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Published at Great Falls, Montana by the Great Falls High School Seventh Year JANUARY, 1914 Number One Just Folks AX ' S inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn. And yet, in spite of the good old Presbyterian doctrine of total depravity, inan is not a monster. True, he is selfish, but most of his acts of cruelty are the result not of hid rapacity but are children of two most indesirable parents. Fear and Ignor- ance. Notwithstanding Thermopylea and Bunker Hill, man is a timid ani- mal. The unknown and its inhabi- tants fills him with fear. When, moreover, he learns that the strang- er is in certain respects unlike him- self, his vanity sends up reinforce- ments to aid his fear. H the man is unlike himself, he must of necessity be inferior and is to be despised as well as distrusted. The stranger has become the enemy. This explains the attitude of the street urchin toward little Lord Fauntleroy, of the cow- boy toward the tenderfoot, of the Chi- nese boxer toward the foreign devil. Among the agents which are at work trying to undermine this wall of prejudice between race and race. between class and class, none is more effective than the public school. Here the child finds friends and playmates widely differing from himself. Here Greek not only meets Greek, but English. Irish. Scotch and Span- ish, French, Italian, Dutch and Danisli, and representatives of every other na- tion under the sun. The lion lying down with the lamb was nothing to it, because the lamb, although its feelings are not enlarged upon, must have been distinctly uncomfortable. Long after the more formal instruc- tion has faded with the passing of the years it will be difficult to stir Otto Schmidt, at any stage of his career. into antagonism against the Jewish race when be remoml)ers the patience and loving kindness with which Mosie Fishlander labored with him and guided his first steps through the wilderness of the English language. . nd again, Morris Mogilcwsky will think kindly of the whole irrespons- il)le Irish race when he remembers little Bridget O ' Connor who sat across the aisle from him in the old grade school, her quick temper, her
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12 R Ol ' N D i; I ' swift remorse, and her winnint; smile. Also in the public school-room re- spect for other nations than his own is forced upon him when he learns that Christopher Columbus was a Dago, George Washington an offi- cer in the English army, and Christ, our Lord, a ]g v. At first the foreign parent is apt to look upon the public school as Init another of the many enemies which he finds all around him in this strange and inexplicable land whose laws he learns as Parnell advised a follower to learn tlie rules of the house of commons — l)y breaking them. Es- pecially is this the case if the for- eigner is a Russian Jew. Hating and fearing the name of Christian he nat- urally looks with suspicion and aver- sion upon an institution fostered by that loathed and dreaded race. This distrust he at first tries to hand down to his child, but little Isadore is placed perhaps under the care of some sweet-faced American girl who takes the warmest interest in all her little aliens. It is again the repetition of the historic love and its cause be- tween Mary and her lamb. Helen M. Todd, Inspector of Factories, said, when speaking of the relationship be- tween teachers and pupils, that when she spoke to one little girl, Marie Mamschalsco, about her school life, the child replied, Once I had a so- beautiful teacher mit a from-silk waist and mit feaders in her hat, and when she went to talk it was like when l)rudden he plays on de concertina. Und I feel for dat teacher — and here her passion stained her pale cheeks red — like — like I was dat teacher ' s mudder. 1 will to get my teacher ' s rubbers. 1 will to get my teacher ' s hat. I will to stand l)y de str eet-car till she come. I will to ha e my seat in dat school changed. For whj-? I or so I can touch dat teacher ' s dress when she writes on de black- l)oard. But she would not stay on dat school, she say to me, Ah, Maria, I must to go. This teaching school, ' she say, ' it kill my heart. ' But I make a good-bye party for her by my house, und she give her hand to my fader, und my mudder. und everybody in my house und she say good-l)ye, und she smile, but when she kiss me good-bye, I can to feel how my teacher ' s face it is all wet by tears for that she leaves me. Is that the soil in which the evil seeds of class and race hatred can take root? Commencement brings strangely contrasted parents together in a common pride. The pupils have be- come much like each other b ut the parents may be so widely dissimilar as to make the similarity of their children an amazing fact for contem- plation. Mothers with shawls on their heads and work-distorted hands may sit beside mothers in Parisian costumes and the silk-clad mother is usually clever enough to appreci- ate and to admire the spirit which strengthened her weary neighbor through all the years of self-denial, of labor, of poverty, and often hun- ger, which were necessary to pay for the leisure and education of son or daughter. The feeling of uselessness. of inferiority, which this spirit entails, may humiliate the idle woman, but it is bound to do her good. It will ut- terly do away with many of her pre- judices against the foreigners. It will make the Let them eat cake attitude impossible, as she realzes in her heart that the foreign lowly mothers are like herself, Just Folks, M.AHI ' .L T.WLOR. ' 1, .
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