The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-08


David Worth Dennis Junior high |
school were held Friday night, fol
lowing a half hour concert by the Nor
ton high school orchestra
Members of the council, officials of
the school system, parents, patrons
and students, and those who had a
part in the work of constructing aid
planning the building, were special
guests at the exercises. About sou
persons attended.
The principal dedicatory addresses
were delivered by Paul c.. Stetson,
superintendent of the Dayton schools,
and Benjamin Burris, state superin-
tendent of public instruction in In
diana.
I'VE should dedicate ourselves to
the wonderful opportunity this school
will afford to the boys and girls WHO
will derive the fine benefit from its
facilities" he said.
Children going to school today
have considerable leisure time, hui
they have all kinds of facilities to
make good use of it. They have the
best of gymnasium equipment for
physical development and athletic
tanning.
I'VE expect children to learn litera-
ture and to love reading. To love
reading is one of the great qualities
of man A school of this kind insures
opportunities to all the pupils to take
u porchestra work and to rise to the
height which members of the Morton
high school orchestra have attained.
The local high school orchestra is the
best / ever heard"
The child, with it's chance to take
up many things during its leisure time,
will grow up to be much more am
bilious man or woman. The opportu-
mites are offered by this junior high
school.
Address Of Mr.. Burris
The address of Mr.. Burris follows:
There was time when the protec-
ton of life and personal rights were
regarded as the only function Of the
state. Later, the protection OF prop
erty and property rights became an
added function, but as popular partl-
cipation in political control developed,
more and more there was the need OF
expanding the function of the state
from that of mere negative restraint
to a persistent attitude Of encourage
ment; to the end that an inward de-
sire to render service to the state
might supplant the necessity OF forced
obedience. That this broader concep-
ton of the duties of citiZenship-the
love of country-has taken firm root
was manifest when so many Of the
| flower of our citizenship willingly
rendered their services to protect the
state and nation at a time of threat
ened disaster.
tatn sah t1 ftHTn nd
keenly alert to it's broader purposes
and opportunities will not suffer itself
to be directed in it's action by popular
pressure, but will lead the way in the
development of citizenship to the
highest possibilities. The degree to
which the state may lead in program
for greater economic, social and poll.
teal Improvement Of all classes de-
ponds upon the enlightenment Of the
state and the character of its leaders
The adoption by the state of the wise
policy of equality of citizenship in all
classes carried with it the RESPONSE
bility of offering adequate means for
efficient training for citizenship;
moreover, of compelling its accept
ance.
i Education Advances
i Whatever part natural selection
may play in the development Of the
j human race, it remains man has made
advancement as he broadened his edu
cation, developed thought, reason, and
|; judgment and applied these in adjust
, ing his conduct to his environment
By education he has been able to sub
stitute in part, artificial selection fol
natural selection. 1t is in this thai
, man differs so fundamentally from
, plant and animal
''As the citizenship of the state
; grows NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. greater
self-control-turns from the line Of
: least resistance and sacrifices imme
; date desires for future rewards-tc
that extent the state will make pro
| gress.
Progress Of State
THE economic, social and politica
: progress of the state is dependen
upon the education of the citizenship
upon its power of self-direction WheI
people of a state have failed to de
velop the power of proper self-control
self-direction, and have permitte,
vice, luxury or social classes to de
stroy the social equilibrium of tn,
state, then the state has come t.
naught. In such cases, and history il
! full of them, the state failed to con
) troll an institution for which it wa
responsible, and was swept away Fl
nally by it.
AS it has so often ben said: 'Ou
safest guide for the future is the his
tory of the past That government
which permits its citizenship to grow
up without proper training for eff
cient citizenship, which permits com
!, mercialism or militarism or class ia
voritism or any other ism or al
forms of civic vice and corruption t
go unchallenged and unsolved, vii
!, sooner or later be forced to relinquisl
control of the pilot wheel of state an
drift into extinction.
Need of the School
"The greatest force to divert sue
; disastrous end is system of school
: directed by force of teachers matur
in age, broadly trained, deeply intel
ested, sound in thinking and efficien
: in action, and who are SO keenly aler
that they can sense and see the prot
, able trend of events and shape tn