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Show BOYS AND GIRLS AT SCHOOL Desiring to give a greater urge to go forward to boys and girls who should be receiving all the advantages of school, but are inclined to drop out, a teacher sends v.s the following from Dr. Frank Crane, essayist and philosopher, and invites the boys and girls of Ogden to read carefully every word addressed to boys and girls who quit school: Don't hustle. Think! An ounce of intelligent getting ready is worth a pound of fussing. Time spent in sharpening your ax counts as 10 times of hacking and hewing. It is certainly worth while to take aim before you shoot. There is some good in keeping everlastingly at it, but a deal of humbug, too. If you're doing a thing wrong, the more everlastingly you keep at it the worse you're off. Nine-tenths of efficiency is preparedness. If you are a boy, go through school. I have met thousands of men in my time; I never knew one to say he was sorry he went to school; I never knew one who had i failed to finish his schooling ! that didi not say he was sorry for it. Of all fools on earth the j boy who will not take an education when he has a chance j is the most sickening. He is deliberately handicapping him- j self in a race where he needs every advantage. j He is giving the other f- low odds when he needs himself all the favorable conditions he can get. He is laying up many an hour of humiliation for himself, days of regret, nights of bitter self-accusation. He is pitting his immature judgment against the accumulated experience and wisdom of the whole human race. He is indulging in weakness or laziness that he will pay for a hundred times over. He is selling his birthright for a mess of pottage. He is laying up shame and pain for all who are unfortunate enough to love him. , He is an ass. He is a monumental, three- star, prize, blue-ribbon, exhibition ass. He is an ass of the longest- eared and palest gray variety, j P God help him, for he won't ; let anybody else! If these few feeble"remarks shall jolt any youth into a realization of the colossal mistake he is making in quitting school, I shall be happy. We are opposed to corporal punishment and to all forms of violence; but if there is any one thing that makes us want to use a large, bumpy, ! hickory club, it is the boy or girl that will not go to school. Of course some people have achieved success who never had any schooling. True. Some people have got rich or famous who had but one leg or wereblind. Shall we therefore lop off a leg or put out one eye? One thing to be regretted is that occasionally there are boys and girls eager for schooling who are denied the opportunity. Such a condition is a tragedy and should be corrected at the earliest moment. Today schooling is essential to success and parents should sacrifice to the utmost to open to their children that gateway to greater possibilities, i |
