Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-12
VON KLEIMSM|D
 TALKS ID LARGE
 AUDIENCE B.H.S.

Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid, president of the University of Arizona, spoke
 last evening to large and apprecia-
 tive audience at the auditorium of the
 High school on the subject of Inter
 nationalism"
 With few we'll chosen words, Prof.
 H. H. Foster, in charge of the summer
 session of the university here, intro
 duced the speaker, who discoursed for
 over an hour on the spirit of our pub
 lie school system in relation to it's in- fluence on the world.
 In opening his address, Dr. von
 KleinSmid said: "I am an Interna-
 tionalist because 1 believe that the
 spirit of Americanism will never re- main within the confines of the United
 States. There was a notable gathering some three years ago in Philadelphia. when a number of men gathered there to discuss the problem of organizing
 to preserve peace in the future.
 It was a representation of all po- litical factors and rligious creeds which showed that with the world wide conception of a necessary peace there was an expression of interna- tionalism.
 The League of Nations is the great est piece of internationalism before the American people today for their consideration, and it is a misfortune that such an expression of internal tionalism should have to be connect ed with petty narrow politics.
 There was a time when anyone with sufficient influence could get a job teaching school, but in those days there was no attention given to our social forces and no constructive work in Americanism was thought Of | Even in Europe there is not one coun- try which has a public school system | on such high plane as America and | they have no ideal of helping the | other people of the world such as the | system based on the true principles of democracy.
 There has never been such iusti- | fication of our school system as there | was during the past war when the principles of right and wrong were practiced by the graduates of our schools on all occasions
 We have taught the truth shall reign, democracy shall rule and autoc- racy shall die and with these prin- ciples instilled into our young lives there was no question of the outcome of Americas success in arms with young men who held to these prin- ciples.
 The church in our midst which is the most influential is that church which realizes most strongly its obli- sations to foreign missions, the state which practices it's belief in the sis terhood of states is the state which Uellds the most influence among other states in the nation and so that nation which is the most helpful to all other nations is the one which is doing the most good in the world today.
 "The big problem of American edu- ,ational work is theA fIsing of all of he strongest foreign characteristics nto an American citizen and so in the future there will be more tolerance in 'ur social problems and between capi- al and labor. |
 Tn our social life narrow minded politics are thing of the past. Our political problems will, be solved on a platform of sympathetic and human In our racial prob ems there is no question but that the ervice rendered to this nation by the legroes demand that they be given 'qual citizenship with us under the Stars and Stripes.
 During the war I believe that as whole the labor situation stood quare to the needs of the hour and ; apital furnished any number of s1 a lay men so that the solution of the , 'roblems between capital and labor is omlng more and more to be settled ; m basis of American democracy.
 ''The hope of the world is in the , American system of education which s teaching the ideal of Americanism or the benefit of the whole world