Arizona republican., 1910-06-04
HIGH SCHOOL IS PASSED BY
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| Money defeats only the man who is working for money" Humboldt spoke | of Arizona as the treasure vault of the world. So it is. and we are proud of it. But above the red, white and vel | low metal in our hills, let us set high the jewels of probity in our men; the pearls of purity in our women: the love and sanctity of home-in short. | the good character of the citizen. The motto of Arizona, as it appears on the | great seal of the territory. is "Ditat Deus"-God enriches. No wealth greater than this can be bestowed. I know not where the path of life may lead you, nor through what fair | fields, rugged fastenesses or gloomy depth God grant that the lot of | favored mortals may be yours. Yet the sensitizing influence of the very education you have received. and the refinement with which you work out your character. may, while better nerving your arm for the struggle. render still keener the pain of your wounds. It may be that suffering so accentuated may wiring from you the inquiry of the poet:
 Can it be, Christ in Heaven. That the strongest wander furthest, And most hopelessly are lost?
 That the mark of rank in nature Is capacity for pain,
 And the anguish of the singer
 Marks the sweetness of the strain?"
 But whatever befall you, meet it as the handful of Spartans met the Per sian hosts at Thermopylae and Mara thon-as the pioneer met the hostile savage and the burning desert. You may not have to fight the Indians but to win place in the world you must conquer yourself and if you think you are better man than the Indian, so will your fight be that much harder. The consequences of every bad act are the invisible police. that no prayer can soften and no gold can bribe.
 Your years may be spent in adver- sity. yet the fruits of your life may be all the richer for it. The particle of earth washed from the mountain may re gret it's lowly destiny in the valley. mingled and buried with thousands of its kind. But let a seed fall near it. Then it gives of its strength and sub stance. joins hands as it were with water and sunlight. and soon the miracle of a spreading tree or beaute- ous flower heralds the triumph of its humble efforts. I here impress it upon you that the seed, the soil and the sun light call for nothing stronger than water. Humanity would be much bet ter off if man never did. And so one may often toll on and on throughout the years. his work unknown and un- seen. but some day in Gods good time. there stands forth such record of de- votion and self-sacrifice. such a mas ter piece of art, such a discovery for the common good, as electrifies hu- manity.
 And so the future opens for you: your part in the great test of Arizona at hand and your duty clear Arizona has done and is doing her very best for you: see that you do your best for yourself. and that will be your best for her. Hitch your wagon to a star and win fame if you can. but win it. as have suggested, by patience. fideli- ty and fortitude.
 Nor Fame I slight. nor for her favors
 call,
 She comes unlocked for if she comes
 at all
 But if the purchase costs so dear a
 price
 As soothing folly or exaiting vice o. if the Muse must flatter lawless
 sway,
 And follow still where Fortune leads
 the way;
 Or if no basis bears my rising name But fallen ruins of another's fame. Then teach me. Heaven, to scorn the
 guilty ways.
 Drive from my breast that wretched
 lust of praise;
 Unhonored let me live. and die un-
 known;
 O, grant an honored fame, or grant
 me none"
 You may. through the development of such character as this. become of the chosen few who live for the race for the race does not live for the few, as used to be taught And as David Starr Jordan says in his Philosophy of Hope:
 To-day is your day and mine-the only day we have-the day in which we play our part. What part we may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our time. This we know. it is a part of action. not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This | we know. for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward weakness and l misery
 If your character follows the divine | suggestions to be seen and heard | and breathed every waking hour. your | part in the glory of Arizona's future | Is secure. It is secure if your char | acter rings true to it's every test, as ] the tense strings of the piano in per | feet tune ring true to the touch of [ the master. And as the years roll I on, and the state rises to the full | measure of it's amazing greatness, l then shall your children and their | children turn with increasing rcver- | ence to the motto of Arizona and re- turn thanks for Gods enrichment of | the lives and hearts of the commu- | nifty and for the help therein of the class of 1910. whose example shall | live before the world as the light | which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
 The class address being concluded, | the presentation of the diplomas and | two certificates was made by Emory | kaVS who smoke A few fplitictiOlis f