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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1927)
nVJ":i ',. - . . tV "l If Hi ! ma I t-t i i i.. in.-;. ' anU.ALMW ,, .. iiwiinihr?w.. n. i r..,.,. i. ,.... - v.A-W? . -5.I5 V L', -CJ f A SERMON PREACHED BY THE PRESIDENT (Continued from Page One) I In' While it is true that there j i very large field of education that lei entirely outside of ..books. et hooks are the foundation of all education. It is said that Lincoln Vr hiked miles to borrow a book, and the few which he had, he stud led until he had mastered them. No one could have become the master of JBnglish which he was, the author of the Gettysburg Ad dress,' the Emancipation Procla mation, and the. second inaugural address, without a profound 'ac quaintance .-with many books. His place in the realm of literature is 54ch-that.it would .be eminently fitting to dedicate any library to Ms memory. But there; Is a special reason for placing his name on the library of one of the land-grant colleges of our states. This great president had a pro found interest not only in educa cation, but ia agricultural 4educa ilon.1 ' He delivered- an address In before the Wiscousld; State Agricultural society in which he said, "Free labor insists on uni versal education" In -the same "address he thten set out his belief in. what has come to h known as Industrial education,- saying, that "Heads and hands should cooper ate as friends," and expressed his opinlb'n that this should be ap plied to the. tillers of the soil by declaring that "No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the. profitable and agreeable combination of labor with culti vatetthought as agriculture." He also 'declared his belief in scien tific - efficiency by adding. "The tbonglit recurs that jeducation cultivated., thougai-can be best combined with agricultdral labor, or, any labor, on the. principle of thorough work? i . Hero was ft man who had been brought up under surroundings where the tilling of the soil was carried on by methods which had We will build a EBusiness Bui .... t- Chas. K. ttie Oregon statf.;.:. OREGON STATE made no advance for 2.000 years. In fart, the husbandman of the days of Mncoln's boyhood was the husbandman of the days of Abra ham. The grreat change came with the application of machinery. When' Lincoln was ispeaking, this was almost entirely of the horse drawn variety, but the steam en gine was coming into more diver sified use and some attempt had been made to nse it for plowing. The general application of chemis try to soil production had scarcely Mr - v ; M ' i s .-. Iding it TO SUIT TENANT ON LOT AT SOUTHWEST CORNER OF COURT AND FRONT STREETS 82x165 WILL GIVE LONG LEASE ' . ? . . GOOD LOCATION FOR GARAGE ,- Spaulding Logging Co. j. i.. , -.v -v FAIR SCHEDULED n it 1 rr , t A ' 'i 3f been applied to the farm. The ffct that in Hiose surroundings and under thos conditions he was able to vision agriculture as one of the learned professions is an other of th many indications of his supreme greatness. Far Ijookiiig Mind In the case of Lincoln perhaps it is unnecessary to say that this was no mere figure of rhetoric intended only to serve the purpose of platitudinous oratory, but the :pression of a sound and mature 3L H 1' If FOR SEPTEMBER 26 r ' 0 conviction which he believed to be practical, and, should, occasion olfer, one which he would attempt to put into operation. The oppor tunity came to him sooner than he may have expected. Juring the administration of President Bu chanan the congress had passed a bill providing for a grant of land In the several States . to establish educational institutions in agricul ture and the mechanic arts. This bill had been vetoed. It is said 5 4 S L .-USX te-- We still fyave some 2x4 No. 3 common which we sell for $1 0.00 per thousand cash with order, Remember Monday only. We carry a full line of building material of all kinds, our prices are right and we give the service. We do not keep salesmen out all the time, therefore give you the benefit of the cash. All kinds of shingles the best grade arid lowest price. iV'j. Cobbs & '349 S. 12th A. B. KELSAY' Manager 4 '- TO OCTOBER 1 "r .-n. x x 5 V n 53 that Jonathan B Turner was the ;nithor of this measure, and that heton he was nominated Lincoln Had told him that if he were chos en president the proposal would !ave his approval. Representa tive 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. 18G2., Under its provisions 30.000 acres of public land for Mitchell Street SUNDAY MORNING, each of their senators and repre sentatives in the congress were Elven to each state to be used for th- support of a college of agricul ture and mechanic arts. 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 agricultural life of our coun try. These gTants of land have been greatly supplemented by direct ap propriations from the national treasury, until under laws now In existence the annual appropria tions made by the congress7. for this; purpose run into millions of dol lars. All of this is the realiza tion of the vision of Abraham Lin coln, which inay have come to him as he rode the circuit over the prairies of Illinois, or as Tie went, up and down the state in the con-' duct of political campaigns. Its; material and spiritual effect upon t ho well being of our country is beyond estimation. A Great Vision We should all of us remember Lincoln as the. great emancipator, the president who guided the na- Ltion through four years of internal conflict, who demonstrated beyond future question the national qual ity of our institutions and the in destructibility of our Union, 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. Hut these elements of his great- hiss should not be permitted to eclipse the mighty service which he rendered to the cans of voca tional education by his advocacy and approval of the measure which established what are usually re ferred to as our state agricultural rolleges. It has been under their inspiration that the amount of pro duction for each person employed has been so highly increased and the productivity of the soil so greatly stimulated. They created a vast agricultural empire, lying between the Alleghenies and the Rockies, which has furnished an Increasing food supply to meet the demands of our growing popula tion. So many and so varying ele ments went into the winning of the great World war that much cau tion should be exercised in assign ing to any one of them a decisive influence. But I think it is en tirely within reason to say that without the supplies that came from the American farms it Is im possible to see how the war could have been won. Those supplies could never have, been furnished without the rapacity for produc tion which is directly traceable to the inflaence of the American ag ricultural college. THB.HAND OP ABRAHAM LINCOLN REACH ED OVER THE BATTLE FIELDS OF FRANCE AD WAS ONE OF THE DECISIVE FACTORS IN TURNING. THE SCALE OF VICTORY.- ; . - . . , . . ; In" Domain. of Thought , i, .. But these colleges' are. Impor tant not only because of the econ omic." results Whlch-haYO; acerued. from them but even more becattsa of their spiritual value. They are of great benefit In the domain of land and the various 'products of the soil, but in. thedomaia at thought they have an even more important influence. Our. wboie SEPTEMBER 11, 1927 iMmwt; 'till Jjift I m L Neir First National Bank 'Building im Luc BTiiShic Ptrtvr Ripori tor nj -tnlro Trt..7. Qvr tix g VHfki rux) OptirafOo. lOl 01-80 In. Jtry B.- MrrH, OpteMtrist 0. 9. OtIMto .8NrH S10-11-1 Lawyer Tlpbeaa 10a oetofky Bo, T-li 7 - S04-05 JUal ta, Ixmaa, laaoraaM lit. DavM B. Hill,' Orthodontia (itraigbteuiag at irrsgular taata) Sulfa ifOC ' Hours 9 to 5 FOURTH PliOO bra. O'Nailf Bardetta, OBtomatriata faona 825 -. . 401-4S-46S-404-40S Oaardiaa Builtlina; Lioaa Aaaeeiatian O. Bay (or 4 Ely 41 S Talapkoaa 757 Wlllard U. .Wtrta aad Paftl f. Barrii ttorttya. ' 41-4if-4tS Tal. 185 tana Iforlay. 418, Tef. T67; Km. 1915W ' tteal Kataaa Ixraat lacvraKr sixth xooa baa. K. Vahra M.U., Phydefaa Barcean Buita 808. Tl. 7B-U879 Baa. 78 JUfcla D. Hay and Daa1 W. Kitaa Attornaya a Lav Tetapnow lta. IO-M-ftH IIQHTU rLOOB Or. tr. Ward pa via.. Ovaaral DaatUrtry Cat. 116. JCranlng by ppolatBiat. -Boob 0. Or. H. B. 8e(lald ; 800 (Jairopraetor. Nnroealotaatay Byrrlao RINTH fUWB Dr. H. at. Brawm, Kya. Ear. Noaa A Taroal Hplaltat. Half 01 TENTH . FtOOH Dr. W. A. Joaraoa. Daatlat raUphana 138S 1001 Caalmar ra Ooorr. D. D. Seaaral Dmtiatry . a. If. Oriffia, D. D. B-, OrtWaatla rlphm 181.. gniU 1008-1001 KKA h ESTATE City and farm property for aala or trade We Tiara . aome goo4 tradaa. What kara yoaf monet to loan . insurance ;. rich l: reikann -- - Realtor Fatat 005. 818 U. S.. Bank Bldf 6Sa7tf country. , is yet comparatively young. . We have been driven by necessity to giving a great deal of attention to subduing the forces of nature. It has been necessary to create anew on this continent all of the instruments of civiliza tion. We have had our cities to build,' our highways, our railroads, and our ca,nals to lay out, our mines and manufacturing to put into operation, our banking and commerce, as well as our agricul ture, to organize, and our political and our social problems to solve. All of these have made necessary a great supply of material resources for their creation and support. We have been excessively busy seeking for information that could bo turned to practical advantage In the matter of dollars and cents, rather than for that wisdom Vhlch would guide us through eternity. Our higher educational institutions have turned their thoughts espec ially to the sciences, aijd ont sec ondary schools to vocational train ing, iow important these are In my ' estimation will appear from what I have already said. How poor. and. weak and generally In effective we should be without these advantages can be at once seen by the most casual observa tion of those nations among which they have been neglected. To Raise Better Men This is by no means all that is to be expected from American edu cation and American hratitutioirs. I can not conceive that the; object of Abraham Lincoln war merely to instruct men how to raise more corn, to feed more hogs, to get more money, to buy more land, and so on in the expanding circle, as the story goes. Of course, he wanted to teach men to raise more corn, but his main object must have been to raise better men. We come back to the query that is contained, in the concentrated, wis dom of the ages, "What shall it profit a" man If he gain the whole world an lose fcls own soul?" , All of our science1 and all of pur arts will never be- the means, for the ti oV advancement of ..oar1. .'Nation; will never emoTe , na from the sphere of the superficial and the cynical, .will, never giTe ns ;CIt1 liza tion- and' a 'culture of any-' wdr thy and lasting importance unless we are able to see in them the out ward manifestation of a spiritual reality 1 UNLESS OUR HALLS OF LEARNING ARE REAL TEM PLES WHICH ARE TO. BE AP PBOACHED BY.YOUR YOUTH IN XN .ATTITUDE OF REVERENCE. 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Mtla Garment, 23 Broadway, Bayonne., X. J. . : , 13S11 er.-capacity for evil. -Gur Institu tions of learning mast be dedicated to a higher purpose. The life of our aation, the spiritual meaning must rise to a higher realm. There is something more in learning and something more In life than a mere, knowledge or science, a. mere acquisition of wealth, b mere striving for place and power. Onr colleges will fall In their duty to their students unless they are--able to inspire them with a broader understand ing of the spiritual meaning of science, of literature, and of the arts. Their graduates will go out into life poorly equipped to meet the problems of existence, ta fall an easy prey to dissatisfaction and despair. Many of our older on 1, versitles were founded by piousi hands at great sacrifice for the ex press purpose of training men for -i. M a. A maa. the minlsuy to carry ngnt m -people on the problems of life. Un less our college graduates are in- : anlred with. these Ideals, our col-. leges have failed in their most im portant function and our people . will be lacking In true culture.. Abraham Lincoln, who' was th most spiritual of our Presidents, had a true appreciation of this. - In fc 1 o s t n g the address to which Iiave referred lie expressed . (Contlaned a page S.) . r