The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-08
THE WORK is DONE
Forty-Seven High School Grad
yates Receive Diplomas.
Glass Made Up of 80 Girls and
Is Boys.
DIR. RAMSEY'S ADDRESS
Holds President Roosevelt as
Ideal American.
DR.RAMSEY'S ADDRESS
Mind and Morality Pillars in
Structure OF Character.

| a two weeks delay caused py the III
ability of the school board to get the
building, was success from the man
ageriaI standpoint, as it drew well"
the attendance being estimated at
1000 The front of the stage was
| decorated with the class co1ors, blue
and gold and the graduates occupied
seats on the stage immediately In
front of the big organ pipes.
The graduating address was deliver
ed by DR.. George G. Ramsey, pastor of
the Northminster Presbyterian church
| of Columbus, Ohio. and a brother or
J. A. Ramsey, who is a member OF the
Topeka school board. He spoke from
the text 1.-TWO Pillars in the Structure
of Character" and during the delivery
of the address took occasion to refer
to the policies of President Roosevelt
with unstinted praise. which brought
rounds of applause from his audience.
1--WE need men of great and lofty
ideals in public office" said Mr.. Ram
sey. sit is significant, surely, that the
men most popular in public today are
men who are most conspicuous as
preachers of civic righteousness This
Is true of the more prominent candf-
dates for the presidency in both of the
| leading political parties of the country.
| The call is for the man and it matters
not what his politics may be, whether
| Republican, Democratic or Prohibt-
zionist who will set his face like flint
against the thing that we call frenzieo
finance; who will make life burden
| for the grafters; who says not in
words only but in deeds and official
acton that there must be a square
deal for every man.
Surely without offending against
| the proprieties of the occasion and I
trust without having a charge of par
tisanship made against me, can say
that such a man as I have attempted
to describe has been our nationaf
leader since the beloved Mckinley fell.
IF that man who now sits in the presT-
Dental chair chooses to still be deaf to
the cry and clamor for his return to
office, may heaven be kind and send
us another one like him.
"I feel that we can hardly expect
his equal for I doubt if it can be
found among the great men of the
land. I have good hope of my coun-
try so long as this soundh1ess of moral
health of which 1 have spoken shall
who compose our citizenship.
"Your own great state of Kansas
has enjoyed many advances in ma
terial prosperity during the past few
years and has made a wonderful adj
vancement in Intellectual and moral
of the land have had their birthplace
in Kansas and while the people may
have gone to extremes in some ways,
yet they are now classed among the
conservatives of the country.
Education is essential in the bat
tie of life and this is shown every
day in the advantages that the edu-
Gated men and women of the country
have over their less fortunate brothers
and sisters. I believe that the Bible
| should have place in the schools of
our land as the teachings are bound
to be of benefit to our boys and girls.
1.-THE two pillars in the structure of
character are mind and morality and
we who are parents should insist that
our children be trained in the old
time virtues and duties. While we
may and should set a guard against
everything Hkened to sectarianis1n in
our schools and keep them free from
church domination. yet be this fact
known to all of us that there is moth
ing in sect in the Ten Command
ments; nothing Of ecclesiastical bias
In the Lords prayer or the Sermon on
the Mount and I am bold to declare
that any Instructor in the public
schools who would refuse to repeat or
read such portions of Holy Writ for
the moral help and health of our
children, Is person unified to teach
your children or mine. There is no
danger of teaching sectarianism or
intoxicating narrowness by the read
ing and teaching Of such words Of
literature in the school rooms of the
land. These words and teachings
have in them all the depth of the sea.
all of the expansSe Of the heavens, and
| as basis Of morality, they are like
the deeper rocks on which the hills
! and the mountains ever stand"
Following the address of DR.. Ramsey
Judge T. F. Carver, president of the
board of education, made a brief adj
dress to the class, congratulating the
members as we'll as the teachers of the
schools in the successful termination
or their work. At the conclusion of his
address he presented the members of
the class with their diplomas
Following the custom Of the past
years the graduates filed through two
lines of girls from the class which will
graduate next June to the places which
had been assigned them on the stage
at the opening of the program w F.
Roehr rendered a number of pipe organ
numbers and the invocation was deliv-
cred oy Rev. j. H. Jones. pastor of Uni
ty church.
The graduating class. At in number,
consisted of 80 girls and Is boys, as fol-
lows: Arthur Ahlstrom, Edna Nav AZ
well, Harry Benjamin Atwell Frida E.
Beehtel (1rst ranN, Marie r. Beer
bohm. Anna May Booth, Marion S.
q Coulter. Nellie Vivian Coulter. Clara
Nellie Currie, Cora Elizabeth Dusen-
berry, George Thomas Fisher. Carol
Gage, Annabel Alexander Garvey. Mary
Elizabeth Harkins, Roy Harrison He'll
Dana Thorp Jennings, Lee Wesley
Johnson. Marie Lagerstrom, Frances
Clarice Lawlor. Kathryn Finger Lux.
Helen Lindsay, Hugh Mcdonald, June
Mitchell, Kathryn Nelson, Eva Shirley
Patterson. Gertrude May Pearsons.
celia Elizabeth Pennington, Ota Lenore
Perkins, Lenora Mae Pierce, George
Warner Platt, Anna Elizabeth Raw
mond. Helen Frances Roehr, Elizabeth
Josephine Scott, Florence F. Scott.
Hazel Lucille Sheldon, Roy r Shoaf
Ulysses .. Shoaf, Esmond Smith. Fan
ny Caroline Stoves. Samuel Swearingen.