The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

never greater than today. Books were
never cheaper than today. They hang
like leaves on the trees. Printing
presses 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 a week.
The newspapers today are a better
college than Abraham Lincoln had
Just your newspaper. The limbs on
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% the ground that any boy or Hgirll
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 one hundred years.
Today we've got electricity: today
we've got the telephone; today We
have the telegraph. the trolley and
the wireless, the super-dreadnoughtl
and the submarines, skyscrapers--oh,
look at that electric searchlight pierre
ing the midnight sky like finger!
Rubbish Brings Millions.
They are getting more money to-
day out of the dump heaps around the
mines than they mined from the mines
fifty years ago. Electric power today
is generated from rubbish swept from
our city streets. Garbage IL turned
into fertilizer that sells for fifty dol
lars a ton. Sawdust is turned into
fireproof flooring and dinner plates
and factories are run by gas general
ed from their own soapsuds. and the
blood of the bull eating grass in the
pasture today. by chemical process, Is
turned into button and they sew 1t
on my coat or on your dress. Aniline
dyes are made out Of coal tar, and Gig
arettes out Of cii~ctte stumps.
Why. they can go up an alley and
pick up a shirt that a billy goat would
pass up like a hobo would q woodpiIe:
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 fifteen million men in this
country over thirty years of age.
Twelve million of them had a common
school education; two million OF them
can neither read nor write: six hun
dred and fifty thousand Of them grad
uated from high school; three hundred
and fifty thousand from universities
and colleges. There is published In
this country a hook entitled WHO'S
who in America" 1t contains the
names of fifteen thousand odd men
who are in the headlight and spotlight
of their calling and of the twelve mil
Hon who had common school educa-
ton. one in nine thousand had his
name in that book; of the two million
that could neither read nor write, not
one: and of the six hundred and fifty
thousand that graduated from high
school, one in four hundred; and OF
the three hundred fifty thousand who
graduated from universities and COL
leges one in forty-two has his name
embalmed IN the pages OF that BOOK
Somebody asked me the other day
What is education?"
Here lis my answer: If you have
one better. | wish you'd give II To
me. Education is knowing what you
want, knowing where to get 1t. know
ing what to do with it after you get
It,
Boys Leave School.
Six million boys in the United states
drop out of school at the end of the
eighth grade--but wait! An etgh,h
grade education gives them nine hun
bred chances to one TO win. III thes
go on through high, it is increased 70
two thousand, two hundred chances
to win. II they go on through col
lege. 1t is increased to eight thousand
to one TO win: but many would rather
work and wear a clean collar at slo
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crawl into pair of overalls and
flannel shirt and 60 out in The coun-
try and work for s25 a week and call
IL wages. Hence, they hang and LOAF.
they hang around our cities and they
will get into bad company. until 81
per cent of the criminals In this coun-
try come from the cities. Nearly Two
hundred Thousand men and younE
men In jails. penitentiaries and re-
formatories are sent there from the
cities. Our cities are whiripools
where destiny hurts you on TO make
either of you n hero or devil
Boys, go to the country. On, learn
to be expert dairymen: help to save
the lives of two hundred thousand
children who die annually from i'm
pure milk: don't loaf around the cities
Just to be dazzled by the glitter and
The glare of the light Don't build a
character like a woman bakes a cake
heard n woman tell another woman
the other day how she baked cake
she said. II take some milk and
some -four and a little salt and some
butter, and little baking powder and
little nutmeg and l beat 1t UP to
a suitable consistency. If / want to
make a big cake take a whole lot
and IL want to bake~a little cake.
then l don't take SO much. Then l
put in some lemon or vanilla. and I
beat It to consistency, and then I
have a cake"
Oh, what recipe You let a wo-
man bake a cake with a recipe like
that and 1t will usually turn out good.
and the only reason that ! can assign
for II is that most women are good
looking and good-looking women are
/ lucky.
Can't Leave God Out
But you let a man try and bake
cake with a recipe like that and
you'll get something that's flreproof,
burglar proof and waterproof. The
trouble is you leave out some tnpor-
tant ingredient. That In the trou-
BILE! Here lot OF you are trying to
build character, but you are leav-
| ing God out; you will lose as sure as
you breathe. You can't build and win
without Jesus Christ, don't give n
| picayune who you are. You can't
win.
/ So, stick In your education: crowd
to your physical development. and all
that, but II you leave Jesus Christ out
! OF our proposition, you are gone. Don't
build q character like woman fixes
a sewing machine She'll grab mon
kov wraurh and a a&tovv drivAr and