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with care, casting out any prejudice w hen w eighing problem s; striv in g
only to see w hat is rig h t, w hat is tru th , in the m atter, for th at will be
best for all the people of the nation all the tim e. T h e tru th is alw ays
rig h t, and rig h t is always best—can we but locate the exact tru th .
Good citizenship dem ands of us that we m ake an effort to know the
tru th in m atters im portant to the nation.
M any of our readers are voters today and th e fu tu re prom ises the
ballot to m any more; to those of our young readers who are some day
to vote we ask in all seriousness th a t they give due and im partial co n
sideration, w hen the tim e comes, to those questions upon w hich they
cast a ballot. By voting ig n o ran tly one may do irreparable in ju ry to
a ju st cause. T he good intention of those ignorant or ill-inform ed will
not com pensate for the harm they may do by voting on questions which
they do not u n d erstan d —possibly at the dictation of som e-one of sin is
ter m otives. Can you not see the necessity of keeping well inform ed
on tile questions of the day?
A X I N D I A N M E C H A N IC
T h e first Indian to come to H am pton In stitu te, in Y a., as a work
student w ith no help from the G o v ern m en t- was C harles Doxon, ‘89.
A fter six years he had m astered his trade, and won an academ ic d i
ploma. T he following sum m er he found em ploym ent in ru n n in g a
high-speed engine, and after two years he entered the New Y ork C en
tral Railroad Shops. H e took a course in n ight school in m athem atics
and d rau g h tin g and was advanced until he was one of the eight highest
paid m echanics. H e was elected a m em ber of a New Y ork S tate labor
union, although he was neither a w hite man nor a citizen, the national
convention ru lin g th at his life of independent self-support had given
him a rig h t to every advantage offered by a labor u n io n . H e is now
em ployed in an autom obile factory in Syracuse, has been president of
th e Six N ations Iem p eran ce L eague, ’ and does ch u rch work am ong
the m em bers of his tribe, th e O nondagas.— H am pton In stitu te Press
Service, H am pton, Ya.