The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-01-07
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
Proposed by the Palm Beach POST
Pericles

Pericles
Just because ladies and gentlemen,
careless of their laundry, hair and
finger nails, and not too particular
about asepsis as to their ears and
necks, get up in halls and holler
about the unholy pleasures of the
proud and pampered plutocrats and
the undeserved pains of the plucked
and plundered proletariat and sug
gest a general all round divvy as just
about due and exceedingly desirable,
we must not get the idea that all So
cialists are a NANCY, mouthy, mean
ingless set. If we do we would do in
Justice to a lot of the finest people
now living and we would overlook
Pericles, who was the greatest dandy
of all antiquity and the man who
gave such dignity and distinction to
socialism that the time he lived is
called the golden age of Greece.
Pericles was in fact a true demo-
crat, although some of his practices
would be called socialistic in these
days of wide departure of democratic
practice, from democrat precept.
Master at Athens at a time when
| Athens led the world. he used his
power to develop the people, being
clear enough and broad enough in
mind to know that the state grows
with the people-no faster and IN no
other way.
1t is the spirit alone that is worthy
to endure. This can not be doubted,
for man who has dominion over all
things lives and dies and is forgotten,
except as the ideas he expressed and
developed give him immortality.
While the few remaining examples of
that host of public works of marvel
Gus combination of beauty and utility
with which Pericles filled all Greece
are crumbling away, there remains to
us and to all who come after US that
wonderful idea that this enlightened
pagan expressed for the good of the
Greeks and of all people else who will
but seize it and harness it and put 1t
to work, as those wise Athenians did
Said Pericles: "The state is the
people. What is done for the state is
done for the people. The service OF
!; the state is the highest service, the
) most honorable service, the most ex-
acting service. Therefore, every
workman who stands forth from his
craft as the best in his line, every
man who shows supreme talent to dc
anything, every genius, every wizard
every leader, should work for the
, state"
Fortunately not only did Pericle:
: have the inspiration to express thi:
/ idea, he had the power to develop it
Accordingly he searched Athens anc
: all her dominions, far and wide, fol-
: men and women with bright mind:
: and cunning hands to enroll in the
: civil service. And he found them IL
= such numbers and of such degree thai
2 the time of Pericles set the high wa
+ ter mark of human attainment IL
2 athletics, architecture, building. phil
:. osophy, oratory, government, trade
: commerce, music, art and the drama.
: Apply this rule of the Pericles' sys
i tenn to the public service of this da!
t and we would restore the rule of tn
: people to its rightful position of su
t premacy-for the state is the peopl
: and the people alone have the RICH
S to rule.
e We might make start, by picking
S men for office who are qualified TO
0 the particular duties of each office
We could train men for the publ
o service in our public institutions. N
Y greater work than this could be add
o ed to our university extension work
We are now training farmers. VIII,
|. not train sheriffs and tax assessors
: We would be less vexed by removal
a and hearings and executive investiga
$ tons.