Show URGE OF MANKIND TO DO SOMETHING Mental Growth Achieved by the Effort Bodily hunger has driven man to find ways of getting food He has hns pushed back the shadows of forests and planted fields fieldg and gardens He HelIas has lIas drained marshes and Irrigated arid grid regions He has Invented hoes hocq and nd plows and harvesters to take the place of naked hall hands 9 In gathering gatherIng gather gather- Ing sustenance for 01 himself and his family There Is no more ImI Impelling llin motive to effort In all nU the range of human existence than hunger hunger ex except the sight of a starving child for whose nourishment one has hns a n resson Professor Jacks s has called attention attention atten atten- tion to another kind of hunger which Is general in mankind an mankind an urge to something even beyond what one has achieved a cravIn craving for skill It is the repeated satisfaction of this thi hunger hunger hun hun- ger ever renewed that results In mental growth and the hl highest sort of happiness It if It Is often questioned whether education has lias increased happiness happiness hap hap- In the individual It may be that the mere addition of Information does not contribute to the making of ofa a happier human hein being lint But the continuing struggle gle for higher skill In some worthy field fied of human effort effort- creative activity Is the phrase most often used to describe It not t-not not only brings nourishment of spirit and happiness happiness hap hap- but adds to the wealth of the world in terms of human Intellectual values The greatest skills of the greatest number mn may determine the greatest good of the greatest nuns mini ber Certainly It would If if the choice of skills were wise wise and and that does docs not mean if the skills merely produced produced pro pro- materially valuable things Plutarch remarks In his essay eSRay on Pericles that he lie who busies himself In mean occupations produces in the very pains he lie takes about things s of little or no use an nn evidence against himself of his ne negligence and IndIsposItion indisposition indisposition indis IndIs- position to do what Is s really good But the tike something which one does with Infinite pains may be of good goodin in the development of the individual who does docs It t even cven If the product Is Is not of valuable substance could not ha have hae e been a wretched being be lag ing ng for he was an excellent piper Alexander the Great Grea need not have ha been ashamed as his practical father fa ther tiler Philip of Macedon thought he should have hav been for pla playing ln a piece of music so charmingly and skillfully Leisure hobbies hobbles are arc for increasing numbers who cannot find In the narrow narrow nar nar- row range of their vocations their La salvation The minds mind's desire for excellence In something Is a mystery but It does after all oti suggest the course which 1 our education must take In t the development de- de not only of or the child but also of the man and woman to lb tb- tb end of their lives And with t sort of training should be given ghen aa as Doctor Jacks SUf suggests ests In his three reforms a larger place to physical education and the appreciation of ot beauty New beauty New York Times |