Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
PROF. mariner OF
COLBY SPEAKER AT
.kIWANIS MEETING

Pror. Ernest Mariner. ,ihr.r;or -
SoIoy College. was the speaker at tho
MiWanls meeting Friday evening at tho
.ln .e, Hotel. Prof. Mariner smoke
on Inc teachers Responsibility" and
sue a very interesting and plea sing
h,. "hich was thoroughly enjoyed
part: ne salo In
10 all readers Of newspapers tho
MeihieJohn controversy last summer 10
iainiilar: ana In its was involved some
VI the important academic principles
which are now subjects of controversy
IN many sections of the country The
principle of academic freedom. To
whom are We responsible? Not to the
stuoents' but for them: not to the pa-
rents, not to the public not to the
eluIcn although the church is at times
y.ns 10 make 1T seem so. not to the
alumni of college or school although
.hey are very liable to consider that
~ should be so; not to the trustees Of
the college as they are rot trained
men put are business men who employ
trained men to do the teaching far
theh; they are not scholars and have
no right to pass on scholarship. Not
10 the state, for the state makes rs
ana may destroy us: but if it makes us
at all 1t must make us free. Eyarv
free people knows that its state Is en-
instrument Of its will which must 10
constantly studied and examined
which must be kept true and made ever
more true to the purpose which it
serves. 1t follows that no free people
Will allow its state to restrain its
scholars or Its teachers. But the teach
er is responsible to truth and to his
FELLOW scholars. Liberty is not Ii
cense and America must have loyal Cit
liens as we'll as intelligent ones. In
the state of New York now is the only
real intelligence test that is being an
plled to prospective voters. But even
then some of the best minds are not de-
voted to loyalty to country. We hear
much about the way history is taught
in the schools and there is great deal
or pro-British talk. but it is better
that the boy or girl of today should
understand that there was divided
opinion in Washingtons time and that
the world was far from perfect then
than it is to believe that everything
was smooth sailing then and that the
country has been growing worse since
YOUTH must learn and must recognize
established facts, for there is no
thinking without something to think
ABOUT. Many of the young people of
today have not learned the essential
facts of history and science and of the
Bible. The present is eternally related
to the past and history is not bunk,
although Henry Ford does say so.
Fords idea of currency is being
shown to be failure in Germany and
has been shown q failure wherever it
has been tried. The patent office re-
fuses to consider machines which are
supposed to be perpetual motion ma
chimes. as history and science have
shown that such a machine is impossf-
BILE; but socialism, which has been
proven just as impossible, is constant
ly being advocated just as perpetual
motion machines are being made by
ambitious inventors. To young people
freedom usually means wild oats, but
they have to be taught a different con-
ccption of life. and is described by
Carlyle, Manhood begins when We
have in any way made truce with ne
cessity, begins even when we have sur
rendered to necessity, but begins joy
fully and hopefully only when we have
reconciled ourselves to necessity and
thus in reality triumphed over it and
felt that in necessity we are free"