Show EDUCATION By LEONARD A DARnETT Education Is dynamite It Is the most dangerous element In tron tion Its destructive destructive tive power Is evl dented In many tragIc periods ot of hIstory nom Roman Romani a n i was at Its heIght when the s Thes empIre fell The confidence ot of the thet t Romans nomans to In theIr I economic and financial strength led fed them to boast so long as Rome Homo c 1 Lived 1111 the sord orld Used as expressed la In types of culture coul could 1 not save the dIsIntegration ot of Roma lion All we have left Is s h r poetry an 1 the ruIns or of her architecture In our modern age Germany fur furnishes nn an ot of the futility ot of trusting an educated culture to fur all the pOwer necessary for sac suc successful leadershIp Before Defore the war tar waran an advanced ad degree from a German university was greatly CO coveted eted In our academIc centers Today Germany Germans s most illustrious scientist drIven ruth ruthlessly lessly from her 0 own n borders finds re re- retreat retreat treat In a lectureshIp In an AmerIcan America n university hat about our modern modem ch civilization Much luch ot of our Twentieth century cui cu 1 ture Is attributable to our progress In science Is education by Itself suf sufficient to guarantee the tho security ot of our western civilization The testimony ot of History argues It If the end ot of our education Is to develop culture without character we are headed for the same fate befell Rome nome whIch would mean the tho gradual disintegration ot of w esters estern Plus character education becomes an asset rather than thana a liability The fusion ot of the moral element In all our processes of tion Is s the tho most serious task confront lag Ing us In our changing social order ho 1 nation can make permanent a 11 cIvilization hIgher than Its character inspIres Roger loger Babson remInds us In fa faone one ot of hIs book books that those who set settled tied In South AmerIca sought gold while those whO the early Ute life In North AmerIca came In search ot of God Gode e D 1924 1134 4 r UnIon I |