Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-24
ECONOMIC PREPAREDNESS.
Author Believes American Youth
Should Be Taught to Work.

Jefferson City, Mo-, March, 23.-That
industrial efficiency is prerequisite
to military preparedness is the cpin-
ion OF Thomas Speed Mosby, author
and publicist, of this city. "Inuus-
trial rather than military training is
the thing most needed in our public
schools" he says. 'Ten years ago the
United States Manufacturers associa-
ton discovered that majority of the
superintendent employed in Amer
lean factories were educated iii the
trade schools of Germany, and the
world now knows that back of Ger
many's wonderful military prepared
ness was condition of industrial
efficiency little short of marvellous"
In his recent work on Causes and
Cures OF Crime Mr.. Mosby declares:
Zone hour day, in every schoolroom
in the land, would give to every man,
woman and child of the next genera
ton at least the rudiments of an hon
est, useful and profitable occupation,
would give to all who wanted it
trade, and would make of the next
generation of Americans the most pro-
ductive and industrially the most eff
ficient race the world has ever seen.
Surely, an hour day would not be
too much to ask for this great pur-
pose, vet it would be sufficient; and
the venerable three RS of our edu-
cational system could we'll afford so
small sacrifice in so great cause.
Every great nation that has ever
lived and died, has died because it did
not know how to make a living. Egypt
carved her splendid monuments with
an artists hand, and the colossal
grandeur of her architecture has never
since been matched; but although she
could shape the obelisks and read her
glory in Ell Karnacks lofty hall, she
could not make a plow; and in the
shadow of the Pyramids and among
the tombs Of the Pharoahs her degen-
crate sons ARE still turning the worlds
most fertile soil with a crooked stick.
Greece filled the world with her syl
logisms and her songs; she breathed
upon the rough block of stone, and
forthwith it sprang into chiselled
symphonies of unapproachable grace
and beauty; but, though counterfeit
ing life, she knew not how to live, and
STORED urn or animated bust
record at once her glory and her doom.
L uG clUQucuCC CudC luiuliuCu OVcI
Greece to Macedon and Artaxerxes'
throne could move brave hearts to
deeds of honor and renown, but it
could not call up the forces of nature
to do the will of man. Xerxes the
Great cast letters into the sea in
token of his conquest of the deep, but
in the straits of Salamis the waves
Knocked at his pride, and for twenty
centuries the jackals have howled and
the owls and bats have lowered
among the broken monuments OF his
wasted power. Rome could conquer
nations, but she could not feed them;
and gorged with riches, she starved
to death in the Edens of ancient civil
ization.
"If we of the modern era may claim
any really effective superiority over
the civilizations OF the earlier day, it
is the superiority ofindustrial efficien-
cy. In proportion as we have learned
tc work, learned to do more work and
better work, just in that proportion
lave we advanced in our civilization,
laid deep the sure foundations of per-
sonal happiness and social security,
and paved the way for larger and
better growth"