Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-27
GOVERNOR SPEAKS
TO BOSTON CLUB
Education a Factor in Pre-
paredness," He Says; Tells
What Penna. Is Doing

| Boston, Mass, April %. - Governor
Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, speak
ing here last night before the Mer-
chants Club on Education as a Fac
tor in Preparedness" urged a length
enlng of the period of training and
told what Pennsylvania is doing in
the way of continuation schools and
compulsory attendance at school to
improve the conditions of it's future
citizens. He said in part:
I'VE have gone in the United States,
far to put to the test new theory of
government-that the will of majority
expressed in law, constitutional and
statutory, is the sole and adequate
guidance for all the people. We have
put democracy on trial. We have pro-
claimed its adequacy. We have un-
hesitatingly subscribed to its benef-
cent operations. We stake on it our
lives, our property and our sacred hon
or We have at times. with bated
breath. in the solemn hours of reflec-
tion, asked ourselves whether after
all we have found in our democracy as
II works its issues the golden good we
are proud to acclaim ii holds What
gives this heart-tremor this tender So
licitude, this half-awakened fear that
perhaps we have not after all, found
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bow of hope and faith? Why are we
half-fearful to put our democracy fully
TO the test? Is it because we question
its fundamental rightness? Absolutely
no. What viSioning souls wrought in
Independence Hall we hold sacred and
secure. The doubt is born. il al all
because we have not given to demo-
cracy its adequate channels of expires
sion. We have not been fair to our
dominant ideals.
What we need to do--and do il now
is to make possible a complete reli-
ance upon our theory of government
and put it TO its fullest use. To do this
we must unhesitatingly lay larger reli-
ance upon education. An Enlightened
democracy is the hope of the nation.
The school is the hope of the repub-
lie.
This agency, devised by wise in
sight and carried steadily into the
generations of our advance needs re-
establishment and reiuVenation in these
stress years OF our advance. The whole
theory of preparedness is fundamental
ly theory of education. Our armies
and our naVies, the front line of pre-
paredness; and our industries, the sec
ondary line of defense are alike de-
pendent upon trained, skilled. intelli-
gent, efficient citizenry. The resources
of people, material and spiritual,
are its safeguards. Education is the
guaranty of resourcefulness.
Our educational system under con-
trol of our fundamental theory of gov
ernment is not only the most potential
agency to stabilize our national ideals
but II is the agency pre- eminent for
their completest realization. No equip
ment of material good can replace a
training of our people into homo
geneous nation. This fact is empha-
90 ct.
of racial ideals that here fuse and fash
ion this mighty people. From every land
and from every climb they have come,
they are coming, they will come, and
unless these all pass the portals of our
eduCa tional system and in its halls get
essential baptism of American ideals
and achievements. and keen under
standing of national purposes, we can
not hope for a nation whose democracy
is its boast and its certain permanence.
I'VE turn then to the school and de-
mand for 1t a much larger place in the
American mind. 1t is increa singly mani
fest that ii best of all our institutions
trains for service, for efficiency, for liv-
ing and for promoting the government
whose agency it is. We must in the
school train: First. for cooperation in
all civic duties; second. for competi-
tion i'm al industrial activities: third.
for moral steadfastness in all social
endeavor: fourth, for the INTERVIEWING
of these into one serViceable and sub
stantial system of national equipment.
"First-The meaning of play is First,
physical preparedness: second, civic CO.
operation, team work law: third,
moral restraint, how to win and how
to lose.
"SeCond-The meaning of child labor
laws as schoolmaster's act is to
lengthen the training period in the
interest of the State and of industry
Its opponents are enemies of the state
and mistaken champions of industry.
"First-The sad sudden break from
school to toll.
"Second-The meaning of the Penn
sylyania law: First, none before IA;
second, none before sixth grade, CO.
operation; third. none for more than 81
hours, in school; fourth. none until
physically fit; fifth, none until employ
ment rs had and return TO school when
employment ends; sixth, employment
bureaus under State support
We have committed ourselves to
this vast enterprise-the making of
men and women to be the republic
there must be no looking backward
We must go steadily on until the proud
boast, Il am an American citizen" shall
be synonym to civic pride, industrial
efficiency and moral and religious
worth. Then we shall be prepared
not for war-but for the peace that