Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
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Education Minus Honesty


Once upon a time, as the story
books say, there was man with
six sons. He had little of this
worlds goods, but was blessed with
that rare combination, good health,
good sense and good-sized determi-
nation to do the right thing.
He was not an educated man, but
he wanted the children to have the
best sort of common school edu-
cation and to Finish" in the technical
or literary school that best qualified
them for their chosen work.
AT home all of them had the same
advantages, just a common country
was not saying much. But that
father and mother always managed
to keep the children in school the
three or four, or later, the six months
term.
Then each boy reached the place
where he had to quit school or go
away from home to finish, his father
brought out a little blank book that
he had labeled, "My Boy's Promises"
He drew up a contract to the effect
that the signer thereof, Isaac Spencer,
we will say, as that was not his
name, would give his father and the
younger boys labor or money to equal
what his time was worth while he
was in school. Those boys were be-
living and an honest mans promise.
The result has been family of good
men, we'll educated and well equipped
for the sort Of life that each one
desired, no misfits, no "hand-to-
mouth" living because there was no
trained mind nor skillful hand to
execute the idea. 1 suppose L should
conclude this story of this six sons
by saying all married and lived
happily ever after" But facts are
stubborn things, and the truth is
just as ordinary life shows it--some
made good husbands and are train
ing their children in the right way,
some are getting rich, some haven't
even what their first years promised
them. One wheedled his way through
early life and says the world owes
him a living. He's the socialistic
member of the family, and expects
the others to be glad to divide with
him. Of course, he never has any
thing that he doesn't need.
often think of that family when
the people argue about some of the
world growing richer and the others
getting poorer The rich man is
not always heartless, nor is the poor
one always the sort to go straight
to heaven. 1t does not always help
child to lift him over the rough
places in life. The sturdy climber
more to his little world, and the
thought that want you to get out
of this is that when you equip a
boy or girl with an education and
the technical skill necessary for
them to carry on a life work you
are doing more for that boy or girl
than you would If you laid up mon
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The soldiers that come home from
the army are better equipped for
lives of usefulness because they
have been drilled. have had the
training of mind and body and those
who have chosen a term at school
will be just that much ahead of
those who have only the forty acres
of land. Understand me, education
without habits of industry is men
ace to the world, the educated thief
is worse than the one who knows
only how to break open barn, or
rob dwelling. The shark who
writes the plausible circulars to
make you exchange your Liberty
| Bonds for get-rich-quick schemes is
| worse than the man who holds UP
while the victims of the other arc
few.
full in little things" If our light
is but small, may it's tiny beams
shine afar. into the paths of others
and help them to, avoid the pitfalls
of temptation and evil Let us not
scorn the. little duties and little
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