Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-05

ed advantage over the uneducated.
That is the reason that there is graft.
One man knows more about certain
situations than another, and therefore
is able to wheedle money and prom
Uses out of him. So here is found an
other responsibility for the educated
man and woman They must engage
in politics, and help get the grafters
and degenerateS out of Office. They
must get good men in their places, and
watch politics with an eagle eye. The
educated man must learn to know
great man when they see him. AS it
is not always the man who does the
most shouting who is the greatest man,
they may have trouble finding him,
but one of the things their education
should have taught is to learn a great
man.
Hits Senator LOrimer.
In this connection he spoke of the
election of William Lorimer as United
States senator. He said that Lorimer
boasts that he has come from a lowly
station in life to his present position
without education. HE had better
have stayed there" was Mr. Clark's
comment. He regards the influence of
such man as harmful.
The speaker took occasion to make
some plain statements regarding the
sugar trust and other monopolies. He
spoke briefly of trust methods, and
hnf
We're started, it was the SIS week
clerk who was made the defendant,
and not the real offender. Through
out, Professor Clarks talk was a bitter
arrangement of current evils, and he
pointed out that the duty of the edu-
Gated man is to correct these condi-
tons
There is a great reform sweeping
over the country, said Professor Clark
College men are beginning to learn to
be fair and square in athletics THAT
is the only harmful phase of athletics"
/ said Mr.. Clark, 'the cheating" The
thing above all that the educated man
and woman must know is that they
must be fair and honest in all things,
that graft is not the way to use edu.
| cation, and that unless they get to
work and try to correct the current
teyils of the day they might as well
cast their diplomas into the river.
Diplomas Are Awarded.
Following the address F. C. Denk-
mann, president of the board of educa-
| ton, presented the class with their
diplomas. There were 70 in the class,
! it being the largest ever graduated
from the school, The class of 1908
| was the largest preceding class, il
lhaving GO members. Those who re-
ceived diplomas last night We're as fol.
lows:
Will Ralston Aster, VIII Clifford
Beals,. Olive Pamela Berger, Ethel
! Gertrude Birkel, Esther Elizabeth
! BlakemOre, Daniel Kirby Brennan,
Ethel Burger, Blanche Irene Canty,
Josef Wright Chapman, Ernest Nc
| Chesney Clark, Sewall Dodge Collins,
Julia Esther Crawford, Mary Pauline
ICrissman, Helen Adelaide Davis, Mar
iguerite Davis, Bessie Frances Donagh.
no, Raymond Dowdal, William Edward
Drips, William Little Duncan, Caroline
Elizabeth Eckermann, Edel Veronica
Ehrhorn, Ellen Letitia Ferry, Benja-
min Finkelstein, Ralla Faye Fraser,
Harry Frey, Nellie Cecilia Fuller. Jean
Barber Fowler, Agnes Ruth Farrar.
Ellwood Ray Fry, Nina Ethel Foote,
Margaret Weyerhaeuser Grotjan. Ann
Margaret Hause, Jennie Higgins, Eric
Oscar HOlmgrain, Henrietta Horbli.
Marion Hazard, Mabel Anna Johnston,
Olaf Jonassen, Blanche Virginia Kerns,
Charles Stanley King, Georgia Frances
King, Charles James Larkin. Arthur
Robert Lupdeen, Hawkins Benjamin
Upton, Jessie Ethel Mauzy, Florence
Ella McCandless, Edward William
Meek. Grace Katherine Virginia Nor
ton, Benjamin Franklin Mitchem, Her
bert Edward Ohlweiler, Oscar Philip
Olson, Evelyn Henrietta Percy. Hazel
Edna Purcell, Mabel Irene Purcell.
inez Eleonora Peterson, Ralph Law
renee Rich, Myrtle Marie Rouse, Mar
linda ingalls, Roberts, Charlotte Schnei-
49,, w iSu"di OtHOeSScI JOStDIi-
Inc Bacon Sheldon, Lawrence Lee
lSimpson, Notavena Eager Steck, Alice
Naomi Swami, Katherine Case Streep-
er, Ernest Lee Taylor, Katherine Ro-
sine Thacher, George Clarence Toen-
niges, Amelia Traenkenschuh, Mabel
Blance Trenkenschuh, Eleanor Agnes
FIREMAN., Vera Nannetta Thomas, Ruth
Lucille Wait, Gertrude Barbara Wag-
lner, Lyman Lester Weld, Eva Elsie
Virgins, Florence Neomah Wenner.
strom, Mary Young Post graduate
Hubbard Arratt Dooley.
The high school orchestra, under the
direction of Professor Christian Gel
lschlagel, furnished three musical mum
bers as a part of the program.
The stage was decorated in the class
|colors with large '09 shield above in
the background. The class motto
I"Vincit Omnia Vincit," was hung in
Icolors, also, above the stage.
| Welcomed by Alumni.