Show A university why should all the great seats ot of learning in the united ted states be built upon a foundation ot of private capital capita or conducted as cooperative or as money making institutions why should not this nation found conduct and maintain forever a university to give its youth tho the opportunity which questions ot of finance prevent many irom from taking la in great private attles john 11 cowles sovereign grand commander of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry tor for the southern jurisdiction thinks we should have such a national seat sot of learning as well as a department of lot education in the government and laws requiring the compulsory attendance ot of school children through tho the eighth grade noria nords he alone in such thinking ot of the millions who are tear nestly a advocating dvor afung the immediate passage ot of the towner sterling bill which will create a department ol of education with a secretary in the presidents cabinet a very large nuin ler ber agree with captain cowles in his statement before the one hundred and tenth supreme council meeting ot of the northern jurisdiction in cleveland A national university would offer to students who could pass a certain examination or who could show certain educational credits an opportunity to gala gain that larger outlook wider knowledge and greater vision which Is esthe the chief end m 0 higher edu cation at a not prohibitive expense it would he be a training school for our civil youth commensurate in standard to our west point and annapolis it would send forth a Jou constant stant stream ot of young people trained in citizenship and americanism apostles or of education de sciples of the true pa Arlot ism a leaven tor for industrial and social unrest a counter irritant lor for bolshevism and ami anarchism ot of anything but his his love tor for his friends when lie he fought tiro fire foi for their lives would that more ot of us could learn the leason ot of brotherhood as these have learned it man aud dog perhaps the little hero pup did not die in vain it if his selfless heroism brings home to us who read the leason which J john read to us so many years year s ago |