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Show Dean of Arkansas University Speaks At Association SPOKANE. Waah . April 2 "Eda cation and Domocracv' was the title of un address made here today by J. Jewell, dean of the I Diversity of' Aikanaas. before the Inland Krupir Tearbcre' association Me said In part: "The only democracy thinkable Is a democracy of Intelligence No'hlng else la pcmlble "It la not true that all men are bori free and equal, it I not truo that you I aim make a man free by fist A glanc , backward shows us that man hss en hanced his political, social and aron-en aron-en k stilus only a be has worked j out his own aalration by means or sn sccamulatlng tntellsct. ' It was because the more intoM! ront nerrooa discovered this law to bo inherent that Hooker T Waablngton founded his school st T'ikr No nsma baa boon more outspoken In ro in orr:ng this psyr bolurteal taw than alM o-caalnn. r.n ani l"" ,rT . r re I higher degree of indllgen- ) I ! they make themselves in any way functioning members of American democracy. de-mocracy. ' "Every great movement this earth has seen lias been lost If leaders have failed to appear or to retain their leadership. It is not accident that the epochs of the world's history are-largely are-largely named after individuals. It la hardly in a figurative sense that Washington Is called the Father of his Country, and Lincoln Its Savior. Consider Con-sider the events that have transpire 1 In Russia within the last few months. A revolution came almost over night, but it was not fortuitous. It came only because the leaders of a bllna people had paid the price through generations gen-erations and had given their lives to make easier the course of freedom lor the masse 8. "Democracy cannot be won by a more revolution that proves successful. success-ful. The only democracy thinkable is democracy of intelligence We realize real-ize now Very clearly that Russia i loot for a generation unless it finds men whose supreme Intelligence shull make them supremely powerful. "If then It be true, as 1 confident -ly believe, that the only possible democracy de-mocracy is that of intelligence, what can we teachers do about It? Just this We can assert in season and out of season, that we can not get and promote intelligence to any marked dogroe except In our schools "So far as our country is con corned, at the present time, we seed two things. It seems to me. in the wav of bringing ;.!out an Intellectual de mocraey tnrough the medium of our schools and oir teachers We need -a universal training of our children In community civics, and we need uni versa! training In thinking. In th" first place, wo need a universal leaching leach-ing of community civics so that we shall no longer require food dictators and coal dictators, and tho like. It is evident that our coal barons have not yet learned that over-charging Is treason. The people at large have I better right to live than coal operators opera-tors have to swollen fortunes An.l the ultimate consumer will hf to Uarn that for a man to cheat a railroad rail-road is Just as treasonable as for t railroad to defraud a man. "We should loam thai community civics begins at homo Ka h member of each household has certain rights and each has corresponding duties If our children learn these in their plastic age It will do much toward Insuring In-suring proper standards in adult l!f |