The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-17
In Commencement Talk He Says
They Are Reverence For
Holy, Lowly and
Things Hnman
HEARD IN SPLENDID ADDRESS
Many Good Things in Talk Given at
Calumet Theater Last Eveninq
Before Graduating Glass
OF High School.

Reverence for the holy. reverence
for the lowly and reverence for things
human were "the three RS" represent
ing the Ideals of modern education.
according To DR.. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of
Chicago, who last night gave the com
mencement address to the graduating
| class of 1911 of the Calumet high
school at the Calumet theater last
evening, his subject being The Three
Rs--A Plea for the Better Education" 3"
A venerable gentleman with long
white hair and long flowing white
beard. Dr. Jones commanded the atten-
tion due man who has accomplished
a great deal of good anc VINO has
message To deliver. 81 am an old son
of the log school house." he began.
AN old school house built I'm the mid
die of the road, because IL was bull.
before the road was there. 1t i'll be-
comes me then TO speak slightingly of
the three RS that were supposed to
be the foundation of that school-read-
ing, writing and arithmetic. I be
lieve in them all. And still | have
come before this audience tonight with
the message that the adequacy of "the
three RS is breaking down: they
serve the forger as readily as they
do the honest man. The old connect
ion between illiteracy and crime does
not hold i'm the light of the latest in
vestigations. our prisons are crowded
with men who are experts with the
old three RS"
DR.. Jones gave as an illustration.
his visit to a Georgia prison where he
found sixty college graduates and
scores or men who were familiar with
two or three Of the modern languages.
Il VIII go with you tonight to search
with you for something more funda-
mental I'm the education OF boys and of
the girls of the present day"
The speaker then told of the poet
Goethe's ideal scnoo, which is pictured
I'm one of his works as being located In
the Alps. where reverence was taught
above all things and from which ideal
young men were graduated.
ut Is the common belief i'm this world
that reverence is one of the graces
with which no child is ever born with
OUT declared the speaker "But the
truth Is every little child born into this
world is a delightful bit of selishness
But II is not suffered to remain long
I'm this world before II has to realize
that there are other interests and
other rights than it's own and II Is
during this time of it's development
that reverence is born"
DR.. Jones told how Goethe introduced
"the three RS" I'm the school of his
dreams. When the morning exercises
were begun and the aged instructor
appeared before his boys, a minute
was passed in solemn meditation; the
boys In the beginning class cast their
eyes upward and thought of things
divine and the majesty of the inf
mite; the boys I'm the second class were
taught to fold their hands behind their
backs and casting their eyes on the
earth at their feet. think of things
lowly and mediate on the mysteries
of the pebbles and the blades of grass
and the wonderful structure of the
furred and feathered creatures of the
EARTH while the boys i'm the senior
class were taught to stand up In line,
To touch shoulders and casting tnelr
eyes about them. spend n minute In
silent contemplation of humanity and
the human soul with its divine possi-
afha fhp0s
RS" "tne reverence of the upward
look the reverence of the downward
look and the reverence of the look
round about us"
In discussing the reverence of the
inward look DIR. Jones told how prim-
itive man and the ancient races of
medieval times worshiped their divi-
mites and located these divinities I'm
the heavens. so that the upward look
brought thoughts of the creator and
the infinite.
primitive man" he said. Established
the first law of reverence but IL re-
mained for the latter age to organize
societies for the prevention of cruelty
to animals. one of the most beautiful
achievements of humanity"
Branching over from the discussion
of the first reverence to the lowly re-
verence I'm this wav the speaker told
how the people OF the nineteenth CEN
tury increased their sympathies for the
world of furs and feathers and the
great part the great scientist and
philosopher Darwin played I'm this edu-
cation Referring to Abraham Lin
coin, DIR. Jones said: Il like to think.
when talking of Darwin, of Abraham
Lincoln. Darwin was born TO affluence
and was given the advantage of all
the culture of England. His every
want was satisfied and his education
was the best that could be had. Abra-