The Monroe journal., 1922-02-07
SOUTH RESERVOIR
OF AMERICANISM
DIR. Eaton Says That Nowhere
Else in This Country Are Pure
Ideas of the Fathers Found
AMERICAS GREATEST NEED
Ii Is Intelligence and Character Among
Its People and Only These Can
Prevent Disaster in the Future.

Mere information is not education,
declared DR.. Charles A. Eaton of
New York, speaking last night in the
First Baptist church as a guest of
the Chamber of Commerce, TO a small
but intensely appreciative audience.
Education, he said, is the ability to
coordinate and use ones whole pow
ers as unit, and the spread of in
telligence and character through ed
ucational agencies is the supreme
need OF America today. The homoge-
neous people Of North Carolina where
only one per cent of the population is
of foreign birth, cannot realize the
terrific significance of the over
whelming foreign populations north
OF the Mason and Dixon line. and DR..
Eaton called upon the South TO come
to the aid Of the North in solving
the problems growing out of these
facts.
DR.. Eaton Is Canadian, an old
friend and associate of DR.. Burrell,
who introduced him to the audience
last night. He said that the reason
why the people of this section had
at once become so fond OF DR.. Burrell
Is that he as Canadian is Just like
the people OF this section who are
the composite product of Anglo-Sax-
on ideals. He further stated that it
was refreshing for him TO come to
North Carolina where everybody
spoke English and where they were
still dominated by the purest ideas
Of original Americanism to be found
on the continent. The South, he
said. must be reservoir of such
ideals from which the remainder of
the country must draw help and
inspiration.
Every people who had contributed
much to the worlds progress, Dr.
Eaton explained, had been dominated
by a genius for some great intellectu-
al or spiritual idea. Thus the Jews
had genius for religion and first
gave the world the idea Of one god
and the moral unity of the universe;
the Greeks had genius for art and
taught the world the love of beauty;
the tal5nt of the Romans was for ju-
risprudence and the lawyer of today
always finds himself digging down
into Roman origins in the practice OF
law. The Anglo-Saxons. compos-
ite people build upon the union OF
two small tribes OF Northern Europe,
has always had a genius for self gov
ernment and have given democracy
TO the world.
The spread of democracy has re-
suited in all power being finally lodg-
ed in the masses Of the people and
the preservation of civilization de-
pends upon the building up through
the intelligence, charac-
ter, and stability of the masses. Sta
tistics showed. DR.. Eaton said, that
only four and one-half per cent OF
the entire population Of the country
were educated in the sense of being
fully able TO coordinate and direct
their own powers, and to these he ap-
pealed to accept the responsibility
Of leadership in restoring that sense
of self discipline and responsibility
for self government which is the key
stone of Anglo-Saxon Americanlsm.
Go to any big news stand in a
large Northern city, he said, and you
would find twenty foreign language
and one English one on
sale Four out OF five newspapers In
thc hands Of people on street cars in
New York will be foreign language
papers. There are mere Italians IN
New York than in Rome. more Irish
than in Dublin, more Jews than were
ever assembled together at any one
time or place in the worlds history.
And now the Northern sections are
confronted with negro settlements
and there Is more hostility to the ne
gro up there where such settlements
have been made than there Is in the !
South. All this means, ne said, that
We are soor to be governed by class |
IS and warning factions who know
nothing of orderly self government, |
by the consent of the government,
legally and orderly expressed through |
parliamentary procedure, which is
the essence OF Americanism.
DR.. Eaton speaks in Charlotte to-
hight. He came here under the aus
,ices of the Chamber OF Commerce,
md is devoting his whole time to the
of ideas so forcibly and
expressed here.