Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-17

to wealth. However large a mans
income, if he and those dependent up
on him have not learned to make one
dollar go almost as far as two, he will
never be prosperous,
The State must have citizens to man
age its affairs. If these are intelli-
gent the interest Of the individual cit
and of state are not likely to suffer.
As administrators of the public affairs.
as guardians of public honor, as pre-
servers of the public peace, these men
must be intelignt or else the old ships
of state is likely to be driven upon the
rocks. j do not think we could have
a better example of this fact than that
Of the proceeding administration.
The Statemanship which enabled us
to hold our ground and the splendid.
yes, brilliant record of the worlds war
was almost entirely due to intellect
ual education.
Intellectual education will preserve
the race of man. AS. we become more
acquainted with the laws of health.
we become more careful with our body.
All around us are human beings vast
ing away with diseases, all of which
can be traced back to some violation
of natures laws by somebody. IgnOr-
ance of the laws governing our own
physical well-being has q far reaching
effect upon the national life.
Industrial education teaches the dig
nifty Of honest labor. When man
has been educated in this direction.
he becomes as willing to handle
spade as a pen; When man has beel
educated to the point that he will
put brain into the ordinary vacations
of life, by the et' rial law that in
tclligcnce will bring to its possessor
its own reward, that man can not hui
ha prosperous. Poor houses are MOI
built for Industrious men, police are
not employed to watch men and women
whose hands are busily engaged in
honest toll The men and wOmrE
Mhn vii w0fk are the 0ner who in
! the course Of time will become wealthy
and Independent. In the same rpopor-
tiOn will the state become wealthy and
independent
Moral education has 70 do with the
training of the heart. TO whatever
extent the other faculties are develop
ed, however strong, wealthy and learn.
ed the man, If his heart is not right
lie can not be prosperous in the tuest
and highest sense OF the word. WheI
you educate mans heart you make
him recognize his moral obligation, hi,
own rights and the rights of others
If the heart of men were right, jails
p2nitentiaries, lawcOurts etc, would bt
useless. Every crime committed cai
be traced back to some violation o
the moral laws by somebody. ViSi
the places of punishment and ther,
YOU will find intelligent men and Others
who have fallen because of some de
feet in their moral training or In tha
Of others. You have stood in tn
court house when men were being triC,
for their lives. And after the tria
YOU have listened as the Judge in hi
solemn manner pronounce sentence O
death upon the prisoner before the ba,
, One more citizen cut off from the stat
doomed to eternity, one more famil
somewhere bowed In grief and sham,
one more vicious history for the child
ran of our country to read, fc,
more hundred dollars for the state
, pay as the cost of the prosecution
( Educate the hearts of the citizens an
4, these scenes will cease to he enactet
II Crime is deadly opposed to democrac!
, Democracy, friends can not exi,
= where the hOrrid monster crime raal
, lis gigantic head. God speed I'll
day when the wave OF light and jrls
|, ice shall radiate from the Golden AZ
# or Reformation.
If Developed all these three lives {
|, ducation, intellectual, industrial an
}, moral and the democratic spirit wi
l. come into the lives of each citizen, f
/. democracy has no prejudices, 1t do'
d not ask the color or condition of Il
q person seeking 1t; hut to all mankir
A. II speaks alike, In no uncertain tol
p ana says, Develop all the poweI
y of mind, body and heart given you
n God, and though you are white ;
10 snow, though you are as red as crii
N son, though your skin he black ;
Of midnight, you will find me near
rt hand.r
With this before us ! think we ca
W begin to understand in what rcspe
id democracy is related to education, II