The Cordova daily times., 1919-04-02
INTELLIGENCE
 IS BEST KIND
 0FDEM0CRACY

SPOKANE, April 2.-"Education and Democracy was the title of an address mare here today by J. E. Jew ell, dean of the University of Arkan- sas, before the Inland Empire Teach. CTS association. He said in part:
 "The only democracy thinkable is a democracy of intelligence. Nothing else is possible.
 Tt is not true that all men are born free and equal, it is not true that you may make tman free by fiat A glance backward shows us that man has enhanced his political, social and economic status only as he has worked out his own salvation by means of an accumulating intellect.
 'It was because the more intelli- gent negroes discovered this law to be inherent that Booker T. Washington founded his school at Tuskegee. No man has been more outspoken in re. inforcing this psychological law than Dr. Washington, who spent long life preaching to his people, on every possible occasion, that only by acquir- ing a higher degree of intelligence could they make themselves in any way functioning members of Ameri- can democracy.
 Every great movement this earth has seen has been lost if leaders have failed to appear to retain their leadership. It is no accident that the epochs of the worlds history are largely named after individuals It is hardly in figurative sense that Wash ington is called the father of his country, and Lincoln it's savior. Con- sider the events that have transpired in Russia within the last few months. A revolution came almost over night, but it was not fortuitous It came only because the leaders of blind people had paid the price through generations and had given their lives to make easier the course of freedom for the masses.
 Democracy cannot be won by mere revolution that proves success full The only democracy thinkable is democracy of intelligence. We realize now very clearly that Russia is loot for generation unless it finds men whose supreme intelligence shall make them supremely powerful
 "If then it be true, as I confidently believe, that the only possible democ- racy is that of intelligence, what can we teachers do about it? Just this. We can assert in season and out of season, that we can not get and pro- mote intelligence to any marked de- gree except in our schools
 "So far as our country is concerned, at the present time, we need two things, it seems to me, in the way of bringing about an intellectual democ- racy through the medium of our schools and our teachers. We need a universal training of our children in civics, and we need uni versal training in thinking. In the first place, we need a universal teach ing of community civics so that we shall not longer require food directors and coal dictators, and the like. It is evident that our coal barons have not yet learned that over;charging is trea- sen. The people at large have bet :, ter right to live than coal operators have to swollen fortunes. And the ultimate consumer will have to learn that for a man to cheat a railroad is just as reasonable as for railroad to defraud a man.
 we should learn that community civics begins at home. Each member of each household has certain rights and each has corresponding duties If our children learn these in their plastic age it will do much toward in- surfing proper standards in adult life.