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Show THE VALUE OF EDUCATION The practical results of a trained mind in the business, professional and social Worlds prove how fundamentally valuable valu-able education is. The public schools of this nation are rendering render-ing an invaluable service in providing that training for our future citizens to take their places in the social order. Our citizenry should promote every constructive educational educa-tional activity. Legislators, in particular, both state and national, na-tional, should deepen their interest in the public schools, especially when it is considered that America is faced with the difficult problem of rearing vast numbers of aliens, many of whom have conceptions of government quite different from those of the native-born citizen. On Bedloe's Island, in the New York harbor, stands a magnificent bronze figure holding aloft a flaming torch and greeting the immigrant as he approaches the new world. On October 28, 1937, this noble symbol of liberty will celebrate her 50th birthday. What varied emotions are stirred within the breast as one contemplates that commanding goddess, her mighty arm holding a torch, while a volume of law or instruction instruc-tion is encircled by her left? T7hy not a blazing sword in her right hand, and a pi'otecting shield on her left arm ? But no, she illustrates the superiority of proper enlightenment, over the power of the lethal weapon of shining steel. Her flaming torch opens the eyes of men, that they may no longer grope about in the darkness of ignorance that breeds crime, fosters anti-American "isms" and encourages strife and sedition. The mute guardian at our gates is Indeed made articulate by and through the voice of our public schools. . . r |
