Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-14

pther, srSaat apd. Slittle men Of the
Hord. I eHAll through seQueation come
to .knolv myself mere thoroughly than
others know me. It will point out my
work end place Ia the world by pre-
sertins It to ms. It. will sharpen my
Judtnent for living proatably; be-
cause It is the u~peducAted or partially
edutated men WING waite life's hours
in activities chosen unlttsely, without
reeltrd Tor relative values Of .thtngs.
l.s stn ip Eaas boy Mho t 4,s,. e
how he came to sealize HI. itietAke.
Aealixee Aist4tc.
It was the .nfth ~anntXSteary Of their
eighth grade graduation day. RUDE.
unketnpt,. slpthfgat. waiting, lay. on q
grassy elope OF .. clay 'fead which. ran
under = railroad trestley Aldnk this
road q a delivery auto raced With it
self; slowing up son1eMh&t - II drew
nearer him. He pe4red 1t the driver
Irwin! Ne bawled out the name
hilariously. The young man stopped
the car. leaped out exclainaing:
Hello Rube, I hardly knew you;
I should have, I know. You always
s1a.tsa "a. Ct ,; your professional future.
'wull, | don't 80 - I like anything
| AAy UcILST. Vi.
Lake, it! Do: o really like it
What does your mother, say? Does she
Swuii, she might, I never tor
her"
"Rube, doesn't she know you are
living. or where Or anything"
"Wull Irwin. don't get SO blamed
excited. Who cares anyhow, Can't I
40 what I want? I belong to myself
I guess"
"Rube, il you only knew-you. don't
really; you belong to the cause Of hu-
ntAnity. You owe yourself mt onty to
one Derson but TO all people,"
you don't say!""
"Yes, the other people are working
tor your existence. And even now II
you aid want to work you would have
a hard time securing 4 job because
80 many better men can b4 had"
Better Inen!" he scoffed in an I'd
1lke-to-know r1anf6r. What do~Eou
call better men anyway"
why, educated. men, mem"
'eEdhcntion Me Eye"
INDICATION mo eye! I'm getting
the best kind Of edjieatien by travel
in. Schools don't cut no ice."
"Rube, you never were what they
Call Awful Get ia your opinions and
you VIII change 'your mind when I
tell you what schools have done for
me. OF coufte every person should
give himself an education, but I'm
talking now just about that eduea-
tion which other people give one. You
stopped being educated when you
were Just beginning to know what 1t
was like. You have spent these five
YEAR, loahht And growing sonie-
but not growing in the mind. I don't
want to Drag, but I'm really. Rube,
proud Of my five years SINCE We saw
each other last. So ID mother. The
first year I worked at Aliens Ind sav-
ed enough money for al my freshman
year in high school. The next sum
rner l worked there again, The sum
fner after that 1t Mike's. Then I krad-
Yated with three years work. I made
more that summer because I was go
INT to college. I made "a good begin
nihs>--And I am right now earning the
money for next years work. RUDE,
you have missed tSti-you Ethave no
idea how much. Some Of the subjects
I took wer6 new. a. up-to-date a. any
thing else in the world; we'll, It all
keeps You up.to.date. I mean, in the
mind; ana the old subjeets, you have
missed lots th4re too. How can you
learn them travelling? How can Heu
learn history travelling. Rute?"
"oh, I don't know as that is 30 i'm
portAnt,. anyhow"
Bot It is--we should know the his
tories OF other countries, but pArticu-
larry that 81 our own country, to keep
up i~ntelii9ently with present history
we shopid want to-"
"Wull, I don't particularly"
HI4 S,hA ~ Il 3HIsk 10 ,,o%, ,,A,A~ k~S%~
missed. half your education by not
StudSinS civics; ii everyone thought
as little Of hts country we would not
Ihave I country at all; We would not
deserve either. You have no idea
Of all the benefits you are getting
from your country. Education would
bring you. to realize it, and teach you
the biSfess of your. debt, and the way
to repay It; by being a man, and do
ing a mans work. Education would
make YOU a big man, a god Of the
earth"
eyes, go on.r /.
"A god Of the earth il d person with
big thoughts, thoughts for humanity
thoughts that come only after realix.
Ing the magnitude, the needs and the
progress OF humanity; which the av.
erage person cannot get by travel; and
which travellers cannot always get be.
cause they haxe,.npt 4 foundation IL
education in the first, place. The labor.
ers Of the earth have become the god.
Of the earth, because thEir mass o.
knowledge gathered through the age.
has become the POSSESSION of late,
laborers, who can labor with wisdom
akin, to the gods. An uheducated per.
son seldom earns 4 respectable livinl
nowadays because he has not Learned
how, st because the better men arr
given hrst chance; ana you know,
ought to knew, Rune, that that is 1
person's ntst duty; to do some WORT
in the world. That Ii only honorable
Then you mean Tn ne honor.
able &"
care 50u Rube e',
g. never thought 81 1t before-no
not II honorable means. that"
Fine, EubA, you are honeSt, ant
want to b honorable. You only nee(
an education TO make you think y
Wall. Irwin, I see that IL one wa,
yours Elected you"
Thanks Rub4."
NO I thank you. I'm going home
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