The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-04-12


Mrs. L. O. Lindsey, Mrs. A. b. Day,
Mrs. A. v. West and Miss 4. D.
Boswell The Lesson Taught by
the World War.
N. w. Harllee.
The world war which came sud-
denly to close has taught the Am
erican people many important les
sons, lessons that could not have
been taught in any other way. Many
lessons have been taught, many hard
lessons, lessons that If needed in
time, will be of great value in thou
sands of ways. The one sad lesson
was the awful commentator in the
purview of the education, rather the
want of education, not only in Negro
draftees that came before the various
exemption boards, but thousands of
white draftees, who were sadly in
need of education, this in itself has
aroused deeper interest in the zeal
and cause of establishing more
schools and facilities for both the
blacks and whites throughout our
south land. The statesmen and cit
liens are both awake to the direful
need of better educational facilities
for all her citizens, and much is be-
ing said in commentator of the ex-
haulted position taken by all classes
of the southern press which is Just
now giving impetus to the cause of
education as never before, and this
will mean more salary for the poor
ly paid teachers who can scarcely
exist.
There is no doubt that the world
war has taught that education, while
not guarantee for better citizenship,
will go along ways in the direction
of making a better citizen, for a
Republic can not long exist where
more than half of the citizens are
ignorant of the first principles of a
democracy and woeful disregards
for her laws and tenets. A democra-
cy means more schools, more intelli-
gence, and more of every element
that must make up the republic, not
the name, but the principles enun-
ciated must be that is designated
in an ideal American and all that it
means to free people in this land
of the Free Freedom can not long
exist where the facilities of the
right kinds of schools ar wanted and
sadly needed in the rural district
and where the teachers also are
needed If there was ever a time
when the welfare clause in the Fed
eral Constitution could be construed
to mean general aid to the common
schools of the southland, this is the
time, this is the day, for it is now
needed as never before as revealed
in the hundreds Of environments re-
Gently dismantled, and where thou
sands of young men, our best blood,
were shown to be void of education.
We owe IL to this generation to
provide for future contengents as
there is no guarantee in the bosom
of the human family against wars
for these will come according to
Divine forecasts. When we consid-
er those who are building up society,
we are called to consider the efforts
put forth in the education of their
children, and the sacrifice they are
making to accomplish the purpose.
The Rev. Sam Jones, the great re-
'vivalist of the south, once said that
the old maids of the country were
doing a remarkable work in educa-
ting other peoples children through
self denial, and many of them remain
old maids that they may accomplish
much for those who needed their
assistance. But this is not only true
of old maids, it is true of other per-
sons who have no children of their
own. There are many who live for
the interest of others.
Mrs. e. o. Lindley, a teacher in
the Dallas public schools for more
than score of years, is the one
woman, who deserves the highest
consideration in her effort along the
line of educating other peoples
children as she has none of her
own. She is a worthy example of
what one may do, if she but tries.
Mrs. Lindley some years ago, took
under her roof and into her own
castle, and under her own vine and
fig tree, three girls and trained them
to be honest and Industrious. These
girls grew into womahood under the
tender care of Mrs. Lindley, who
directed their training and sent them
to college and other schools at her
own hard earned expense. She was
the one woman who seems to have
never tired in working for the young
children " nom she took under her
roof to care for and to put them
on the road to success in the drama
of life. Her queenly and maternal
like influence over them can not be
accounted for entirely in the proven
al family relation nor in what is
commonly known as the law of as
ISOLATION The question is often ask
ed why the children of the family
cling so lovingly and sympat aeticaly
to each other more 30 than the
children of different family relation
Some psychologists have endeavored
to account for this family relation
by blood relation and also by asso.
citation and heredity, but we have
seen children just as loving ana
affectionate toward each other, and
in some cases more endearing than
those of tae same family, but per-
haps these may be. exceptions to the
law of family ASSOCIATION. What ever
the relation existing in the per-
sonality of Mrs. Lindley, it is much
stronger than it is in the ordinary
person, except in the affection of
the writer, whose heart over flows
for the genial love for all children
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