Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16
WideIyKnoyvn Educator Lectures
at Vineland

Professor Schumacher, a well known
teacher in the Normal Schools of Penn
sylvania, concluded a course of lectures
at Vineland GU Friday evening of last
week. Years ago with his wife and
child he used to frequently come to
Wild wood and stopped at the Marine
Hall, now the Wayne. His last lecture
reported in the Vineland Journal is as
follows:
"Prof. Schumacher closed his lecture
course In Vineland for the season last
night. His last was a deliv-
cred in a style that was so fascinating
that not q sound disturbed the stiffness
of the room excepting his voice. All
of his lectures were grand, but at least
several of them ranked with the very
best heard In Cosmopolitan Hall In the
palmy days of the Star Course. Last
night he talked on the influence that
the lives Of the present generation have
on the coming generation. His theory
was that everything comes either by
heredity or environment and both are
essential in the development of the
human being. People may inherit
traits aud ability hal are never devel-
oped either for good or bad, according
to environment. Therefore, environ
ment is q great force. By
right thinking much good can be done
for the coming generation. Not that a
few people can reform the world, but
as Carlyle said, right thinking makes
one rascal less. He then told what
every parent could do for his child.
One thing was to never discourage love
affairs of the children. See that they
are conducted under right conditions,
but let a boy, no matter how young,
form his ideal of a girl, or eve q wo-
man, for it brings out his finer self.
The boy or girl loves because they have
come to that point in their lives that
1t does a boy or a girl no harm to think
that the object Of their affection is per-
feet and if that love and devotion
should continue to the marriage point,
it is the Gro wning of life. Even II a
mar finds after marriage that there
are prettier or more accomplished wO-
meu, there Is something In the first
ideal form that is lasting. Children
should be taught sex matters by their
parents and not from the gutter or evil
minded companions. They are bound
to hear the story of sexual life sooner
or later, and they should hear it Alright
and in a different form from the parents
than from evil companions. Every girl
should demand as clean a life on the
part of her intended as she has led and
the idea that sowing wild oats in a
young ma should be looked over be-
cause he had "clesned up" and had be-
come respectable for the sake of marry
ing a pure woman One thing all could
do much toward and that was TO keep
This generation well and clean morally |
and physically. Health was dear to
all and the majority of girls admire
the broad-shouldered, red blOoded
young man though poor financially TO
the weak, physically and mentally
rich. Rich mems children we're taken
out of the public schools because they
cannot cope with the strong. 1t
wasn't because they thought their
children too good to rub up against the
average poor mans child. 1t vas
better for a girl to marry a man with
health, a reasonable education, a clean
life and a JOB for financial support than
to marry a rich young man with an
unclean life and poor health.
Prof. Schumacher said he was not a
temperance lecturer and had been
brought up to drink when he wanted
to, but he learned that alcohol did not
stimulate, but on the contrary dead
ened the human mind, although it
often let loose traits that had been
lying dormant. That accounts for a
modest nan becoming laxative when
under the infiue zee. He learned his
lesson when ne saw q BODY OF men
who did things abstain at a dinner in a
cafe. The proprietress explained that
these men did not drink, although all
around them were doing so, because
they were engineering a great problem
and needed all their wits. That settled
Prof. Schumacher. He has never tasted
a drop since because he said he needed
all his wits in his business of teaching,
and then often found himself taxed be-
yond his limit.
He declared the leaders in the world
OF intense business needed all their wits
and the man who kept his wits the
brightest would be the leader in world
affairs of the future.