Show I LIFES LIFE'S William G. G Roylance professor of history has a n good article In the May number of oC the tho Educational ne Ho thinks tho the principal w weakness akness In Inthe the tho American character is an un inability to realize the existence of or what William Wil liam Ham George Geore Jordan has called the of life me Mr 11 sa says S 'S Se We e refuse to meet reality squarely face to face The average American mother ts her Infant to Providence Providence Provi Provi- dence and the tho hired girl and sallies forth to the club to read a paper on Kants Kant's Antinomies or the responsibilities of or motherhood the tho father fearful lest Jest he bo be late for Cor the baseball base ball game same menaces his bla young oung hopeful i I I with threats of dire Ire punishment If he ho hears bears from the principal any more mor complaints of delinquency and hurries out to catch the car cai for downtown o both sublimely confident dont that our great American school system an and our great American institutions generally will I bring things out right in the end The Thebo I bo boy In college throws his text books I Into the lie most convenient corner and out but To 10 join Ute the fellows In the dIC latest prank confident of being be bc- bc lug logo able to bone Lone through or to work the lie prof proC The professor proCessor locks U up his tomes an and test tubes and goes out to lobb lobby for an appropriation or for a share of or the latest latest- billionaires billionaire's conscience fund depending on the the- notes he kept from the lectures of or Dr Grind to serve ser him In the place of or actual preparation on ou his own part parL And some of or those who ho study under him him will J preserve reser notes on ou the notes he took from Professor Grind which will be hashed up in turn to the nc next t generation of oC students Whatever What What- over ocr the future futuro American may mar turn turnout turnout turnout out to be this much is certain that I he lie will learn to face reality or will give place to some race that lids has learned it ft Our efforts should be bo now in the direction of securing a re x tion of or our situation of or getting down downto own to first principles and then proceeding in accordance with wilh them An And that Is probably a fair view rica For there are There are arc laws and every ery one of or them Is linked with a penalty And a broken law I means a suffered penalty The They cannot can cannot cannot not bo be e escaped They are absolute True c character realizes these things and obeys the law That is one ono thing boys should bo ho tau taught ht That is one thing that should be impressed on I girls And nd when they ther have learned It they will have hac acquired rather the time most valuable possession which their their- elders and their teachers can o gh-o them thorn It is no kindness to encourage their hope that they can break tho the law Jaw and evade endo the penalty |