Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-07-03


IL honest? Is 1t just? To all In power
and authority and to whom God has given
the power and privilege to change the
dull, cheerless law OF environment now
| existing into what it Is for their own
families, inspiring, educative and Goth
century-like does the loud appeal of the
application Of the class MOTTO not come
with great significance-"Not for Our
| selves Alone"
"We have not been cared for.n exclafm.
ed Miss Harriet Rollins, the valedictorian,
''merely that our voyage through life
may be over calm sun-lit waters. We
have been ministered unto in order that
we may the better minister unto others.
| 1t is apparent to all that 1t is almost
| impossible for the rank and file of Ellis
| worth to do much in the way OF school
| improvements, as trade has not been and
| Is not very plentiful and the taxation Is
no doubt we'll melted out and carefully ex-
pended. But are there not many who
may have felt, as they never did before,
the great significance OF the class motto:
"Not for Ourselves Aione,n upon whom
the sunshine OF prosperity has rested in
Ellsworth; many who not only have had
good living right in the city, but have
| accumulated much wealth OF the labors
OF the working class IN the city, v no are
| just about as poor to-day, after many
| years Of weary toll, as when they earned
the first cent after they graduated from
much the same condition OF school
accommodation and improvements which
| now exist.
| Is this right or just In the best interests
Of the working class OF Ellsworth, who
are to all appearance the best stay and
support to the industrial, social, educa-
| tional and no less to the religious life OF
| our city? II is well known to every in
teiligent, well-thinking person in the city
and no less to every pastor in Ellsworth,
that even the churches do not get the
support which they ought to get from
the moneyed people in proportion to the
extent of their influence aud power, and
no less the magnitude of their bank ac-
| count, as there is not one church in the
| city but what has to resort to sonnet hing
beneath the work and dignity of the
| House of God in order to struggle along,
and even then atthe sacrifice of rot few
| honest, toiling mothers and daug hters,
who have, year in and year out, to be-
come almost everything under the sun,
from regular restaurant cook and wait
er to a common buster or sweeper, and
all this is the result of lack Of support
| from those whose lot it is to have album
dance of wealth.
Is there not cause to the state OF
things now existing, especially in tue lack
of modern accommodation in our schools,
as we are at least we'll supplied with up
to-date, commodious churches, as very
often persons can get all the seating
accommodation they want for themselves
and the friends they bring with them in
any church.
But this cannot be said of our schools,
while the fact remains that there are
some, IL not many, who are making use of
their abundance outside OF the city they
have made it in, and perhaps not to the
greatest lasting good for themselves or
others; while all the time they uncon-
seiousIy are overlooking the highest OF
all honors to themselves and the greatest
of all good to the present and rising gem
erations Of Ellsworth.
Every person, although he had the
desire, could not do to the same extent
| as DR.. Woodward did for others In order
to perpetuate his name and memory.
And what did he do? He only put
| the class motto OF 1901 into life and ac-
ton, mot for Ourselves Alone" and this
doubtless thousands have done before
and after his day In this and other lands.
II the city ID somewhat burdened by
existing depression over which the work
ing class has no control, RS it is largely
| caused from the lack Of enterprising cap
italists and not from lack OF willing
workers, who are forced either to leave
the city and work elsewhere or remain
half idle the year round, surely there are to
be found some generous persons who are
willing to follow the example of those
who made the class motto mot for Our
selves Alone" the motto of their lives, and
thereby perpetuate their name and
memory in modernizing our city schools,
worthy of our loyal sons and daughters
who enter them, and as glorious result,
bestow the greatest boon and blessing to
be enjoyed and praised by generations
following.
As minister of the gospel and one
who has upon my heart, with many
others, the development of the rising
generation both morally, mentally and
socially, and also knows somewhat OF
the vast Importance of the class motto |
mot for Ourselves Alone", / wish to |
give publicly as / have given privately, /
my high appreciation of the magnificent |
appearance the class of 1901 made. And |
il such excellence coald be attained |
under the present inadequate state of |
things, which must hinder the progress |
of the teaching staff by lack of what |
most city schools have and enjoy, how |
much better it will be for the comfort and |
culture of teacher and taught when our |
fondest hopes viii! be fully realized in one |
of the greatest needs Of the city being |
supplied by those who wish their names |
and memories to be enshrined upon the |
hearts OF the people in remembrance of |