South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-18

have Us believe. when this choice
was made He was according 10
3 the best scholarship. at least %
I years Of age. 30 amount OF youth
/ ful precocity can take the place OF
/ the knowledge Of years Of living.
I The ages OF bOyhoOd and girlhood
/ and OF early adele cence should not
+ be the time as rule when our life
I vocation Is fixed These periods are
/ days OF idealization These are
times OF hero worship We want 10
\ be like and do the things OF those
/ whom We most admire.
In "a recent test IN the seventh
grade OF school children who were
asked 90 decide what they would
. like 90 be or do-14 percent wanted
/ 20 pc bookkeepers. u percent DO
iicemen seven percent artists. and
( - percent school teachers. The
I boys OF course, were hero worship
pers. The cop with his uniform.
/ his brass buttons and glittering
star his right % carry a billy and
gun was 10 them the summum
bOnum of an LIES meaning. The
girls we % iu love with :heir teacn-
ers, prim. well dressed wise and
/ carrying authority Descending in
scale Of age We Will find ourselves
, descending in the wisdom Of the
power Of choice. Ask some boy
or 3 years old what he expects to
do and one will say he is going 10
be a cowboy; another a soldier and
one whom 7 asked "A few years ago
I said he expected TO he a garbage
man" our own Hoosier poet has
adequately expressed this universal
childhood tendency ot unwisdom Of
choice in his "RaEgedy Man:
go. The Raggedy Man, He works
fer Pa.
An he's the coolest man ever you
saw,
He comes TO our house every day.
An waters the horses. an feeds
EN- hay;
An he opens the shed-an' we all
list laugh
When ne drives out our little old
wooble-ly calf;
An nen-ef our hired girl says he
He miHls the cow fer Lizabuth
Ann
Amt he "a awful good Raggedy
MANI
Raggedy' Raggedy, Raggedy Man.
The Eaggedy Man-one time when
he
Wuz maxim a little bow ..n-orry fer
Saws When you're big like yopr
Pa is.
Air YOU go to keep fine store
like his
An be a rich merchuut- wear
fine clothes -
Er what air YOU go TO he. good
ness knows.
An men he laughed at Lizabuth
Ann.
An I says m go to be a Raggedy
Man
I'm list go TO be nice Rassedy
Man"
Rassedy: Razsedy: Rassedy
Man"
Wisdom i'm choice presgpposes
years Of living
Education Gives Vision
The power of a wise choice not
only lies with years but also with
educational opportunity Education
gives vision. There are two kinds
OF defective vision There lis short
sighteduess called by physicians
''myopia 10 is a term signifying
the hattening Of the lens of the ere
in way that the vision OF the dis-
tant is blurred and dimmed IL is
caused 10y too careful application TO
work close at hand The other dis
ease is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES "hy-
per metropia" The patient sees
distant object with perfect clearness.
Awhile ago a man was Boosting his
ability 10 read fine print at an UNI
usually long distance. He thought
this 10 be a mark OF superior eve
sight But il was a sure sign Of
the steady approach of faulty
vision. Age was marking him for
her own One or the other Of these
two faults lis apt 10 characterize the
selection OF those young people who
seek 20 make life's choice without
the lamp OF education 20 guide their
feet. One youth is cursed with mem
tai myopia-or Observation-Disclosures
The money that ne can earn today,
the pleasure at hand: the paltry
"rice that the world of commerce
and industry offers him are greedily
chosen as against the rewards that
every field of commerce. industry
ana profession holds out TO him to-
morrow. lie sells gladly his birth
right OF the future for the mess Of
pottaEe of the hour. still another
youth is effected by hypermetrOpia. |
He lives i'm "a land OF dreams He
expects rewards in the future not
as wages paid for service wrought. /
but as free gifts from heaven. He
sees no relation whatever between