The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-06
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EXERCISES FINE
Auditorium Was Crowded
Orations By Graduates Are
Excellent.

torium was crowded to the doors with
the parents and friends of the three
young graduates to congratulate them
on their success in school life. They
certainly deserved the congratulations
given them. They have worked un-
ceasingly the past year to get the
required number of certificates and
they have been we'll rewarded for
their efforts. The auditorium was
beautifully decorated with the senior
class colors, lavender and gold. The
motto, "POssumus Quia posse vide
of the stage. The stage itself was
beautifully decorated with flowers.
The graduates held bouquets of the
class flower, the white rose.
Prof. Burnett and his corps of high
school teachers are to be congratulate
ed also for their untiring efforts to
aid these graduates in completing
their course. The school board is to
be complimented upon their excellent
corps of teachers, both in the grades
and high school. The only regret is
that some of the teachers will not be
able to return next year.
The program was opened by Father
Greene delivering the. invocation. This
was followed by Mrs. Fitzgerald, who
delighted the audience with her sing
ing. Aura Hitler then delivered the
salutatory The subject Of her dis
course was The Cry OF the Children"
She handled her subject we'll and was
clear and forceful in her delivery. She
said in part:
"A wild call echoes over southern
Europe; bands of little children gath
er and march away to the far off Holy
Land. The work goes out that only
children can conquer the Saracen and
win the sepulchre: that only the pure
in heart can recover the blessed tomb.
The little ones march on to the Holy
war and for all who live through
the perilous adventure there awaits
a place of honor in the hearts of men;
for those who fall there are places in
Heaven left by the fallen angels of
old. See them gathering together
from over the Alps and Pyrenees,
weary and heavy-eyed they are march
ing on.
Should the little children of our
freedom loving country be called into
a field of death for a similar cause?
Yet the awful power of greed and
gain has sent call over our land.
The cry of Mammon has summoned
our little ones from their study and
play to less heroic but hardly less
fated destruction.
Children have always worked, but
1t is only since the reign of the iron
god that their work has been synony-
nous with slavery Many hundred
years have passed since the appear
ance of the great industrial machines
yet are not the children still enslaved?
I'VE find that through all ages
there has existed cruel and inhuman
practice regarding children, due part
ly to extreme poverty, partly to ig-
norant superstition.
preserver of something that has been
but is the promise of something to be.
1T is almost past belief that in a
nation as far advanced as ours, as
proud of its humanity, as hospitable
e. toward all good causes, plea should
be made by members of a national
child labor committee for the Amer
lean people to hold their protecting
hand over the future citizens of this
republic. Day after day and through
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little ones drag their wearied bodies
through the cold dark underground,
Or drive the wheels of iron in the
great mills of the south. They never
see the sunshine, nor the green
meadows or fields of wild flowers, if
they did, they would not run or play
but lie down to rest and Sleep"
Henrietta McQuire's grafton on
"The Woman with the Lamp was
excellent. She had a good style of
delivery and commanded the atten-
ton OF the audience at all times. The
substance OF her GRAFTON follows:
"Woman's. power is universal. In
mans first disobedience she was the
tempter, the evil influence in his life.
Afer centuries of blind cropping for
light, angels heralded that woman
should bridge the gulf between mans
fall and his redemption.
I'm legendary times woman has
played her part. She has aided in
carrying on wars and destroying cit
les. AS legend slowly brightens into
the dawn of authentic history, woman
though given but humble place in
the affairs of the world-with little
power outside her home-continues to
exert her influence on the tide of civil