Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-28
Forty Thousand Attend Dedica-
tion of 100000 Insti-
tuition Sunday.
VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Pays Tribute to Great Order for Ef.
forts to Properly Train Its
Children.

sands of members of the order jour-
neyed yesterday to participate in the |
exercises incident to the laying of |
the corner stone and to help make the |
day one of the most memorable in the |
history of the order
At an early hour visitors began to |
arrive, focking into the vast tent |
that had been erected to shelter them. |
Special trains from Chicago brought |
the supreme officials of the order as |
we'll as special guests, including Vice |
President Thomas R. Marshall, Gov |
ernor Edward F. Dunno and many |
others. The visitors were conveyed |
in automobiles to the great thousand
acre tract of land lying four miles to
the west of Aurora, where the build
ings of the vocational institution will
rise.
GOVERNOR DUNE TALKS.
On arriving at the grounds the speak
ers found an audience of 10000 per-
sons awaiting them. The supreme
director of the order, Ralph w. E.
| Donges, had charge of the ceremonies
and introduced Congressman Ira C.
| Copley and Governor Dunno, both of
whom spoke of the work that could
be accomplished in the S5,O00,000 in
stitute for children of Moose members
and home for aged members.
The main address of the morning
was delivered by Vice President Mar
shall, who called attention to some of
the faults of our educational system,
calling attention to the thousands of
high school, college and university
men and women who find themselves
thrust into a modern warfare with no
weapons of offense or defense save
those of the ancient Crusader.
FAULTS IN SYSTEM.
Vice President Marshall spoke as
follows:
MY purpose is to focus attention
upon some of the faults in our educa-
tional system. Wholly inexcusable is
that system which teaches a man to
be ashamed of his life work which con-
vinces a boy that is better to live by
his wits than his muscles, which turns
a natural-born chicken thief into an
educated forger.
in the early days of the republic,
much book learning was not possible
Schools and colleges were few An
aristocracy of learning was composed
of ministers, doctors and lawyers. A
century has made great change. Ap-
proXimately 10000 degrees were COLI
ferred this year, and 100000 diplomas
were awarded by high schools.
The old theory was that education
H.
to make a man, not a career, to furnish
philosophy of life 1t was assumed
t that education could produce a con
: tented man; that that which spelled
, happiness and success for one man
, would spell happiness and success fol
. all men. Our development has dis
proved this. For myself l believe in
the old-fashioned, cultural training
but our experience reveals that the en-
e forced education of tomorrow will be
e vocational in its character Not al
n men have been given hands with which
e to play tennis; many have been giver
d hands with which to dig bitches, shoe
{ horses and build automobiles.
$ "Thoughtless men believe that tn,
public mind is being agitated by fan
g nel-mouthed anarchists, who wave
y their red flag, curse God and man, ant
8 tear down law and order. This is no
, the real discomfort in America Gu
= real discomfort is being produced b.
8 the hundreds and thousands of me-
p and women turned out by our higl
a schools and colleges and thrust b,
# our modern system of education int
10 modern warfare, with no weapon
save those of the ancient crusader.
If These educated men and womeI
4 have been ekeing out miserable e1
a istences in callings which God did no
u intend they should follow. Their dis
IL content has been increased by tn
~ sight of low-browed interiors, scarcel
10 able to read or write, gathering unit
d. themselves all the good things of life
Unless some way be devised to ministe
y to the wants, physical and mental. c
IL these educated men and women, the
IL sometime will trample under foot a
y the theories OF the republic in orde
% to reach a better condition of life
70 Wise men will quit railing at them
70 quit calling them harsh names an
= quit imagining that lurid editorials wi
: produce peace; wise men, who gem
- inely love, as / do, our ancient ms;
- tuticns will seek remedies consistin
of more than invectives.
"a CONFINEMENT FORMATION,
a. THE enc sure foundation for a r,
ar public is contentment. Men are peac,
e. able when they are content; man
content when he knows how to do III
thing he was intended to do. Educ
ton has for it's objects the safety {
IL the republic and the contentment {
its citizens. The mission Of this ge
m Grafton is to find out what was the pu
pose in the creation of the individu:
Fl. man. TO fit him for that purpose an
to give him a fair field in which
fight. Permanent peace will com
when man, unaided and unhindere
g by the law, is given the right and tn
desire TO follow his divine destin-
K. For the great majority. vocation;
er raining is necessary. congratulate
be the Loyal Order of Moose that it ha
n recognized this duty to her sons an