The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-06
WORLD THOUGHT
NEED IS URGED
INTERNATIONAL IDEALS TAUGHT
TODAY WOULD BE EXEMPLIFIED
In FUTURE

San Francisco, Cal.-The school OF
today must prepare the young citizen
to participate in world thought,
world events and world understand
ing, Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, state
commissioner of education and chair
man of the foreign relations commit
tee of the National Education as
SociatiOn,N Augusta, Maine, declared
here in addressing joint session OF
the N. E. A. and the World confer
ence on education.
IF it were possible to set up a
series of national and international
ideals and to teach them faithfully to
the children of today" DR.. Thomas
declared, the world tomorrow would
exemplify those virtues in it's inter
national relations.
World relationship has changed
in a decade Modern invention and
discovery have diminished both time
and distance. Nations are now
thrown into one community and must
live together as though huddled upon
one street. In the days when the
nations were separated by dreaded
seas and almost impossible noun
tains they were able to get along
In primitive way without unlver-
sal touch; today nations must live
together. Each nation has some
thing which will add to the convent
ence, prosperity and happiness OF
other nations, and that thing, whether
1t be food or raiment, or music, or
art, or literature, or machinery, or
invention, or opportunity in thou
sand forms, must be available to all.
No nation can live unto itself alone
"The shadows into which the
world was plunged by the great war
still linger and no nation however
strong has escaped those shadows.
Many there were who expected ma
tions to resume their normalcy
Immediately upon the close OF the
war but that was not to be, six years
are not enough, nor will ten years
suffice, nor even generation. IN
fact, normalcy will never be as II
was The old days are gone and
a new age is come. The old conven-
tions are left behind and new ones
are to be formed, but it takes years.
even generations, to establish GUS
toms and conventions. Normalcy
when it comes, whatever it may De,
will be an entirely new standard.
More and more we are coming TO
the school and to assign
to it greater values and require OF II
q larger service. Leagues of nations,
world courts, peace treaties, educa-
tion conferences have desirable ele-
ments and help the world to live To-
gether but before we can estaplsn
them in their fullness OF their ser
vice to mankind we must nave the
nroper fundamental and ssp1rltual
values and those spiritual values must
await the longer processes of educa-
ton.
"Not of one country alone, must
nerson be a citizen but he must as
sumo a citizenship of each, world
This citizenship must be
on international conscious
ness We must have an internatlon-
al heart and world mind rms
world mind is largely an attitude or
habit of thinking in the larger unlt-
as regarding the nations as cooper
ating parts of great whole.
"We do not seek to destroy natloh-
al identity but rather to increase the
respect of each flag and to help make
that flag a real symbol of national
worth, to increase the prosperity, CON
tentment and happiness OF the people
who live within it's shadows.