Show E SCHOOLS thoy they will caleb Celo brato m to tho dedication of tho worlds P fair air CoI columbus Columb umbus day to r lie e made a restive occasion throughout tho united states stat A grand and worthy wormy undertaking tho the project of converting columbus day into an american school festival will be bear heartily tily commended by thoughtful 0 minds the dedication of tho the exposition buildings 0 and pounds grounds will bo be a n national even event t of crowning importance but in order to emphasize the significance ance of the 1 discovery I i bovery of the new world and to render it int olli 0 ible throughout the length and breadth of the land it is proposed to make every schoolhouse a local center for commee brathe exercises this thi plan has received the nanc sanction tion of the worlds congress commission and of the american amorn sup superintendents brinten dents of education A ai cz cx ive committee lias has been appointed to orga organize nizo a national movement by which thirty thirteen en million school children in every ellinge yil logo and town in t union can unite unito qin in carrying arx n i simple but effective gramme program pro ine on that historic fistori anniversary is nothing impracticable in the it will only bo be necessary for eve every ry rc school hool to have a flag 0 of its ita own orni to mise a and nil salute on the morning of tho the celebration and then to bo be prepared to listen isten to an address and to join in singing ing 0 an ode prepared for the occasion under the direction of the national com cittee A holiday will be put to tho the hiLr highest hest educational use if all the school children of the country can be brought io together gether at the same hour to commemorate the greatest event in tho the modem world the voyage of Cb columbus lumbus says rays t the new york tribune wm was a protest ng aint the ignorance of the medieval age tho al discovery 1 sf lovery of the new world was tha fd first st big q of the real nance of the old world it created new heavens and a new earth broadened immeasurably the horizon horion hori on of men and nations am arii transformed the whole order of european thought columbus was wan the greatest educator who ever eve lived for lie ho emancipated mankind from the narrowness narrow nebs of its own ig norance and taught the great lesson that human destiny destine like divine mercy arched over the whole world if a per perspective of four cen of rs r s could have floated like him a birago o alx lx before fora the eyes of the great discoverer he h na 1 sighting san sail salvador the i it j c house would 11 havo have it 11 i 11 bic i ie greatest institution ution of ci fri n future behind hiro him lie lia t bred b red i iti superstition und lind paralyzed caraly cd by ari an f 0 L H I 1 ins pedantry i ii a lot i oi 0 before him lay a 1 aca virld ld with the promise of tho potency 1 of civil and rello religious bious liberty free education and popular enlightenment Bowa because tise the house liko 0 hi bl i s 0 oin n voyage has been a protest ikirt mint iii rt popular ignorance und and has ha 1 ne it re V 0 to malco our free Anic america rica what it is it would 1 irve I 1 v red bred above everything else in that mim c like vision of tho worlds pro the public school celebration on co lumi j lay ia td bo commended there fa i i t only us as u unique method of daiil ua 7 armong local centers of ameri can ahu from plymouth rock to the golden gato gati the significance and spirit of a memorable anniversary but also as s practical expedient for the value of the most characteristic of national institutions the free school when the new world was discovered by columbus spain was waa tho the greatest power in europe euron aid england was an obscure and petty during the alie first ten ben tury after we the landing on san salvidor salvador a great spanish empire was founded stretchy str stretching etchi 1 n from froin the bulf of Bl mexico exico to patagonia att 1 ona slowly and laboriously tho the 1 inglai L speaking race obtained a foothold in north america liberty was the breath of its life and free education was its most precious bequest to succeeding g tho spanish conquerors never opened a fruce free school As als time passed their empire revolted against them and the constitutional forms of the english speaking race in tho the north were roughly copied by one southern republic after another lar education was vas neglected acted as it had been under spanish viceroys vice roys and consequently the moral force of enod public opinion was iz lacking in the southern hemisphere what h lias as made the american republic the great power in modern modem civilization which it has been for u century is the free school sy system stein because it has haa given form and direction diro ebion to american h a proper theater for celebrating tho the great event of october if thirteen million public school children can bo taught on that historic festival to aright the inestimable benefits of free education it will be a good augury for another century of more enlightened progress |