Muncie Normal Institute - Arbor Vitae Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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1 Suffer little children to Come unto Me and forbid them not, for ofsueh is the Kingdom of Heucen. - St. Matthew. Chap. IU. l'. H. W'h0soeuer offend one oflhese IiIIIP ones lhut believes in file. il is better jbr him that a millstone were hanged aboul his rzeclr. und he were rust into the sea. - St. Matthew. Chap. 9, V. 42. 'Ig D. Hli above quoted words of tlhrirt are as universally familiar to teachers as are any of the words of.Scripture or the injunctions of our tlhristian religion, They are frequently and tamiliarly quoted. Among those whose special bent. or M-L-3- 'V ' dental convenience. or heart interest. or who through the stress of economic m-L-t-ggityg or fi'om any of the lnultiude ol' causes or aspirations, are thrown into the teat-ll- ing profession. none should be more sincerely or carefully applied. tlapital punishment for crime is becoming less and less frequent. With the passage ot' the old dispensation, with its eye for eye and tooth for tooth must also go the beating and mal-treatment and physical punishment ot' children, tlorporal puiiislnnent of children is reciprocally brutisb. reflecting its sinister elleet upon those who administer and those who receive it. lil the recorded history of man it is noted that a father once bad the power of life and death over his child. He could beat it at will or even kill it and no man. aye. not even the great power of what we now recognize as the Stale, was able or even thought of rising up to say him nay. Those were the good old days when wives and children were regarded as property and chattels. rather than as companions and equals and household jewels and social blessings. liven in the recent history of the making of the common law of England. which is the foundation of our government and of our civic and religious liberties today. we find that less than two hundred years ago inorc than four hundred crimes were punishable by various forms of death and torture in merry I-lnglandf' Our grandmothers of yesterday were treated as chattels to be used or misused according to the sport and play or whim of the lords of creation. A gradual cessation of the rigors of childhood and woinanhood found l.ord Blanstield. the great English jurist. even in his time. interpreting the common law lip ht- that 1, ,mm had the right to chastise his wife. but in doing so was permitted to use no instrument in the way of whip, scorpion. or bludgeon larger in diameter than the size of his thumb, The enslavement of the lives of women and children was finally conceived to be rather too severe for a people who had been taught to say. Uttar l'l2llllL'l'M to a just but forgiving God by a Savior. xvlltl, in the bloody sweat of a Gethsemane and in the agonies of a cross. had no reproach except to say, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. I cannot conceive of those who are perlnitted to follow the Master. even into the sacred ministrations of the teacher, presuming to bring to that task other than the spirit of meekness. forbearance and kindness. How long will it take a blood-stained world to learn the truth tllat hate begets hate. and that love and order is the only fruit of love? As we go to our labor in the interest of the State and for the uplift of lnnnanity let us ever go with presence ot' mind and conti'ition of heart. believing and practicing those things ot' faith and those acts of service for which we have but the one divine and the one great Teacher of all as a guide. liven with nation at war with nation and with the spectacle in this year of a world in arms and in a sea of blood, let us still hold fast to the faith which we are told will remove mountains. For through it all. and in spite of it all can we not still hear. Verily, l say unto you. that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'lie thou removed and be thou cast into the sea' and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he sayeth shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever lic sayt-th. Git-cn thu power and tht- opportunity to teach and to lead. how awful is our respon- sibility! This privilege and this right has come through the ages only to those who have been specially selected through the laying on of hands. ln our commencement. marking the end of our college days and our beginning of a greater life-service, let our minds and souls he not only open. but our prayers be fervent for the visitation of that Pentecost which will go with us through the years. M. IJ. lil'Il.I,Y. i

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Editorial M QNIC clay a farmer no tlilferenee as to his hahilat. as the ineiclent is 1 ' typieal of a large elass of so-eallecl farmers fwent to the Bluneie fair f rj' . . . . . . , 'ti while his liartl-working wile remained at home to see that the tarm sul't'ereml no loss during his alrsenee. .lust about clark he returnett home, and. eoming to the poreh where his wife was taking a little quiet rest. introdueecl the following eonyersation: l'm aliout tireil out. Sallie. ls the eows in the lnarn 1 ' Yes, long.: since. replietl his wife. ls the hosses unharnessenl anal teclZ ' he askeit. Yes, lt'owls loeketl up'. ' Yes. XVootl ehoppetl fer mornin . ' Yes. Be them ehiekens piekeil an' clressetl for market'. ' Yes. XVagon greased and realty to start in the mornin ? Yes. XVa'alI. then. he eoneluitecl. as he stretehetl himself with a sigh of re- lief, let me have my supper. Sallie. an' l'll go to hell. lfarmin' is hegiiznin' to lell on nie. i This man was NUT a farmer in the moilern sense of the woril. but a nontleseripl Parasite tlrutleing his life out on the farm. llis wife was the farmer. antt perhaps the nohilily of her eharaeler lnlossoinesl there, in the environment of Nature's lneauties antl promluets as il eoultl not have clone untler any other surroundings. though toueheit antt yeneereil with all the polish at the eommanml of opulenee. lfarniing as a seienee anal as a husiness a yoeation eonunaniling the respeet antl esteem of mankinml is a reeent oeeupation from the historian's viewpoint. The tirst real experiment station was estalrlishetl within the memory of the olilest inhaliitants, ahout 18443. Sinee that lime, no other husiness, perhaps profession , is not now amiss has matte sueh striiles. Antl sueh institutions as the Nluneie Normal Institute have hall mueh to do in lmringing lhis ahout. Booker T. XVashington says: livery tlay, weather permitting, l go into my garmlen or perhaps a nearlvy tieltl anal mlelye into the soil with a hoe or spade. just to remintl myself that l am still on tloil's green earth. anal that l owe my living ancl suhsistanee to her hountiful generosity. So. if the ohjeet of etlueation is to luring man nearer to Gott. a man eannol omit from his eirrieulum a Course in Agriculture. antl presume that he is eclueatett. Personally, we like the intlepenmlenee of farm life. The farmer is the real protlueer. Ile is free to express his opinion on all suhjeels at all times. He is not eourting tramle or elients or patients. llis wife ean he frienllly or snuh at will all who eome her way without fear of the uneomfortahle feeling that she has seareil away a pi'ohahle eusloiner. Then they lioth know the souree of the foocl neeessary to sustain physieal life. know it lirst hantl. fzintl eau feel that only the hesl of Nature's stt-re is hanttetl out to them, a satisfaction than whieh there is none equal. There are lietter ways ot' tloin' thing-. II' you have un-urpasfeil sueee-S. ll' people tliml hut know. Xl'hy. tell your hrothers rio. Amt so 'tis little 'helps' we neetl. Ilon't hesitate to make it known. As through this world we go, 'Tis what they want to know. lil