Arizona republican., 1915-05-02

'nited $t3teS can depend upon Cheap law materials obtained with com parativelv little labor from it's mines and virgin fields. It is entering upon period 1t must dcpeni upon the educated. skilled qualities of human ldoor." And, again, 1 am thinking of the statement of the secretary Of the child labor committee which 1 quoted early in this address, that our industries are c!anorinG for recruits ot fresh, young workers who can bring to manufacturing and com laercial enterprises qu.+itie5 of mind which develop initiative and re-
 sourcefulness. which arc the founda-
 ton of leadership. Again 1 appea!
 to you with an individual question. Have Nou, and you, and you. discoV-
 cred in your child those creative
 qualities of mind which direct the
 hand in skilled production? Have you made sure that he has taken advan-
 taae of all the resources of this high
 school to develop him in these lines?
 If so. thep he has a valuable foun- dation on which to build by practical
 experience or. if still further spe-
 cialiZing is desirable for him, the college or the scientific school. with
 their larger resources. will be for
 him means of fuller development and of more efficient fitting.
 Now let us consider carefully the suggestions which I quoted from MT. ClaXton, our national commissioner of public education. You will recall
 that he said, in writing of education in relation to the home. The char n, unconscious. of the home determine in large measure the attitude of the child toward all other institutions and toward all the relations of life
 The arts and sciences whicn find their application iii the home mak- ing US intelligent about the home and it's needs. are the most significant" have saved this for final considera- ton because I agree so fully with
 Mr- ClaNton in regard to the value which he places upon the home. If we can, through the education of our youth, keep our country filled with the home instinct Gas it began): keep it nation of home makers. we shall have laid broad and deep the foun- dations of virtue, of true Inanliness and enduring womarliness.
 Sd'b, III li-t carry lJctIl Ot l'llS d'l- dress that this question of a shorter or longer period of educational pre- paration for life nolds the present home of the child and the potential home maker. Right here [ wish to expand and emphasize that thought The home of small means and mod crate resources which is eXerting it self to give one of it's children pro- longed educational advantages. may be robbing it's comforts, crippling it's influences and iesseninS it's possibli- ties of endurance, because one mem Der of the household is being over educated. Surely that is not mold ing the home wisely auJ il is not impIanting in the mind of that youth right ideas ot home making.
 Of course we know there arc eN- cases in which ligid econo- my in the home for the sake of the special dcVCiopmcnt of unusual talent in enc Iler,hoI. may T. justified @Ed la:.t have its coInnct.s'r,:ons, but | am thinking: Of the iCtIsgc tl'.E;> and the great majoJity Of homes If small means :,nG no. oe the few and Nrcptiunal ones.
 would guard my children from becoming too SChool-Elinded in dis tinction from home mind and yet i 1 know l value education highly and i would not detTact one atom from i it's cultural and practical worth, but l plead for that sane adjustment of | the child's higher education to his probable needs; that education which 1 leaves him still in the ranks of the ! worker an not of the dilettantr: that i which fits him for a life of | practical usefulness and noes not | make of him mere cultured seeker | after jobs; that education which i gives to the world the benefit of his | highest talent and keeps him true to the home instinct.
 To those who take Gt wiGe outlook | over the field of endeavor, who note he vast army of the unemployed. who observe that in our industries and | technical actiVieS foreigners or those