Show m EDUCATION NEVER ENDS tI One of the wisest remarks w we weave e have ave read for a long time wa was 5 made de by a New York judge th the theEther e other Ether ther day Only a clod speaks speak of his education tion in the pas past t tense In ruling that a trust trus t fund fund established to complete the he education of a boy should b be e continuous throughout the beneficiary's bene beneI siss ys y's life Surrogate Delehanty Delehan- Delehan I ty y pointed out that education is isan isfan fan an ran unending lifelong process of r development It p I-p Education does not consist in filing a childs child's mind with knowledge know know- ledge The discipline of formal Study is merely laying g the foundation foundation foundation foun foun- dation of an education The intelligent in- in student brings away from school little more at best than an understanding of how knowledge may be acquired and from what sources If he has Been fortunate in his teachers He lie will also have some comprehension comprehension compre compre- hension of the rel relation tion of each kind of knowledge to all others I So equipped ones one's education may be said to begin beg after he has finished school or college and nd tries to apply the knowledge knowledge knowledge know know- ledge and he has been taught to the practical affairs r of f life and the art of living He finds in his contract with his fellowmen new problems every everyday everyday everyday day that were never mentioned in his textbooks How well edu edu- sated ted he finally becomes depends depends de de- upon how well he succeeds suc eeds in learning from his day day fry experiences I l i J JORL RECOVERY IS ORL J WIDE VIDE f. f The economic council council- of the Teague of Nations reports that he world has so far recovered rom rom the universal collapse of ight years ago that every naion na na- I ion is in better economic con- con than it was before re the rash jash That is good news which which's I s to some extent confirmed b by by y I IS I he report of the that l workers have stepped I I ut rut from under Uncle Sams Sam's Protective shelter to take jobs n it n private industry in the past I ear I There ar are still more than a nillion and a half dependent this method of ng public funds for their live 1 I and still more receiving ther ither forms of relief There be found some better way f taking care of people who I ant take care of themselves themselves' I Ihan han has been found so far I Harry Hopkins W. W P. P A. A Ad- Ad has said that re re- is here to stay Many 1 VA V. W. A workers have acted as if hey expected to make a life eer out of being supported by he e government We Ve wonder j I what hat future conditions really vill viii be I UR YOUTHFUL BOUNDERS I Every little while something ails alls our attention again sharp sharp- y to the f fact ct that America is a I young mans man's country What J brings it up now is an article j about bout the Constitutional ConJ ConTention Con Con- J mention of 1787 pointing ou out t J th that r t the average age of the delegates delegates de de' deI I legates of the thirteen colonie colonies S who met in Philadelphia 15 0 I years ago and laid the foundations founds of our government were what we e nowadays would calvery call cal calli i very young men Their average I age was only 42 years The venerable Dr Benjamin Benjamine I i Franklin to be sure was 85 but ut Alexander Hamilton was seas only 30 SO Edmund Randolph was 34 Charles Pinckney was 30 Gouverneur Morris l whose handwrote hand handwrote handwrote wrote the final draft of the document document do do- ws WIs 35 Those four fora and James Wilson Tilson 45 15 were the OJ oit ops S who led the convention which finished its work on September Sep Sep- 17 1787 We Ve have a way of thinking of historic figures as if they were all old men and are inclined to look on the Constitution as the work vork of rich old graybeards Most host of the men who framed it were comparatively poor They stood out among their fellows not because they were either or but because they were educated men In an era when not one in five could coul read or write education education education edu edu- cation was the mark of the superior superior superior supe supe- man in whom the common people placed their trust Those young men did a good job fob The government they planned has lasted longer and bl brought ought a greater measure of good to a greater number of people than any other government government government govern govern- ment ever set up anywhere anytime anytime any anytime time in all human history |