New Britain herald., 1919-01-24

that fact should not throw a bad light on him. He wanted to write: My father is a stone cutter, but that fact should not throw a bad light on me- But unfortunately he wrote: My faith CT is a stone fighter but that should not throw a bad candle on me- But the worst was yet to come. After he had read his hearts utterances over and over again another little devil told him that he had not addressed his Susie in a winning manner. He had written My dear little girl Again he consulted his dictionary and he discovered that dear and expe1- sive had about the same meaning and so had little and small. In his ears these words sounded better than those previously written aud he started his new letter this way: My expensive small girl Well, this was too much for Suse's dignity and right away she canned him. So, friends, this was the end of an imperfect day and
 explains very explicitly the great need
 of education.
 Ignorant Men Are Helpless.
 The education of man is like the
 changing of raw material into the
 manufactured article. The uneducat-
 ed man is comparatively helpless and
 worthless. Training, skill and eff
 ciency enter into the more. general
 term education. The getting of
 education is by slow and inapprecia-
 ble degrees. The reason it is not more general is because it costs too
 much time and application.
 Scores of applicants for a s15 or
 SIS a week job have been turned
 away from a certain shop in the last
 12 months while other positions, pay
 ing $2O to s3O a week, have gone
 begging for men. The latter require
 a degree of advancement which not
 very many have the patience to ob-
 tai1 The difference between the men
 Is that some have not passed through
 the process of being manufa ctured.
 while others have. -&$ >
 "A watch spring. sells for s1.50.
 This manufactured product can be
 secured in the shape of raw material
 at the ore deposits for almost nothing. A visitor Is permitted to pick up enough ore as souvenirs to make him
 fairly wealthy if he could sell 1t as watch springs. This IS an illustration of education. The raw ore of the
 mine may be the Hottentot of Africa, The watch spring is the Theodore Roosevelt.
 The young girl who sits down to the piano to take her first lesson does not attract much. attention because of music. She picks up the notes one at time and strikes two wrong ones to one right, In later years her skill as a. pianist tells what education has
 done. Education stands between the hoe nhoT tNh yxThn rny ,o% ball anywhere for certain, and the one who can put it over the plate when the batter thinks 1t is going somewhere else. What are we? We are babies, plus growth and educa- ton. What are our foremen and su- pers in the shops? Laborers they are, plus education.
 Uncle Sam Gives All a Chance. Now, the question arises, who will give an ambitious young man or woman who is a foreigner al educa,-
 tion? I do not know of anyone who is more interested in that sort of than Uncle Sam is and you all know who he is. He is your and my best uncle; he is the uncle of over 100. 100000 people and I tell you he is dandy, ] became acquainted with him 21 years ago when he shook hands with me ia New York city. I did not know what happened to me when l saw the Statue of Liberty smile down at me and then turn the
 light on and show me the way in the dark until l reached land. In that minute l was politically born again. Can l forget it? No, never! l re- member that I looked around but I was not alone. I could have kissed
 the land of the free and the home of the brave then and there, for I was so happy. Fifteen years later I really did 1t while l was on the prairies in | Oklahoma, and I thanked God that I enjoyed the greatest privilege 8 man can enjoy. being a citizen of the greatest country in the world, Amer , 1ca You ask mo what the American people have done for me? Every thing that counts. I came here as an unoeliever, too proud to think of God, rel1s1on and church. But when saw
 that the people went to church with out being forced to do 50, I deter mined to learn about religion and I got It, too. An elderly Yankee lady hoVlsed ma one day to Fo to evening school Tn order to learn the English l@hs"ase' remember that the tehcher asked me for nay name and