The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-13

man may receive UNUSUAL nOnOT, lndt
will pass away There is only one
thing that remains, that is the spirit
and th' morals, hat W. set through
the artis.'c. Beer can We afford TO
SEQ the shysciapers Of New York
'.estroye9, the bfnks of this coun-
try hr wcath of this culntry, than
TO destroy the art. And then he
went into details and enumerated if
we should endeavor to destroy the
great spiritual forces. a great many
other things we would have to de-
s;roy. The Sistine Madonna. the Ma
donna and Child, etc, and when you
have destroyed all, what have you
left?
He discussed the nude in art, say
ing l have been asked many times
to express my opinion about the nude
in art. | do not know that | should
do that, but | will say just this,
| am inclined TO believe that there
mas been more harm done with the
nudeness of the language with which
it is discussed than with the nudeness
of art.
One outstanding speech Of the con-
venton was Ex-Governor Harding's of
Iowa. While he was governor OF Iowa
he did more for public schools of that
state than possibly any other COVER
nor Of any other state in the union.
He said | got my inspiration by going
out with the state superintendent into
the rural districts and spending two
weeks visiting country schools. When
he went into a community and saw
how public schools had left the chm
munity and the church had left the
community, he made up his mind
that in order to have a great country
we must take the country school and
church back to the people of the coun-
try. And that was his chief duty dur
ing his term Of office
He compared conditions when he was
a boy with the present conditions and
said things have changed wonder
| fully. ut used to be that a man
sat down in his home in the evening
and read the newspaper and his wife
took up some flour and sugar and
cup Of butter, etc, and she baked.
1t is different now. The wife discusses
politics and the husband takes two
cups of hops.
He gave this definition of an edu-
Gated person:
The best conception of an educa-
ted person today is an individual whose
mind is trained TO enjoy and appre-
ciate the noble things OF hfe, whose
hands are trained 30 do some useful
labor WELL whose body is sy1nmetri-
cally developed, whose heart is at
tuned to the highest impulses and
whose patriotism is grounded on the
fundamentals of our form of govern
ment.'
Manual Labor Not Degrading
His speech was an inspirational
speech. 1t was an excellent speech,
and one thing that struck respon-
sive chord in every heart present
was this: 1--WE must teach every
child in all the schools Of the country
that manual labor is not degrading.
Education has been of a nature 10
cause children 10 feel that they must
get an education in order to have
clean hands and wear 4 white collar.
We must teach children all labor is
honorable, and ! think that is the
conception each and every one OF you
should try 10 give"
The next outstanding speech was
by DR.. Marion Leroy Burton Of the
University of Michigan. He was an
outstanding speaker two years ago
in Chicago. He is practically a young
man yet but he is the highest paid
college president in the United States.
He was very careful about mis-
speech this time. and said that he
was going to make this speech and
expected TO be misunderstood. II is
n happy frame of mind for a man to
be in. TO know he is going " be
misunderstood when he makes a speech
He said l must speak to you with
the brutal frankness of blood rela-
tive. He said n paper got hold OF that
statement once. and said He spoke
with the bloody frankness of q brute
relative
Dual System Of Education
lie discussed the dual system OF edu-
cation in the United States. The sys-
TEN that has been maintained At
public expense, and the system main
tained by private endowment. The
privately endowed school. or private
ly operated school had advertised
widely TO the public that their schools
were superior, in that they train for
leadership. He said they have pro-
claimed and have advertised fully
tha, the individual child has oppor-
tunity and is allowed TO associate
with select groups, and that larger
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