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Show No Civilization Lasts Long Unless the People Are Trained to Their Tasls By PROF. M. V. O'SHEA, University of Wieonsin. The conditions in city life have changed marked; during the last few decades. The individual home has been constantly losing its dis-: dis-: tinctive character. Fifty years ago, even in the city, yotoig and old spent a considerable part of their time in their own homes. Today most of i their time is spent outside of their homes; and even then they are in J their own homes, their friends are there with them. j The agencies in the city designed to help people to while away their time have been constantly increasing out of all proportion to an increase in the size of the cities. This simply means that peoole are spending much more of their time together in groups than they did formerly. The tendency of this new life is to make young people more responsive, respon-sive, more alert, more self-reliant in the presence of others, perhaps even j "smarter" than was true in the old order. But at the lame time, young ; people do not have training outside of the school in long-continued application appli-cation to any task. No civilization can Wing endure unless the1 people are trained to apply themselves to their tasks, whatever they mav he, for a long time; that is to say, until the tauks are salved. |
