Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 5

» SPIRITUAL FORCES URGED BY COOLIDGE President Sees Necessity for | coolidze spoke as folows | | Factor in Education; Speaks ¥ at Brookings, S. Dak. __(Continved from First Page.) with great emphasis. in support of Drogressive community can afford to neglect the education of its People. cation of scientific knowledge by per- ns technically trained in all the affairs of life has come. Any neglect in this direction would mean at once staznation. decay and failure. It impossible for any community (0 hold its piace:in modern society unless it is fully equipped in the educational field of arts A sciences and rve- search.” Library ¥ The President said that in his epin- ion of the most important ele. ments which has come to be allim- portant in modern education is the librar: Vital. one beral education may hegin in the classroom.” he added. “but it will scarcely rise above mediocrity unless it is extended into the library and by that means hroadened into the practi- cal experience of type. The President then paid a high trib ute to the memory of Abraham Lin- coln, referring to him as a great mas- ter of English and saying that Lin coln's place mevely in the realm of literature such that it would he eminently fitting to dedicate any i brary to his memory. He lauded Lin- coln education, especially agricultural edu- vation. declaring that he performed a mighty service to the country when he assisted the cause of vocational education by his advocacy and approv al of the measure which established what are usunally referred to as “our ite agricultural colleges Stating that much is to be expected from Ameri education and Ameri can institutions, the President said the object of Lincoln was not ely 1o instruct men to raise move to feed more hogs to get more n on expanding the ¢ cle. but to raise better men. Stay Is Brief. The President said in conclusion that while Lincoln did not fail to place a proper emphasis on the cultivation of the physical world, he thoroughly understood that this must be supnie- mented by a cultivation of the inte]- lectual and moral world “within us.’ “There must be more emphasis given to the development of moral power and the institutions of learning must teach not only a sincere educa- n but character,” the President de- elared. “We must maintain a stronger. firmer grasp on the principle declared int psalms of David and re-echoed in the proverbs of his son Solomon, that “the fear of the Lord is the be- &inning of knowledge.” The President’s stay in Brockings occupied less than two hours. Follow- ing an enthusiastic demonstration at the station, the presidential train resumed its long journey to Wash- ington. F. T. STRAYER CHOSEN TO HEAD VETERANS’ BODY Foreign Wars Encampment Elects Him Commander-in-Chief—Wash- ington Men Honored. PROVIDENCE, R, 1. September 10 UD.—Frank T. Strayer of Indianap olis was elected commander in chief | of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of | the United States at the closing ses- sion of the twenty-eighth annual en- campment of the organization yes- terday. He succeeds Theodore Stitt of Brooklyn. Indiznapolis was chosen as the place for the next encamp- ment. Special Dis to The Star. PROVIDENCE, R. 1. September 10.—Capt. Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr., was reaprointed chairman and W ash- ington 1epresentative of the national legislative commitiee, \Veterans of Foreign Ware, at the encampment’s elosing session esterday. Another Washingtonian, Capt. Roh eort B. Hany h as re-elected auar- termaster @cneral. The council of administration, meeting immediately after the close of the encampment. gonfirmed the appointments, Both men are members of Walter Reed Hospital Post. Capt. Bettelheim s been legislative chairman for the ast seven terms. Among the resolutions adopted was ene calling on Congress to provide adequate National Guard armory for the District of Columbia. It was urged that the old Pension Office build Ing be used.for this purpose. Head of Steamship Line Dead. NEW YORK. September 10 (P).—F Liuvd Sanderson. president 6f the Elleiman Wilson Line, Inc, the American b of the ilson Steamship Live. died here yesterda £t his home afie: an illness of si weeks. He wae 34 years old. MuUSIC "Domingurz znd Zelaya, Stars on Pan-American Progzram. The concert of Latin American sic at the Pan-American Union last night of the artisix because of before Liien Of the A= Dom prano Pen-Ane mlina = ngs. The “La Garden rd the words of the SOng W oce written by Senora Domin- guez's hisboud. She plaved her own :;unmm ments except in i Viejo Amor.” unen she was accompani by the Ariy Band, > i Senor Alfonso Zelaya, son of the for- mer President of Nicaragua, is a pian- ist of exceptional ability. He. played with masierly technigue and the spivited and noetic interpretation of the folk sonzs of his country were novel 2nd appealing. The light SW.NZINE Deauty of the “Danza Ale gre” was especially appreciated. The sonats. “The Pan American Union." was interesting and was played with brilliant effect. This number was Senor Zelzya's own arrangement folk songs and was played for the first time in this countr: The Army Dand played a number of South American compositions and for the first time plaved apt. Stannard's arrangement cf the tone nosm, “Ave Libertas,” by Migue This was an unusual. but not particularly beauti- ful number. bcing rather heavy. Several marimba solos. by Technical Sergt. John Bauman of the Army RBand, wera greatly enjoved and the audience liked his playing of Rufino's “Romanza.” Solos Ly was' ot spr wiho ial interest hacause ware soloists and weveral conmostiions never iy, Milta Yharra snlendid o soloist at the o fre Arsenio Ralon violinist, and trur- t solo, by Thomas ¥. Darcy of the Army Rand. with other num- bars by the hand. complated an inter esting program. Miss Trances Gute lius plaved the accompanimen: Senor Ralon R. D. P. The day of the exact appli- | | from time to time to make a careful | of | TEXT OF PRESI By the Associuted Press BROOKINGS, 8. Dak., September 10.—At the South Dakota State Col lege, Brookings, dedicating the coln Memorial Lib President Iy fellow countrymen: | “We meet here to dedicate another | !vnn-nle to the cause of learning. To | reach their full effect the buildings {used for educational purposes must lassuma the character of. temples. One of our learned men has told us that *We do but go where admiration leads the way.' Unless we aproach our places of learning in that spirit | we shall never veceive their full bene- 1 fit e South Dakota State |gives every appearance of reached in a full measure this posi- tion. We can usually measure both | the desive and the appreciation that | exists for the advantages of this life by the sacrifices we are willing to make to secure them. It is evident that in South Dakota this determina- {tion has a very sirong hold upon the {veople. Whila this was to be ex- preted. for this is yet a land nf‘ | pioneers who have come here in ve. |sponse to a desive to improve their condition. yet the progress they have | made is nons the less astounding. Tt {is true, of course, that althou is a comparatively new community, it has been nurtuved under all the advantages of modern science and in vention., which did not accrue to the older parts of our county in their early beginnings. Yet when we re- member that South Dakota has been | {admitted to statehood less than 40 | vears, that anything like a real sett'e- ment has been going on less than 4 | vears, that during this short period | many thriving cities have arisen, lonz lines of transportation have | been built, an adequate educational | | system has been perfected, a hody Co'lege | having | £t 1 so for his interest in promoting | 1aws has heen developed. a vast agri- | tillers of the soil by declaring that ‘No al empire has arisen. a method | of local and State government has been built up. the administration of | justice has heen made effective. and. | in short, a great American Common- | wealth has been established. we can | not fail to stand in respectful admira tion for a peapls whose courage and ability have been crowned with such | remarkab’e accomplishments. But this | is onlv typical of the gzrowth and progress of the West. and the West is only typical of the growth and progress of America Opened 43 Years Ago. © | “Perhaps there is no better example of this wonderful development than | your own Siate college. It was opened 43 vears ago today as a pr aratory school with 35 students | Since that time it has veached the proportions of a college of agriculture and mechanic arts, with an envoll- ment of about 1,400 students. During this short interval it has attained a {rank as an educations! institution in {its field scarcely less than that which | was secured by some of our eastern universities after nearly two cen turies of existen 1t is a mighty | inspiration to realize that American communities have a capacity which is demonstrated by their record for the | accomplishment of such wonderful works. In cominunities such as these the | cause of education has never failed | to hold a very high place. Of course, the people in their daily life would ®ive their first thoughts to religious worship, but in the affairs of gover ment education has come to be pr: dominant. The importance attached to it is signified by the large propor- tion of public money which is devoted to its support. In the country at large it is probable that well toward three- fifths of all loeal taxes are expended directly or indirectly for education. ‘We hear very little eriticism of th amount of monwy that is used for th purpose. but it is undonbtedly well | cultu investigatior of this very large item, ! not so much to attemipt to reduce jt as to make certain that all wastes| are eliminated and that the commun- ty is securing full value in return for its large outlays. No progressive community can afford to negiect the education” of its people. Considered on the basis of economics, their devel. opment depends very largely on the scientific learning and skill with which their efforts ave directed. The day of the rule of thumb is past. The da iof the exact application of scentl! { knowledge by persons technically [ trained in all the affairs of life has come. Any neglect in this direction | would mean at once stagnation, decay |and failure. 1t is impossible for any | community to hold place in mod- ern society unless it is fully equipped | in the edurational fleld of arts and sciences and resexrch. This solid and | substantial institution is incontroverti- | ble evidence of the devotion of South | Dakota to these principles. Hope In Books. ! | coThere has been a_long-standing | controversy over the question of what constitutes an institution of learning, | especially a college. Some contend it | is the trustees, others the faculty, still others the student body. I suspect [ these. and the better the quality nf} { ®ach the hetter the institution will he. But there is yet another element pch has come to be a'l-important | modern scholurship Thit is the ibrary Whila the teacher is the in- | strumentality and the directing force, to a very large extent, for the train irz of vouh and the diffusion of | nowledge. hooks are, after all, the re- | [ posiiory of Jearning.” Without them | the wide scope of modern scholarship | | would. of course. be entirely impos- | | sible and no collega would feel itse't adequately equinppad for the hest ser ich was not provided with a well chosen and extensive library. Books contain not only the priceless records of the past. but they are to a large ex- tent the hops of the future. By means | of them we hive “evealed to us the in- | mn- | 1 vance for 2,000 vears. | no mere figure of rhetoric intended { millions of dollars. 'THE _EVENING It DENT’S SPEECH ventions and discoveries of science, the brauties of poetry and the imper- ishable thouzhts of the master minds of all the ag A liberal education may hegin in the classroom. but it will searcely rise ahove mediocrity un- loss it is extended into the library and that means broadened into the ctical esperience of lif “Wea are dedicating this library with its incstimable treasure of learn- ing to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Tt 18 well known thut in his early life he had Jittle opportunity to coma in contact with hooke. He had almost nothing that could be dignificd as schooling. While it is true that there is a very large field of education that lies entirely outside of books. vet books are the foundation of all edu- cation. It is waid that Lincoln walked miles to horrow a book. and the few which he had he studied until he had mastered them. No one could have become the grest master of Knglish which he was, the 2uthor of the Get- tysburg Address. the Emancipation Proclamation and the second inaugu- ral address, without a profound ac- quaintance with many hooks. His place merely in the realm of litera- ture is such that it wonld he eminently fitting to dedicate any library to his | memory. But there i« a special veason | fer placing his name on the lhrar: | of one of the land grant collsges of our States, i Interested in Agriculture. “This great Presidant had a pro found interest not only in education, hut in agricultural education. He de. livered an address in 1859 before the Wisconsin Stats Agricultural Society mn which ha said. ‘Free labor insists on universal education.’ In the same address he then set out his belief in what has come to be known as indus. | trial education. saving that ‘Heads and hands should co.operate as friends.’ and expressed his opinion that this should he applied to the other human accupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agree. | able_combination of lahor with culti. vated thought as agriculture.’ He¢ also declared his helief in scientific efficiency by adding. “The thouzht recurs that education — cultivated | thought—can he best combined \with agrigultural Jabor, or any lahor, on tha principle of thorough work. i “Here was a man who had heen brought up under surroundings where the tilling of the soil was carried on | by methods which had made no ad In fact, the husbandman of the days of Lincoin's | hoyhood was the husbandman of the | days of Abraham. The great change came with the application of ma- | chiner When Lincoin was speaking, this was almost entirely of the horse drawn variety, but the steam engine was coming into move diversified use | and some attempt had been made to | use it for plowing. 'The general ap- plication of chemistry to soil produc- tion had scarcely been applied to the farin. The fact that in those sut roundings and under those conditions he was able to vision agriculture as |one of the learned professions is an- other of the many indications of his | supreme greatness. Land Grants Supplemented. “In the case of Lincoln perhaps it | is unnecessary to say that this was | only to serve the purpose of platitudi- nous oratot but the ression of a sound and mature conviction which he believed to be practical, and. should ! occasion offer. one which he would attempt to put into operation. The opportunity came to him svoner than | he may have expected. During the administration of President Buchanan the Congress had passed a hill provid- ing for a grant of land in the several States to establish educationa! insti- tutions in agriculture and the me- chanic arts. This bill had been vetoed, Tt is said that Jonathan B. Turner was the author of this measure, and that before he was nominated Lincoln had told him that it he were chosen President the proposal would have His | approval. Representative Morrill of Vermont, later Senator for many years, fathered the bill in the Congress and it bears his name. It was passed and signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 186 Under its provisions 30,000 acres of public Jand for each of their Senators and Representatives in the Congress were given to each State to be used for the support of a college of agriculture and mechanic arte. Under the terms of this law the States have established these institutions. which in the past 50 years have played | such an important part in the agri- cultural life of our country. | “These grants of land e heen greatly supplemented by direct appro- | priations from the Nationa! Treasury, until under laws now in existence the | annual appropriations made by the | Congress for this purpose run into All of this is the | realization of the yision of Abraham Lincoln, which may have come to him as he rods the circuit over the prai ries of Tllinvis, or as he went up and down the State in the conduct of po litical campaigns. Tts material and spiritual efféct upon the well being oi 1| that it is the combination of ail of | our country is beyond estimation. Farms Vital to War. ( “Wa should all of us remember Lin- | coln as the great emancipator, the | President who guided the Nation | through four vears of internal con. | fiict, who demonstrated beyond future | question the national quality of our | institutions and the indestructibility | of our T'nion, who removed forever | from our soil the stain of human slavery. and who possessed a God given insight into the hearts of the ! American people. But thess elements of his greatness should not be pe: mitted to eclipse the mighty servic which he rendered to the cause of vo cational education by his advocacy . and approval of the measure which | established what are usually referred to as our State agzricultural colleges, | This apartment house book: The only “‘apartmen down quie let. . Select size and t you wish f | wish we will gladly | terested in. 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So many went person increased and the pre pive into the World War that much caution should be exercised in of them a ,decisive influence. think it is entirely within reason v that me from the impossible to see how the w have been won. never have been furnished without the ¢ i directly American he hand of Abraham Lincoln reached t over the hattlefields of France and!matter of dollars and cents, rather | was one of the turning the seale of v ‘But these colleges are not only becanse of the economic re | sults which have but even spiritual benefit in tha domain of land and the various products of the soil. WASHINGTON. D. €. SATURDAY. amount of production for {even more important infuence. Our employed hax been sofwhole country is yet comparatively juctivity | voung. We have been drviven by so xreatly stimulated. | necessity to giving a great deal of at vast agricultural em- | tention to subduingz the forces of ni between the Alleghenies [ (ure. It has been necessary fo create which has furnished | anew on this continent all of the in We have seen by *“Ihis and so varving elements {our : anals to lay winning of the gre: railroads, and -our out, our mines and manufacturing to 3 put into operation. our banking and #signing to any one [commerce, as well as onr agriculture, But 1|to organize. an our political and our 10 [xacial problems 10 solve. All of these without the supplies that have made necessary a great supply American farms it i«lof material resources for their crea- - could | tion and support. Those supplies could | ; | Spiritual Thinzs Needed. “We have heen excessively seeking for information that could be | turned to practical advantage in the how to wanted heen to | the busy | son our the will nev of the ity for production which is cable to the influence of agricultural colleges. | decisive factors "tory in [ than for that wisdom guide us through eternity. important {er educational which would | Our high- | institutions” have turned cheir thonghts especially to tha sciences, and our secondary schools to vocational training. How important these are in my estimation will appear m what [ have already said How poor and weak and gen- accrued from them hecause of their They are of great more value. but in SEPTEMB of those have been neglected he expect and Americ conceive that the obj ] Lincoln | | | hogs, to get more money land, and so on in the expanding cle as the siory goes. corn. but his ma whole arts will never them the outw spiritnal reality. learning are real temnle to he approached by our attitude of reverence, consecrated by worship of the truth, thes v 10 19 the muoat nations among wh 1s by no means all | 1 from Amers n nstitutions. of was merely (o instr raise more corn Of cc men to ra 0 object m raise better men to teach world and lose Al of ou er remove us superficial and the will never give us a civilization culture of any worthy and lasting im- | portanca unless we are able to see in | rd_manitestation of a | Unless our halls of | which are vouth in an | n edy ruct nst his eyni under their inspiration|the domain of thought they have an erally ineffective we shoulil be with out these advantages cin he at once al ohservation they is to cation 1 ean not Abrahaim men to feed more 0 buy more e he <o more have We come hack 1o the query that is contained in tie concentrated wisdom of the ‘What shall it profit a man if he gain own science and all of | he the means for true advancement of our Nation. | rom the sphere al | nd 2 will all end {1n & delusion [ institutions of learning must The Information that them will simply city for evil. Our he ded The life i® ucquired in vide a wreater cay 1wated to # higher purpose of our Nation must rise 1o a realn Knowledze Not Enous “There is somethin; ing and somethins a mere knowle ce. a acquisition of wealth. a mere strivin for place and power. Our will fail in their duty to their students unless they are able to inspire them with a broager understanding of the spiritual meaning of sci of liter ature and of the arts. Their =y aies will go ont into life poorly equip ped (o meet, the problems of exisience. to fall an easy prey to dissatisfaction nd despair. Many of our older uni versities were founded by pious hand at great sacrifi r the express pur pose of training men for the min istry to earry light to the people on the problems of life. 1nless onr col e wraduates are inspired with these idea pur colleges have failed in their most important function and onr ple will be lacking in true culture Abraham Lincoln, who was the most spiritual of our Presidents. had a true appreciation of this principle. more in learn more in life than 5} “In closing the address 1o which T have referred he expressed his helit that, * * = by the hest cultivu- tion of the physical world beneath and und us and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure i individual social an ! pros and happin cour be onward and . and which. while the earth endures, shall not pass away “While he did proper emphasis the cultivation of the vhysical worll avound us, he thorenzily undersiood that this must he supplemanted by a enltivation of the intellectual and moral wer within us. The human soul will al- wavs rebel at any attempt to confine M to the physical world, Tts dwellins place is in the intellectual and morat world It is into that realm that all true education should lead. Unlexs onur schol hip. however hrilliant i to he barren and sterile, leading tn- ward pessimism, more emphasis must the development of one moral power. Our eolleges must feach nat onlv science but character. We must maintain a stronger. firmer zrasp on (he principal declared in the Psalme of David and re-echoed in the of his san Solomon, that £ the Lord is the bezinning not fail place i he given to Woodmard X Lothrop 10th, 11th, F and G Streets Semi-Annual Selling of Chinese Rugs - Al Much Less Than Regular Prices But for only Six Days More Chinese Rugs, famous the world over for their luxurious beauty, are offered in this selling in such a galaxy of exquisite new de- signs and in such a variety of beautiful color combinations that any effort to describe them seems futile—you must see them to appreciate their glorious colorings and handsome appearance. 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