Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23

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S1oS roughly. Extend to him that kindly
handling which should be given all people
of his class After gaggng him securely. back him into
fence corner and address to his carefully mutllated
these words:
school teachers make the best politicians in the
world. The President of the United States is
merely of many professors who have established
the schoolroom those habits of thought and that knowl
edge of human nature which make them great leaders
of men,.
The halls of history the capitals of the world and the
baCkwoods of the United States a1nned the limit
with schoolroom politicians. Carelessy peeng hand
full of centuries off the of time you find that Con
uCs the first known peripatetC professor, developed
in the of his life into of the best rulers and
absolutely the greatest chief of police the Celestial En-
pire ever knew There are This thing began away
back the Sts Of time, the penubral shadows of
recorded events and at the first opportunity that Of
fered itself for hgh-browed gentleman to grab off
high-salaried place. Even Julius Caesar at
time priest of Jupiter, otherwise known "famen
Dias in which capacity he handed out long line of
instruction to anybody who happened to be hanging
about the temple.
AMI Socrates who put in much time teaching
lessons that he had time write book, leaped
from the lecture platform into the Athenian Senate,
where he hung up record for undertaking the rich and
defending whatever he considered right AS a fine ex-
ample of what teachers used to do in the way of nlu
encng affairs those good old days of raperes deaths,
and dissertations, it may be pointed out that Cicero
travelled all the way Rhodes that Molo might stand
him up against the wall and tell him that the only
to become real classy orator to cut out of his
fulmnationS perorations and verbal cannonaes about
ninety per of the antthesis, ALTERATION and
with which he had desecraed the silver tip of
his ncessant tongue. Altogether teachers in the
Gent times ran things pretty much as they desired.
SPRINGING back to the present day it will be noted
~ that the great majority of men who make
terpret, sign the laws have been teachers or
professors managers of schools and colleges. Take
William Howard Taft. From 1896 to 1900 he dean
and professor the law school of the University of Gin
cnnati, and it is announced that when he leaves
the White House he will again take up the instruction of
youth.
Moreover, Champ Clark who remains Speaker of the
House after having given Woodrow Wilson a neCk-and-
neck in the convention Baltimore president
of a college himself. He ythree years old
when he became president of Marshall College of West
Virginia, and there appears his biography in the Con
gressiona directory the following proud boast, "For
twenty-five years held the record for being the youngest
college president in the United States And there you
with another picture, teachers negotiating a
har-rasng sprint for great party's highest honor,
while all the countryside tries to pick the winner!
Senator Tllman of South Carolina owes his first po-
itlCal rise to school movement When farmer in his
native State he began the agitation in 1886 for indus
trial and technical education which eliminated in the
establishment of Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical
College. This broadened into Statewide demand for
other educational and administrative reforms, and Till
put forward by the farmers a candidate for
Governor. He in the convention for nomination,
with two hundred and seventy against fifty for his
opponent. His nomination meant election.
David Jayne Hill of the topnotchers in the dip
lonatic service, president of Bucknell University
N 1879, and from 1888 until 1896 president of the
University of Rochester. When he in Washington
the habit of teaching things people remained strong
him. and he filled chair professor of European
Richard BarthOldt, a member of the House from
Missouri, the who holds the championship for
delivering lectures drawing and teaching lessons
the necessity and beauty of worldwide peace, learned
about public instruction by being president of the board
of public schools of St. Louis
Senator Benjamin F. Shively famous as one of the
handsomest men in the dignifed body he adorns,
was a school teacher as a young man, and is now a
trustee of Indiana University.