Leonard Wood on National Issues (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...system of the States. We want to put into our high schools a great deal more of sound, economic training than we have hitherto. We ought to give at least the fundamentals of economic training in the lower schools, and in the high schools it ought to be gone into pretty thoroughly. That an honest day's wage means an honest day's work; that the real remedy for the high cost of living is increased production; that the real enemies of labor are those who talk reduced production. We want to drive some of those ideas home. When our children go out from the schools and colleges they want to have more than a mere superficial knowledge of many things; so let us teach a little more of these basic, homely principles, and let us try to drive home, too, something more in the way of information as to what our Government stands for, how it is run, how it is operated, what the Constitution means, what is meant by the Constitutional guarantee. We want to impress upon all our children that the Constitution is vital to our national life, and that every step we have taken away from it has been a step toward chaos. Immigration Without Assimilation WE must give more care to our immigration. We must look into the quality of our immigration. We have put all the sand into our cement that it will stand. There is no use having the portals open on the one hand for the deportation of the alien Red and wide open on the other hand for the admission of the undesirable immigrant. We need a certain amount of immigration, but we have a right to know something of the quality of the people who come here, and we are negligent in our duty if we do not ascertain very carefully what the quality of those people is. It is not enough that they shall be physically sound and of reasonable mental intell...