violable the rights a free people have making the world safe for democracy. secured into him. I wish that every child, woman and man in the Central Empires knew the humbug of emperors, kings, princes, nobles, counts, barons, not only as worn-out insignia that have out-worn their feudal rattle, but also as the executioners of their own fathers, brothers, sons,-yea and liberties. I wish that Education could quicken the life and conscience of a people even as the Dragons of War have done. I wish that every ounce of energy in our great America be expended in I wish that the free peoples of the world, and especially those who are not free, would learn that ignorance is the hand-maid of superstition, fear, hate, envy, greed, out of which spring strife, dissensions and wars. Finally, I wish that this war will be the last of all wars, and that the blessings of liberty, peace on earth good will toward men, be and abide with all peoples forevermore! This is a New Year's wish for 1918. When next year comes I may wish for more. My Dog "I am quite sure he thinks that I am God He looks love at me, deep as words e'er spake; Educational Foundations Established 1888. Published monthly, except July and August. $2.00 a year. 25c. a copy. Canada, $2.10. Foreign, $2.20. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Cooperstown, N. Y. Published by EDUCATIONAL MAGA- · ZINE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Business and Editorial Offices, 31-33 East 27th Street, New York, N. Y. EDITORS.-Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, A.M., Managing Editor; William EDITORIAL COUNSELLORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.-United States.-Robert J. Aley, Insular.-Henry W. Kinney, A.M., Supt. Public Instruction, Hawaii. Paul Foreign.-E. B. Sargant, Esq., London. Emile Boutroux, Member French NOTE: Members of this Board are not responsible for sentiments expressed in this Editorial Dr. O'Donnell Goes to France EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS is highly honored to have its representative at the front, Dr. William Charles O'Donnell, whose editorial work in the magazine has been of such inspiration and value to education in the past years. Dr. O'Donnell will engage in special service in connection with the Y. M. C. A. in France, and he will also find time for a some what thorough investigation of French education in war time. The readers of EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS Will be favored by direct contributions from the front through Dr. O'Donnell's articles, and we feel sure we bespeak the sentiment in the hearts of the readers when we say, "God speed and every good wish for our Editor at the Front." Education and Citizenship in War Time With this issue EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS begins a special worldwide presentation of "Education and Citizenship in War Time," and I think we are not oversanguine in promising our readers one of the most comprehensive surveys of conditions to be found in any periodical. On one page in the magazine will be found some of the notable contributors whose articles will appear, and who will cooperate in the symposium beginning in the February issue. We are especially desirous to receive correspondence from our readers both at home and abroad relative to any particular notes of interest occurring in their environments, showing showing new tendencies or changes in education or citizenship brought about by the war. In this time of vast world crisis and re-adjustments, a broad prospective of thinking and knowledge is inestimable, and this can only be afforded through the eyes and experiences of a wide circle of men and women. It is especially desired that readers send in any human incidents or illustrations drawn from life which show the tendency of the times. We are determined to make a new EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, a magazine of worldwide educational progress, with education considered in the broad sense of the term. AS Nailing Our Colors to the Mast S the "London Chronicle" puts it concerning President WILSON'S Message, "He literally nails his colors to the mast." In this process, the President has effectually spiked one of the chief guns of the pacifists and German sympathizers, and all those "noisily thoughtless and troublesome" folk who try to blur the real issues of this war by subterfuge and muddy reasoning. One of these common slogans of the pacifist has been to the effect that while we denounce autocracy and militarism, our government has itself become autocratic and militaristic. The President's Message has clearly shown the difference between an autocracy and a government which is heart and soul democratic and liberty-loving, and because of this fact, and not in spite of it, will fight to the bitter end to maintain its cherished principles. It is opportune to declare in season and out of season, that a democratic people may on occasion, temporarily use the weapons of an autocratic and militaristic people, and still keep burning brightly in their hearts the flame of liberty, justice and peace. Because a householder uses a revolver to protect himself and his family from a Nailing Our Colors to the Mast thief and a house-breaker who enters his home stealthily by night to pillage and to kill, this does not argue that the house-holder is in any sense a burglar or a murderer. On the contrary the fact that the house-holder employs the only means that the burglar can understand or will heed, in order to protect his family and his property, reveals him both a sensible and a decent man. As a big South African hunter said, "Its no good stopping to reason with a mad hippopotamus." The difference between the autocratic monarchist and the republican, lies in the fact that the former is a devoted believer in inequalities between men, in the sovereignty of "might" over "right," and in governing by means of mandates in which the governed have little or no part, while a democracy may be clothed for a moment in the garments of autocracy, directly the occasion is past, and its people and its rights are again secure. It sheds these garments, because at heart it is free and liberty-loving. That which a nation or an individual admires and seeks in the heart, determines the character of that nation or that individual, and if the United States is not a democracy in spirit and desire, we know not where to look for one. To those vacillating souls who still weakly plead for referendums to decide whether or no we should wage war, it should be pointed out that the United States is not only a democracy, but also a republic, and the government of a republic is a representative one, the representatives being truly the people who select them and guide their decision and action. If the representatives do not at any time reflect the wish of the people who have elected them as their spokesmen, they can unseat them, and select others. But to argue that whenever a matter comes up of importance, a nation should leave its duly appointed channels of representative government, and turn to referendum is as illogical as it is ridiculous. It is to turn a nation's affairs over to the fluctuating and irresponsible forces of a mob. (Russia at present being a case in point.) What might be done in a rural schooldistrict, can hardly be done in a nation of one hundred million people, especially at a time when a ruthless enemy is trying to break into your house. The President has spiked the guns of the pacifist by a very clear restatement of the principles of a republic fighting not for aggrandisement but for peace and the right to be free. After reading thoughtfully this great state paper, the man who cannot see the difference between an autocrat and a democrat must indeed be either a dolt, or a "wilful man" disloyal at heart to democracy, and one who does not belong here because be is not of us. An Object Lesson in Civics APLAIN American citizen inclined to independent politics was attending the Democratic Convention in Baltimore in 1912. At that Convention, it will be recalled, the leading candidates for the Presidential nomi nation were WOODROW WILSON and CHAMP CLARK. One night the CLARK adherents made, (apparently) an arrangement with the political element then in control of Baltimore city that they should, on a particular evening, "pack" the hall and stampede the Convention for CLARK. The particular American citizen referred to was "a WILSON man." On that particular night his customary pass was not honored and he was denied admittance at every entrance. Finally, someone "tipped him off" to getting a CLARK badge; and, armed with this, he entered with ease at one of the side doors. He found himself herded in with a group of citizens of the so-called working classes, and a number of ne'er-dowells from most anywhere. The former had good intentions and thought that they were out for the "best man," because MR. CLARK had been represented to them as the "friend of the peepul." When the CLARK banners appeared the noise around our plain citizen was deafening. When the WILSON banner appeared, however, he alone in bis section of the hall set up such a shout as he could. Whereat, the working type of CLARK supporter rebuked him, and the others scowled threateningly. "Don't you know," exclaimed the former, with heat, that "WILSON is an ingrate." "Look," they added, "how he treated JIM SMITH! JIM SMITH made him Governor of New Jersey, and then WILSON turned on him and wouldn't support him for Senator. He's an ingrate, and that's what he is!" The lone WILSON supporter recognized in this recital the story "sent down the line" to these potentially good citizens by their political leaders. They had accepted all in good faith and they were sincere in repeating it. He, therefore, sparred for an openingnot for argument but for discussion,— that which WILSON himself has termed "the greatest of all reforms." "Do you know JIM SMITH?" he asked. "No," they replied. "Well then," said the WILSON man, "I admit that JIM SMITH used his influence to bring out WILSON as the nominee of his party. By supporting a strong candidate, the Democratic party in New Jersey hoped to come into power and in that event, JIM SMITH might bope again to go to the United States Senate. "But, when WILSON was elected Governor, he was elected on a promise made to the plain Democratic voters that he would support a man named MARTINE for Senator. "Now, would you rather WOODROW WILSON had kept his promise openly made to thousands of plain citizens like you and me, or would you rather he had set aside that promise, after election, and kept some supposed or back-room agreement with this millionaire politician, JIM SMITH?" Rather to the surprise of the WILSON man, his hearers seemed to catch the point and feel that they had been misinformed and misled by their "bosses." This simple statement "got over" to those citizens. Their minds were not highly cultivated, perhaps, but their hearts were pure and their intentions patriotic. They stopped "rooting" for Clark and, later, they |