The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-09
One Hundred and Thirteen Young
Men and Women Complete the
Four Years Course.
ADDRESS BY JOHN H. HOLIDAY
THE DIGNITY OF AMERICAN CITI-
ZENSHIP DISCUSSED BY HIM.
Miss Lille King Delivers SalutatOry
and Charles Jennings the Valedic-
tOry-The Graduates.

One hundred and thirteen young men and
women were presented with Manual Train
ing High School diplomas at Englishs
Opera House last night before an audience
that filled the theater They comprised the
classes of January and June.
The curtain rose on most attractive
stage picture, the graduates occupying ele-
waited seats. The boys wore plain black
coats with white vests and white carna-
tons. The girls were attired in white and
each carried a bunch of red carnations.
After selection by the NJ T. II. S. orches-
ira, under Prof Edward Bailey Birge, of
the public schools, the invocation was pro-
nounced by the Rev. w. b. F. Treat. Miss
Lille King then delivered the salutatory
in a most pleasing manner She spoke of
the excellent means for securing an educa-
ton that the citizens of Indianapolis had
provided in the Manual Training High
School and expressed the appreciation of
the class.
JOHN H. HOLIDAY SPOKE.
Mr.. John H. Holiday addressed the stu
dents on Equality of Citizenship" He
said in part:
What 1 have to say tonight on the
equality of citizenship is not meant for one
sex only. Women are great power In the
they know, and their power is increasing
by leaps and bounds. If they do not vote
IL Is because they do not choose to, for they
on. If they do not vote they influence pub
lie sentiment and control voters.
II have said that American citizenship
is the greatest privilege that any one can
possess and / repeat ii deliberately. This
may sound like Boosting and L wish to get
as far from Boosting as possible. 1t is not
that material conditions are so much bet
tar In lie
comparison with some other countries; it
is not that We have no poverty or ignorance
for we have both in plenty. 1t is not
that laws are better and are enforced
more successfully, for they are not ii is
not that our government national, State
and municipal are purer and more effeC-
tive in keeping order and in promoting in
terests of the people, for they are not; it
Is not that our people are more patriotic
and that our systems and methods of life
are superior to all, for they are not Our
whole life, social material and political is
full of faults, bad methods and injustice,
entailing hardships and distress upon
multitudes of our people. There are here
for redress. We have no immunity from
them. But we do possess one thing that
makes us superior TO all old world ma
tions, one vital principle that has made
and is making a nation such as never be-
fore and which in time will attain to a
better system of government than We now
conceive OF and that principle is freedom.
selection by the orchestra followed the
address of Mr.. Holiday, and then Charles
Jennings delivered the valedictory. He
hopes for future years. Prior to the pre-
sentation of the diplomas by Mr.. Andrew
M. Sweeney, of the School Board, the
orchestra rendered a few selections from
dolly Warden" Mr.. Sweeney congratu-
lated the graduates on their four years
work in the NJ. T. III. S. Principal Charles
he called attention to the good work of
the pupils who had been credit to the
school
THE GRADUATES.
Following are the graduates:
January Class-Nellie Blair. Charles
Franklin Bragg, Daysie T.. Brewer, Halle
NJ. Buchanan. Lucetta G.. Childers, Paul E.
Edwards, Harvey Enrich Robert Fesser,
Agnes E. Fox, Ella X. Glass, Egbert M.
Hamlet Carl F. Helm, Claude V. Higgins,
Nellie A. Howe, Charles A. Jennings, Bessie
Gertrude Lands, Walter r. Mayer, Bertha
E. Meyer, Ida NJ. ]. New, Lulu B. Pearcy.
Ada B. Pickett. Alfred H. Prangee.
Price, Zelda Hobart Read. Alma
Genevieve Rech, Zelda E. Rehling. Irving
]. Reuter-, Jack e. Shideler, Harriette Edna
Steeg, George Heath Steele, Hattie Stow,
Maytie Lenore Taylor. Mary b. Van Cleave,
Eva NJ. Walker, Sumner E. Warner, Frank
Monroe Welch, George o. Wildhack, Grace
f Wiselogel, jeanette Wright.
June Class-Lilla M Alexander, Lee Ar
buckle, Lowell Arbuckle Hazel Avery, Lucy
NJ. Bauer, Fred p Blair, Willard S. Boyle,
Louis w. Bristol, Minnie f. BrookS, ILLUS
Bryant, Wilmer o. Buchanan, Harry
Carlisle, Maple Chism, Lola E. Colip, Ethel
Fay Ceilings Mary Alice Collins, Ethel
Comstock. Fanny b. Cook. r. Leroy Corba-
ley Jessie NJ. Cross, Dennis Butler Daily,
Fred W. Dicks, Mary Dillingham;, Eugene
d. Foley, Kathryn Fox. Anna NJ. Gauding,
Walter S. Glass Laura M. HagedOn, Nellie
r. Harness, Edna M. Higgins, Bertha KEEL
ler Edna II. Kellogg, Lille =. King, George
Kothe, Anna NJ. lie Fevre. Frank E. Long,
Forrest r. Long, Ned McGaughey, James A.
McPheeters Belle Mcpherson, Ethel Mills
Stewart Mitchell. Alvin r. Moses, Johanna
A. Noelke. Stanley L. Norton, Eva Open
helm, Frieda Pink Carl A. Ploch, Helen III.
Powers, Hiram j. Raffensperger, Robert NJ
Rawls. Nathan c. Redding, Mary II. Reid,
Ethel Reynolds. John Robey, Mary c. Roch-
ford, Bertha NJ Rounder, Robert c. Schmd,
William Scott. Bonnie b. Sharp, Nellie NJ.
Sharp, Adelaide NJ Sourbeer. Helen Swain,
Charles ]. Thale. Stith Thompson. Henry
Vawter, Vera o. Wakeland, Ina @. Will
liams. Blanche Wineman. Myrtle F. Woer-
ner, Bertha NJ. Wolf, George Il. Wysong,