The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-22

21 pleasures of life
Education will make wealth, bu
wealth never did make education
II may and does furnish the mean:
to the end, and after all wealth i
only a crutch that education may
or may not lean on. Lincoln die
not have wealth, but he had educa
ton. Andrew johnson did not
make much progress until after his
wife gave him an education. H. race
Greedy, although very poor spelleI
and writer, had good education
and the New York Tribune is an
evidence of his wonderful mind and
brain power. The very progress OF
ACQUIRING knowledge is privilege
and great comfort. Take the chill
dren attending our public schools
they too often get the idea that their
studies are supposed to cease when
they quit school, but the fact is quite
the contrary, and should last thru life.
A child's studies should be suitable
to the child and it will then be in
teresting, then they are apt to con-
tinue along the same lines but per
haps in a more developed state,
more applicable to their age and en-
virOnments.
These are all preliminaries to an
education. And the child that per-
cieves all the relishes of elevatlns
and intellectual perceptions and the
noble and generous the nature of the
child is. the greater and more bene-
fitted the perceptions are. Crafty
men condo mn studies, simple men
admire them and wise men use
them. And be ar in mind that edu-
cation will do more to bring us in
close touch with nature, in close
unity with our fellow creatures and
nearer to solid comfort than any
other acquired accomplishment. Ed
ucation, like all other great things,
has Tvs danger signals. Too much
concentration of mind on any one
subject is fatal error, particularly
to young mind, and the more aln-
bilious for learning the child is the
greater and more serious the dan
ger. Our natural instincts are safe
guides along this line, and children
will profit little by lessons that do
not interest them. There are people
who say that our educational sys
tenn is as good as it is possible TO
make it, and the important things
are the number of schools, large
attendance of scholars, how much
will we pay our teachers, how many
and what kind of books should we
use, etc. All this is good in its place
and perhaps partly necessity, but
as a whole these things will adjust
themselves without argument.
Mr.. Gallon, noted Greek histo-
rian, tells US in his opinion that the
population of Athens, taken as a
whole, was as superior to us as We
are to Australian savages. That
there is some truth in this probably
no student of Greek history will
deny, but why should it be so? Are
we not a progressive nation Col
leges and schools are in evidence all
over our fair land, still we have a
large population of uneducated peo-
pie. The amount of ignorance that
is apparent is appalling. You can
meet with people every day who
can neither read nor write and they
are not aliens either but people born
right here in America of American
parents, who have no conception of
education. Now let us get to the
cause and remedy so the next gen
Grafton will be better equipped with
knowledge to cope with the duties
of fife than their parents, guardians
or any to whom their future welfare
depends. Can you wonder at ignOr-
ance when you see children ten and
twelve years old making their way
in the early morning to some mill
or factory to waste away their young
lives at a sacrifice Of their health
and education for the mere pittance
they can earn? AT best what can
they do that is really worth the sac
rifice? 1t is a crying shame for par
ents to compel little children to go
to work at such a cost. Many of
these children have fathers and
mothers, brothers and sisters, any
one of whom could dispense with
this child 8 pittance and give the
child chance to get an education.
Who is to blame for all this T? We
have law to prevent it. Has it
been repealed or is it dereliction of
duty on some ones part? There is
certainly a cause and ignorance is
the effect. There is not a mill
owner in High Point who would
knowingly violate any law or allow