The Penn's Grove record., 1909-06-04
S~ALUTATORY
..Beyond the Alps Lies Fair Italy
ADA DALBow'


Honorable Board of Education, es-
teemed County Superintendent, respect
ed Supervising Principal, faithfulteachers,
dear friends and school mates, we hearth
ly welcome you to our commencement,
and to you who have made possible this
High School we have a profound feeling
Of gratitude, which time will only
strengthen and deepen. For some years
you have given us the advantages OF
liberal education, and now we wish to
thank you for your support. May We
ever prove worthy and may we never re-
greet your efforts. This is a time OF JOY
and sadness; joyous because we have com
pleted our course successfully; sad be-
cause life, with all its uncertainties, il
before us, and because, for many OF US
it is the parting Of the ways.
There is a beginning to all things, thus
this is the beginning of u struggle fol
success in life. We are starting out, fill
ed with hope and fiery vigor OF yonth,
determined that although the way be
rocky and difficult, like to the one,
which Hannibal trod, yet we shall
90 the very summit of this steep and
rocky highway.
We stand at the foot of the Alps, sur
veying what lies before us, realizing te
its fullest extent the difficulties and hard
ships which needs be overcome to reach
the summit,yet never halting nor shrink.
ing from the task. God has placed us in
this old world for a purpose, each one
having his own niche to fill, therefore,
'Let us be faithful, kind true
strong and steadtast.
Be strongl
We are not here to play, to dream.
to drift,
We have hard work to dc and
loads to lift
Shun not the struggle face it, Tis
Gods gift.
Be strong.
Say not the days are evil, who's
to blame?
And fold our hand and acquiesce
o shame! Stand up. Speak out.
Speak boldly in Gods name.
Be strong.
1t matters not how deep intrenches
the wrong, how hard the
battle goes, the way how long;
Faint not, fight ON.
Tomorrow comes the song"
Let us do our work heartily not by
halves or shifts, but with a will, de
termlned to face the hard toll and with
fixed purpose to do our best, like Hanni
bal, that brave and fearless commander
who suffered cold and hunger and en-
dured severe toll and looses in order tina
he might be able to accomplish the pass
age OF the rocky and snow covered Alps, 81
we must labor and toll to obtain the
goal.
But Oh climbing higher the snow deep
ems and the rocks become more Jagged
and difficult to pass, nevertheless, We art
not to turn our backs and give up saying
"That it's too hard" Did Abraham
Lincoln, cease his struggle? No, he per
sisted in the face of difficulties that woull
make even the strongest heart quail. NJ
doubt there have been hours in his life
when he has thought that the difficulties
were almost too hard to conquer; but il
he had yielded to these thoughts, if hi
had allowed them to conquer him, an6
had not taken That One as a friend, who
understands u Utmost thoughts ani
who enables us to conquer such hard
ships we would not speak of him to-day
with glowing pride and warm patriotism
1t is backbone that makes the man.
Let us, therefore, boldly face the lif,
OF strife, resolute to do our duty well and
manfully, resolute to uphold righteous
ness by deed and word, resolute to bt
both honest and brave, to serve higl
ideals. Then we shall have found to oul
surprise, that the harder the object wa.
to attain the more toll and labor that il
caused us, the more real, true pleasure
we have derived from its attainment
We shall have worked our way out from
among the many troublesome rocks
which at the beginning seemed almos
impossible to pass then we shall have at
tanned Fair Italy," the zenith of oul
success. A. d.
SOUTH JERs Ely NEWS