"SHIP GONE"

"Ship Gone" "SHIP GONE!'' These two words from Cap-tain Kendall of the Empress of Ireland told of the latest awful marine disaster, in which more than 950 people went to their watery grave. Yet...

...And how shall the supreme body of the government, the citizenship, find the continuous training of civic intelligence that is needed if voting is to be intelligent...
...how to make school houses laboratories of citizenship...
...Those representatives of Big Business, caught with the goods, who are now crying let up on the trusts, are like the boy who was caught prowling in a neighbor's hen house...
...The answer given in Ogden is not Ogden's alone...
...Ward has been the chief promoter, "has grown out of the tentative and experimental stage," and that the time for administrative organization and the definite remuneration of "the person responsible for secretarial service to the citizens in each community is here...
...Is it not the answer...
...The methods employed by many of these concerns to increase their patrons' incomes, and pave the way for even greater co-operative prosperity are described by B. H. Hibbard of the University of Wisconsin, in a bulletin entitled Agricultural Co-operation, now ready for free distribution to residents of the state...
...This bulletin willbe helpful to many farmers in getting a line on effective methods of selling their produce and buying their supplies by team work...
...To insure complete success the manager must be entirely efficient, energetic, and trustworthy, and must have a thorough knowledge of the product he is required to handle, and the markets, and marketing machinery with which he has to deal...
...Read the excellent McMullin story (page five) and then think over the actual condition in your own town that results from the separation of politics from education, and of both from life...
...Early in May, Mayor Mitchel of New York City called a conference to raise the question: How shall vital and direct connection be made between educational training and governmental expression...
...The question raised in New York, is Hot New...
...the self-education of youth and adult, of individual and community...
...What in the old Harry are you...
...In order to make co-operation successful, however, Mr...
...Paul's was hardly a tactful way of winning him over...
...The Ogden Plan "Men look to the East for the dawning things the light of a rising sun...
...One cannot travel far toward democracy without discovering that the real fountain-head of the great stream of self-government is the school...
...ten thousand pounds to paroduce one pound of meat...
...More than 600 of these are operating cheese factories, or creameries, 80 are engaged in the marketing of grain, fruit or live stock, 200 handle insurance, and some of the others own and operate rural telephone lines...
...Lords, it is interesting to observe that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London," and four other Bishops voted for the bill, and no "Bishop voted against it...
...The Ogden Plan" is the invention of Edward J. Ward of the Wisconsin University Extension Division, or rather it is a part of the "discovery of the school house" which he has made in the name of democracy...
...Those Ill-gotten Eggs AREADER of La Follette's, Mr...
...The great charter made secure popular rights of untold value...
...Bishops Vote For Suffrage IN CONNECTION with the Woman Suffrage bill in England, which was lately defeated by a small majority in the House of...
...The Bishop of London described himself as a convert to the movement, although there was a note of personal feeling when he said that to place a bomb "under his throne in St...
...Criminals" "LAWS make criminals...
...But they look to the West, the crimson West, for the things that—are done...
...And we may then set about to change the offending laws so as to lessen the business of the "criminal" courts...
...Instruments of Liberty THOMAS MORRIS, progressive Republican candidate for United States Senator in Wisconsin, in a recent address had this to say about publicly supported schools: "The establishment of our system of free public schools has done more to advance the cause of civilization than Magna Charta...
...About a ton But you eat about two hundred pounds of vegetables and two hundred pounds of meat in a year which means you consume one hundred tons of water in the vegetables and one thousand tons in the meat—which means that it takes eleven hundred and one tons of water each year to keep a small woman like you going...
...he was asked...
...So, too, is the McCarthy idea of universities as training schools for public service, of which more will be written in these columns...
...Today we are wondering how best to connect schooling and living...
...It takes a thousand pounds of water to produce one pound of food...
...Progress is being made along this line...
...From Ogden, Utah, comes an answer...
...When we all, including judges, come to understand how many of our so-called "criminals" are merely victims of wrongful economic practices, then like Judge Gemmill, we may say "laws make criminals...
...How much water do you drink in a year...
...It marked an event in civilization of the first magnitude...
...A changing public conscience, raising standards of living, has added statutes which set unchanging groups of persons 'without the pale.' "Women, vagrants and juveniles are handled in modern law practice in an unjustifiably criminal and unintelligent manner...
...And now State Superintendent Cary of Wisconsin has called for June 19 and 20, and July- 2 and 3, a double conference to emphasize the essential part of the answer to the question raised in New York, that of unifying education and civic expression...
...you'll break the eggs in my pocket...
...doing in here...
...And it is because our public schools and universities are instruments of liberty and growth that the courts of Privilege everywhere are seeking insidiously to keep them cut off from real living contact with the people, whom the truth will make free...
...The franchise grievance must be removed, just as they were endeavoring to remove the grievance of" Ulster.—The Living Church...
...Team Work OVER 1,500 successful farmers' co-operative companies are in Wisconsin, and the number-is constantly growing...
...But as he was being manhauled out he yelled, "Let up, fool...
...Our system of free public schools, that is, of popular education, gave understanding, expression and permanency to the eternal principles of justice and equality embodied in Magna Charta...
...How shall public servants be imbued with the new educational spirit...
...From Jack London's The Valley of the Moon...
...Co-operative marketing is on the way...
...Thus Judge "GemmiLL of the Municipal Court summarized his address recently before the Illinois State Society of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology in Chicago...
...DEMOCRACY is a continuous process of edu-cation...
...And as we move forward with our new conception of education, the problem of Ad ministration takes on new importance...
...Nawthin'," was the innocent reply...
...Hibbard has found that the company must have honest, able and unselfish leadership, the intelligent co-operation of the members, a fair representation of the interests of all concerned, efficient business organization, and an adequate system of accounting and auditing...
...Whenever the" farmers in any community produce any product of high quality in sufficient quantity to more than supply the local market, there is generally opportunity for the successful handling of that commodity through co-operative effort...
...ALL.LIFE depends upon water...
...York's alone...
...But without popular education it would have remained a mere piece of parchment, for an illiterate people could not have developed the machinery and agencies for the practical effectuation of the liberties which it granted...
...The discovery of the Social Center was a big impetus...
...Yet still the Seamen's Bill, providing for a greater measure of safety at sea, lies in the House of Representatives, chloroformed by the Shipping Trust...
...In the call to this conference on Civic Secretaryship as Public Service, it is stated that the social center movement in Wisconsin, of which Mr...
...Amos Siiepard, looks at it this way...

Vol. 6 • June 1914 • No. 24


 
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