The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-09-28
DEDICATION FOR WORK.

In Great Britain only about 10 per
cent of the people receive more than a
primary education and the other 80 per
cent receive so little of even primary
education that reading matter hardly
interests them. In Russia it is still
worse, and in Italy as bad as possible.
France is the intelligent nation OF the
Allies but even France has learned
lesson in the war from Germany. Ger
many carefully educates all her chill
dren and every child from the crown
prince to the most humble PEASANTS
son is taught a trade. Furthermore, the
government insists that no child shall
grow up in unhealthy surroundings and
it shall not be worked beyond its
capacity.
1t is for this reason that Germany has
been able for two years to more than
hold her own against world IN arms
She will be crushed in the end, it is
agreed, but the nations that crush her
will at once begin to copy her methods
of making citizens. These methods have
made her so superior to the other nations
that they join to destroy her in order
that they may not become subject to her.
1t is a good lesson for every man to
take to heart in the matter of preparing
his children for life. The boy who has
Il good education can learn the black
smiths trade more thoroughly than can
the intoxicated boy. The young men
who go into the world to seek fortune
without education or training will sink
to the lower level of association in most
cases. Such man will not even make
a good common soldier under the new
order of things. Soldering is no longer
matter of aiming rifle and pulling
the trigger. The rifle is being replaced
by the machine gun, complicated piece
of machinery. A we'll educated man Ii
required to throw shells from cannon
at an enemy seven to twenty miles away
whom.he cannot even see. Aiming sucf
gun involves mathematical calcula'
tions based on information gathered b!
scouts in the air.
The business of the future is going tt
require as much training and intelll
gcnce as war. Farming is to be-is nov
"a scientific calling. The farmer shoul'
be as we'll educated as the lawyer
doctor, chemist, engineer or inventor
Truly he should have more education
than any one Of them for the knowledg
OF all these callings can be used in hi
business on the farm.
If America shall continue to hold he
place as one Of the foremost nations 0
tae world her children will have to be a
we'll educated as any. If the leading
citizen of to-day expects his sons to b
the equals Of the young men OF tn
future he shall expect also to train then
educate them and teach them a trade
The professional men are no longer
be distinguished by white, soft hands
The trades are growing in importanc
and the professional men are bein
forced to become skilled mechanics
order to properly understand their pre-
LESSONS.
1t is a. new world that the secor
decade OF the twentieth century lool
forward to. The great war has tol
away the curtain that hid the comir
civilization from our view. The ind
vidual that shall become part Of
will work and be happy in his plac
There will be no place in it for Il
unframed man.
The next thirty years will witness
radical changes in the social structur
of the nations as the past three decad
have seen in methods OF productit
brought about by the great inventions