Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
WEAKNESS OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

The other day the editor of the Saturday News was called upon
to proofread the copy for a high school journal for a neighboring
|ehy. The usual class prophecy appeared, and as we began to pergse
veloped from the dozen or so of graduating girls.
We admit that the large proportion rather startled us! We be-
as the presiding genii of households. All the others were to carve
for themselves some great career and were to have their names
bright canopy Of the ethereal blue.
In our educational system we seem to overlook the dignity of
labor. We appear to lose sight Of the fact that the toilers who do
the really needfuI things are they who keep the old world atioat
better for her to acquire the art Of making good bread than that OF
manipulating the keys Of the piano.
If the boy can be trained in but one line, it is far better for him
to know how to pillow and to- sow and to reap than to be proficient
Education is not to be decned. 1t is not to be denied the Am
erican grit is her right by birth and environment to be given
a fair measure of education, and the more the better.
things which re essential to everyday life, those things which con-
to be done in order that commerce may be carried on and that our
The Watcrtown public schools have made a good beginning.
They are teaching domestic science and manual training and agri-
culture, without which the arts and embellishments of life would
Let us uphold the hands of the authorities in this line of work.
.auspciously begun, for in Sc doing We re but building for the
future, and possibly building better than we realize.
Justice McCoys lawyer, in arguing before the supreme court,
regretted that the state auditor did not hold up the voucher of some
other state officer instead Of that of Judge Mccoy so that in passing
upon the question the court would not have had to pass upon a point
teefnical-the sort of tectnicaHty that tends to invite lack Of con
hdcnce IN courts. The principle would have been the same and the
same-the court would have been passing upon its own case to all M
tents and purposes had the voucher of some other officer been in
vowed. III S lne OF lawyers anu court 10 quit falSluS SUCH cHlu-
ih tcchnicaEties.
There is said to be such a thing IS a distinction without a differ
ence, or Il difference without a distinction, or something to this
effect We are watching for that opinion by the supreme court
with respect to the legislative allowance
Somebody has suggested that c. H: Burke become a candidate
for governor. Wen bet a last years bird s nest that he won't
but We'll bet another that if he should be chosen governor he'd be
La good one.
We have always sustained our war presidents; If, which is
unlikely, war should break out between the United States and Ger
many before the presidential election of 1916, Wilson would be re
elected.
''Dick' Richards persists in pushing his fight against the Nor
beck primary law. And, unless the powers that be wake up, Dick
lis likely to give 'em another knockout.
Lord Kitchener is said to have declared that the wal would
really commence in May, 1915. But Lord Kitchener didn't say
(which side would commence it.
The South Dakota weather has been ideal as an offset to the
recent cold snap. 1t has allowed the grain to recover from the
backset recently given it.
That England was not prepared for war is obvious. Whether
tit will get prepared before the war ends is a point that Germany is
IdOing its best to settle,