New Britain herald., 1914-04-18
Secretary Addresses Western Re- SeTVt University Law Students.
COMPARES WILSON WITH JEFFERSON
Navy Head Claims the Country Has Suffered Too Much for Lack of Ed ucated Men in Politics-Ceveland Democrats Entertain.

Cleveland April 18.-Cuyahoga county democrats entertained distin- guished men here today preliminary to the dollar dinner of democracy at the Central Armory tonight. Speak CT Champ Clark, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Governor James M. Cox and Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio are to be guests of honor at the banquet, and MT. Clark and MT. Daniels came early in the day to fulfill other engagements.
 The days program includes an ad- dress before Western Reserve Uni versity law students in the morning by Secretary Daniels, a speech by Speaker Clark before the City club il the afternoon, and addresses by Daniels, Clark and Governor Cox at the banquet in the evening.
 Daniels Makes Appeal.
 Appeal for the enlistment of we'll trained, scholarly men in the cause of clean politics and better govern ment was made by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, in his address before the students of Western Re- serve university. The leader of the future, MT. Daniels said, would be the SSAAO1dA-IIl0 I1ldn WHO SIOOu 1cdTlcSS of the sheer of the ''boss.'
 MT. Daniels took as the keynote of his remarks "the scholar in politics, > and, as an illustration of the need of men with high ideals in public life, he cited the achievements of Wood- row Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, and other men who won distinction be- cause he said, they wielded the neces- sary qualifications.
 Country Has Suffered.
 "Our country has suffered too much from the lack of the scholar in poli- ties said the secretary.
 Our system of government with it's legislative, judicial and executive de- partments Is ideal, but these three de- partments should not look with jealous eyes upon the other side, but should coordinate their respective functions. To this end we need scholarly. well-trained leadership. Our statesmen have stood too much in fear of the sheer. The failure to send the scholar to the legislature and to congress has aided in the lease of power which the boss has all too long enjoyed.
 "One reason why we have been at a. loss for educated public leadership is that the scholar himself has been too much inclined to hide himself in a c!Oister. A good education is a public trust. As long as there is an unsettled problem that threatens the public welfare the people need the leadership and the influence of every man and woman who has been blessed with higher training t...'
 Cites Notable Men.
 After you have expended upon making a living for your family what is necessary, you will have a surplus Of educational power left which should be placed at the disposal of the public good. Washington put his fortune as we'll as his sword at the disposal of his country. Robert Morris poured out his wealth freely into the treasury of the battling colonies. Tom L. Johnson sank his vitality and his fortune in an effort to help the toiling masses.
 William L. Wilson of West Vir- ginia, was a scholar in politics who framed a tariff bill under Cleveland's s administration, which, however, was betrayed in the house of it's friends in the senate, a failure which kept the democratic party out of power for sixteen years.
 Fame of Massachusetts.
 Massachusetts gained worldwide fame for many years for keeping in the senate two of the most scholarly men in America, George Frisbie Hoar and Henry Cabot Lodge. It is to the slcry of Mississippi that she keeps in the United States senate that Wielder of Damascus blade, John Sharp Williams, of the University of Virginia, and Heidelberg.
 We are beginning to mend our methods and return to the ideals of Jefferson, the most scholarly of all the presidents unless it be the present occupant of the White House.