Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-30
CULTURE AS A
CIVIC ASSET IS
ENL0E' S THEME
President Of State Normal De-
IiverS Able Address 10 Stu
dents Of Summer School in
Old Palace at Santa Fe,


ispnesL eonsssroHosses TO soRHlso JOURNAL
Santa Fe, June 2s.--Culture il the
greatest need and asset OF any city
state and of heination-that was the
theme of President T.. l.. Enloe Of
the state Normal school at Silver
city, in his address before the sum
MGR school at the Old Palace last
evening. That is the justification, he
said for the spending of public money
and the giving Of public property for
higher education.
II begin with the proposition" he
said. "that In every circumstance,
condition, occupation. avocation and
profession, the college bred man is at
an advantage over the man who has
not had that training"
with this assumption as the start
ing point then II seems to me that
the argument for state support Of IN
situations of higher learning centers
upon two main propositions: First, by
its support of such Institutions the
state affords TO every citizen the OPP
portunity for mental training and the
acquisition of knowledge whereby he
Is made able to achieve the utmost
possible success for himself and sec
ond, by affording all its citizens the
chance for higher culture the state
assures itself efficient administration
and wise counselors without whom 1t
should soon cease TO exist"
The speaker then elucidated these
two propositions, compared the cul-
ture OF Egypt which made learning a
secret of the earth and powerful with
the culture Of Greece in which every
Greek citizen had his share, quoting
Wendell Philips.
President Enloe pointed out that
"of all the systems of government
ever devised that Of the federal union
Is the most complex and involved.
None other is so difficult to compre-
hend. none other requires so much
wisdom to conduct successfully lie
then enumerated the men of higher
culture who founded this government
who devised the system. the scholars
like James Otis, John NORM Scott
John jay, John Adams, the Living
stones, scholars ALL" and "it was not
by accident that OF the fitty-hve
members of the constitutional con
vention thirty-three were college
graduates, nor was 1t by accident
that the eight ACKNOWLEDGED leaders
Of the great debate were college
men. The constitution OF the United
states is the work of American schol-
ars Was not the work well done 2
And in the next great crisis, II was
Daniel Webster. and John Quincy
Adams and Charles Sumner, II was
Wendell Philips Parker and Beecher
and Whittier and LongfelloW ana
Lowell and Emerson and Curtis, who
1uickened the national conscience. 1t
was Grant and sherman and Sheri-
dan and Thomas and Hancock. who
ed to victory STR later, II was Dewey
md Sampson, Scnley and Lawton ana
Roosevelt and Funston, college men.
III. whose names were lifted out OF
he mists.
surely. It IS as true now as II was
when George william Curtis said II
wenty years ago, Take from the
,ountrv at this moment the educated
power. and you would take from the
army its general. from the ship its
compass, from the national action It's
main spring.
The speaker paid tribute 10 The
national giants who We're not college
men, but who, like Lincoln, sought
culture nevertheless as the source OF
greatest strength and happiness. who
ook advantage OF such means as cul-
ure as santa Fe possesses in its sum
ner school, its museum, its art gal
Iery and will greatly magnify with its
Cathedral Of the Desert. These the
state and the city provide free to Its
and its citizens. Ana is 1t
worth while?
MIR. Enloe answered. Wherever
great principles have been at stake
he scholar has been the leader The
scholar has devised our scheme OF
government. has written our constr
has framed and interpreted
our wisest laws. The scholar has
fought with our ships, and led our
armies Are these slight services?
lave they been bought too dearly
With the dollars the country paid tot
EDUCATE them?
IF this country would live it must
EDUCATE its people,
President Enloe was loudly APP !
plauded. Miss Beth Sturdevant. q
member OF his faculty. delighted and
harmed the audience which filled the
assembly room. with a recital of Peg |
J NV Heart" giving not only a splen-
lid synopsis of the popular play, but
dialogues from it in which !
Pegs" Irish accent and information
we're reproduced in inimitable man
Ter and gesture. 1t was dramatic
reat and Miss Sturdevant had to re-
,ly to an encore with a Scotch love
ballad that was equally as fascinat-
ng.
President Enloe and Miss Sturde-
ant left today for the Pecos valley
President Rupert +. Asplund was
n the chair last evening and made
he summer school announcements.
Of Public Instruction
Avian N. White introduced the
,naaLap of tho evening