Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-06-18
COMMENCEMENT DAY EXERCISES
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| Intelligence does, ana 1T Is necessary
to have it and each successful inyep-
tion gives us successful facility. The
savage who swims stream, carries a
dozen pounds on his back, 1t he
could invent an ak and cut down d
tree he could carry many times that
weight many times the former dis
lance. If be should hollow out this
log and make a canoe, he would
further increase his carrying capacity.
! II be should fell other trees and make
raft, he could then bring his rude
craft into ship shape and erect a
mast, and then his proud ship will
watt miles and miles; and after the
sailing vessel came the great steam
ship, 49, still man is not satisfied. This
is what INTEL ence does, but take ii
away, and y0dr steamship falls back
TO the crude log and the savage car
rles his dozen pounds alone. What |
am saying illustrates the progress we
have made, gradually inching along
from one step TO another, which
makes our life in these days so diff
ferent from what it yas q few genera
tions ago. Why did man discover
the course of the stars before they
made wagon wheel? Why did they
invent the Roman characters before
they invented the saw mill? Because
the men who performed the world s
work were uneducated. An ignorant
man will Toll all his life without any
knowledge of Improvement or inyen-
ton, while an intelligent man makes
his wits saves his sinews.
The speaker used the steam engine
TO illustrate the progress In inventions
and later inventions in Lighting, heat
ing and transportation. A great
bridge over the Schuylkill river at
Philadelphia was replaced by a new
bridge. a train passes over every
three minutes during the day. In re-
placing the old bridge with the new,
traffic was discontinued only two min
utes and seventeen seconds.
Irrigation is one of the greatest I'M
dertakings that has been launched in
this generation, The administration
of Theodore Roosevelt will be most
noted for the irrigation of that great
region known in our Biographies as
the Great America desert. They don't
call it that now. They don't think it
is going TO be a desert. 1t is 5000
miles long and $50 miles wide, and we
are going to settle this country, not
with brown people, but with emigrants,
like these graduates
Mind is the true resource of this
generation. The mind OF the present
inhabitants that makes the difference
in this country from what it was 300
years ago. And for whom are these
great advantages to which we have
been referring? Are they for the rich
alone? No, they are for everybody.
The laborer digging potatoes ut $3.50
per day has in some respects more
privileges even than kings had few
centuries ago. The advantage of in
telligence is the American and II is
90 wonder that America Is the home
Of inventions. Discovery of inyen-
ton is discovery OF the underlying
principle. More poor people than
rich people make discoveries.
Referring to the class; Launching
OF a little fleet OF 20 neatly trimmed
vessels, this little fleet of human souls.
Who can help but stop and admire?
How many times have your parents
said, when you had to buy new text
book, 81 don't see the use of studying
50 many things You are not going to
remember, Hang on to your old
books Accumulate library. Ia
after life you win find your old text
books very useful. You can best
find in them things you but family
remember. cit is not so much TO
know thing, Prof. Huxley has
said, as once to have known it,
Take advantage OF some OF the
means of further education which the
State aud liberal minded people have
provided
The advantage Of coming into con.
tact with capable people in college.
According to a worthy publication,
who's Who in America" one in
5000 makes success, The high
school graduate has one chance in
400 of reaching the place, or % times
as good as II he had a common school
education. College graduate has one
chance in IS, or 200 times more than
| IL he had common school education.
one half of one per cent Of the United
States are college bred people Col
leges furnish 36 per cent OF the con-
gressmeu, 45 per cent OF the senator's,
So per cent of the vice presidents, s.
per cent Of the house, 20 per cent
presidents, and So per ceut on the
supreme judges.
If You do not remember anything