The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-12


Others Urge College Attendance.
DR.. James E. Clarke, of the
Presbyterian College Board acting
not only. for Presbyterians, but also
representing other religious bodies,
and xhe national organization known
IS the Council Of Church Boards of
Education, is cooperating with the
U. s. Commissioner Of Education,
Dr. P. 2. Claxton, Secretary Of War
Baker and other government OH
cials, in . campaign to arouse the
American people to the nations
need of . trained leader
ship.
Perhaps the greatest mistake
made by some Of the nations across
the sea-" said Dr.. Clarke, has been
the failure to make provision for
replacing the trained leaders who
have gone to the front, many never
to return. Large number Of teachers
and undergraduates ARE in the
trenches or lie buried on fields Of
battle; schools and colleges are
CLOSED Of running with greatly re-
duced attendance, and now, after
three years of war, thoughtful men
are asking, What are we going to
do for trained leadership for the
future?
"The United States must not
make this mistake, but there is
grave danger that it will be made.
Against such q blunder Secretary
Baker and Commissioner Claxton
and other national leaders are is
suing earnest words of warning.
The danger is that many under
graduates will think that conditions
demand surtailment of their pre-
paration for their lifework, and that
parents viii think that with prevail
ing high prices and the uncertainty
Of the Hnediate future, they would
better use money for other purposes
than the higher education of their
boys and girls. The very opposite is
true. The needs of the nation and
of the world require that no sacri-
flee be counted too great in order
20 keep in preparatory school or
college those boys and girls not call
ed into special service by the gov
ernment, in order that they may be
thoroughly prepared for the leader
ship which the nation now needs and
viii need more than ever when the
war is over.
commissioner Claxton has issued
an appeal which should be headed
by every citizen, urging that the
number Of students taking higher
courses should be larger than usual
in the immediate future. He says
This appeal is made on the basis
of patriotic duty and that while
there will be an abundance of mer
for ordinary purposes, there will
be a dearth of officers, engineers
and men of scientific skill in all the
industries, in transportation, and il
many other places where skill ant
daring are just as necessary fol
success as in the trenches HI
points ont at some length the press
ing need of the near future fol
highly trained leaders, and show'
that young men and women never
had before them such great op
portunity, provided only that the,
secure adequate training"
The Honorable Newton D. Baker
Secretary Of War, said at \ confer
ence Of national leaders held il
Washington in May: "The nation
win be needing educated men ever
more than ever before as . result O
this war for the coming years, an,
the colleges must supply them." A
the same time he mentioned th,
three things that he considered
most important for the successful
prosecution Of the war: first, muni
tions; second. food; third, educated
men. General Leonard Wood in !,
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