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The Value OF Education

To The Future Manhood And Wom-
anhood of Dorchester County
1t is related of Michel Angelo that
while walking with some friends
thru an obscure street in the city of
Florence he noticed a block of fine
marble lying neglected in the gutter
and half buried in soil and rubbish
Regardless of his holiday attire he at
once began clearing away the dirt
and striving to lift it from the mire
in which it lay. His companions Ill
establishment asked him what he was
doing and what ne wanted with that
discarded block of stone. There is
an angel in that block of marble"
was his reply and I must set it free.
He had it removed to his studio, and
by patient toll with the mallet and
chisel he transformed it into an angel
form of such beauty that men mar
veled at the thought that could
create a conception so devine, what
to others was but a rude unsightly
mass of stone, to his educated eye
represented the buried potentially
Of Art.
A mason would have put the block
into a wall; a laborer would have
| used it for a curbstone; but he great
| ed from it work of genius and
gave it a value that would endure
| for ages. Why? Because he was
educated in his special line of work.
1t was this that enabled him to see
the beautiful image in that rough
piece of stone which mis- companions
could not imagine.
| The avenues of appreciation of
art, music, literature than an educa-
ton opens to it possessors are almost
unlimited, and the finer things Of
life are not so apt to be lost sight Of
| in the mad rush for business SUI
| premacy
Education" says Varle els com
panion which no misfortune can de-
press. No crime destroy; no enemy
ALLEVIATE; no despOtism enslave, ct
| home a friend; abroad an introduc-
ton; in solitude a solace, and in So
eiety an ornament, without it, what
is a mana splendid slave; a reason
ing savage.
A True Education is awakening
the love for truth; giving jus;
sense of duty; opening the eyes OF
the soul to great purpose and of life
1t is not so much giving words as
thoughts or mere anxious, as living
principles. 1t is not teaching to be
| honest because honesty is the best OF
policy, but because it is right; it Is
teaching the individual to love tho
! good; to be virtuous in action, be-
cause so in heart. To love and serve
God not from fear but from delight
in his perfect character.
Education seeks to make the in
dividual or resource, of initiative, O1
| honesty and honor in whom the Wis
ion of truth is yelled with the power
of performing duty; in whom ten
| derness of heart for suffering is
Joined with capacity for moral indie
guation. 1t seeks to train leaders
intellectual, ethical, religious. civil
1t also seeks to lift the whole level Of
race to broader and clearer vision
to finer thinking and nobler apprecia
ton. An education is worth while
for the sake of manhood of the mar
himself Next in Importance of free
dom and JUSTICE" says Garfield al:
Education, without which neither
justice nor freedom can nre maintain
ed -
On behalf of the Washington
Camp No 1O1, P. o. S. of A. it i:
with great pleasure that we endorse
the Bond Issue for Dorchester cOun
ty for a larger and better high sehoo
to train our boys and girls to give
their best to Our God and Our Coun
try. One of the great pillars in ths
! foundation of the O. s. of A. il
EDUCATION.
Respectfully Yours.
Washington Camp 101, P. o. S. of q
Signed:
C. H CHRISTOPHER.
CHARLES M. PAUL
HARRY WILSON.