The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-31
The School Teacher, The Leader

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seemed about to perch upon the banner OF the Coonists
and filled Engands King with anxiety, great English
poet wrote the King not to fear; that the Nation
trying to form itself into United States could do
this The territory too vast, too unrelated too
organized to cohere without ruling monarch He
reminded the King that the general framework OF the
young Government was built upon theory OF popular
sovereignty, with individuals the of political
power and the poet prophesied that nothing but anarchy
and dissolution could follow such theory unless mir
acle happened"
And then a miracle did happen. Fulton invented
the steamboat and the steamboat made OF the lakes and
rivers lanes tor commerce and Accommodation;
Stevenson invented the locomotive and the engine turned
the unrelated stretches OF land into highways Morse in
vented the telegraph and harnessed ether into power
tor the diffusion OF knowledge and personal intercourse
Our age added the wireless and airships and the
Eastern shores kissed the Western and the unorgansed
lands became space and MIR Coeridges prophecy
was q ailure-in the presence OF Providence
But these united forces wdened the great hermit
American Nation into becoming part Of 'he Parliament
OF the World, which Tennyson in vision in the early
Victorian age. Air dominion shriveled the hitherto i'm
passable ocean barrier into toy canal "Kismetv said
said the Turks at is ate"l
Out of such combinations must either in
ternationa League OF Nations headed for peace and
peaceful relations, international league of dscord
with perpetual petty enmities Out of Germanys chaos
must come new heaven and earth There is no
going back. Never again America be a hermit Ma
ton. Her craft is out at and in mid-oc Who
shall guide iR
Groupings OF foreign elements-of labor and capital of
strikes and greed OF and class ignorance of
hate and gospel Our hearts would melt within us for
fear our great did recognize that these terrible
things are the wild oureaching OF the masses for
thing better than they have known some conce-
aed good that is dmly perceived but gnorantly sought
after Differing angles Of vision not conducive to
oneness OF spirit. Something must be found, SOL
vent, some common denomination to which all these
varying opinions may be reduced. What shall il be!
Political investigaors-and by political ! do not
mean pothouse politicianshave lately begun discov
solvent, a soenoid vehicle non-partisan
political denomnatona believed and revered of all
hepeope and capable of influencing all classes groups
the little red school houses that dot the and-the only
institution in the world devoted primarily to children
Better salaries for teachers! Yes Not out OF any
consideration at all for the teachers but out of highest
reverence TOR the children and the Not better sal
aries for every teacher but better teachers for every sal
ary picked teachers highly organized and highly equip
ped teachers Not better salaries because in fairness
teachers need more money but money because the
state needs higher class OF men and women with
conservation to the ministry of teaching nerve BRAIN
more hear more purpose OF state and civic
stewardship than ninetynne- onehundreth OF our free
rural school teachers and officials have. The teach
er OF tomorrow deserves money because he she
should have expended more money more labor, more
time, IN preparation tor servece than has nearly OF
the teachers OF to-day Fine civic economy and wise
craft calls for revolution in the teaching busness-calls
tor great sweeping out OF old stock and replacement
ers should go into cerkships behind into
sewing rooms or into workshops and the and women
who are to hold the world Supward the school,
roomsshoud be subject to examination rigid
the old Scotch Presbyterian Assemblys examination into
the church-thougb along pedagogical lines. +. c. ID.