Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-25
NEW TEACHING SYSTEM
OFFERS sure RELIEF
From UndeserVed Poverty of
Those Who Want Work
Industrial and Vocational Training
Teaches Skill and Supplies the
knowledge to Apply II.

of listening to Senator Owen, several
days since, have been given food for
much thought. ''The New Free
DOM" is there any such thing? Way
back when Christ walked with men,
did He not say, Clear not, little
flock, for it is your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the kingdom?'
The freedom that we might have if
we would take, is not ''new," it is
as old as the world, it is only our
selves that are newly coming into
realization of what it means to attain
the Liberty of the sons of Cod
Freedom from all that limits,
enthralls, weakens and binds is ours
if we are willing to pay the price.
What is the price then? Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty; it
always mas been, it forever will be.
If we would be free, we must be
vigilant. If we are to be vigilant,
we must know how to interpret that
which we see.
Only knowledge, absolute know
l6OSSy IuIOWS the SSdICu llSuC vi
conditions. When Senator Owen
gave his most beautiful tribute to all
women, and said 81 want my wife
and daughter to enjoy every privilege
that is mine," he might have added
''this means that the responsibilities
of life are also theirs,' for there
again, is the price. From those who
have much, much is demanded. Mod
ern conditions are slowly eliminating
the ''leisure class" People who
have leisure to think, know that they
must also do" if their lives are to
count, and who wants to live and die
without having registered" in this
great world? Because all doors are
opened to women, because privileges
and responsibilities are ours, we must
work, and work with knowledge,
patience, and skill. Senator Owen
said, ''Our country has thousands
upon thousands of people suffering
from undersigned poverty" Mark
that word "undeserved. These
people ask only the chance to work
but they do not know how to work.
Must they continue in ignorance? Is
there no chance for their children
Yes, emphatically yes, there is a
chance for the coming ones in our
new, great system of Industrial and
Vocational Training. The time is
surely coming when there will be no
undeserved proverty; when every boy
and girl will have, not only know
ledge. but will be taught to apply it.
Applied knowledge is skill and
power.
Only those who have seen the change
from hopeiessness and poverty, to joy
ard peace, under changed conditions,
can possibly realize the magnitude
and glory of this work in Industrial
training.
Women have long been trying to
adjust themselves to changing condi-
tons. Now they have at last discovered
why their efforts were so far from
satisfactory.
We started at the wrong end. We
saw our spinning and weaving and
carding and knitting taken out of our
hands and we tried to follow.
Back we come to the home, where
we started, and when all its problems
have been met, the problems of the
state too will have shrunken to those
of simpler proportions.
We are learning how to work, how
to live, how to eat, what to eat and
now to prepare it. We are estab-
lishings chools where these things
are thought because at last we are
awake to the necessity of this teach
ing.
Herbert Spencer said, ITO tens of
thousands that are killed, add hum
dreds of thousands that survive with
feeble constitutions, and millions that
grow up with constitutions not so
strong as they should be, and you will
have some idea of the curse inflicted
on their offspring by parents ignor-
ant of the laws of health. . If that
was true when Herbert Spencer wrote
it ou* of his great and comprehensive
knowledge, it is a thousand times
more positive now. Never was there
a time in the history of the world
when proper food, proper environment
clean blood, and sound bodies counted
50 heavily for efficiency and success.
We cannot longer evade or overlook
our obligations to train boys and girls
in useful knowledge. Thomas A.
Edison, through an interview in
Good Housekeeping" said eff had