The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29

vide ample training for all the boys ana Iiris. opportunities which will | spread out from the centers and reach | the remoter children. A school edu- cation should be furnished without CO.,
 to every boy and girl in this State at ditions a high school education will be so furnished. The eager and ann
 bilious scholar should then have the
 the means of. a self denying youth th. l advantage of training such as this great institution is now furnishing.
 This. and other schools like unto #, | equation, is- demand of government. | Highly trained faculties on a promise
 of national progress, and a security | The records show that the men who
 have been most effective since this
 government was organized and partic- are college trained men. They are | the people who solve the great State | problems, and commercial and indus
 trials problems as well. Some figures.
 a year or more ago, were compiled, | having the endorsement of the Depart ment of Education at Washington.
 tinted States, out of a population Of | 14,974, 403 males of over thirty years
 called 'notabies. Of this latter mum. education; self taught there were i ftwenty-four: home taught 2fs: common schol training 1.06e; high school train- ling 1,627: college training 7,70s. Those
 'notables' were selected from among the most conspicuoa' and effective in
 all walks of life. No eloauencs of the value of higher education as those
 simple figures. The State. and I speak
 for 1t. allows it's people to be taxed
 terest of the student but in the inter- est of itself. 1t hCZds rightly that an
 educated citizen. orfone with trained
 trained That he more greatly values
 good government and can best contri-
 The state does not forget. of course. that q trained mind is most effective in commercial and industrial life That
 in fact, considering material matters | such mind can best be depended on to build up fiourishing enterprises and | add to the States tax digests. He is
 the man to direct the work which shall 1 coin the baser into finer metals and
 prepare the blooming fields for the
 richer harvest; he is the man of enthu- munities: he will love the State, respect l her institutions, and her laws, and dl-
 rect her higher ideals. g | The State might even consider after | wards that the child had some right on | it's own account. That 1t was the | States duty to so arm 1t that 1t could | fight battle for bread and comforts
 against the citizens of any other State CT any other country.
 One of the thoughts that comes to me this morning is that the scholars
 who go out from this place will stand | for conservatism and dc so stand. Their I mission should be so broad that mar row views will not be likely and hys- teria impossible.
 1 It comes to me- too, that here in this | University should be nurtured respect | for the Constitution of the State and ! It's statutes. Here, above all other
 places in Alabama; should be taught
 to be held as supreme authority. In your Aw department, know the grad uates have been taught an affection for the States laws. Let us determine l today that this great cost of learning
 shall be the mother of an undying sentiment, whose graduates will teach | in their respective communities re- spect for all laws. human and divine. | justice without denial or delay; for the full penalty of the criminal statutes for
 those who assail their fellow man. however high or however low their so- clal station: for full punishment for the
 mobbist with his hands red with human blood May it be the ambition of the
 the student with the love of order that | he will not be merely ambitious to see | that our courts are a model for this l country out for any country; that our 1 laws are as good as any written in the
 the books of any commonwealth. and
 that their execution shall be in the
 hands of brave and God-fearing men
 who do not buy or sell justice, or suffer
 it to be bought or sold Here is It's paramount duty.
 These halls should be the crown of a system in which respect for the stat
 utes. absolute and unqualified, should | grade receiving the States assistance. It comes to me, too, that the school
 has honored the State in the. past It | has given us men who have, in all the walks of life, greatly exalted her Her graduates for more than half century | have led the way; no department of
 history among us but has been flu | they offered themselves freely for a cause which they believed to be en- | tirely right Alabama, 1t is said, sent than any other State of like population
 in the South, and a greater number, | without regard to population, who did
 not come back. This campus and these halls were a nursery for that great | conflict Many boys marched away from them straight for the front. who
 were not permitted to look upon loved
 ones again. We recall her soldier sons
 wrought her honor in other fields. and
 resolve that the memory of their en-
 deavors shall not be lost on us; that
 cause. in part. the past has furnished
 examples for pride and emulation. | You, visitors, have come to us in the uay or our teJoiciuB. dnu iS ID q ptedo- ure to greet you. While we are loele- brating on this happy day the past and
 dreaming over the results which have that are here to invoke bless ings on the future The marrow or circumscribed. We even fondly hope, of a larger life and broader field of usefulness for the great institution. Cur hopes for it are not narrow or circumscribed. We even
 dream that 1t may stand beside the most famous in the land. Your pres enee is rot only a great pleasure, but an inspiration to us in the great for ward movement
 Appealed for Cooperation.
 The crowd gave State Superintend-
 ent l. W. Hill a warm welcome when he arose for his address. The tenor of hIs speech, which frequently aroused the enthusiasm. was an appeal for CO.,
 operation between the University and
 the common schools of the State He
 eongratulated his hearers that the pro-
 gress and the advancement of the one
 had been the progress and advancement
 of the other. He reviewed the history
 of the public schools of Alabama from
 the time of It's establishment by the
 distinguished A. B, Meek, an alumnus of the University of Alabama, until the present day of It's great strength He maid. too, a tribute to the work of Ma
 for IT. c. Gunnels with the last Isegis-
 lature, whereby the public schools of Alabama were made absolutely free to
 all the children of the State. Tn clos ing. he declared that the motto of Ala
 bama is becoming Here we hustle" NryA "A ct