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Cards o f Thanks and Kesolutions, 6 cents per line. _______________________________________ MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER WILLAMETTE VALLEY EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OREGON STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION The Pool and Our Forest Dollars. By E. T. Allen. Uoodby to the fool with the empty gun; Forgotten his bid for fame. Though he kills his friend, it only counts one, And that, nowadays, is tame. The fool who playfully rocks the boat Is on the front page no more. He may rank high with the fools afloat But his glory is gone ashore. There’s the fool with women, the fool with wine, And the fool who games w ith strangers, And the joy ride fool (he does well in his line By combining these ancient dangers.) But they're all still down in the primer class, Mere novices taking a flyer. Compared with the prize taking crimi nal ass, The fool in the woods with fire. A few hearts break for the deeds they've done In their pitiful amateur way, But fire slays dozens where they slay one And scourges a state in a day. For the ruined home and the smokeless stack, And the worker unemployed. Know a hundred years shall never bring back The things that his match destroyed. W H A T A R E YOU DO ING ? W H A T A R E YOU GOING TO DO'1 i HE SCHOOLS of the country J soon will be in session again. T h is le a ds us t>* :i-k t f w h o il pupils: “ What are you doing and what are you going to d o t ” The answer to the first question probably will be: “ Preparing and educating ourselves for our life work.” Very laudable endeavor, certainly, but are pupils really doing what their answer indicates that they are and when they leave school will they be able to earn a livingf Richard Crane, a Chicago manufae turer, a man experienced in receiving from the schools as workers in his shops, pupils who have presumably pre­ pared themselves for their life work, a few years ago said that he found them entirely unprepared for the work. It was mostly his suggestion that resulted in the establishment o f industrial trade schools in Chicago. What the schools are doing in pre­ paring young men and young women of the country for their future work should not be underestimated. It is a great work that they are doing, but boys and girls will find that the education which they get from text books alone, im­ portant as it is, is not sufficient, nor efficient— that it by no means com­ pletely prepares them for their work. They will find, if they let their educa­ tion stop there, that jobs will not come to them as readily as to their less edu­ cated brother who has prepared himself in a different way— the way o f experi­ ence. Too many have the mistaken idea that text book education is all the ad­ vance preparation that need be made for a life work. # *” * # the Fnited States industrial schools mechanics arts schools, domestic science schools have been established and arc doing much in preparing young tnen and women for their future battle with the world. At Stanford, Iowa, a bank has been established in connection with the schools. The object o f this unique bank is to train the pupils in practical busi ness methods and to encourage the habit of saving. What is the sense of filling live girls and boys full o f dead lan guages and higher geometry and not give them a practical education to go with the other! The employer doesn't ask a fellow to demonstrate a little calculus or rip o ff a yard o f Virgil What he wants is practical business methods. This is not an excoriation o f school work. It is merely an appeal for more practical schooling to go with the the« retical. Young people, learn a trade If you are not taught in your school, take it upon yourself to learn one, and learn one vou like and learn it well. himself and a wife and children. Itring them up to w ork,” he said, " s o that they shall recognise au obstacle as something to bo overcome, not to be shirked.” w E CANNOT increase the streugtIt of our muscles by sitting in a gymnasium and letting others exercise for us. Neither can we learn a trade by watching others work at it. We must get the practical experience. Young men and young women, you will soon be running this great country o f ours. Prepare yourselves for the task. The tuau who tries to do something and fails is better prepared than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds Keep before you this inspirng motto: “ Sad will be the day for me when 1 become contented with the thoughts I am thinking aud the deeds I am do ing—when there is not forever beating nt the doors o f my soul some great de sire to do something larger, which 1 know that 1 was meant to d o .” If it is proper for the Democratic press and members of the Democratic administration to shout themselves hoarse in laudation o f the ulleged achievements of the Democratic party, why is it improper for Republicans to show the failures o f that party and the misleading nature of its political propu gamia t M ABBIE'S CHANCE o NCE upon u time there was a very ambitious mother who hud one child— a beautiful daughter, just blooming into womanhood. She was the apple of her mother's eye and an endless drain on d a d ’s pocket book for clothes that were brief and costly. They were cut low at the neek ami high nt the bottom and of so flimsy a tex­ ture that x rays were not necessary to see the divine form and limbs. She was a leader in society, us her mamma wanted her to make a great catch. But it happened iu the little city that there were no catches. Most o f the young bloods were also looking for great catches, for their only qualifications were to talk basket bull, lawn tennis and smoke “ cigarootes” and ask their daddies for a quarter. One day a stranger dropped into the little city. He was garbed in a $4.14 palm bench suit with white canvas shoes, a red tic and a package o f imported cigurootis guaranteed to kill at forty yard range. He was the advance guard o f a mg orporation that was looking for n In cation. Society took him up and eir ried bint around like a Greek god. It was not a week before he had everv body believing that he was the presi dent's son and mamma decided that ‘ M abbie’s ” chance had come. A swell ball was arranged and society- turned out in all its glory and briefness of garb, which would not have been op­ pressive in August where Satan holdeth sway. It was the swellest afair ever held, was the report. Dad sat in the corner, accompanied by a bronze faced young man who was recognized ns the best grocery clerk in the city, whose salary was $75 per month and who owned several small sharks and a bank account, which be hud saved from his salary. The young man and dad did n ’t dance— they were not expected to— they were too awkward and clumsv. The stranger had heard, which was not true, that “ M abbie’s ” old man w.is lousy” with coin, so he set up to h<— ike u sick duck to u dough ball. The next day their engagement was an nounced by mamma and dad was noti­ fied he must arrange to pull o f f the greatest wedding ever. He dug up all he could and borrowed the rest and be­ fore the big corporation was establish -d they were married, and back from their bridal tour and “ at home” to their friends with daddie. And then it was announced that the grocery clerk and Melvina Ann Tobaseo, the milliner, had gone to another town and been quietly- married and were back at work Mon­ day morning. And then “ mummer” got the shock o f her life; “ Mnbbie” lost all interest in flossie clothes and dad cussed in high G in seven different kinds of languages— the big corpora tion the stranger represented was a branch milk station that paid the stranger a commission on whnt he bought.— F. M. Minor, in Times, Louisi­ ana, Mo. T I.S ALMOST pathetic to see a young man or woman finish col lege at 25 or so and find him self or herself unable tq earn a living. It is galling to him or her to have to start learning a trade at from *3 to $7 a week or a little better at n tim> o f life when others o f like age are supporting families. The writer is not writing o f what he has heard. He is writing o f what he knows. He has seen college graduates working on sec­ tion crews at u dollar a day, and any pupil is likely to go up against the same kind of a proposition if not pr.- pared against it. Only a small propor­ tion of college men are in the business vorld today and most o f these who are are no further ahead than other men who have not had such educational ad vantages. Young men and young women should begin preparing for their life work while they are young. Things are easier learned then. Then, too, at that age, it is not a serious matter if a young man or woman finds that he or she has started to learn a trade to which he or she is not adapted and w-ants to make a change. After one reaches 25 or 30 it is a serious thing to waste a year or so trying to learn some trade at which he or she can not suc­ ceed. It may take some ambition and per­ severance to do these things and it may require the giving up of pleasures once in awhile, but it a not such an irksome thing to do. An hour or so a day and a few hours on Saturday is sufficient and the young man and young woman with a desire to be someone and to amount to something will find his or her fight for a -position in the world greatly advanced by preparation now, during the time they are allowing to go to waste. D on't say that this is too much o f a task. You will not have to do one-half nor one-third as much as many o f the great men o f the country have done be­ fore you. Look at Lincoln, who studied his problems by the light o f a burning em ber com­ or candle after the hard work of the day was done. It will never be as hard for pupils o f today as it was for him, and yet he was better educated in many ways than the great majority of The president declares that if private us are likely ever to be. Few o f us will ever leave behind when we depart capital does not supply adequate lines this life a literary gem equal to the o f shipping to Houth America, the giv - ernment will have to do it. Private Gettysburg speech. The late Gov. Johnson of Minnesota capital would be readily forthcoming was another such as Lincoln. He was for such an enterprise if there could be left to support a mother when he was any surety of profits, or even if there I six years o f age and yet at death he could be any guarantee that it was not had a greater command of the English to be hampered and ridden with an ex­ language than it is likely that the great cess o f governmental and legislative in­ But, as majority o f us will ever have. I f he terference and regulation. things now are, whoever puts his money had lived he would have, undoubtedly, been nominated for president on the into transportation enterprises, virtual ly puts it into the hands o f a Demo­ Democratic ticket three years ago. Then there’s ex-Congressman Tawney cratic bureaucracy to manage. o f Minnesofe— a blacksmith’s appren­ Sulphuric acid was left on the free tice at 14 and chairman of the appro­ list by the Democrats. They always do priations committee o f congress at mid­ arrange things so ns to be able to make dle age. a stink easily. Take inspiration from these. X OUNG men and young women do not prepare far enough ahead, do n o f plan enough on the time when their school work will be pleted and they are thrown abruptly on the world. a They will find this happen almost before they know it, and they will be looking for a job. All cannot be bookkeepers, nor pro­ fessional people, nor politicians, all can not follow occupations where a text book education is presumed to be su ffi­ cient. Most of these fields of endeavor are overcrowded already. Someone must work at other lines. Are pupils prepared for this time o f their lifet Are they preparing themselves for such a timet The uneducated man with a trade is doing better than the educated man without a trade. Educators the world over are beginning to recognize this fact and are declaring text book edu­ cation merely elementary to the great work o f life. Europe long ago recognized the need o f educating the student in such a man­ ner that he graduate from school a use­ ful and aggressive man o f the world. While Roosevelt was president, he Sometimes one person appears un­ In Germany, particularly, the trade said: “ My ideal o f a boy is one who usually strong because his associates ar« schools are o f a high class. 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