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Vol. X X II
W ednesday, M ay 12, 1920
EDUCATION—ITS V A LU E
“ K now th y se lf!” If our y o u n g read ers (m ay h ap
old, too) will take th e tro u b le to g et really acquainted
w ith them selves they will have accom plished som ething
w hich should prove of inestim able value to them as
lo n g as they live. T o be on sp eak in g term s w ith one s
real self is to know all of o n e ’s weak points as well as
those q u alities of greatest force and stre n g th . T o be
able fully to know o n e ’s self it is necessary to have a
good base for operations and th is base is called ed u ca
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be your div id en d .
Do not be led astray by
false gods and become an "e d u c a te d fo o l,” a d e
spicable cad for whom nobody has any use or re
g ard and w ho will be despised by all tru e ladies an
g en tlem en. Be the real t h i n g - a m an or w om an w ith
tru e vision and noble im pulses and desires. Be of the
elect, the nobility of e a rth . If you so will it m u st
come to pass th a t you shall ex alt yourselves. N ow ,
see th a t it shall be so.
Before m any m ore days th e final exam inations of
the school year will have been given m any of you
here at C h e m a w a -a u d o th er in stitu tio n s of learn in g
tio n .
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W ith o u t a fair education life in th is day and age ot
th ro u g h o u t th e la n d — and some of you we fear,
th e w orld will not prove very fru itfu l in the way of
may fail. If you fail, any of you, it will be w holly
th in g s valuable, be they m ental or m aterial. N o ig
for lack of education. Is th is not true? W ell, it will
n o ra n t m an th in k s he is ig n o ran t, b u t the educated
be th e sam e w hen you go hence and en ter th e larg er
m an sizes u p th e ig n o ran t fellow and sees clearly his school of life w hich will engulf you later on. For
s ta tu s from every angle. G ood breeding will keep
lack of education you may again fail. Can you n o t
't h e educated m an from any display of superiority on
grasp our m eaning? Can you n o t see th e value of
h is p a rt, but ju st th e sam e th ere is a chasm betw een
education from w hat w e ’ve w ritten? T h at it is a n e
illiteracy and m ental c u ltu re th a t can be bridged by
cessity w ith you? If you fail to see it we have w asted
education only. O ceans of ink could be expended in
o u r tim e in attem p tin g to m ake your need d e a r to
vain in attem p tin g d escrip tio n s of the various form s of
you an d may as well quit. T ak e stock of yourself
th ese chasm s.
‘‘know th y s e lf.”
O rder is a good sign of an education, because e u-
TOLD IN P A R A G R A PH S
cation should m ean m ental o rd er— not disorder. A
D u rin g the m id n ig h t m ass service in th e R ussian
few w ords of conversation, p erh ap s in a chance m eet
C atholic ch u rch in New Y ork a pickpocket was found
in g on the roadside, will discover to the educated
person the cu ltu ra l sta tu s of the man who accosted,
am ong the w orshipers, w ho in te rru p te d th eir prayers
greeted or directed him . T h ere are m any m odes
long enough to p u t a rope around his neck and drag
him out for th e purpose of ly n ch in g him . T he m an
of estim atin g a stran g er, b u t chief am ong them are
was rescued by two policem en. H e was accused by one
th e evidences of e d u c a ti o n - o r lack of any evidence
w h atev er of this n a tu re . E d u catio n need not n ec of th e angry men of having stolen $960 from Ins pock
essarily be of a bookish cn aracter, b u t it m ust em brace
et, w hile another said he had taken $65 from him .
“ th a t so m e th in g ” w hich throw s forth a radiation of
T h e w ar d ep artm en t has given out statistics to th e
m ental o rd er—cu ltu re, intelligence, com petency, m as effect th a t th e U nited S tates has spent 106 years of its
te ry , or some qu ality com bining them w holly or in
145 years of existence in a state of w ar. T h is s ta te
p a rt.
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N ow , stu d e n ts of C hem aw a, for your own good get
an ed u catio n ; g et th e best w itlnn your pow er. Lay
a good fo u n d atio n for all of th e days w hich m ay be
g ran te d y o u . Q ualify yourselves for an en joym ent of
th e good th in g s w hich will com e to you w hen you let
dow n the bars for ed u catio n . N o th in g can pay you a
g reater div id en d as an in v estm en t than an education
— the finer and better th e education th e greater will
m ent is not so bad as it sounds, how ever, since m ost
of the w ars were sm all ones long draw n out w ith I n
dian tribes. T h e longest was th e Sioux w ar w hich
lasted 25 vears, ending in 1890. N ex t in length of tim e
cam e th e K ickapoo and S nake w ars, w hich lasted 13
years. W e w ere also at war w ith T ripoli for four
years. Y et th e U nited States has the rep u tatio n of
being th e ‘‘m ost peaceful re p u b lic .’