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Business and Education.
Perhaps the business man’s pre
judice against the college training
and higher education has sound
grounds in the fact that the pre
vailing influence of modern college
life is toward dilet autism rather
than equippment and training for
the duties and responsibilities of
business.
Harry Hodgson, of Athens, trus
tee of the University of Georgia,
dealt very forcefully with this
question the other day at Jackson
ville at the Conference for Edu
cation in the South, claiming that
with the ever increasing complex
ity of American business meth
ods, the man who enters upon
business life today without the
preliminary training of higher
education suffers a severe handi
cap.
Education in its truest sense,
Mr. Hodgson thinks, should train
and equip men mentally, morally
and ethically for success in vari
ous fields. This is the right view of
it, and if all the colleges could
maintain this standard for edu
cation much of the demoralizing
effect of college life could be ob
viated, The trouble with most of
our richly endowed colleges and
universities is that there is too
much persuasion offered to the
wealthy and luxurant loving sons
of rich parents to come and be
students and not enough of disci
pline ai.d rigorous class standards.
Athletics —in proportion—are all
well and good, but the tendency is
to sacrifice hard work for success.
The trouble with the majority of
our colleges and universities is
shst too much persuasion is offer
ed to luxury Joying sons of rich
men to eotttk and pass merry terms
at these institutions of leaaning.
The rich fathers ehdow chairs and
giVe buildings but the sons spread
a blightening influence and indol
ence and inconsequence, which
more than cancels the gifts their
coming brings.
College sports and athletics
have their very valuable place in
the allrounded scheme of educa
tion, but a nice sense of propor
tion is needed to keep them from
militating against class work. In
all this, however it is as Mr. Hodg
son says, the fault of the parents
who do not demand that their sons
take a degree.
“I want you to realize that you
are permitting young men to enter
business under a serious handicap
when you do not make clear to
them that education and a trained
mind is essential under existing
conditions.
“One prime essential for success
in business is willingness to work,
and to work steadily for hours.
Some people think colleges do not
demand hard work from students,
but that, students are allowed to
slip through by an easy route,
that they learn shiftless habits
while in college. When this is so,
as a rule, it is the parents’ fault.
Demand that your boy take an
A. 8., or aB. S., or B. E. degree.
1 will guarantee he will know what
work is if you will do this. He
will be a good business man, too,
in all probability,for he will learn
the great, lesson that no success
can come without real work.”
Certainly, the object and pur
pose of education is to develop in
the maturing young man the bes*
and most efficient use of his power
in life, else his education is mis
directed and his faculties are
drawn from his life work.
In conclusion Mr. Hodgson ad
vocated the establishment a sc.iool
of commerce as a post-graduate
course at the University of Geor
gia. Speaking on this part of his
subject he said:
“The tendency of the times is
for young men to enter business
life, for the great problem of mak
ing a living is, after all the big
gest of all our problems. Harvard
lias the right idea. She has found
ed a graduate school of business
administration.
“A student must take his degree
and be an educted man and then
he specializes on business admin
istration just as the lawyer or doc
tor must get his fundamental ed
ucation before he enters the law
or medical school. The so-called
business colleges scattered every
where through the country, which
give a smattering of book-keep
ing. stenography and some little
knowledge of a few business rules,
do very little service toward train
ing a man to be efficient in large
business affairs which call for
men of insight, intelligence and
training—men who know how to
think —and parents generally who
arn ambiti' us for business careers
for their boys must see that
education is fundamentally good.
These schools devo e themselves
to the mechanical side of business.
They develope a fine office machine
in the person of a stenographor,
book-keeper or the like, but they
do not produce a mentally trained
man, much less a trained head for
an enterprise,’‘—Savannah Press.
In Justice to the Mule.
From time immemorial our
iongeared and very useful friend
the mule has rested under the sus
picion that his idiosyncrasies are
due to “pure cussedness.” That it
appears, is all wrong no less au
thority than the declaration of Sir
Wvndham Cottle, of the Royal
Academy of Surgeons of England,
backed by the endorsement of sev
eral other members of the acad
emy. During a term of years Sir
Wyndham has given much study
to animals, being a lender in the
S. P. C. A, movement in Londou.
Mules, along with horses and dogs
and cats, were under his observa
tion from time to time. He is
convinced, from all the evidences
that the mule is not understood
but is much maligned.
So far from being filled with
wickedness and viciousness, says
Sir Wyndham, the mule is really
by nature of very sweet and kindly
disposition which is shown by his
willingness to work hard day in
and day out under very trying cir
cumstances. The mule is a creature
of emotions. The raucous voioe is
raised not purpose of alarm
and annoying the neighborhood
but most likely byway of giving
vent to iWliiigS of sorrow long
pent up withlU the faithful breast.
The ttihle rarely sings when he is
rtlbrry, according to the experts
but only when he is sad. He wants
sympathy and calls loudly for it.
That the call is not so soft and
pleasing as the cooing of a dove
is not the mule’s fault, but his
misfortune. As a vocalist, as well
us under other circumstances, the
mule does the best he can.
Nor are flying heels to be taken
as evidence of innate“cussedneßß.”
r l here is actually no malice in the
mule’s heart when the hardest
kicking is done The physiology
of it is this: Under strong emo
tions, such as anger, fear, etc , the
mule falls into a sort of cataleptic
state, during which lie is not real
ly responsible for what he does- It.
is then that the damage is done:
that the side of the stable is kicked
out and the hired man sent into
a state of catalepsy if he chances
to be in the way of the heels, but
the beast does not, harbor any
grudge against the stable or to the
man. When a mule balks, says
Sir Wyndham, it is because of a
confused state of mind . The train
of thought does not run along con
nectedly, and, being in doubt, the
nnile6tops and and flog
gings only make matters worse by
still further clouding the mulish
intellect by the introduction of
extaneons matters. Kind words,
gentle treatment, lumps of sugar,
an apple and a carrot occasionally,
are the best means of winning the
mule’s confidence and favor.
It seems hardly necessary to add
that Sir Wvndham never pulled a
line over a plow-mule in Georgia
—News.
City Ordinances.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of
the city of Lyons, in regular meeting as
sembled: —
- That each automobile in the city of Lyons
e taxed the sum of $12.50 and that the ma
•hine with its number be registered with the
Clerk of the Council of said city on or before
the Ist day of June of each jear.
Owners of machines failing to register and
pay said amount shall be punished as per sec
tion 94 of the general code of the City of Ly
ons.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council bf
the City of Lyons, in regular meeting as
sembled:—
That all persons who have friends or rela
tives buried in the City Cemetery, or who
proi>ose to bury a friend or relative, shall
first obtain a permit and secure a lot. and those
who have lots already must get deeds to
same, m default of same they shall be pun
ished as per the ordinances of said city.
Done at regular meeting. April 17th, 1911.
W. P. C. Smith. Mayor.
J. P. Collins. Clerk of Council.
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