Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-01

pressed the need of a moral reform IN
the schools.
Miss Bessie De Long spoke on a sub
ject which applies to North Wisconsin
She estimated the commercial value of
the forests, the amount of waste land
in Wisconsin which could be planted
to trees, how the prairie states care
for their trees, and then the protection
afforded by forests.
Decorations of the Schoolroom is an
important subject to the teacher. Miss
-Irma LIE Due discussed the influence of
pictures, of the pupils pride in exhibit
ing his own work and every other way
of expressing the beautiful.
Miss Esther Bean reviewed briefly the
founding of the Hague Peace Confer
ence, the ability of the men forming
this tribunal, and the discovery by
America, of the use of arbitration in
settling disputes.
Miss Rose McCracken told Of the
kinds of poetry which influenced child
ren and which they like. She also
named some of the children's favorite
poets.
Miss Esther Martinsen in giving the
Valedictory, likened their class to
ship built in the Bay, where all is calm,
but now it is launched upon the ocean,
where they cannot depend on their
teachers for guidance.
After few remarks embracing an
account of work done in the preceding
year, and also telling something of the
school, Prin. r. HI. Burns presented
the class, and, in the absence of County
Supt. Mackin, he also presented the
diplomas, impressing upon the minds
of the graduates the value and signifi
canoe of the diploma.
After singing one stanza of America,
Rev. L. J. Ingraham dismissed the
meeting.
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
Rev. J. E. Watson delivered the Bac-
calaureate sermon at the court house
Sunday evening, June 9th. The foil
owing is a synopsis of the sermon:
Success in life is measured by how
we'll we employ our faculties, expand
our capacities and secure blessings that
would enable us to command life's re-
sources so as to make them a blessing.
Goethe said, "Man's task is not to solve
the problem of the universe but to find
out what he can do" Life is a school
and passing from the institution of
learning is merely passing to higher
grade. The serious problem on leaving
school is whether one shall keep on i'm
proving or regard the reception of the
diploma the completion of education.
Society expects those who have gone
through the schools to be better for
their training, and if they fail to show
themselves worthy examples, it will
soon be forgotten that they will be
classed with the common and the un-
trained. Training ought to fit us to do
things that everybody cannot do. The
Prophet gave us the secret of Success
full life when he promised, eff ye be
willing and obedient ye shall eat the
good of the land' Isa. 1:19 There
must be Willingness" to sacrifice self
ish interests. 1t has been said, 'There
are far more young people smothered
by luxury than are dwarfed by power
ty." Great national leaders have risen
from obscure country life where con-
ditions were favorable for developing
the spirit of sacrifice. There must be
willingness t o work. Agassiz said,
Genius is capacity for an extraordin-
ary degree of application. Men who
have given the world the best things
have been great workers. There must
be willingness to be out of harmony
with the age in which we live for the
sake of truth and also to cast off old
traditions for the sake of desirable pro-
gress. Obedience is one of the princi-
pie elements of successful life. 1t was
the first lesson for primitive man;
The first for childhood. 1t was the
supreme lesson of the supreme man.
'He learned obedience by the things
which he suffered" The power to
command comes through the pathway
of obedience. The man who obeys all
just requirements made of him is mas