The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-01-12
The Need OF Intellectual
Development.

a physician to practice in many of
our homes and it is because that |
we are STEPPED in ignorance, and are !
woeIully in need of educational de-
velopment
Have you ever had a business
transaction with an ignorant person?
If you have you have discovered !
this fact: lie thinks that you are
always trying to beat him. You may
lean toward him, give him the bene
mt of all the doubts and throw the
odd cents to his side of the ledger, but
since you have kept tabulated &C,
count of the transaction, he thinks
there is something radically wrong
with your figures and publishes you to
the world as cheat, a dead-beat and
defrduGer. Train this mind and he
will see things differently; educate
him and he will be able to meet you
hallway in every business transac-
ton. In short, he will be able to
protect himself in every controversy
and instead Of throWing up a earb of
Islander for a defence he will argue
his case; and if you should come to
the parting of the ways with him,
he will stand up like man and
the truth, the whole truth, ana
nothing but the truth, even though it
lie against him.
/ admit that there are money
sharks, who like Sylock of old will
press a customer for the pound OF
flesh just over the heart; but if
your horizon is brQadened, your Wis
ion clear and your mind analytical,
YOU can show them that while the
contract calls for the pound of
besh not one drop of blood shall be
split nor your life endangered in
obtaining it.
We are often imposed upon be-
cause we do not know how to protect
ourselves. There are designing
agents who come to our homes and
with oily words induce US to take
their goods; present an elastic con-
tract which any one, seemingly.
could meet. After we have started
with them they usually tighten down
and when we have almost paid out,
if we fail to meet one payment, they
back up to our doors, take the goods
away only to be sold to another. If
we were properly educated we would
demand legal procedure before the
goods were moved When we show
cur creditors this, they will be more
ready to treat with than to dispos-
sess us. Some of us have already
paid for things ten times over and
do not now posses them, and it is
because of the wicked, pernicious
system | have been discus sing above,
because we have not the mental
the failure of all our institutions
We need educational development
that we may become acquainted
with the laws of commerce and
great business methods. | know
that there are those who say that
the failurt of all our institutions
was brought about by our educated
men. want to emphatically deny
this assertion. 1t may have come
about through the so-called educated.
They did not fail because of educa-
ton, but because of the lack OF it.
They failed because those in charge
did not have enough intellect to run
them; or those who put them in
charge were careless in their Sc
lection; or negligent in binding
them. We are an emotional people
and are too often actuated by our
feelings; our likes and dislikes
We pay our preacher good salary
IF he breaches until we can feel
him. and makes us feel good before
collection. We join u project If we
like those in it or if we feel right
about it. We should learn to put
business into whatever we do and
not our petty whims. When a man
is anxious for a responsible position,
and more anxious that we should
not bind him but trust his honor, we
should scrutinize him all the more
carefully and bind him all the more
tightly, for the one who wants to do
right does not hate to be bound.
There is need of educational de
velopment to reduce the death rate
of our people. We are dying faster
than we should according to Stats
tics; and dying faster than we are
being born in many places 1t does
not take the eye of a philosopher to
see the inevitable results Of this con-
tinues. When we purchase homes
we do not first study the topography
of the place. Too often we build our
houses at the ends of sewers which
belch forth death and destruction in
to our doors. Too often we squat
in basins and become the constant
boon companions of the lurking dead
ly miasma in these valleys of death;
too often we build our houses much
too small for our families and gen.
crate venom which preys on our
vitals; too often our fathers go to
market get culled and purified meat
and fume and fret and even fight
If their wives and daughters do not