The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-25
DEAN f. c. PERISHO
DELIVERS ADDRESS
At COLLEGE TO-DAY
South Dakota Educator Urg
es Earlham Graduates
to Aid Humanity.
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mental principles of good citizenship
Reading, ability to write in a copy
book, simply being good, simply be
ing honest are not qualifications fol
voting, they should be requisites, but
mere goodness and honesty are not
qualifications, If we expect to do the
things the leading men say should be
done.
Men and women will be casting
their votes side by side in few years
and we can not have state intelligent
ly ruled unless the citizens are edu
Gated
Second Great Question.
1.-THE second great question is that
of proper distribution of the popula
ton in the nation. The boys and girls
are leaving the farms. Three times
as many are crowding into the cities
as are remaining on the farms. There
never was such a great agricultural
decade as the last, yet they are leav-
ing the country.
1--WE hear a great deal about the
high cost of living. 1t does not take
a philosopher, or a man versed in po-
litical science, to solve that at once
America has produced an over produc-
ton of non-producers.
Too many are consuming, not en-
ough producing. Put them in the coun,
try and let them grow corn and wheat
and cattle, and we shall all prosper.
Another topic is the waste of man
hood and humanity in general. Preach
ers and editors preached and wrote
pointing to the lesson in the terrible
result of the sinking Of the Titanic
Accidents and preventable diseases
are taking from us twice as many eV-
eryday. Can you see any thing more
important for these ambitious men and
women than trying to save humanity
in this country of ours.
The Duty of Colleges.
Colleges should inspire their young
men and women to be intensely inter
ested in taking care of our natural re-
sources. This country of ours is sc
ambitious, rich and prosperous, that
we do not know we are wasting SO
much.
I'VE boast that we are worth mil
lions but the tragedy of 1t is that fifty
percent of us do not have property on
which to pay tax. If colleges do not
answer to the appeal, the time is com
ing when a deep seated revolution
will work itself out through the
masses.
ssNTxy nnipinn ic that attending
to put too much in a great army and
a big navy. I do not believe in the
philosophy which says prepare vast
army and an armored navy, and train
men to fight-if you do this there will
not be any war.
eff America has had any mission
among the nations of the world, it is
not war, but it is to lead in peace
And | do not think that putting two
thirds of our revenue in a navy is the
proper step toward international
peace
Kind of Navy Needed.
He pointed out that for defense
of America did not need the fleet that
would be required to protect England
If the country must build ships, he
asked why ships of commerce were
not built, instead of giving foreigners
100000 daily for carrying out our
products to foreign and South Ameri-
can ports.
Il want you people to know that
believe in education. l want you to
know that the large number of per
sons studying in our schools is most
significant in our American govern
ment.
Il want you to know that l believe
that the schools, defective as they are.
are the most perfect factors going to
make up our government.
81 believe a thousand times more in
the high schools, the normal schools
and the colleges for protective force
in the future than in any army or
navy.
'If we can only educate all the boys
and girls. the future is secure.
When con1errlng the degrees Presi-
dent Kelly said that the graduates
brought with them to the platform the
trophies of youth. A knowledge of his
tory, literature and philosophy. he
said, were part of their trophies, but
they had others. These were the
dreams that they had dreamed, the
visions that they had seen and the