quite different system of training leaders. Our salvation depends upon our ability to work out a scheme of education which will make of every person who wills it a leader in his own way. The man of trained intelligence who works on the farm, or in the factory, or at a trade, may be a leader of as much social value as the man who engages in business or enters a profession. Granted good health, and habits of conduct which make of one an agreeable member of a community, and the ability to earn a decent livelihood, I have no fear of social unrest or domestic unhappiness. The man or woman who can do something well is sure to take pride in the work, and to find satisfaction in doing it.

The life worth while. The final effort in all education, therefore, should be directed to the proper appreciation of the opportunities that life offers. The education to which we are accustomed in school and college is properly the evaluation of what is best in life. I do not ask that we abate in the slightest degree our zeal for the best in literature, history, and science. My plea is that we do also these things of which I have been speaking not that we should leave the others undone.

The struggle to find what is best, and the determination to pursue that course to the end, is the record of every good man's life. It is well that history and literature portray great characters and record their struggles. What man has done, I can do!—is the watchword of the boy who is surely going forward. The attainment of any virtue is made easier if good example attend the precept. The great ideals of Christian character were exemplified in the life of the Master. He did not appeal to his dis

ciples to follow truth for its own sake, nor did he present the beautiful and the good in the abstract. And anyone who would uplift boy or girl, man or woman, must show that the good, the beautiful, and the true are the dynamic forces which make life worth living. The greatest good is the good that man can do; the purest beauty is the beauty that man may be; the noblest truth is the truth that makes man free.

The lesson of life. Not long since I visited in the South an institution that is linked with the names of two great men - Washington and Lee University. I was taken into the chapel on a beautiful spring afternoon by a man eminent in Southern life, who himself was a student in that institution about forty years ago. He said: " My home was near here in the Shenandoah Valley, and I was a boy too young to go to war. My father went, and did not come back. One brother after another followed him, and failed to return. Home was broken up, everything lost, father and brothers gone. After the war was over, when General Lee returned to the ways of peace and settled down as a teacher and as president of this institution, my mother and I felt that there was only one thing for me to do, to become a student under General Lee."

I thought of those four horrible years when that valley was a scene of carnage and destruction, when Lee's victorious army would sweep northward, and then Sheridan and his men force him back; back and forth through that valley, the granary of the Confederacy, they fought. And then I thought of that little boy, too young to take an active part in it, but not too young to suffer the consequences, striving to get inspiration from the nearer

approach to the man who was reckoned a demigod by the people of Virginia. And as we stood in that chapel that afternoon and looked upon that magnificent recumbent statue of General Lee, this man said: "Do you know, the turning point in my life came one night right on this spot. It was a custom after General Lee died for the cadets of the school, the students, to stand guard over his tomb, and all night long I stood in this aisle with a musket in my hand, standing guard."

Can you imagine what that means for a boy or for a girl? Why, that is almost all of education-standing guard, not over, but with, a noble soul!

CHAPTER XI

SCOUTING EDUCATION 1

'N times of unparalleled storm and stress, when the

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traditions of centuries crumble and the ideals of

civilization are weighed in the balance of war, the patriots of every nation give anxious thought to the social order that shall arise from such chaos. Preparedness is the word that springs to every lip. It is used alike by those who would take the easiest way to let well enough alone, and by those who wish to reconstruct the world. In its lowest terms, it means preparation for military defense against foreign aggression; in its highest reaches, it aspires to the regeneration of human nature, so that the brute in man shall forever be held in leash. However men may differ as to the means of bringing on the millennium, the fairest flower in the blood-soaked fields of the world to-day is the universal desire for peace on earth and good will to men.

Rights and their correlatives. There can be no peace without good will among men, and no will is good that does not beget justice, protect ownership, and secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are the rights of man, incorporated by our forefathers into the fabric of our government and bequeathed to us as a precious legacy to have and to hold in trust for all those who would be citizens of a free and independent state. The 1 A revised reprint from the TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, January, 1917.

right to worship God in one's own way; the right to trade, to conduct commerce, to accumulate property, to take up land, and, by occupation, to own it without restriction; the right to barter with one's neighbors in matters spiritual, temporal, and political; the right to be one's own master these are the ideals of the founders of our nation. And when they set up a government of their own, they took particular pains to see that their rights were secure.

Read the Constitution of the United States, and note the rights and duties enumerated. Duties are enjoined only upon office-holders for the protection of the rights of citizens; and, as if the directors of the joint-stock corporation could not be trusted to return adequate dividends, a string of amendments has been added, still further defining the rights of individuals. No word anywhere in that famous document directly defines the duties of citizens an omission that would have wrecked the Republic in its infancy, except for the genius of Chief Justice Marshall and the assiduous labors of a few patriotic statesmen. But for more than a century we have slowly been learning the lesson that rights have their correlative duties; that the right to one's own property imposes the duty of protecting the property of others; that the right to freedom brings with it the duty of obedience to the law; that the right to pursue happiness enjoins the duty of guarding others from misery; and, in a word, that the rights of citizenship, secured by government, make it the duty of every citizen to give patriotic service whenever needed and at whatever cost.

Problems of individuality. — Individualism has so long been dominant in our social and political life, it is no wonder