Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1924 — Page 3

Friday, February 15, 1924

THE FIERY CROSS PAGS THREE

Vocational Education What It Should Be What Are We Doing for the Misfits? Garland A. Bricker Asks in Setting Forth Some Food for Thought

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 12 Writing on the need of vocational or trades education, Garland A. Bricker, formerly president of the North Dakota State School of Science, and later director of a similar vocational college In New York state, says that "Our school system was not made to fit Rll types of boys and girls." To back up his statement he asks: "What arc we doing for the misfits -those young people with a bent for the

practical affairs ox nte, line inomas A. Edison. Henry Ford, Warren G. Harding, Robert Fulton, Clara Barton, Francis K. Willard, Andrew Carnegie, the Wright brothers, and many others of similar slant towards the affairs of life as they are?" The Groat Human Wasle He goes on to say: "It is a significant fact that while the grades and

the high school of our public school system open a means of education for all children, they do not offer the lest training for each individual. The psycho-classic heritage and influences are till too great barriers for the motor-minded child to overcome. Thousands of fine boys and girls fall by the educational wayn';. With no provision in the sys"lem for the motor or practical appeal to this type, thousands of them drop out of school to work at odd Jobs in the community and eventually become the driftwood of society. These Individuals are the crumbs from the rich man's table. "Because of the lack of equal opportunity, thousands of these socalled misfits are never heard from:

but from-their ranks have come a few great leaders who prove the richness of this stratum of American youth. Out of it arose the prophet Lincoln, the poet Riley, and thousands of productive men and women who are today good American citizens, earning an honest living, rearing honorable families in happy homes. The present adolescent generation is full of these youngsters. Tliey are breaking out of the high schools everywhere; and, if they stay within, they form that restless element which the school system, as now constituted, can not control and does not intelligently direct. Who will bring these young lights from tinder the bushel? An Kx pensive Mistake "It is a fact that at the end of the world war, tlx; discharged soldiers, who could eot. earn a living in society, btf;uu. f,f a lack of preparation to no kc, numbered Into the thousands. A grateful government is training a it&jor portion of these in the trades tnd vocations for earn-

' ing a livelihood and they shall not become human driftwood. The cost of correcting this educational mistake is running into the millions of dollars. "What of the next decade of young

agency to help them to become self supporting social units.

The Mark of Cain "These will become the human driftwood of the immediate tomorrow. They are the idle hands for which the devil will find something to do. From these will come a swarm of discontents. These will be the unskilled hands whose dexterity the public school of today is not equipped to develop. ."From this group of the motor

minded type of individuals a veritable army should and must come our farmers, .mechanics, tradesmen, and homemakers. They represent

the type that should get vocational training on an equal basis with those young people who now lit into our present school system a system designed for the psycho-minded individual. The niotorminded ones, who are breaking out of the schools, are the ones that need to be vocationally analyzed and directed into the industries, the trades, and the vocations. This is the real problem that must be solved."

The Present Need There is great need for industrial or vocational training of a high type in the great middle west. This section has become quite self-sufficient in industrial production; its numerous small cities have become hives of industry, where all sorts of useful articles are made. The wealth of this section, together with the exceptional intelligence of its people, would seem to justify a rich develop

ment in educational institutions de

signed to train superior skilled

workers of intelligence - tradesmen and mechanics, practical farmers, homemakers nurses, etc. No practical institution now lits the needs i the high school stops too soon and is, too elementary; the college begins too late and is impractical. An educational institution of junior college and senior high school grade, organized along more practical lines than either of them, which will train in. not for, life is what is needed. Klansmen, the vast majority of whom are the workers of the nation, should be interested in this thing a high type of vocational and trades school wherein shall be taught, not only the technical and practical arts, but also patriotism, the principles of character, morality and a pure Americanism.

Imperial Wizard Dr. H. W. Evans

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Ohio Protestantism in Action BY ABYA9 GEBEE

The Rev. E. M. Lewis, pastor of the South Main street M. E.

Church, Sunday evening preached the third of a series of sermons on the Home, the-School, the Government, and the Church.

For some time the services have been held in one of the large school auditoriums, while the new church is being erected, but to accommodate the ever-increasing crowds in attendance, it

became necessary to engage the armory.

The subject Sunday evening was,

"Is the American Government in the Balance?" The text was, "Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people," Proverbs, 14, 34. "The open Bible," said the. Rev. Mr. Lewis, "is the foundation of our government. The Protestant church must remain pure and true in its allegiance to the Bible, otherwise it will lead our country astray. "The President of the United States takes his oath of office on the

open Bible,

run rampant wifh vice of every kind

and our government forces seem helpless to cope with it, there is need of alarm as to the future. "The home is the future of all government. A nation of homes is a nation of strength. -Children who have no government in the home have little regard for it in the nation.

it home and marriage ties wane, I what have v, e left upon which to

maintain our government ; "We must begin with childhood, not with old age, in building good government. We need in our public

"The American government is in j schools the grounding of our voune

the balance, when evil becomes the people in lessons of obedience and

predominating force in its life. It !

only makes progress toward stability

and permanency when the forces of i

righteousness prevail. The greatest hindrance to good government is the

force of evil.

"The things that prey most on our

American government are the evil forces within the land. We learned

during the world war that there were many 'people receiving the blessings of our land who were not

willing to defend it.

Wherein Government May Fail "When the eighteenth amendment

to our Constitution was adopted

many people said, and still are saying, that it coud not be enforced. If, what they say is true, then I am

ready to conclude that our American government IS in the balance. "The greatest question in our land today is the moral question. This is vital to government. When more than 25,000 girls are lost in our country every year something is wrong, and I presume there are just as many boys lost, if not more. What a stream of young life is running to ruin! They are lost to themselves, to their, homes, to society, to human welfare, and to the uplift of the government. When our city centers

morals.

"The righteousness which we need so much in American government means simply doing rightly. The impulse for righteousness is spiritual. We find the source of it indicated on the coins in our pockets On which is- stamped, 'In God We Trust.' These words reveal where we should place our trust and look for our defense. Character Makes Government " "The fate of a nation is largely determined by 4he character of its public officials. Let us stand behind and support our officials, but if they are evil, let us change them. Let us have no rascals in office. Hence,

we come back to the fundamental principle in government, by stating that character in its leadership is essential ts stability. Greatness can not be given to a man ; it can only be formed from within. "Our government will stand in ratio as it is permeated with the love and spirit of Christ. Nothing can keep tlte heart of the individual or the nation right except God. It is love that makes patriots. Our political support must be given to true patriots if this patriotism is to be maintained."

500 INITIATED AT ADRIAN, MICHIGAN Klan Must Hold Two Meetings a Week in. Order to Accommodate Crowds

ADRIAN, Mich., Feb. 3 Five hundred candidates were naturalized in the initiation ceremonies of the Ku

4Vtr.cn -u.-hn -t rn tnilflv hp

tween 14 and 24 years of age? Have lKlux KIan hel e last wck at a rous-

thev been taken care of? Has the public school system learned the educational lesson of the great war? The answer is, 'No! It would seem, therefore, that the school 'system' and not the boys and girls, nor society, is the real 'misfit.' "In every community one finds young men and women between the years ot 16 and 20 and beyond who are now out of school, without a trade, working at odd jobs, or loafing, without the means of earning a livelihood, and with no adequate

ing meeting attended by a very large

number of citizens. The Klan here is growing to such an extent that extra meetings will have to be held each week in order to accommodate the members. The big problem with the organization here at present is the securing of adequate room to hold the meetings.

FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN INDIANAPOLIS (Coiitined from Page 1) Une"es, phrasing the prophetic prayer that we be kept from getting lost '.n the wilderness, there lived a man made in God' image who preached and practiced the solution to that problem. Horace Mann, the immortal sponsor and patron saint of education in America, believed that:

"The imUontil sniVty. prosperity security and the peace of the world

To civilization it means security and continued progress onward and upward. To attain truth, we must adopt, without reservation or evasion, not years hence, but now, the kind, qnalityand quantity of education advocated by Horace Mann. Had that been done a half century ago, we would not now be in a wilderness of chaotic, conflicts and confusing controversies. There would have developed less of illness and none of illiteracy. The religious wrangling that again threatens our

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and happiness could lie obtiiiiied only

throimli free public schools, tpen to all, uo,l enough for all and attended by all."

j I have come to speak to you in i support of that fundamental Ainevi!can doctrine, to proclaim its importance to every phase of our private ;anl public life, to urge its crfmplete land immediate adoption as the most j essential of all national policies.

In his infancy Lincoln had expert'

would not exist. Instead of an already menacing growth of divided allegiance, '.here would be national solidarity. The separation of church

and state would

Onr patriotism would be operative

rather than so generally inept and purposeless. Had education been foundational- established; had it been extended, and kept free of ev-

constructive attention to the emancipation of America from ignorance and prejudice. We can free our beloved country from every darkness and danger. Our Children the Chief Asset of the State

You an not disassociate citizenship from civilization. Wre have a government, of, by and forthepjeot pie. The great problem, then, concerns two vital things: the character and the ability of our composite people. Their development, hitherto neglected, is a public responsibility paramount to all other constructive duties of the state. We are a republic.- "The consent of the eoverned" is the underlying

be accomplished. principle of our public life. That be

ing basic, the only sure highway to national success is adequate democratic education. Every statesman worthy the name has recognized that its children were

the greatest asset of any state, and

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public schools, open to all, good , nas based his hope for a glorious na-

oii.-e wbh a w ilderness in whieh limrs i enougn ior an, ana uueiiuuu uy au, tional future unon tlieir nignest ae-

and girls even men and women, 1 Performing their function of teach- velopment as individuals and as citicould lose their wav an uncharted. g "truth, the whole truth, and noth- j zens. Out of each decada from the nnnpnnled exntniRp of woods nnd!inS l,ut th2 truth," excluding each i Declaration of Independence to Tea-

water in which lurked the deadliest aE(1 every element having a Selfish jpot Dome, I could summon the most

dangers. He lived to see those perils ! ,ntf'rest eer 111 a"y snorancc or disappear. Others, vastly more vital, j at'!' distortion pUruth, we would not began to loom large and menacing, j t0 be in a I,fe aml flcaUl PPla His utterances contain ninny warn-i witn propaganda.

I submit to you that ail through the ages, whenever and Avherever Ciod's purposes have been manifest in the affairs of men, resulting in what we call an .advance of civilization, that achievement has had as its

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stealth and more of vindictiveness j vehicle a temporarily wholesome nathan any jungle ever knew. It does ! tional life. Through some national not endanger individuals so much as entity has come every bit of ground it menaces society. Out of it crouch- i gained by and for civilization. The ing creatures no longer spring upon I elements contributing to every adhumans to satisfy the pangs of hun- ivancement have always been law and ger; instead we have creations that i order, enlightenment, unity, freedom

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prey upon humanity to appease appe- j tites' and passions for power. The j art and dignity of enactment is be-1 ing superseded by the unscrupulous science of legal evasion and subterfuge. A spirit of lawlessness is

abroad in the land, and fast ripening into an, anarchy that is nonetheless

real because garbed in the ermine of respectability and unconnected with red banners and black bombs. Our

ideals and traditions are being weak

ened by disrespect and inattention. Our politicians seek not the common

welfare, but their own success. Our

schools are in every way inadequate; they have not the institutional stand

ing to which they are entitled; they do not prevent illiteracy, not always promote patriotism; too often they teach a divided allegiance. Many of our churches are become bickering centers and sources of ceaseless,

strife-engendering controversy, fighting not the forces of evil, but each other, chnrch against church, creed against creed, Ont ot it all, and because ot it all, there has almoBt ceased to exist that priceles boon -4.0 humankind known as news; propaganda, the modern curse of civiliza

tion that spawns prejudice and nurtures injustice, has taken its place. Our modern wilderness is full of darkness. Truth, God's truth and man's truth, has become a vagrantragged, distorted and discredited by selfishness as never before in human history. In all things, public and private, truth must prevail. Individually, that means Intelligence, health, and

virtue. Nationally, It means liberty and Justice, the safeguarding ot our traditions, .the fulfillment ' ot oar

and Justice. Interpreted in terms of today, the antithesis of these funda

mentals may be stated as lawless

ness, illiteracy, inherifable tenden

cies toward mental and physical degeneracy, disrupting slrlfe and con

troversy, propaganda instead i truth, and the economic inequities that increasingly threaten the very stability of society. I now advocate the adequate education of our future citizenship through a free public school system, a I have pleaded for a rigidly enforced immigration, adapted to our ideals and needs. The two remedies go together. Neither alone can re-

Americanize and safeguard our sacred institutions. If this country continues to be flooded by interior

peoples whose assimilation is imnos

Bible, the task ot enlightened .advancement will be hopeless. Our in

difference of the lKBt three decades in this connection has already made

it extremely difficult; but if we now

place an embargo upon every alien

element not in harmony with our re-

auirements, it Is not vet too late for

the redemption ot the republic by

means of the public school for children and its auxiliaries tor adults.

Let immigration of every undesirable type be stopped, completely stopped, until our own illiteracy and

internal strifes can be superseded

by a literacy based npon unselfish,

unshackled troth ana patriotism

built upon eager, unqualified, unco

erced acceptance ot the principles

that are the very foundation of onr

government, in the meantime, with-

the further overburdenlnjc ot ear

composite people through unmerge-

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notable witnesses to attest the truth of that doctrine and the necessity for its completest attainment. In Washington's farewell address, we find this counsel, never surpassed by the utterance of any statesman, past or present: "Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of government gives force to public opin

ion, it is essential that public opin

ion should be enlightened."

Let me recall another voice from

the days of our infancy. The famous

'Ordinance of 1787" contains this

historic declaration:

Religion, morality and knowledge,

beine necessary to good government

and the happiness of mauKind,

schools and the means of education

shall forever be encouraged."

That was our earliest educational

statute on a national scale. While it

eave legal standing to a mighty prin

ciple, it did not provide either tne

means or the maenmery or luinii

ment. Two generations later, we find

Daniel Webster paying this tribute to its fundamental value:

I doubt whether one single law or

any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has

produced effects or more aistmct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. It

set forth and declared it to be a high and binding duty of government to

sunport schools and advance the

means of education."

The greatest American tragedy

was not unfolded upon any battle field, or in any series ot catastro-

phles. It exists m the lact that neither the advice ot Washington

nor the spirit of this ordinance were

carried out. That was why Darnel Webster referred to it. In 1866, seventy-nine years after, James A. Garfield, later to occupy the White

House, presented to Congress an Education Association memorial from

which I auote

"Your memorialists beg leave to express their earnest belief that uni

versal education, next to universal liberty, Is a matter ot deep national

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