Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
YOU AND UNCLE SAM
Series of Educational articles Telling Corern
ment Is Organized and How 1t Functions-Written
Expressly for School Children.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY
shington Great Education Center

President Coolidge in recent
speech emphasized that America has
but one great staple product. We
till the soil, we operate our industries.
we develop transportation, we en-
gage in commerce, we encourage the
arts and sciences, but these are only
meansyto an end. They are all carried
on in order that America may pro-
duce men and women worthy Of our
standards of citizenship"
The United States-which you have
seen in previous articles in this series
was the first real democracy in the
world. and is today the oldest form
of Government that has stood the
test of time unchanged-has set a
shining example for all the world in
the matter of well balanced moral
and intellectual training of it's peo-
pie, as well as encouraging the de-
velopment of a sound mind in a sound
body De Witt Clinton calls attention
to this when he says: I'm casting a
view over the civilized world we find
a universal accordance in opinion on
the benefits of education, but the
practical exposition of this opinion
exhibits a deplorable contrast. The
fundamental error of Europe has been
to Sconfne the light of knowledge to
the wealthy and the great. More just
and rational views have been enter
tanned in the United States. All men
being considered as enjoying an
equality of rights, the propriety and
necessity of dispensing, without dis
tinction, the blessings of education
followed, of course"
Chance For All.
1t is eminently fitting. then, that
the seat of government" or Capital
City, Of this model nation-the only
city in all the world designed eXclu-
sively for the conduct of a nation
business-should have grown into a
great center of education. 1t is emil
nently fitting that youth from all
over the land can come to the Capital
and while working as page boy in
Congress, or running an elevator in
the Capitol, or as a clerk in some
Government establishment, or even
driving a public taxicab, can have
opportunity to fit himself for any
profession, for foreign service, for
any chosen line of science, or to add
to his general mental development
Many men holding important admin
istrative positions in the Capital
climbed their way up from office boys
One great advantage about acquir-
ing an education in Washington is
thaL the youth Is always III the his
toric atmosphere, with an opportu-
nifty to see just how any particular
| line of education works outflow the
Government operates; what is done at
a great medical center such as Wal
| ter Reed Hospital, and with access to
| the unrivaled Army Medical Museum
and library; the practical application
of science to daily life as Is seen in
| the Bureau of Standards and the Blu
| reau of Chemistry; how the basic
| rights Of a manufacturing concern
are safeguarded in the Patent Office
how geography is kept up to date by
| the photographic Office and the Coast
| Survey; how the judiciary system is
maintained, and how the Supreme
Court interprets the Constitution and
| the laws of Congress.
Many Opportunities MT Hand.
These are illustrations given al
| random of how a student of govern;
! ment, of medicine and surgery, Of
science, in any branch, of business, Of
| law, can not only see the practical
application by experts, but can ever
have a part in the application BY
| working in some particular branch Of
Uncle Sans great workshop thai
specializes in the line of work he i.
! studying to fit himself to do as ar
expert. Thus the youth gets the bes
| possible education-theory from tex
| books and classroom going hand-in.
hand with actual work. II. he /.