Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-28
Is Now in Full Swjng---Twe|ve Speak
eFS Take Part in Annual Junior Ex-
hibition at the Main Street Free
Baptist Church, Lewiston.

Lewiston. Me, June 27.-(SpeciaD.-
me annual Junior exhibition at Bates
College was held this evening in the
Main street Free Baptist church, by
the class of 1911. The twelve parts
given were of high order and the
award of the two prizes promises to be
difficult task for the judges. This
award will be made on Commence
ment day. President George Colby
Chase presided at the exercises. The
college orchestra furnished music for
the evening"
Miss Elizabeth +. IngersOll was the
first speaker. She opened the subject
OF 'Ideallsm in Personality with the
quotation THE things that seem are
temporal, the things that are unseen
are eternal Idealsm has so fire.
quently been mistaken for weak senti-
mentalism. ignorant optimism or I'M
intelligent discomfort that it has been
held in disrepute even by those who
recognize the vital power of the
spiritual principle which it involves.
The true function of rational ideal
sight into the future, not the detail
alone but the perfected whole. when
there is no vision the people perish, y
Men should lift their gaze and lift the
ladders of their lives as in Jacob
dream to heaven, When dominated by
such aspirations, a personality be-
comes an influence for veal or for woe.
He of the altruistic, rather than tine
egoiStc ideal, he who seeks to mold
ethical and spiritual virtues-such a
one is equipping himself for service
and is sowing the seed of genuine
greatness
Our ideals are a loyal response to
the divinity within the human soul
that serves as the archetype for out
ward expression. There is that which
the world calls failure. We're there not.
in the soul of the worker, a something
which must be denied fufilment by
reason of the inadequacy of the physi-
cal and material to express it. To-
day amid the distraction and perplex-
ity of the world, there is tendency
not to heed mans ultimate destiny,
and to exalt the present. But in
naught save the inner and upward
RIOWlH uOeS tIlc lIIlIllcI ldl oObi VI Iilci'
acquire true blessedness and herein
lies the convincing token of his eternal
birthrght.
Irving Hill Blake discussed kip
ling and his Verse" Has Kipling
shot his best shaft" is a common
and much-discussed question by those
who are interested in the writer.
What are shots kipling has shot and
at what are they aimed? Kipling is
much misunderstood His style is
forceful although some might not con-
slider it altogether artistic. Other i'm
portant points in his style are con-
creteness, precision and complete mas
terry over all kinds of metrical schemes
and measures.
The speaker made an original com
parison between Kipling and Tenny-
son Then he showed that the best
works of Kipling's verse stand tor
service. for faithfulness to the days
work for love of the great ideals.
He spoke of the religious tone of KIP
ling's best works and left the con
cludng thought that the lesson OF
Kiplinss verse is to serve your coun-
try YOUR fellowmen. your God.
Miss Una Brann spoke on Free
dom. the Spirit of the Mountains.
She showed that creation. in It's
mighty progress passed. like great
drama. from act to act. from scene
to scene. until all things has been
pIaced by the scene shifter. Time. in
their appointed places. When the
mountains appeared and took their
e}o cnntinp1S thew
brought with them a new force anc
new spirit. spirit which has given
them a prominent place in the play OF
human events. Here. Graded on these
mountain sides. has been fostered
that virtue so precious to humanity
liberty.
Nothing is so much mans own as
his shirt. 1t makes him an lndlVld-
nal and controls his acts that nm
dor.nce TO one is a restraint upon the
other History is one long tale OF the
strueple for liberty. Why nave the
mountains been the great nursery ..
courage and freedom? 1t is there tha'
mon get inspirations. get nearest -
Nature in all her moods, there tue
crime immortality and tyranny OF tne
citv Seem fartherest away Inc spiri.
of freedom is all about. one cannon
look unon anything that does NOT
breathe it and he finds himself say
inc az will, lift up mine eyes unto the
hills f,.nm whence cometh my help.
Bernt o. Stordahl developer -.
Citizenship of Tomorrow oul POI
tics have been corrupt because e
people have been Ignorant vi NV nv
working principles of democracy. Nv
public has believed in the au,o''iali,
mechanism of our government anu
consequently neglected its ooiigat'ons
to the state. Absolute faith IN our
government. has prevented us ron
seeing the defects in our democracy
But the revelation of the conoltions
in the past few years has chanse .
oar attitude toward our government