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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal jg for six months. $4.50 n, per year. Single copies, 10 centa. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Loti', poy sble to The Cltlxen. Address all communications to The Cltlien. Entered as second-clasmatter, June 21, 191$, at the Pootofflse at Soft Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March I, 1571. Salt Lake City. Utah. Phone Wasatch 540$ I.MMJ Nees Bldg. s AN ARISTOCRACY OF BRAINS Perhaps no premise mure directly in opposition to our idea of us iu recent time, than the 'viKil liberty, has come down t Oration of I)r. Krnest Martin Hopkins, president of Dannonth Ace concurred in by Dr. V. H. I, l'aunce. presiileut of Hrown ;erity that too many of Americas young men and women are, peeking a college course. And stranger still and farther reaching in effect, we find many uential men in the public eye, including hankers, politicians and fosioiial men. hacking the capricious views advanced by these eminent pedagogues, and sustaining them by more or less plau-- c arguments of their own. I)r. Hopkins predicates his hypothesis on the captious tlu-oi"The opportunities of securing an education by way of a cd-:- r course are definitely a privilege and not essentially a universal And further along in his unusual ami warning t.c half million young men and women of America, who annually A a collegiate course, Dr. Hopkins explains his motives when he "It consequently becomes essential that a working theory he Jit that will define the individuals who shall make up the gmup Ahum, in justice to the public good, the privilege shall he cx-aand to specify those from whom the privilege should He with- L.v. y cold-bloode- d : cation. And yet it must appeal to m.nu A to tisky business to giant paltnts of brains to auv class in Aimtira, he uu An appeals as being as ahoitive at tempt to aM.iin the ivp.i 1 1 :nh v i s esM-uti.ill- mi colleges ai e n vi t f ! 1 1 eiej 1 1 Midout Is aie sid. mg entiame ialls jl.it tom niii tilt a millioiiai! es iould alloid I : I enough nnmev to ke p it fmnlionmg Abo w e lllld that lilt Ihgi lit e te i -- 1, sadly lacking in pitdntive it nit and aie ..m t id an meiit. Nil lilitii III.IV li.id tli' d! he can l 11, off hand, hw iai t!.e mdi:d:.d 11 1 1 w Perhaps the time has arrived to -- ate the shccp-fro- m the goats. Hut the idea wdl hardly appeal :he average American business man who has made enough money old his bov or girl to college, thus assuring them all the stip- '!: nal advantages that go with a higher education. And Dr. l'aunce savs he believes that: "All voting men who .t an education should have it. Hut the vast majority of them 'I profit far more bv some other kind of education than that :: by the traditional American college. And there vou are! There you have it direct ftom two of ''vricas foremost educators that the time has arrived iu mir national teiico to create an aristocraev of brains, or an ultimate personnel "tilling a genius intelligentsia, which shall handle all our ('"in "ii fairs, think out our knotty problems and direct our untrained ;alit ios in the wav tliev should go, while we merely potter around '!'the chores and haul the water and split the wood. ''"uldnt it hark voiir shin to think of it." And wouldnt it be hunch of intellectuals rambling around "have a f"r us weaker-mind- s to gape at." And wouldn t it constitute - lrcease of sorrow to know that they had been specially cho-e- n to do all the thinking? hut how are we going to discover those who should be granted : "ght to a collegiate course to the exclusion of all the rest." We r:ri'e that the suns and daughters of the rich would he included in d American belief, handed selective group, because it is a n from father to son and mother to daughter, that the man who ulates the dough is the wise guy. 'Pile fact that we have Perhaps Dr. Hopkins is right! 9 -- -- m othei institution, i.t that mattii entirely nodes-- , when it cu: t. j iei , i:; . i !!- -' - . ! ; !!- ; Jii'-.e:;::::- i. 5 - ,n. -- I 1 he bet tej w.r. ideal-- . Hettel let 1 ' i. ! I 1 ... htth ! -- 1 ,ie ( -- i e el i will b' to mth a i hala tlli it v.ttulil a J:n it 1 among - get all the u h w ..I t . ! . - w i -- !:) . t ' U i h.-- e : . hoi. ia ato '!' ! ; a.. :sr!it th tan :m lit Then we toil'd let e. in tlid this "go ! it" : eg.mlSt humble m lieh. : ::i tin im to in , i n s g d :i h : . . . - t J x It i - f 1 - t . : , !' ; - 14 UNHAPPY RESULTS. UNWISE EXAMPLE ; pre-determin- ed hide-houn- i k . . Pacific fiom Southern P.uutn of the decision of the I'mltd t o t V.-ti- : . 1 : - it- w:. Mimtf.n s i : s : - ' v 4 known, a committee : tin- v lit L.A.iC u v t!:i oil leCoiil as placed ll : m !d.w! Inu of the State of Plait. h mteien::-not icucct t.w cutn- . taken the same attitude, although it h eged w t..c 'so. ,g of the state, a- - evidenced bv t!.c sttoug ptote-stIt n .d' ' well c: .w u t!: it of Ogden, Hrigham, Logan ami elsewiuc - - v -- it-e- -- T-c- - |