Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-01
Dr.. Muaruder's Lecture.

d. Wd0TuQEr kECLurEs
~ DR.. Frank A. Magruder OF the fact
l. lty OF the University of Oregon, Do
u tor of Philosophy of Johns Hopkil
University, and lecturer and write
f Ut reputation, who has been visitin
= his aunts, the Misses Donaldson, b.
fore going on a tour of France, Be
Igium, England, Scotland and Switze
) land, delivered scholarly lecture o
"The Ideals of Citizenship" at the Meth
odist Church here Wednesday evening
Speaking in part he said :
l can ideal is an idea for whic]
| one is willing to make sacrifices. Yo1
have farmer neighbor, who sacrifice
all comfort to add acres to his farm
you have another neighbor who mort
Igages his home for an automobile
another who sacrifices his business fol
an old fishing hole another who sac
rifices her virtue for good clothes
and l recently heard hobo say he
| would give his life to see the approach
| ing prize fight.
columbus had an idea for which he
was willing to make sacrifices it be-
came an ideal. The ideal soon enrap.
tured the Italian. The ideal became a
dynamo, his brain motor his body a
locomotive, which carried him ulti-
mately to two great continents.
William Lloyd Garrison suffered
prison and threatened gallows for
an ideal The thirteenth amendment
to our Constitution resulted. Frances
Z. Willard suffered ridicule for an
ideal, The eighteenth amendment to
the Constitution was the result Many
Americans are willing to sacrifice to
the ideal of the more glorious America,
but what makes a country great /;
thoughts or things
Some ships sail east,
Some ships sail west,
BY the selfsame winds that blow
IL lne SET OF the SAIL,
And not the gale
That determines the way they go.
LAS the ways Of the wind,
Are the ways of Fate,
AS we journey along through life
It's the set of the soul
That determines the goal
And not the calm or the strife"
The ideal for which your parents
and your teachers have been sacrific-
ing is a greater America that is, al
country of great citizens. But what
makes country great thoughts or
things? Surely our future greatness
should not depend upon things because
things may quickly be destroyed-by
moths, by rust, by flood, by fire, by
earthquakes, or by war but thoughts
can replace them. have seen 4 ma
chine made by the thoughts of men,
which, by pressing button, strikes al
blow equal to the combined muscles of
a hundred thousand men. The United
States Of tomorrow is in the minds oil
its students of today. Thoughts rule
the world !! Things are mere servants
to thought +; therefore, the greatness
Of the nation depends upon the direc-
ton Of its thoughts.
Citizenship means membership in
a state, and state like any other or
ganization is as great as its members.
Every member must attain his or her
greatest value if the state is to attain
its greatest value and glory. To use
hlpllng's expression :
II amt the guns or armament,
Nor the tunes band can play,
But the close cooperation,
That makes US win the day.
1t amt the individual,
Nor the army as whole,
But the everlasting team work
OF every bloomin SOUL
Il think we are all agreed that edu-
cation is the foundation of citizenship.
Train child in the way he should 60 :;
and when he is old, he will not depart
therefrom
There are three kinds Of people
those who sacrifice the present for the
past e. G. ancestry worship of Chinese;
those who sacrifice the future for the
present, e. G. take the cash and let the
credit 60 ; and those who sacrifice the
present for the future, e. @. parents
who sacrifice the present labor of their
children for their future happiness.