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Show THE CITIZEN f condition would be far better. Integrity chooses final good rather than immediate convenience. Achieve integrity in scholarship. Honesty in written work is only a beginning. Every one who honestly achieves high standards adds to its value. Those who fudge and evade and pretend in their college work, make a degree mean little, and make life harder for every pupil, though they chiefly harm themselves. They are as surely thieves as though they stole a fellow students purse. Most important is honesty with oneself. If you are failing, admit it, and do your best. Do not falsely blame circumstances. If you have not achieved the best standards, admit it, and work for them. Do not try to justify yourself by bringing those standards into disrepute. If behind in college work, admit it, and try to correct your condition by laying a solid foundation as far as you go. Do not try to make the appearance of success by hasty, temporary, and superficial study. Achieve an open mind. Intellectual integrity is a most difficult quality to acquire, but is one of the finest of human traits. With a high degree of integrity, other qualities being normal, one finds himself chosen as friend by others of like character. Barriers of money and social position tend to fade away before high integrity, and a man finds his friends among the best of the breed. Carry your share of the load. See what the necessary job is, and help on it. Do your share toward developing friendship, toward maintaining order and neateness, toward checking unnecessarily high standards of expenditures. Dont waste other peoples time waiting for you. Do not ask friends to lower their standards to keep you company. Do not spread gossip. Untold harm! is done by circulating unfounded stories. College students seem inclined to gossip. Monsand women often waste their powers by abusing their bodies, and spoil fine perception by vulgarizing their minds. Do not indulge in the small evils that steal away the margin of quality. "Accurate, honest, and persistent learning and thinking are e essential to scholarship. Simply getting lessons is Try to make the desire to understand be the basis of your wrork from the beginning. Use your whole powers. They will grow with use. Greatness is wisdom multiplied by power. All wisdom and no power, or all power and no wisdom, is useless. Our aim is to develop power and wisdom together, and to the highest degree. You cannot have great pojwer without great In quietness and confidesire. Desire does not mean worry. dence there is strength. been induced to exercise certain powers reserved to the There has been, however, during the past ten yerrs ai without an amendment pairmcnt in local Constitution. The 50-5- 0 appropriation, if expended, are most destructible plan so far devised.' Under it Congrcsss the states we will appropriate a dollar. You match it by aj priating another dollar. Then the two dollars shall be spi self-governm- t( 50-5- self-governm- ent , 1919; Industrial Rehabilitation Act, 1920, and the Shepp Towner Maternity Act, 1921. There are other proposals ; there is the one for the Dep ment of Education that will take millions of dollars by pfe education under the control of the national government. I is only one of the proposals that is up. The question is wk that is for the good of the country. It is lodging power local affairs in Washington that has been heretofore exert: by the states. c GOVERNMENT ALMS The American citizen is being pauperized by govern alms. If prices are too high, instead of doing without, hen the government to lower them. If they are too low, lie want' government to raise them. He wants the government to k his roads, educate his offspring, sanitate him, physic him, his children into the world, prescribe his dietary and telll what to believe in matters of conscience. In LOSING OUR GRIP ELECTRICITY FOR MINES. Chester I. Long, former senator of Kansas and now president of the American Bar Association, says that liberty has been imperiled by the impairment of local seif government. Let the states resume and exercise the powers reserved to them. Restore liberty by restoring state control over local affairs. Closely related to this question of liberty of opinion, or the control of opinions by law, is the other question of the preservaThe two ate allied. In the ortion of local ganization of this government we did not have only one government. We did not have but one at the beginning, and ought not to have but one now. We had two, a national government and the state governments. It took them both to make this federal government. For the first 70 years the states were strong and the national government weak. Since the Civil war that has been changed. The national government has been increasing in power. The power of the states have been steadily decreasing. has been acquired. Local Thus local is in great danger. The disposition is to do everytiling in Washington, and as little as possible in the 48 state capitals. It has been gradual, almost imperceptible at times, but the drift one way, and it has been done because Congress has has be In discussing government, self-governme- nt. ent TA the national government shall designate. There are six ofl 0 appropriation laws now on the statute books. They ' been referred to by different terms. The President calls i subsidies. By others they have been termed the Bribe the States. But however named, they are viicous in prine destructive of local and should not be extei into other fields not now occupied. Long ago we made grants for education and internal provements. The federal land grant colleges were fount subsidies of land and money. Within the past ten years, ever, these grants have taken the form of conditional subi All of them give federal officials great powers over state cials. Many of them make these state officials the virtual ag of the federal bureaus. The states must give dollar for di These great sums, running into hundreds of millions, have ated as bribes that few states have been able to resist. Most states have met the terms on which the subsidies Act, 1914 ; Federal Road granted through the Smith-Leve- r Act, 1916; Social Disease Act, 1918; Vocational Education make-believ- self-governm- ent self-governm- Virginia City, Nevada, famous old silver mining camp,! site of the celebrated Comstock lode, will soon present toi world a wonderful example of how electricity is transform: the mining business. Seventeen hundred feet below the snrfi in the Consolidated Virginia mine, space is being hollowed! c of solid rock, for a site for an electrically operated After the ore, obtained by the oi l bonar workings, is dropped down to the mill and crushed, he tailii will be sluiced out through a four-mil- e tunnel, and oi ly th centrates will be sent up the shaft. The result wib be ani mense saving in the handling of the ore, all of which will to to electricity; for in the old days when steam and ompres air were the sources of power, such an underground mill v1 have been an impossibility. 20-toni- top-slici- the ng If you dont think the Lord is a merciful trials and tribulations of poor son, the Los Angeles evangelist. jrte God, Aimee Senij e011 McF ent The administration has reduced the public debt many dreds of million dollars in the past few years and nov want it to wipe out the European debt too. Some foil 3 are satisfied. ui |