The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-03


And folly of an evil time
There is no need of war to prevent
US becoming a nation Of weakIings
while our firemen, policemen, sailors
miners and others are constantly risk
ing their lives to save those of their
fellowmen.
One of the nations great poets, who
no longer sings, has well met this false
theory,
Twas said: When roll Of drum
and battles roar
Shall cease upon the earth, o, then
no more,
The deed, the race, of heroes in the
land,
But scarce that word was breathed
J. when one small hand
Lifted victorious. DER a giant wrong
That had its victims crushed through
ages long;
Some woman set her pale and quiv-
ering face,
Firm as a rock. against a mans dis
grace;
A little child suffered in silence lest
His savage pain should wound a
mothers breast;
Some quiet scholar flung his gaunt-
let down
And risked, in Truths great name,
the synod's frown;
A civic hero, in the calm realm Of
laws,
Did that which suddenly drew a
worlds applause:
And one to the pest his 1.-THE young
BODY gave
That he a thousand thousand lives
might save
With all of our false ideas OF educa-
lion and citizenship and patriotism
there is still the germ of higher ideals,
which, if it is controlled by the better
laws Of our nature, will ring out the
,alse, ring in the true
From Ruskin we get a most inspir-
ng conceit of what can be accom-
3lished by the development OF each Of
our qualities to it's highest degree. He
cells US:
Perhaps the best, though the most
amiliar, example we could take Of the
nature and power of consistence will
)e that of the possible changes in the
lust we tread on.
Exclusive of animal decay, we can
hardly arrive at a more absolute type
Of impurity than the mud or slime of a
lamp, over trodden path, in the out
skirts of a manufacturing town. do
aot say mud OF the road, because that
IS mixed with animal refuse; but take
merely an ounce or two of the blacklist
slime of a beaten footpath, on a rainy
lay, near a manufacturing town. That
slime we shall find in most cases COM
posed of clay Cor brickdust, which is
burnt clay), mixed with SCOT, a. little
sand and water. . Let US suppose
hat this ounce of mud If left in perfect
,est, and that its elements gather to-
yether, like to like, so that heir atoms
may get into the closest relations pos
sible.
Let the clay begin. Kidding itself
If all foreign substance, it gradually
becomes a white earth. $ Leave 1t
,tin quiet, to follow it's own instinct
II unity, and it becomes, not only
White. but clear; not only clear, but
lard; not only clear and hard. but so
ct that it can deal with light in q
wonderful way. and gather out Of it
he lovliest blue rays only refusing
he rest. We call it then a sapphire"
The sand feeling its law of develop
nent, become first, white earth;
hen proceeds grow clear and hard,
md last arranges itself in mysterious,
fine parallel lines, which have
he power of rejecting, not merely the
3lue rays, but the blue, green, purple
md red rays, in the greatest beauty in
Which they can be seen through any
lard material whatsoever. We call II
hen an opal
I'm next order the SCOT sets to work.
I cannot make itself white at first;
nut, instead Of being discouraged, tries
arder and harder; and comes out
lear at last; and the hardest thing in
he world; and for the b1ackness that
: had, obtains IN exchange the power
T rejecting all the rays of the sun at
nee, in the widest blaze that any
old thing can shoot. We call it then
diamond"
without the purifying influence of
ull education energy becomes the
6urce Of evil. passions, thrift degen-
rates into parsimony and greed, pa
rSatism leads to chauvinism; econo-
nv turns TO NlBSaTuIlHSSs, Il worthy
ride into hauteur and disdain, laud-
bic ambition drops to political Chi
anery, and wise councils revert to
ema gogism. What a mass OF mud is
made of such a mixture? The sap
hire, the opal and the diamond were
lot developed from the mud without a |
ons tedious and determined effort of
ature, and we will not change evil |
assions and habits into the higher viz
ues unless we as a people go through |
he grinding process of higher educa-
ion. Manual training will not do it. |
either will physical development. |
avs TO make men moral will not ac- |
onplish it. Education, higher educa-
ion. education without stint or limit, |
8 the only force that can separate |
he mud OF our complex natures into |
Is respective parts and crystalline |
hem into the most perfect type of |
nan. citizen and patriot. Devote this |
uilding to this high purpose, and |
nese ceremonies, instead of a dedica-
ion, become conservation. Ye have