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Show ity is ours, and the responsibility cannot can-not be evaded. "In his little book on the 'Fundamentals 'Funda-mentals of Prosperity,' Roger Babson draws a pathetic picture of the man of wealth depositing his stocks, bonds, securities and other worldly goods in a great steel vault protected by various var-ious electrical and mechanical devices but apparently oblivious of the fact that the poorly paid, hump-backed clerk could thwart all this paraphernalia parapher-nalia of protection with a duplicate key to the renter's box. In the last analysis his risk depends upon the character of the man. who controls the machinery. In fact), he well points out that the stocks, bonds, securities, deeds and mortgages are '.11 valueless minus the element of human integrity the integrity of lawyers, clerks and stenographers who draw up the papers, pa-pers, the integrity of the courts and judges who enforce our claims, the integrity of the. community which, in the last analysis!, determines whether or not the orders of the courts and officials will be executed and respected." EDUCATION IN CHARACTER IS AMERCAS NECESSITY. Education in character is one of the things now most needed in the United States' according to John J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida and former United States . Commissioner Commis-sioner of Education, writing in the current issue of the National Republic. In his comment on the subject Dr. Tigert says: "The need of the United! States for character education is pai.-amount.The schools can make no larger contribution.' contribu-tion.' to. democracy than character, these statements are almost self evident evi-dent and axiomatic. The appalling increase, in divorces, murders;, crimes, felonies and vice of all kinds has stunned thoughtful people everywhere. Reliable statistics have demonstrated that the age level of crime las been rapidly sinking for years. The fact - that an increasing: proportion cf crimes and misdemeanors .are committed com-mitted by boys and girls of school age is a challenge- to every teacher in the land. By virtvie of the disappearance disappear-ance of the old .American home with its evenings of fireside dogma and; parental contro'. and the apparent in-1 isposAtion of so many people to lean ?p, the. church for spiritual guidance W$ because of the acknowleged place,, ArRhi She School is coming to occupy in. vwr soc'ial order, there has come i thoso e" .imaged in education an opportunity op-portunity for unparallelai service. 'The moltiplication of machinery) and tbe. rdvances of science dazzle us from day to day. The cat-dog of scien-i tjfic achieve ratrfits of yosterday is almost al-most t-une-adihg. No invagination can conceive- what tomorrow will bring forth,. It is, neverthe less, evident that man's capacity to J .pply the principles prin-ciples of science has oulcrun his ability tot ctevelope character jmd the human relationships which nrust inevitably control the adjustment) s of machinery civilization is to Advance rather than decline. Whatever miracles maj , be wrought by scienci; in the anm.-hilation anm.-hilation of time, space, and distance, it will never be able to produce a Messiah. The issue is. clearly before us, the lines arc drawn , the opporti m- |