The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-10-28

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Education Lifts Living Standards
America must educate the Asia
tic, the Hawaiian, the Filipino
Educated, these natives demand
more in the way of clothing, food
etc. Their standards of living
are raised and they are capable
of earning enough money to sup.
ply their increasing desires. "The
Filipinos are hungry for an edu.
cation" said Senator Wheeler.
"They realize the value of an ed
ucation far more than does the
average American school boy or
girl, and they will perform the
most mental tasks in order to
have a chance to go to school.
The s%everest punishment you can
mete out to a Filipino boy or girl
is to take them out of school"
In the Philippines they are very
proud of their schools and of their
hospitals. The Senator does not
consider the Philippines a great
asset to the United States at the
present time, since the govern
ment is spending about twelve mil
lion dollars on the islands annual
ly, and would have to spend much
more if they were fortified. But
he believes that there are untold
possibilities in the Philippines for
marketing American products and
that the faster the natives are ed
ucated and put in a position to
produce more than enough to pay
for a bare existence, the faster
will that market open up.
"You do not find Intoxicating
liquors being served in the homes
of the natives in the Philippines"
said Senator Wheeler, "The ma
tives know that in that hot elm.
ate they cannot stand drinks of
this sort" There are saloons in
Manila, but it is the foreigner
who patronizes them--the Ameri-
can, the British or the French.
China Exploited BY Chinese
"It is not the Americans nor
the British who have exploited
China, it is the Chinese themsel-
yes, the government officials" he
said He told of the great CON
trast between the lives of the
poor in China and of the wealthy
classes. He said that there a
hundred dollars in tax money to
be sent from Shanghai to Pekin,
he was told that by the time it
had reached Pekin, it would have
lwindled to ten dollars. Each Off
cial through whose hands it pass
I'd, would have taken his share.
Materialism, greed, graft and
ignorance have reduced China
rom the proud position she oc-
thousands of years ago, as
he seat of the finest civilization
md culture of the world, to where
he is today. Rome met the same
ate for the same reasons. If the
United States would heed the
warming and avoid a similar fate,
here must be a great moral and
piritual awakening among her
eopIe. Law violation which has
ONE to be a matter to be treated 3
must become again the
erious thing it was in the days t
f the infancy of the country. The 7
raft and corruption which has
into the very innermost
of the government, must be
prooted.
Urqes Youth To Study
It is only by understanding the ,
onditions that maintain among l
le people of many of the other /
ountries, that Americans car !
ealize how favored they are to :
We in the United States. The l
merican people should love their
ountry above their party. Sena-
,r Wheeler's talk was in no sense a
o%litical. To the high school stu
ents. he emphasized the fact that
thin a few years the govern b
.ent of the country would be in g
leir hands, and charged them to t
: open-minded, to find out things =
II themselves end to place prin- n
pies above party organization. t
e spoke of the potential world e
.arkets that would be opening up d
nd of the positions there would t