The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-09-19
problems of democracy, industry and

problems OF democracy, industry and
education.
The task is great one, it will re-
quire thousands of teachers, who are
not only good instructors, but good
practical craftsmen. The list of army
occupations, alone numbers hundreds.
Each large hospital school will deal
with more men each year than the
largest university in the land. It will
teach scores of subjects. Its organic
ations will need to be thoro and effic-
lent, if the rights and needs of our
men are to be met. Buildings, equip
ment, supplies, records, all the COM
plex organization of scores of institu-
tions are needed and must be o'eated
Immediately. Faculties, numbering
! hundreds must be secured, trained and
welded into effective bodies, capable
of doing educational team work.
Most of all, the public, the relatives,
the employers, the fellow laborers,
must learn to take new attitude to-
ward these unfortunate victims of
war. Sentiment we must have, senti-
mentality, never. To pamper and
worship and wait upon a man until
he loses the power and desire to help
himself is the utmost unkindness. For
! the public to presume that man who
has lost leg or a hand, his eyesight
Or even his nervous disability, should
be forever consigned, by an unthink-
ing sentimentality, to a life which
burdens him and all about him, is the
utmost cruelty. Our soldiers will not
be benefited by a sloppy sympathy,
! but by a more sensible, a more thoroly
kind, tho sterner, sentiment Of justice,
which gives to all fair chance. 1t
will need but little intelligent thot,
an effort to find employment where
! the handicap will bother the least. 1t
is a part of the schools duty to awak-
en- the will to do and then furnish
special training which shall offset the
physical handicap.
No one knows the future of this
great work which has started with
such small beginnings. It's service to
the army and to winning the war will
be great. Fer improved clerical
workers, better mechanics, better re-
pair men, better telegraphers, men
with hope in their harts, instead of
grouchy despair, are the men who
make effective this great democratic
fighting machine. A little imagination
can see great promise in this new
method for solving the problems OF
democracy, for benetittlng those
thousands crippled each year in
industry and even showing improved
methods for use in our public schools.
The East is feverish with war activ-
! tiles. The tramp OF soldiers, the
CLEAN of uniforms, the noise OF great
| construction work, the newspapers,
| the bulletins, the crowds everywhere
all indicate that we are at war 1t is
easy there to understand the extent
of the struggle, to realize some. OF the
! tenseness and strain OF giant IN con-
fict.
In the middle w3st it is different. 1t
! is OUR boys and our people who are
crowdinr the East. We miss their
faces. we need their help. We are SO
far from the conflict that we feel It's
burden without the exhilaration of it's
excitement. All honor to the men ana
women who are left at home, who
keen up their interest and loyal eXer-
tions. who fill their own places and
those of whom they have loaned to the
Eastland EAST over seas. When this great
war is won for democracy, Wnen tne
barbarous Hun and his nefarlous med
ievalism is vanquished, no one com
munity, district or nation can claim
all the glory. 1t is the cooperative
strength of clean-mlnded men,. IN
spired by the progressive clear VISION
Of democracy that shall share tne
glory. For those over seas and IN al
rect war service it will be indeed car
rving on" For those at home, 1t
will be that equal important, tho less
thrilling, task Of ''holding on"
President Crane stated that his own
work would probably be in the sur
geon Generals office assisting IN
Work of these schools. Tho as the
work developed, his task might be
found elsewhere even in France
where work is already being estao'
| lished.
He expressed regret that his duty
should again call him from his nome
and his friends and his work in the
Normal school. 1t had been dlffer'
ent choice for him, but the conclusive
,rgument had been the call and op,,
noTtunitv to service. The magnl1cent
exar1ple of North Dakota, and Waro
county in particular, the a saerlllcHs tHs
made the men who have gone, the
money that has been contributed, had
made made him rejoice that he, too, could
find a place in tAs1Esf sSnftiet, S;atien If
the unhesitating ID fown ny rec tme
Board of Regents iria - d. aStanr seryiee, iee.
over ov m local duties. "Tho welcomig me m
hack to North Dakota, the Board stat st-
ed ed without hesitation, If you al are
needed in this war service and can
contribute to the winning, OF this gfeas e
struggle, we will eagerly do all we
u He also stated that the approval ,sal
Of friends in the city had been espec- &c
ially gratifying and that he and M Mrs rs
Crane (:ay . would both be delighted whed a,.3d
war W service was over and they couia
return @ permanently to the work IN
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