The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-03-15

roundings would find no contrast in
stepping into the outside world, ex-
cept that inspired by the knowledge oil
his own great work to do in order to
fulfill his part in the great struggle for
better surroundings and better kind oi
living innate in every soul. That il
our great republic is to succeed ii
must be through constructive cooper
ative work for the uplift of all, and not
through individualism and competing
for better places by pulling each other
down.
Heretofore we have had sections OF
humanity dominated and controlled by
the military spirit, at other times by
the religious spirit. not infrequently by
the two combined, again by the legal
spirit and by the military and legal
spirit, and always ruled by the power
of money; at all times preaching and
promising the brotherhood of man but
never attaining it except in modified
and attenuated form.
Here we have great republic es-
tablished on the fundamental base that
all men are created free and equal. :"
With the best Of intentions and ef-
forts at equal opportunities of educa-
ton through the highest development
of the public school that the world has
seen, yet we have nevertheless failed
of attaining the maximum OF product
i've capacities both for the poor who
are allowed to leave school at four
teen and for the rich who are educated
in false atmosphere and know not
life itself. We have in consequence
one kind of education for the poor,
another for the rich, and through in
dividualism, selfshness and the love Of
power have a people divided against
itself, and it is known that house
divided against itself cannot stand"
Let US then be frank with ourselves
and our national ideal, and establish
one community in the form of Uni
versity wherein Science and Art will be
enthroned as the dominating spirits,
and where everyone will be judged by
his deeds, where self-reliance and self
support shall rule.
Under such influence the mature
students when leaving the institution
may hope to have a greater earning
capacity than when they entered it,
and be better fitted to take hold OF
life to make of it Peace on earth
good will toward men,
In outline this is the kind Of insti-
tuition contemplated by Senator Borah
of Idaho in his bill to establish the
Federal University to be located at
Washington and be in cooperation
with the State, Colleges, Universities
and experimental Stations, and have
local cooperative centers wherever the
people want them. A university
within reach of every citizen who
wishes to better his physical, mental
or spiritual condition by his own ef-
forts for the purpose Of life is not only
prosperity but self-development.
1t is estimated there are over ten
million children in the United States
between the ages of fifteen and twen-
ty-one, and good proportion of these
do not know how to do anything very
well and do not want to do anything
very much; their productive capacities
have been only partly developed.
They are drifting from one temporary
occupation to another. Although
they are minors they have no protect
ion as such and are at the mercy o.
every employer who wants their time
and their energy because it is cheap
Their only idea Of an education is thai
by means of it they may attain life
of idleness. AS minors they arc en-
titled to be taught how to make the
most Of their abilities, and they neec
to be inspired by the idealism of ;
great University wherein self-relianc'
and self-support may be the means o
advancement not only materially bu
intellectually and spiritually.
To help make world where no ont
has the right to idleness but where al
work is cooperative instead Of competi
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