The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-18

Praises the Entry Of the
Scholar in Politics.
SPEAKS TO BODY OF STUDENTS
At Western Reserve Univer.
sity on Need Of Men
OF High Ideals in the Service
of the Country.

Cleveland, April 18.-Apped1 for the
enlistment of well trained scholarly
men in the cause Of clean politics and
better government was made today
here by Josephus Daniels, secretary
Of the navy. in an address before the
students OF the Western Reserve Uni
versity. Tho leader of the future,
Mr.. Daniels said. would be the scholar:
the man who stood fearless Of the
sneer of ''the boss" Mr.. Daniels took
as the keynote Of his remarks ''The
Scholar in Politics" and a. an Illus
tration Of the need Of men with high
ideals in public life he cited tho
achievements Of Woodrow Wilson and
Thomas Jefferson and other men who
won distinction because, he said,
they yielded the necessary qualificA-
tions.
IT bring you this message, that you
students in this historic institution OF
learning are making the leaders of
the future" the secretary said. "Our
country has suffered too much from
the lack Of the scholar in politics.
Our system Of government with its
legislative. judicial and executive de-
partments. is ideal. but these three
departments should not look with
jealous eyes each upon the other but
should coordinate their respective
functions. To this end we need schol-
arly we'll trained leadership. Our
statesmen have stood too much in
fear of the sneer: Those d-d liter
ary fellows The idea Of the school
master in the senate or the house or
the White House does not appeal to
the boss for education is the enemy
Of bossism. The failure to send the
scholar to the legislature and the con-
gress has aided much in the lease of
power which the boss has all too lOng
enjoyed.
Too Much Inclined to Hide.
"One reason why we have been at
a loss for educated public leadership il
that the scholar himself has been too
much inclined to hide himself in q
cloister. The educated men and wO-
men OF our country have not fully
realized that their study should be for
the benefit of the people and not
merely for the qualification of their
own minds or for the advancement
merely OF individual ends. A good
education il q public trust.
After you. have expended upon
making living for your family what
of educational power left which
should be placed at the disposal Of the
public good. Washington put his for
tune as well an his sword at the dis
poured out his wealth freely into the
treasury OF the battling colonies.
Massachusetts gained a worldwide
fame, for many years for keeping in
the senate two of the most scholarly
men in America, George Frisbee Hoar
and Henry Cabot Lodge. 1t is to the
glory of Mississippi, that she keeps in
the u. s. senate that wielder of q
Damascus blade. John Sharp Williame
of the Universities of Virginia and
Heidelberg.
I'VE are beginning to mend our
methods and return to the ideas or
Jefferson, the most scholarly OF all the
presidents, unless it be the present oc-
cupant Of the White House-and Je1-
ferson gforied not in the public posi-
tions Of trust which he had held. as
he did in the authorship OF the ma
tional declaration. the Virginia bill OF
rights and the establishment Of the
University Of Virginia
II cannot but commend to you who
are on the threshold Of life q study OF
the scholars in politics and beseech
you to realize that you arc needed IN
the world work with your splendid
preparation and your up1ifted ideals
and set about beforehand. here in the
university, yielding these qualifications
to the good Of your fellow men,"