The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-18

own opinion when his opinion is right ;
man may say what he pleases when
he says the truth; there is a 6ecadence
today of respect for parental authority
Children foolishly expect and fooliohly
are allowed to do as they please and it
becomes easy for us to despise all au'
thority until today there is seeming
epidemic of lawlessness; at least the
muck.rake has stirred up and exposed and
removed lots of filth. There is need OF
thorough awakening of conscience.
Because of the rccklessness and lawIess-
ness of some the liberties OF all are
Threatened Oh, may we all have the
supreme privilege OF ever doing as we
please by having the character to please
to do what we ought This is freedom
/ congratulate the class not upon the
completion Of your study but upon the
successful commencement of it. You
lhave been in school at hard work and
hard at work for Il years. 1t has beer
the best and most remunerative employ
ment you could have had. While the
commercial value Of an education Is it'
least consideration; it helps lis to appre-
ciate its worth when we put it into
terms of value A pupil in school from
the primary grade to the time he gradu
ates from college earns eleven dollars
every day. The average unskilled la
borer earns $375 a year in our country
Laboring for forty years he earns in his
life time $4,000. The average college
graduate earns $1,000 year; in forty
wears he earns $48,000 which is $4,000
to the advantage of the college graduate
over the unskilled lab0rer. At l5 years
for a college education this would bt
$4,000 a year. and for each Of the 2Ol
days in the school year it would NEAR
$ll a day, and yet we allow our chiIlrer
to quit school for trihes.
Often schooling has been a curse to 6
man. In school or college away from
home young men and young women have
often formed foolish notions about worI
or extravagant living and have acquired
all sorts of knowledge Of good and evil
have formed a silly and oyerbearinl
mental conceit until the good old sen
sible father and mother who paid th'
bills feel that they have worse thai
wasted money and instead of beint
proud of the boy or the girl, find anxiet!
and chagrin instead.
knowledge, study, schooling, ought al
ways to make strong men out of boy
and able women out of girls. Education
ought to bring us to the truth, wnicI
makes men free; true wisdom, tru
principles, true character, true MIND
and heart.
Truth is knowledge, transformed int
life; mere knowledge may lead us t
truth Or to prison. A man may b
skilled in all learning, but be a perfec
rake, devoid utterly of all truth, tn
more a menace, because Of his knOwl
edge. Truth is not found in books; fact
are found here, but truth is found i
lives. To possess knowledge we ma
merely memorize facts; but to know th
truth we must feel it; we must live i
By knowledge we may be the more en-
slaved; by truth we are always mad
free; lessons may be merely committed
and because of good memory we ma
graduate from the schools; but to b
really learned, lessons must be translat
ed into character; knowledge ought t
develop strength Of purpose, keenness {
truth, which ever makes for freedom
We soon forget cube root; and tn
theorem of trigonometry, and the rule