Show E Educators U tI i Solve The Problems of Our New Nev Civilization This is a demo democracy democracy rac Upon that rock is our public school sy stem The two are linked by indi indis indissoluble soluble ties They are equal part partners partners ners and sharers in m the struggles and successes of an advancing ad race lace writes Dennis Brummitt ney General State of North Carolina m in inthe inthe the United States Dailey Dalley He con con- contInued con continued tinned in m part This school system must fit the ultimate purpose of the social and political institutions of which it is a apart apart apart part That purpose is not culture alone it is not national power nor norIS noris noris IS it simply training for leadership It IS iff all of these in m part and yet more than all of these in the whole There Thel e eare are other and more mOle basic needs in a twentIeth century social order ordel We have approached appi cached m in the political contI control 01 of government The Ghe policies and actions of partIes and office holdel holders s recurrently come up for review by the people For the Present at least leist we continue to choose our public officials Democracy and the public publio school system working v together have ve brought government under the con con- control control control of the average man Again In concert they have opened the doors of the school house to all on equal terms Together they must find the solutIon of our social and economic problems To the educated citizen citizenship citizenship ship of the future democracy must and will be not simply the substance lof land of things hoped for but the eVIdence of things known We Wc have come to a new economic age It is one wherein more than ever before the interest of one IS that of all For the future bus business mess problems will revolve e around not the productIOn of goods but their c Prosperity will III depe more and more upon the increasing number of those able to buy and thus share in the comforts and con con- convenIences conveniences conveniences of life Agriculture and industry try cannot continue at the level which machinery has now established hed unless they find a market for their products in the buying power of time the whole adult population gainfully em- em employed em employed d Unless H v e meet this new challenge we have have- have reached ih the P point I- I It t of diminishing returns from our util- util util-izat util izat on of this marvelous energy Here then is the great task of democracy and the public school tem system In the past they hive have acted to- to together to together gether in the future e they must con con- contInue continue con continue to do so They must act together er and thus preserve our individualistic listic system of industry agriculture government society Within that system mankind may gro grow character be built and a great civilization be developed eloped It beckons with ow 11 0 o appeal to youth For it tests hiS p wels calls forth the best that is In him offers him a n fr free e field equal op opportunity opportunity and the just dust reward leward of his Ius merIts and his efforts These two do not work ork alone here hele At this point upon one great high high- highway highway highway way meet all the forces which con control of affect human life Here then thenis JS is the ta task k of all of these these of religion educatIOn democracy politics politic law government industry business econ omits All the successes ses which lie be hind I us all our rich dreams for the future meet and ind cling and here color what we must 01 of will do This public public school system must produce the necessary leadership But that alone I is not sufficient In this age no questIon great question can be settled outside of the willand will and desire of the mass of the people In uIn allag all ag ages men have sought to adJust the mechanism they use to the load to be earned carried It was so in the time of the wooden wooden oden plo plow and physIcal energy alone It must beb so now m in inthis inthis this age of power The task of the educational machine grows s ro ros s not light light- lighter lighter er but heavier Surely it is the part of to strengthen not weaken eaken It Here is a labor that never ends Here is a problem whIch problem which increases In magnitude the nearer we seem to ap- ap approach approach ap approach its solution Here is a task in which progress is Ie attainment As one class passes out from the high I school and the college another and larger one takes its place They will III contInue to crowd upon us In ima Ima- ImagInatIon ima- ima imagination imagination we eve hear their countless foot foot- footfalls footfalls footfalls falls as the coming generations move up the steps and along the halls of our school buildings in m the years ahead Always it will be necessary to strain at oui out resources in the effort ef- ef effort ef effort fort to meet the need |