The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-11

is educa ton. Education OF the right sort
In early childhood. You can't do any
thing with grown man, You can't do
anything or predict anything about q
woman. either, because she is all instinct
and emotion. But take a child four years
old and Its mind IS plastic, and whe tever
You put in there Will always stay. Teach
a child OF four that the moon is made
OF green cheese, and though you give
him a thorough scientific education after
ward. there win always be, at the bot
cheese. See how religious beliefs SIM im-
planted in childhood stay with the adult In
spite OF everything. Montessor! has the
right idea. 1t IS necessary to take them
young and TO teach morality and char
acter. to fix Ideas In those plastic minds
so that 1t will be Impossible for them
10 think wrong or do wrong. What we
want to do in this world Is TO eradicate
| the crooks. high and low, and to do that
we must begin early and prevent them
from going crooked at the start
Learning ought to be made easy and
plea SAINT. It can be done with the aid
Of moving pictures. l could tell anyone
great deal about dynamo md It
would be hard for him 10 understand, (,
but 1 could show everything in few
pictures so that a child would under
stand-and would never forget.
Now. the Socialists. II they amount
10 anything, must improve their pro
gramme-or what Is generally accepted as
| their programme. They can't hope 10 re-
duce oil mankind to a dead level. They
can't figure TO abolish capital, which Is
the accumulated results of labor, mental
and physical. OF all the ages, and is called
wealth, wealth OF all the ages, They can't
ignore the men who do the thinking and
the guiding, the great executive minds
TO whom society owes most OF what It
has. Two men start two factories. with
the same resources, on opposite sides, Of
a street. One goes bankrupt the other
succeeds Are those men equal7 Or here
is man who goes Into shipyard and
without increasing the hours OF labor or
making anyone work harder. manages IL
so that three ships instead OF two are
| built in a year. This he has done with
| out calling for any more eEertion on the
| their number. Didn't he create extra
value and isn't he entitled TO extra re-
| ward? Such men are not IN the class Of
parasites or market manipulators or stock
must provide unlimited incentive for Its
| executive minds and It's creators. The
motive that / have for !nvcntlng Is, l
| guess. IKE the motive OF the billiard
player. who always wants to do n Ittle
| better-to add TO his record. Under pres
ent conditions use the reasonable profit
| experiments looking toward another In
vention. II Socialism save mo the means
TO continue invcnting. / would invent:
but II IL failed 10 do 80. or began TO tie
| me down. I would quit
'3Iachlnery has changed things in our
society and II viii change them n great
deal more. The man and tile machine
act and interuct The time Is coming
| when the machine will DO al the work
and man VIII Just set II 20 work. We
| sill feed the raw material in ono end
and wlll sec our shoes, clothes and every
| thing else we need come out of the other
end It's the Jacquard card system that
VIII do all this. That rug on the floor
was woven that way, the pattern and
everything hxsd in advance; the loom had
| 70 follow the order and commandment OF
| tho card The general use OF such auto
| matte machinery will be forced by the
tactics OF radical labor. and at first tho
working people viii suffer. but in the end
| they Will be benefited They are short-
| sighted. Those Rt tho bottom are as
shortsighted as those AT the top. But
YOU can excuse them on account OF con-
ditlons and figure out that some day bet