The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-05-04
THE LECTURERS
LIBERTY

It is the lecturers license to stick
to his subject and make his points
as strong and fast as he is able... Ma
turally he can not afford to stop to
make explanations when he only mas
a couple of hours. II he were to go
into the various points OF view OF
his hearers he would need as many
evenings as there were members 10
his audience, tho his subject were as
simple as cabbages.
So. DR.. Winship left few things
unexplained while he made a series
of excellent surface castings in the
average level of opinions ne raced
at the high school Monday evening.
We think he removed some OF the
debris that covers plain thinking and
did a good bit to put us in step with
our times.
For instance, we have watched at
home the gradual expansion OF in
dustrial work in the schools, and have
thought it we'll. We scarcely ponder,
however. that this is movement OF
such vast Importance that 1t Will
mould an entirely new and strange
race out of the generation now belns
schooled. We know so many persons
ranging from the age Of childhood
I'D to grandfatherhood that it seldom
strikes us that there is any boundary
between generations. But there is,
and educators of the broad type OF
DR.. Winship recognize what ire
mendous influence the common pub
llic school system exercises upon
whole generation at time.
AS with all true educators, rails
ing up the bottom level of human un-
Outstanding is the thing in the doc
tors plan of life. He has laooreo
for many, many years at his ]oo
of hammering a wedge between the
ground and recu4nbent minds, and
in this toll he has become earthly,
He looks not at the tree-tops or the
clouds, for he is busy at the roots
of humanity.
Practical things he breaches. Make
everything count in figures; make
every result attain real dimensions
Away with idle pleasures OF the
mind.
There you are-but where? ON,
with the times. The times demand
material accomplishments, guns
ships shells, trench-grub. We will
produce all of these things whole
heartedly. in good American excess
Shall we not. tho, harbor just a few
sparks of Imagination, the idle ramb-
ling of the mind which makes all the
difference between the soul and the
Foot the conscience and the think.
tank?
Don't a man get up early in the
morning and drudge every day OF
his strength SO that he may a.
length have time to dream? Don
the soldier fight battles SO ne may
eventually disarm in peace? with
out this blessing of vision mar
would live like dog, to sleep, snlH
eat, fight and die.
We of America are going into
war not to win place in the SUI
for ourselves, but that all the Worlt
NAV bask in the sunshine OF restful
ness. Man needs a chance to con
slider. to establish his own place II
the great visible universe.
DR.. Winship did not have time
lof course, to mention these side is
sues. He even pinned little wor'
of scorn on the study of ancient his
tory. which of all indulgences help
a man size. up the age he is livinI
in get a profile and cross-cut view
of his times. How, for instance
could the doctor have known tina
, language changes with the ages, cha
. old words and usages wear out an
give place to the new? He said W
no longer hear folks say "his'n' an
"hern"; that while it is now though
proper to say teach boy arith
! metic" instead Of learn him. tn
= custom may in time reverse itself