Evening journal., 1921-02-16
MASONIC MASTER
URGES SUPPORT
FOR EDUCATION
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opportunity FOR success In Ire.
These are the days OF the spe-
cialist, and It is the great function
OF the institutions OF higher learning
10 turn out specialists. Investiga-
tions made, and tables prepared,
show that the college-trained man or
woman has many more opportunities
than has the high school-trained
man or woman; just as the high
school trained man or woman has
many more opportunities than has
the grammar school trained man or
woman. Therefore, II. during my
incumbency OF the Office Of Grand
Master. / shall be able to do any
thing Of a substantial nature to for
ward the cause OF public education
in this State. / shall feel that my in
cumbency has not been in vain.
"lf during that same period. I
shall be able TO incite among the
members of our craft lively and
practical interest in the cause OF
education, / shall feel that my ef-
forts have been rewarded amply in
all respects.
Masonry. like humanity, Ian-
guishes in ignorance. Both flourish
beneath the benignant rays of en-
lightenment which has at its base in
this country the public school sys-
tenn in all its graduations leading
from the elementary grades up to
and including collegiate training.
MANY OF us TO whom the bless
ings OF systematized higher educa-
ton have been denied by force of
circumstance and who have been
compelled TO pass over the bumps
TO obtain. by absorption and other
wise, such education as we now pos
sess, cannot fail to recognize how
highly important it is to society that
the boys and girls of our State not
only shall be enabled to enjoy these
educational benefits which flow from
the elementary, grammar and high
schools, but, also those infinitely
more important benefits which flow
from our two colleges in Newark
namely Delaware College and the
Women's College Of Delaware.
Knowing those things, ] do not
think that it Ia necessary for me TO
emphasize the view that the Grand
Lodge and the subordinate lodges Of
Delaware can engage in no UNDER
taking more highly cOmmendable
than that OF assisting in the procure
ment Of such advantages for those
boys and girls and their proper
maintenance after they have been
procured.
"rhis is a golden era in the his
tory OF education. Never in the an
nails OF the world has education
figured so largely and so potently in
the worlds development. Deny TO a
child an elementary and grammar
school education and he or she be-
comes, in the broad general sense,
an economic cripple, but give to him
or her those advantages and supple
ment them with high school and
| college training and there are few
/ heights in life to which he or she
may not aspire under our democratic
form OF government in which the
survival OF the fittest counts for 50
much in our Industrial. commercial
professional and social affairs.
ITO me Il will be a happy day, in
deed. when here in our State every
officer and member of the Grand
Lodge; every officer and member OF
each OF the subordinate lodges;
every officer and member OF each OF
the Masonic bodies, no matter what
they may be, shall regard himself as
a volunteer missionary whose pleas
ant function Il shall be to promote
the educational interests OF the peo-
pie OF our commonwealth.
when say that. am not speak
ing OF any particular form Of edu-
cation under any particular form OF
law. To my mind. the matter OF
education IS much more important
than the manner in which II shall
be acquired. Neither Is there any
desire on my part 20 approach the
question in any controversial spirit
but merely to lay down before yot
the broad general principle that i
Is part and parcel OF the mission oi
Free Masonry in the State OF Della
ware to do everything In its power
to promote the interests OF popular
education. to the end. that the boy
and the girls OF our commonwealth
may lead better and brighter and
more productive lives and contribut'
their full share to the welfare o
I
society. not only in Delaware bu
also in the Sister States.
'It is a big field and big ques
ton. but the Masonic Fraternity is {
big organization-big in body, big II
soul big in spirit and big In purpos'
and in no jurisdiction should thos'
organic attributes be more marked
among ourselves and before tho peo
ple az large than here in the LITTLE
diamond state which was one Of thu
cradles of Masonry and Education IL
the United States OF America"
Continuing. the Grand Master
said:
''You. no doubt. all have hear
that ffty-one OF the signers OF thu
Declaration OF independence were
Masons: nearly all OF the frameri
OF the national Constitution and two
thirds OF the members OF the frs
! National Congress were brethren o
the mystic tie.
with such men as these IN con
troll OF the destinies OF the young Re
public. charged with the safeguard
ing and defense Of its present, an'
the promotion of wise regulations 4
perpetuate its future. is it not wei
assured that in that Declaration OF In
dependence. in that Charter OF Amer
ican Liberty and American Right
which has been the type and exam
pie for all liberty-loving nations. i
the legislation which launched tina
new idea OF a government OF tn
people for the people and by tn
, people. there were engrafted thes
high ideals. those principles OF abso
Lutte equality. the recognition of tn