Evening journal., 1921-09-01
LA W

I ness If the Government were organ
lied? The budget cannot do every
thing. At present, there are some
where in the neighborhood of 100
boards, commissions. departments.
offices, officers. institutions and
agencies. Each must have its own
office, its own equipment. its own
Office force. There is duplication and
overlapping Responsibility can be
shifted. If order is Heavens first
things now stand. Therefore. II
seems unnecessary to consume more
of your valuable time in discoursing
on this question. in order TO be as
sured that each one here believes in
and favors a reorganization Of the
machinery OF our State government" "
Urges Practical Training.
Mr.. Conwell viewed 'The Educa-
tional Problem of Delaware" from
number of unusual angles. He said
in part;
According to the popular notion,
education consists In school houses,
] ltdtAtIor DOOhot 0lDlO-
mas and like paraphernalia This is
one kind of education-the manu-
factured lSind-the kind that Mr..
Edison lately lambasted because OF
much poor workmanship; yet an in
| dispensable kind, but often not the
highest
Many things are greater than
what is commonly known as educa-
tion and II should not be costly be-
yond its worth. Religion is greater
"a soul anchor. IL has been said
that natural ability without learn
ing Is greater than learning without
natural ability. A plain illiterate
man who does the plain manual
work of the world and thereby helps
to feed and clothe the world is
greater both In himself and in his
service than the so-called educated
man who aspires to possibly need
less tasks. Economy is greater thar
such education without economy be-
cause IL co-Operates with work In
the necessary service OF the world
Plain solvency Is greater than such
education. Better a competency oi
dollars in the bank and the thres
RS in the head than a dime in the
bank with learning in the head.
For a State. except for its owr
life to incur debts and make appro.
priations that cause unrest and i'm,
peril either its own or it's citizens
easy solvency is not only doubtful
wisdom but sure unwisdom. Blu
this unwisdom has of late in tn,
opinion OF many lifted its ugly head
above the horizon in both State ant
nation.
did not President Harding and
Secretary Mellon but recent,
strongly advise Congress to post
pone the soldiers bonus, lest ma
tional disaster should ensue? Die
NOT our last Legislature in the opin
ion Of most thoughtful persons~ TAX
such a pace in appropriations that
il followed by n few more such Leg
islatures, would land us who know
where7
"As to the public schools, let at
tendance be compulsory and le
them be thorough in the funda
mentals-thus TO qualify the chill,
to transact the simple business o
life and lay the foundation for fu
ture culture in case he has the am
, bition and initiative to avail hlmsel
Of the start given him by the fun
, damentals. The difference betwee-
a public school, academic and col
! legiate education is mainly one o
= Quantity. And since the quantity Il
either case is small, there woul
seem to be no reason why the capa
tble youth cannot grow in knowledg
, from a small start almost as well a
from a start only slightly larger
And such in thousands OF case
! proves true.
"As to a college or a university
let us have college proportional
to the size OF the State. A univer
sity with its never-ending demand
for money. In a small State like Del
aware, Is unthinkable unless sur
I ported almost altogether by privat
p munifcence. II Delaware needs
= State university the State OF Me-
20 York needs fifty State universitie
e Many persons are in doubt about II
n being the duty OF the State 70 max
Q scholars OF its children any NOR
than IL Is its duty TO make lawyer
= doctors and preachers OF them. L,
d paternalism be limited; It tends {
- feebleness. dependence and needles
e cost The State cannot be expecte
10 to take over everything. Initiati1
/. and Independence tend to strengt
d even as the oak sends its root dee
c toward Tartarus by wrestling wit
@ the storms"