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

snlts in after life and innocently
works away in the belief that they
are doing a lot of good, when in re,
atty they are to themselves and
others an injustice which they can
never hope to repair if allowed to 60
on to a finish.
With so per cent of our college
boys and girls enlisted in the service
of our country, what large per
cent of our commercial men IN the
ranks who will take their places?
What show has the future to recu-
perate the depleted ranks OF the
commercial world There is no
way on earth to meet the demands
that will of necessity be placed on
us but to educate the rising popula-
ton; get them ready and tit to I'LL
The places that will require their SER
vices. To this they must be pre-
pared. 1t may take compuIsion. 1t
is national necessity and one
branch of preparedness not to be
overlooked. 1t is appalling to wit.
ness the number of young men who
stand about on the streets with ap'
parently nothing to do but smoke
cigarettes find spit tobacco juice on
the sidewalks who could not address
an envelope. How did they get this
way? Neglected education is the
underlying cause of it all A man
with an education has no time to
spend this way. His developed mind
reDeIs against it; aud what can we
expect of a lot of children who sac
rifice their time and opportunities,
for the miserable pittance they re-
c7ive in the mills and factories? Get
busy some one and stop all this will |
full waste of good material.
1t is bad enough to know that the
war may bring a lot of hardships
and loss of life, but why should we
allow it at home? We may have
troubles of our own to check the
kaiser, but it should be no trouble
at all to compel parents to send
heir little children to school. Give
hem chance to play with their
1olls and base ball; make vigorous,
Useful men and women of our rising
generation instead of a puny lot of
people without education enough to
write their own names. What can
you expect from such an outfit ?
When they grow up do you want
10 hire them? Echo says no. Why?
Because they are not mentally fit to
meet our requirements. Why this
state of affairs? Because they spend
heir time in the mills that should
be spent in school, and this will be
he result of it all. Get busy, see
that the children 60 to school. There
are plenty of room and teachers for
them ALL And let US grow up
good, live, intellectual bunch of
youngsters that will be a credit to
he nation and a benefit to them
selves and the community in which
hey live, instead of a puny. ignor-
ant generation, all the result of ne
elected mental training. 1t is the
duty of every one interested to see
10 it that child should at least
nave a good common school educa-
ion, which may be developed as op
and the disposition of the
person is inclined. The same wise
of nature which keeps
he calamities of the future hidden
until they actually occur prevents
he discovery of good things so that
hey may in their ordained time and
way work out their fruitage, but it
S not fair to the child by careless
ness and indifference to make it a
victim of an undeveloped mind over
whose action the child has no con-
:rOl, and must be subservient to the
powers that be, whether for good or
evil.
A boy or girl Of fourteen shobld
reasonably be expected to read in a
clear and agreeable manner, to write
a good, clear hand and know the
ordinary rules of arithmetic and
grammar and have a good element
ary knowledge of geography, enough
to make him understand in a clear
but perfectly general way how the
larger features of the world he lives
in physically and politically came
to be what they are. Book learning
may be carried to excess and cause
a confusion between instruction AMI
education. We strain the memory
instead of cultivating the mind. A
student. to obtain a good practical
seould have wholesome
variety of mental food aud endeavor
to cultivate these tastes rather than
fill their minds with dry facts.
A how who leaves school knowing