The Washington herald., 1918-01-12
coNrINuEp PROM PAGE FouR.

you were, while you were on the 1obi
Itmatters little where was born.
Whether my parents were rich or
ws-..esr eley shrank from the cold
worlds scorn,
Or lived in the pride Of wealth Sc
cure
But whether live an honest man
And hold my integrity Arm in my
clutch,
tell you, my neighbor, as plain as
i can,
That matters much.
Therefore, you never remain sta
tionary. You are going UP or down;
you are advancing Or you are retro
grading every day that you live in
the universe. Therefore. ignorance
will be paralysis to you. worse than
infantile. Your size depends on your
mind. not on your muscle. i tell you
ii takes something more than NOR
tar7board cap, a varsity suit, frat pin
and a bulldog pipe and 80 Iah, 'Tah.
'rah, sis boom bah, You bet II does.
The engineer is bigger than the en-
gine-he runs it, The captain is big
\ ger than the ship-he controls II!
That's why, oh, tell you! Measure
a rosebud by its beauty and its frag-
| rance? That's impossible, Measure 1t
by its size? That may be possible for
YOU to do. Apparent size is one thing
real size is another. If you don't be-
lieve it. you try and stop hornet with
f<he end of your nose when he's going
mile a minute.
Size isn't the only thing that reaches
the home base or puts the ball out of
the lot. Ignorance is stagnation:
knowledge is a river. Ignorance Is a
desert; knowledge is fruit. Ignorance
is poverty; knowledge is plenty. 1g-
norance is weakness; knowledge Is
strength. A plant grows because 1t
takes in the sunshine and the rain,
the quality it needs to build itself up
into full fruit.
Now, we all know this: 1t Is bet
| ter to feed boys and girls books.
schools, colleges. churches than to feed
them booze and the things that wreck
their lives and blight them and assas-
sinate their characters. You can keep
a COW alive on potato peelings and
| brush but she won't give any milk and
when a COW stops giving milk. her
mission in life ends. We don't keep
cows for company.
Listen, Col. James Anderson started
the first libraries in the United States.
| He had a circulating library of 40 vol
umes. He gave the books out to the
little boys around in the neighborhood
/ to read. One little boy working as
\ bobbin boy for $l.25 a week got hold
\ of one of those books, read 1t. 1t
opened up a new view of life. inspired
| him. sir. That little boys name was
Andrew Carnegie. He pours out his
money like water; builds libraries
/ through the length and breadth of the
| land.
Oh. educational advantages were
never greater than today. Books were
never cheaper than today. They hang
| like leaves onithe trees. Printing press
es are running day and night and the
telegraph throws the news of the
/ world on your doorstep, at your break
fast table, for a few pennies week.
! The newspapers today are better col
lege than Abraham Lincoln had-just
your newspaper. The limbs on the
trees of knowledge hang 50 close to
the ground that any boy or girl with
an ambition can walk and pluck the
fruit and bear away its treasure.
For a hundred years nobody had
sense enough to make lucifer match.
Twelve of the greatest inventions the
world has ever known were given to
US within the last 100 wears. Today
we've got electricity: today we've got
the telephone: today we have the tele-
graph, the trolley and the wireless,
the super-dreadnaught and the sub
marines. sky-scrapers-oh,l look at that
electric scarchlight piercing the mid
night sky like a finger.
They are getting more money today
out of the dump heaps around the
mines than they mined from the
mines % years ago. Electric power
today is generated from rubbish swept
from our city streets. Garbage Is
turned into fertilizer that sells for $50
a ton Sawdust is turned into hreproof
flooring and dinner platos and fac
tories are run by gas generated from
! their own soapsuds. and the blood Of
| the bull eating grass in the pasture to-
day. by chemical process, is turned
into a button and they sew it on my
coat or on your dress. Aniline dyes
are made out of coal tar. and cigar
cites out of cigar stumps.
who's Who In America.
Why. they can go up an alley and
pick up shirt that a billy goat would
/ pass up like a hobo would a woodpile:
they can turn this into glucose and
| turn the glucose into booze and turn
| the booze into men and turn the men
into hell.
Listen. young people. The Bureau Of
/ Education of the United states says
/ there are 100000 men in this country
| over 80 years of age. Twelve million
of them had a common school educa3
ton: 100000 of them can neither read
nor write; $4,000 Of them craduated
from high school; $4,000 from uni
versities and college. There is pub
lisned in this country n book entitled
who's Who in America" 1t contains
the names Of 1900 odd men who
are in the headlight and 81 otlight of
their calling and OF the 12.00G,0o0 who
had a common school education, one
in 100000 has his name in that book;
of the 2.OO00C0 that could neither read
nor write. not one; and Of the $4,000
that graduated from high school. one
in 400; and of the $50 OC0 who graduated
from universities and COLLEGES, one in
forty-two has his name enbalmed in
the pages of that book.
Somebody asked me the other day,
what is education?'
Here is my answer; II YOU have
one better, I wish you'd give 1t to
me. Education is knowing what you
want. knowing where to get il, know
ing what to do with it after you get
1t.
Six million boys in the United States
drop out of school at the end OF the
eighth grade-but watt An eighth
grade education sthem 800 chances
to one to win. ley go on through
high, il is increased to 200 chances to
win If thew go on through college,
1t is increased to 5000 10 one to win;
but many would rather work and wear
clean collar at SO 3 week and call