess
Then there is the example OF the Ma
tfonal Cash Register folks who main
tanned school gardens 10 years or more
afo. Now the public school system OF
Dayton has taken over the dellshtIuI
retirement inaugurated by that strong
and able man, John H. Patterson
But in Oregon the whole PUBIC
school system is committed to manual
training and the school garden
For the school teachers TO inaugurate
this great betterment without the
backing up of public sentiment IS 100
much to expect. But in oregon We
have the State Bankers association, the
state fair board, the normal schools,
the agricultural colleges, the various
ad clubs, the rotary clubs, the business
science clubs, all working together to
a common end and for one purpose
T recently met the Oregon state su-
perintendent Of schools. It was at