The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17

cational work as surely as the teach
ing OF arithmetic in the schools.
North Carolina has been a leader
IN many things and why should IT
net now become a leader in MS
~stupendous task Of demonstrating how
great a State may be where each man
enters his life work. with all the in
splration for achievement and all the
helpful scientific knowledge and all
the joyous adaptation to environment
1t is possible for the schools to give?
Work COntraSted With Drudscry.
There is but one other principle that
l Would bring out in conclusion. That
is, that all civilization is founded on
work. but that drudgery never yet
created a civilization anywhere. No
slaves, however fierce&y driven, have
ever yet wrought out a civilization, nor |
have any people who lacked the joy
or living, who lacked pride in the
work they were doing or the ambition
to do still better work.
| The work which is the warp and
WOOf OF a great civilization must be
work which is the expression and de-
| veiopment OF life and not the repres-
sion and destruction of life. II am
come that We might have life and that
We might lave life more abundantly,"
must be the ideal of h school the
church, society and government, al
working in harmony. I do not favor
giving the farmer a knowledge of all
the mysteries with which he has to
deal somply that he may have fuller
barns but that he may have a fuller
life. l do not favor industrial train
ing and practical education simply
that North Carolina may have more
wealth, but because I know the genius
OF h State will never flower in song
and sculpture, in poetry and in proph-
ecy, until we carry science, knowl
edge, color, life and richness into the
work Of the great masses Of our pei
pie.
Nor can the schools alone inspire
this Zest for labor and achievement.
Edwin Merkham said while in Raj
!, eigh some months age hat mans
three supreme needs are Bread,
Beauty, and Brotherhood" Pitifulls
!. indeed did the poor zealots of the
= French revolution live their creed
= but Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
must still be the ideal of human so
ciety toward which we strive; ant
, only where the spirit of brotherhood
= exists can a great civilization be de
= veloped. The greatest Bible discover.
= Of these last hundred years is that
= fearful blunder in translation ha
made us hin for three centuries tina
: the greatest thing in religious livin'
is charity or alms-giving instead o
- 4Ott VI OIOt1ltII
which destroys life and manhood in
- stead Of o which develops them.
a 1t is when our schools begin t
train for work n when Our"Churche
and society give US an atmospheT
tonic with the spirit of brotherhood
tina our civilization will come indee
+. into flower and %fruitage. For q ger
Is uine spirit of brotherhood. we may /
he sure. will remove the conditions whic
s, now freeze the genial current of tn
is SOUP for more than simply "the 9TH
Mt half Of our people. We shall the
II have lawmakers. in the language
is Woodrow Wilson, more concerne
I'd about human rights than about prof.
ry erty rights. Perhaps in time pension
or for needy old North Carolina men ar
women past seventy, such as / hal
seen gladden. palsied hands and wri1
killed. faces in foreign chimes, may n
be dismissed as "socialistic' here.
hear a man say the other day tn
n within a mile Of his house lived fl
CHI hundred men and women haunted
h the knowledge that a single case
an sickness would throw the family up
public charity; but perhaps in tin
tic we shall have governmental health i
le- surance here as in England. Ev'
u. now there are signs that a chivalro
u State who people think eight hour
I'm labor enough for q strong man "
AS not much longer permit boys a.
M girls, many under fourteen, to we
Id out their lives with eleven hours t
a day. And a State which now Ct
zee lects many times as much from a t
ity on kerosene for lighting the homes
the poor as it does from an inner
ance tax on the estates Of the we;
thy I hope will yet see the wisdom
in taxing the gains of chance or inner
,ol- ance more and the gains of toll a
md industry lessor not at all.
be More Home-Owners a Need.
Ugh The two often companion spect
t a OF Age and Want, OF Disease a
Want, must little longer haunt c
people; nor must North Carolina 10
rd- look with ~unconcern pom the sp,
had tacle OF a citizenry, nearly half
is whom own not the roof that shelf
on them. A homecoming population a
,ols a homogeneous population are ind
on pensable to the development of