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Show EDITORIALS (CONTINUED) Karl G. Maeser as the basis of their education it would develop devel-op peace, love harmony, .unity, temperance, health.chastity. ; What Ails Our Youth By Dr. John T. Miller, Editor of The Character Builder. False phychology robs them of the true science of life-building. life-building. Their intellects are stuffed, memories crammed and m oral feelings starved. They are trained for rivalry, not for cooperation. They are trained for war, not for peace. They are made money grabbers instead of character builders. They are taught about everything but themselves. They are trained train-ed to sacrifice human lives for profits Wrong education fills penitentiaries with youni; criminals. It costs as much to banish criminals as to run the government and their lives are not adjusted as they should be. Crime is America's biggest business. Major W. H. Drane Lester, G-man assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, said : "Juvenile criminals form the greatest single problem confronting us today. Out of every six persons arrested last year for all types of crime, one was either a boy or girl between the ages of lh' and 20." If all education and other human activities were based upon the true science of mind used by Horace Mann and Dr. |