The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-14
D|SHONORABLE NOT
TO Do DUTY, SAYS
WOODROW WILSON
Tells Princeton Grads He Is
Improbable Servant Who
Does Only His Set Task.
POINTS OUT VALUE OF
V0LITI0NAL ACTIONS
Deplores Railroad Rebates and
Crushing Out of COMPETE
tion by Trusts.
Especial to the Evening Start

kept only their legal obligations and
nearly ruined the country" declared
President Woodrow Wilson during the
course of his address, which was the
feature of -baccalaureate Sunday here
yesterday. THE men who ruined other
men blindly looked only at the task at
hand and let other things go"
In developing his text from Luke
xvii, 10: we are improbable servants;
we have done that which was our duty
to do. President Wilson told the mem
bers of the outgoing class that the
unions were standardizing labor, n
that a servant who does only his set
task. and no more, is a very unprodt-
able servant.
The usual impressive services were
observed yesterday. At 10:45 o'clock
the faculty and seniors assembled at
Old orth and, followed by President
Wilson, marched slowly to Alexander
Hall, which was filed with visitors.
The faculty took their places on the
raised portion of the auditorium and
the seniors were seated in their Gus
tomary section. After Onward. Chris
tan Soldiers" was sung, DR.. Wilson
~ offered a prayer and the chapel choir
sang an anthem. After another prayer
had been offered The Son of God Goes
Forth to War vas s ng by the en-
i tire cor ~ attn.
sisf ."ame Lie Ahead, Not Behind"
President Wilson began by saying
that the four years of college life were
q over for the class of 1909, and that its
bs4 members had received all the univer-
q ssity could give. He said Princeton was
~ 1Io1a 1f lihcraI vocational training
that men are not supposed to make
their way quickly, but slowly, to get a
general training of the mind, to
quicken the appreciation of opportrli-
ties. He said: "Only a few men are
granted a chance of leisure education,
although it is within the grasp of
ever one who covets and has the
energy to attain it. Men are lot dis
tinguished on account of their leisure
~ education, but the use we make of
what we get makes us distinguished.
- sAll fame lies ahead, not behind; what
I'VE shall do; not what we lave
done. College men are expected to
do more than make a living. They
are expected to do things without
thought of pay, things which are given
H. freely, of service to their neighbors.
"a 1t is a serious thing to have these OPP
portunities. a serious thing to fall and
serious to succeed, for if we fail we
are not making the best of what we
had. and if we succeed we have a still
larger field to develop"
Mans Servitude.
The president then announced his
text from Luke IT: 10, where it is writ
ten: I'VE are Improbable servants;
we nave done that which was our duty
TO do Thi text" he said, causes
&, one to read beneath the surface of ordi-
nary thought. Not many servant do
D ever their duty, and if a man does
what is required of him he thinks him.
self fine. A servant who does only his
set task and no more is a very I'M
profitable servant. He may draw his
pay for what he does, but he gets no
promotion. Duty is a handsome word,
3 but 1t conveys obligation from within
and not only from without. We do
our duty when he put the best thai is
. in us into the task.
Labor is standardized by trade
unions. A man is not allowed to do
any extra work by his own volition.
No one is made to do more than the
average man can do, and sometimes
only what the least skilful man can do.
Such a thing is very improbable to an
employer. Labor is gradually becom-
ing Improbable. and on account of
these stringent laws of the unions its
f economic value may be entirely lost.
I'm study there are no employers,
but many undergraduates take en-
pioyers standards. But this only hurts
them, for they are of no use in the
business or professional world. It is
necessary, therefore, to look this need
frankly in the face and plan a regen-
Grafton in domestic business and social
life. If we are improbable in any one
of these we fail.
Dishonesty in Business.
Tn professional and business life we
should be a partner with our employ
ers at heart long before we are at law.
University men should comprehend the
y meaning and uses of a corporation
where there are no partners and help
1t to their utmost. Corporations, how
ever, will die when there are too many
employees and too few partners. We
should do a service which no law can
exact in social life. We should be good
citizens and thoughtful ones. This is
the supremest of success. A whole
philosophy of life lies here. If you set
out TO do what you must do, you live
a dreery life. Nothing lone but what
is volunteered has pleasures. Things
that we must do a no pleasures In
Clen. we Snould get OH the dusty road
Of mere duty to the cool meadows and
shadowy plains with the new vista of
volitional service. The first service of
this kind will be the 1rst recognition
Of self.
America has passed through an era
when men kept only their legal obli-
cations and nearly ruined the country.
Legislation is unable to correct the
abuses of the business world, such as
the unjust rebates of railroads, the
crowding out Of smaller men by cor
porations and the working Of the stock
market. All these evils are used only
fer the profit of the individual. and
d have been accomplished with the re-
suits just witnessed in the business
world.
Honest men deducted most of these
IDEAS. There were some rogues, but
g7Ehese were mostly rejected. Every
nlan served his own interest with great
ASsuccess, and could say he did 1t hon
estly, but an Improbable serv-
ant he was. His success was almost