The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-01-13

haps 20 per cent or 80 per cent
what they ought to be. But if sonil
we could sweep aside these eyerlast
ing contentious, these hates ana us
putes that waste our earth, and ge
TO work upon this educational propo
/ sition as a big business man gets C
work on a mineral deposit or the ue
veloDnent of an invention, instead OF
a 20 per cent result we might clahpei
TO an so per cent or a 80 per cent re
suit in educated efficiency. l ask you
/ 10 go through the crowded sIreels
of a town and note the many under
grown and ill-growh, che underslzeu
the iIl-behaved; to note the appears
| to childish. prejudiced and misshapen
minds in the shop windows, in the
advertisements, in the newspaper
headlines at the street corners, ano
then to try and think of what mlgh'
be there even now in the place of that
street and that crowd.
The wealth and energy were there
to make schools and give physical
and mental training to all these, and
they have gone to burst shells and
smash I'D the work of men, the or.
ganizing power has been wasted upon
barren disputes; the science was
there and it has been cramped and
misused; even the will was there, but
1T was not organized TO effective ap-
hlicati0n. And scarcely man in the
9Owd who begets a child, or a wo-
nan who bears one, but will dream
of it's growing to something better
than the thwarted hope it will be
cone.
Have you ever examined an air
plane Or a submarine, and realized
the thousand beautiful adjustments
and devices that have produced it's
wonderful perfection? Have you ever
looked at a street corner loafer and
thought Of the ten thousand. Oppor-
tunities that have been cast away
of saving him from what he has he
come?
When we follow this line OF
thought, it becomes clear that our
first vision Of worldwide net of
fine roads, great steady trains on re.
newed and broader tracks, long dis
lance airpIane tights of the securest
sort, splendid and beautiful towns. a
parklike countryside studded with de-
liehtful homes, was merely the scene
and frame for a population of we'll
grown, well-trained. fully adult hui
man beings. All the world will be
accessible to them, mountains to
climb deserts. TO be alone in. tropics
to explore in wonder, Beautiful nlaces
for rest And they will be healthy. and
| happy in the way that only health
makes possible. For surely it is not
news ia any one that score of hor-
rible taints and diseases. that weaken
and cripple us, number Of Infections
a multitude of ill-aourishesd and under
nourished states of body, can be com
pletely controlled and banished from
life, they and ali the misery they
entail-gIyen only a cougmOu effort
given ONLY human cooperation in
stead Of discussion. The large visible
material harvest OF peace is the least
harvest ut peace. The great harvest
will be health and human vigor.
And happinessr Think of the
mornings that VIII some day come;
when men will wake to read in the
papers of something better than the
great 5-arS wrangfe. of the starvation
and disorder of half the world, of the
stupid sexual crimes and greedy dis
hOnesties committed by the adult!
with, tia undeveloped intel igenCe o
vicious children of suggestions O
horrible plots and designs agains
our threadbare security, of the drear,
necessity for preparedness" Thinl
of morning when the newspaper ha
mainly good news, of things discover
ed. OF fine things done Think of tn
common day of a common citizen il
a world where debt is no longer
universal burthen, where there is cor
slant progress and no retrogressior
where it is the normal thing to wal
out Of beautiful house into a eliza
and splendid street, to pass and NEE
happy and interesting adults instea
!, of aged children obsessed by neglec
ed spites and iealousies and mea
anxleties, to go to some honorahI
occupation that helps the would fo
ward to still greater and. finer lie.
You may say that a world may h
prosperous and men and women hea
thy and free and yet there will sti
, be spites and jealousies and all tn
bitterness of disputatioR. but that
no more true than that there will sti
: be toothache. A mind educated an
cared for, quite as well as a bod,