The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-06-03

Thank God! there is more than
one "Aristides the Just" among
us. The True, the Beautiful and
the Good dwell in our midst and
are OF merely ideals. BIT at the
same time Our State and National
nails are filled with men Whose.
sole rule of conduct is self inter-
est, and our business houses with
men of the type of him who sells
$50 yards o Thread on spool
labelled 200 yards. There are
doctors, lawyers, editors, ay, and
ministers, though most Oh the lat
ter are loyal folliwers of God, who
are controlled by like rule of
conduct, based on seifishness. 1t
might look as if Walpole's dictum
Every Man Has His Price," were
true. But thank God! it is not
true. But many a man says he
has not price simply because he
has not been offered what would
be his price
There are men in Congress to-
day and they are multiplying,
who can dare to stand with min
critics for the right. What is
needed is men of like type in all
ranks and professions. Editors
who will use their pens for the
furtherance OF the right and the
true. Ministers OF the type Of
Luther, who took the stand and
appealed from the Diet of God,
or of John Eliot and John Pym,
who would die, if'need were, to
bring about the removal of abuses.
The age of chivalry is not past.
Our growing foreign population
and our idle rich are adding to
the difficulties OF the drink prob
lem. The narrow bigotry of reli-
gious sects, political parties and
social sets rear walls that shut out
the sunlight, and they must be
torn down. 1t must be impressed
on the minds of the masses that
the good OF a party is not the
good of the country. The world
and the age wants eccentric"
men and women, as John Stuart
Mill terms them, who act for
themselves and defy conventions.
Men who think and will dare to
live up to their beliefs. But we
fant men and women of hard,
common sense, who will not take
short cuts to their goal but will
wait and, if need be, go round
about. Men and women are need
ed who will stand alone. But al
ways the cry Of the soul must be
needed.
Teachers have much to do with
shaping the future of their pupils
and Jupiter as the story goes, had
given Immortality to the tutor OF
the warrior, the orator and the
artist, because he had rendered
the best service to mankind. Nor
al culture is the most essential
Plato held that mental without
moral culture was dangerous, and
it is true today that the most
striking criminals are men OF in
tellect, but devoid OF principle
Wall street and our other marts
OF commerce and trade swarms
with such men. True, it is that
self-dependence is best cultivated
III rural communities and the men
mostly in the forefront with us
have been reared on the farms
The main thing is to be good and
do right and not to aim entirely
at fame or fortune. The great
Newton said of his own life's work
that he had spent his time like a
child on the seashore picking up
pebbles cast on the beach from
the great ocean OF Truth. But
culture is growing more and more
essential and ere long none would
be allowed to enter the profes.
sions who lacked collegiate train.
ing,
President Blake next conferred
the diplomas upon the graduates
as Principal Z. B. Fockler called
the roll as follows:
Academic Course-John A
Clark, Edna May Cleaves, Heller
Wells Cooper, Alice M. Denver
Ella Verna Gibson, Alden Harvey
Tony t. Martone, Marguerite M
Ogle, Isabel Alden Scott.
Commercial Course - Berth;
May Anderson, George William
Creswell, Lydia c. Foard, Clara
II. Foote, Elsie May Lynch, Stew.
art Cooper Strickland, Esther C
Terrell, Anna Maria Whitaker.