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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. Fire Insurance. Insure your property with Bruce McLeod, representing a number of strong English and American Companies. He issues policies on desirable country dwellings and barns, and on system gins. Office in New Lyons Hotel. HK LYONS PROGRESS, MAY 19, 1911. 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